richneptune

It can be. You can use easynews without a nzb provider if you want, but it obvs works better with one!

I've been a happy customer for nearly two decades!

It's just you. I get easynews for $45 a year on their valentine's plan, includes unlimited nntp, unlimited web (which is really useful given the search) and a free VPN to boot. Bargain of the century

When you add a request you can select the target directory where you want the files to end up (Root Folder). If you follow the Linuxserver.io setup, you should have created a bind volume called /media for where you want your media to end up for the use of Jellyfin which you can use.

A recent-ish Intel CPU. Even the mini pc's with a n5000/n95/n100 class CPU will make light work of transcoding nearly everything into x265 using the igpu. The most recent gen will do AV1 decode/transcode as well.

And the home of the wanker!

Their points about it not having monetization make zero sense - there's a bunch of shit on the internet available for free, the fediverse didn't invent that.

It has to be paid for, though. Servers, traffic and disk space aren't free, the volunteers who run instances will need to be compensated once their instances start to become their day jobs and there are legal hoops that some servers will need to jump through when it comes to nsfw content, removing copyrighted content etc. We're in the early days of the fediverse atm, so it's interesting to see how this will all pan out!

I've not encountered it personally, but YouTube Memberships, their version of Patreon, has been a thing for over a year now. It's what the "Join" button on YouTube sends you to

When you say "no port forwarding", do you mean you aren't given a public routable IP address and you're behind Carrier Grade NAT? Does your router get an IP address starting with 100 or 10?

If so just request a public IP, it might cost you extra but it's worth it, that should open up the port forwarding option on your router.

I imagine you're with a new altnet provider in the UK, is it LilaConnect by any chance?

Do you have a problem that they're "just Oppo" now? I bought an Oppo phone on a bit of a whim when my last phone died and I'm a bit of a convert. The software is great - clean, unobtrusive and full of useful features, the weird features can be disabled. I even switched from Nova back to the default Oppo launcher and it's fine, certainly not as configurable and I don't like how the inbuilt search recommends store apps, but it's perfectly cromulent.

Given my experience with Oppo I'd have no qualms about choosing Oppo or OnePlus as my next phone. RealMe, BBK's other brand, I'd need to research first as their value proposition seems even more insane than Oppo...

I second this. Moonreader is really designed for epubs but for pdf books where you can zoom into the readable contents of the page it's much much comfier than Adobe reader.

because the image upload is broken sometimes

I've tried many times since I joined late last week and the image upload has never worked as far as I can see, "sometimes" is wishful thinking.

Is it really a "squatting" problem? I suspect that most communities have been created with good intentions, but during this initial phase where each individual instance is still growing it's legitimately hard for potential users to find them even if the default mod seeds them.

For instance, I've created a local interest community, but it's not yet reached any other instance from what I can find in searching on them. It's likely that someone on another instance will start the same one and if that makes its way to other instances then that will be the "winner".

Anyhow, it'll be interesting to see what happens in the coming weeks. I suspect those unused communities will die off naturally without intervention, survival of the fittest will likely be the way the "best" communities of each topic rises to the top.

Edit: Of course, after writing the above I decided to see whether the image uploads worked and for the first time they have! Always the case when you moan about something :D

A discussion medium that both predates the internet and continues to exist on the internet: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet