thundermoose

There is zero reason to follow the formal rules of order in Congress anymore. They should start with refusing to yield time and go as far as simply not acknowledging the Republicans as valid members of the various subcommittees.

A whole lot of the congressional rules are completely made up traditions. Ignoring them has always been an option. Canings on the house floor are also an option.

Dems have been taking the high road and losing for over a decade. They need to get dirty.

So, first off: calling out someone for repeatedly doing the same thing that isn't solving the problem doesn't require having a better answer. If I was trying to solve global warming by duct-taping cats together, you could point out that it isn't working without solving global warming yourself.

Second:

• Lead general strikes
• Refuse to follow the rules of order
• Organize protestors everywhere any Republican congressman goes
• Stop pretending that being civilized is getting them anywhere

I think we all know they won't do any of these things on their own, they need to be shamed into it. Without their supporters turning on them, the Democrats will continue doing nothing because it's what their donors want.

Normally, I'd not be so blunt about this, so apologies but: you're wrong. The majority of Americans picked fascism in 2024 knowing exactly what they'd get. Nothing anyone did to him mattered before he was given a clear mandate to burn everything down, there's no reason to believe it will matter now.

The Democrats need to get dirty or we are all fucked.

They should stop doing the things they've been trying and failing at for ten years. 2024 was the end of the old ways, IMO; the Democrats lost so badly and so definitely that there's no point in pretending there's any going back.

I think the line is doing anything outside the clearly-nonfunctional system to stop the MAGA cult. All they're doing is complaining and wasting time, Republicans will dox and threaten with violence. The people that were elected to fight this are almost literally bringing pens and paper to a gunfight.

It's honestly pathetic to watch a curbstomping being responded to with, "well im gonna write such a scathing letter about this." The Democrats are absolute trash and need to be shamed for being such cowards about this.

Why on earth would anyone think that would matter? At this point, impeachment is just a strongly-worded letter.

Even if they managed to get it to the Senate trial phase, he'd just ignore It. His people are in charge of every branch of government and the military, there is no formal process for removing him anymore.

You get that by suing you're lodging a complaint with the same people that robbed you, right?

What's 20% of a golden shower? A fun-size bottle of Sunny D?

I'm in the same boat, I use Jellyfin where I can but Plex is still so much better for sharing, especially with non-technical people so I run both. Really hoping the Jellyfin folks realize they can sell a relay service to make some money and fund their development to improve the app. Seems to be working well for Homeassistant!

Jellyfin has this, but it's kinda busted: https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-syncplay. There was one guy working on it and he apparently vanished. It still does work for some use-cases but be prepared for some rough edges.

Maybe someone will pick up the torch now that Plex is axing it?

It shouldn't be any faster or slower if you're using the exact same transcoding settings

That's sort of the point, both are based on ffmpeg but neither is using vanilla ffmpeg. Plex's seems to work a lot better on the same hardware for me, but more importantly it's not something you have to fiddle with. You just check the box and it figures out a decent setting. Jellyfin has some basic defaults for Intel/nVidia but there are a ton of tweakable settings that you have to go figure out.

There's probably some way to fix the issue but it'd take a ton of fiddling, and that's the jank I keep referring to. A lot of people on Lemmy just ignore the rough edges and act like it doesn't matter just because they can get past it or because it's FOSS and they refuse to use anything else. Not everyone on here is a full-time software engineer, though; IMO it's better to be honest about shortcomings and set expectations well. More people self-hosting their media is a net positive IMO.

Plex has people they can pay to make their product better (and at least for the moment they're still paying them), Jellyfin straight up doesn't have those resources. I hope that changes because Plex is not on a good trajectory as a company. The Homeassistant model seems like a good one that gives people a good reason to contribute code and money, I really hope the Jellyfin guys do something along those lines.

The Plex app for some versions of Android TV is way too chunky for the resources available. I've noticed it performs really badly with smart TVs and it seems to do worse the more background apps you have open, so I'm guessing it's memory related. It generally seems to work better on dedicated devices like Google TV, although it does still wig out sometimes and need to be restarted.

My big beef with the Jellyfin app on Android TV is that they don't include the fast scroll alphabetical bar the web UI has and the title layout is just posters. Everyone I've ever had use it complained that it's just too hard to read. Plus if you have a big library, that leaves you with 2 navigation options: scroll a bunch or type something in with the on screen keyboard. Both of those kind of stink.

I've also run into weird edges with plugins in Android TV. I could never get automatic subtitles to work consistently. The skip intro popup just doesn't appear sometimes or doesn't skip correctly when pressed. I suspect there's some translation error between the Android interface and the plugin interface.