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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not sunk cost, dude. We agreed that $120 will get them 5 years of service that meets their needs. Even if they switch to jellyfin after 5 years, they still got their money's worth.

It's only sunk cost if they are worse off than if they had switched earlier. I guess if you're arguing that they would still have $120 if they switch today, I would argue they should still pay that $120 toward jellyfin's development. And that's assuming they have time to switch to jellyfin AND it fits 100% of their usecases, either of which could be untrue.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Or Plex currently does everything they need it to, and $120 for 5+ years of keeping that going without any interruption of service is very reasonable. In the meantime, jellyfin will only get better and there might even be other options available by then.

Stop trying to make the issue black and white, one-size-fits-all. There are perfectly legitimate reasons for people to use both Plex and Jellyfin.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Let what happen? It's already happened. When you say "the military or people won't let that happen", you're describing a counter-coup to retake, and re-establish democracy. Will that happen? Unclear. But currently as it stands, Trump is blatantly ignoring what courts say, because he and his SCOTUS believe article 2 of the constitution places him above the law.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

In b4 Trump pardons him and appoints him as head of the FBI's Sex Trafficking division.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

It's like an AI ran the calculations and determined eradication of the species will minimize suffering. Except we didn't need an AI, just a really dumb guy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

This isn't even comedic absurdism, it's just scary.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

It makes sense once you recognize that none of these guys actually believe or feel anything. They're all running a calculated sociopathic algorithm to maximize their own power.

The only reason any of them were anti-Trump at any point in the past was because they didn't believe it would help their political career. Now they're they're all anti-reality/pro-fascism for the same reason.

Just like late-stage capitalism, we've set up a system that encourages this behavior. If you compare an honest politician vs one willing to say or do whatever is needed to secure power, the latter will always come out on top. Which is where we find ourselves.

If we somehow develop a forcing function to disincentivize this behavior, all of them will flip instantly, saying, "I had to. I didn't agree with anything Trump was doing. I was only doing it because if I didn't, someone worse would take my spot. Votes pleeeeaase 🫴"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I swear TDS originally referred to this. People who unquestionably supported trump back when no reasonable person did. And over time, somehow, the internet twisted it to mean the opposite. Even though it doesn't even make sense as the opposite.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Unless...we can come up with some sort of legislation...totally important and necessary legislation, of course!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

The govt has always been able to garnish wages or sieze assets, yes, which is one of the intended upsides of a decentralized crypto currency (disregarding all of the downsides).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I feel like you're reading their posts as boot licking, when actually they're pretty clearly stating, "we follow the law, and the law says you can't do this".

I don't know what you expect, an open statement of their intent to break the law? As though that's going to go better for the school/students?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did the article change out from under you? This title is now literally the opposite of the actual article's title: "Trump halts doubling of tariffs on Canadian metals after Ontario suspends electricity price hikes"

 

I'm curious what people's thoughts are about Matter. This is the first I'm hearing of it.

I've been trying to find a way to replace my old Chromecast Ultra (because Google), but I really like having that little cast button show up in apps, even on the phones of guests. But from what I can tell, Google killed this functionality on open alternatives (ex. Raspicast) with a lockdown to the Chromecast spec.

I'm hopeful that Matter could be a way to have my devices cast streams to each other in a standardized way that wouldn't require me to rely on Google/Apple/Amazon/etc. Maybe even Newpipe could get in on the action?

I don't know how it will work, or if this "Connected Standards Alliance" (which is apparently used to be the ZigBee Alliance, also news to me) will still have to greenlight specific devices despite it being "open", which would rule out Newpipe. I would assume the official YouTube apps will be particularly resistant to supporting Matter.

Anyone have any experience here? Has anyone else successfully replaced their media device with something open that also works with the casting button in apps?

 

Hi, I'm sure this is just a noob lemmy question. I saw on /c/[email protected] that there's a new YouShouldKnow community: https://sopuli.xyz/post/675270

But when I search for it through Sopuli, it doesn't show up, and if I use the ! link in the top comment, it returns a 404 from sopuli. It seems the sopuli server doesn't know about the community yet, how is it supposed to find out about it? Thanks

 
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