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IGN bought them a couple of years ago.

Besides aliming down the sliders, they locked the “minimum to get all of it” price for bundles at like $25, and made it so the “minimum” tip to Bundle at like $7.50, up from $1. They also hid the charity sliders behind more obscure UI elements so people mostly forget that selecting the share of the bundle going to charity was a big part of the experience.

The lift here is that you setup the end users client. If they aren’t local, buy one and ship it. Since it will be on your always on tailscale vpn, you can then interact with it remotely if needed.

Android tvs can be had for $35, Raspi 5 are around the same range,with apple tvs about $130. Have people pony up the cash and mail one of what they want out to them.

That may be too much to ask if you share to a lot of casual friends/family, but its been a successful answer for me.

Jellyfin takes more work, but cqn be a “simple” end user experience if you set it up for them.

Use a reverse proxy to get a cert for your jellyfin server SWAG, Caddy, lots of options. Then setup a free tailscale account and add your jellyfin server to your tailnet. Install the jellyfin and tailscale apps on the user android tv/apple tv/computer, enrolling the devices in your tailnet.

You’ll have always on, ssl secured, vpn protected media sharing for free.

They sold to private equity a couple years back. The enshittification started that day.

How many 4000MW nuclear power plants have been stood up n the last 10 years? What is their total generating wattage/dollar?

Now do the same math for solar.

These are called “bi-facial” solar panels and you can buy them now. They have panels on both sides, and are commonly used in solar fencing.

Even though you place them vertically, they often are counterintuitively more efficient than normal panels that are angled into the sun. Not only do the two sides let sunlight bounce in from more surfaces, they dont get nearly as hot as angled panels, which is one of the main reasons solar panels get less efficient while in use. Normal panels literally have a problem with being in too much sunlight.

You don’t normally get 2x the power out of bifacial panels, but you get something like 1.3x, and it tends to be more consistent.

Ehh, i get it. I live in the same world.

Still, I would lean in if my org asked me to stand up a mastodon instance.

Taking on tech debt is pretty common thing for IT. We spend all day standing up servoces for various internal orgs.

Mature orgs should be able to automate deploy of services like mastodon, so depending on various factors it’s not that big of an ask.

The drilling is limited to the making the channels for water flow. They are using maneuverable fracking drills and tools to get to the depths they need.