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- Comment on Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations 2 days ago:
I bought a full size a few years ago but returned it cause I didn’t think it was worth the price. I got a mini as a gift last year and it works great. Even has built in temperature and humidity sensors
- Comment on Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations 3 days ago:
I’m not really a smart speaker kind of guy but HomePods are nice, sound quality is pretty good
- Comment on Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps 3 weeks ago:
Because i think cleaning up an iPhone is easy?
- Comment on Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps 3 weeks ago:
Kinda sounds like you just don’t know how to use an iPhone.
- Comment on Damn 4 weeks ago:
Am I the only one who thought she clawed his dick off?
- Comment on Protip: 1 month ago:
The flexy guy?
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 1 month ago:
I feel they could easily ban VPN companies (maybe?), which is what 99.9% of people that want to browse from a different location use.
This won’t affect companies at all as they would be using their own VPN.
- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 2 months ago:
$300 today is quite a bit more valuable than $30 for 10 years.
- Comment on What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers? 2 months ago:
Are you my project manager??
- Comment on What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers? 2 months ago:
Completely agree
- Comment on What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers? 2 months ago:
If you agree it’s a time saver, then you agree it makes workers more efficient. You now have a team of 5 doing the work of a team of 6. From a business perspective it’s idiotic to have more people than you need to, so someone would be let go from that team.
I personally don’t see any issue with this, as it’s been happening for the existence of humanity.
Tools are constantly improving that make us more efficient.
Most of people’s issue with AI is more an issue with greedy humans, and not the technology itself. Lord knows that new team of 5 is not getting the collective pay as the previous team of 6.
- Comment on What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers? 2 months ago:
Interesting, this has not been my experience. Most people on here seem to treat AI as completely black and white, with zero shades of grey.
- Comment on What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers? 2 months ago:
You’re a brave one admitting that on here. Don’t you know LLM’s are pure evil? You might as well be torturing children!
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 months ago:
I don’t have a source but if you setup a VPN to your home there’s no way plex could know that you aren’t actually home. So as long as local streaming works, then streaming over VPN would work as well.
Similar thing with port forwarding on your router, except it’s much worse for security.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 months ago:
Mainly STUN and TURN servers to allow NAT traversal without having to configure port forwarding and leave your server exposed to the internet.
It’ll use those servers to setup a peer-to-peer connection which at that point you are streaming directly to clients.
If you want to setup a VPN for your users, or open/forward public ports to your server then you do not need to pay.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 months ago:
The same way you’d set up remote plex.
Plex will have some cost associated with remote streaming, so I don’t see any issue with them charging for that.
If people don’t want to pay then they should just set it up themselves, like they would have to do with jellyfin anyways.
- Comment on OpenAI o3 vs. Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. o4-mini 3 months ago:
Are all the downvotes just cause it’s a post about AI? Or is there an actual issue with the article?
- Comment on 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know 3 months ago:
Devil gamer confirmed 😈
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 3 months ago:
I feel like what he’s trying to say it shouldn’t be the end of the world if a kid sees a sex scene in a movie, like it should be ok for them to know it exists. But the way he phrases it is questionable at best.
When I was a kid I was forced to leave the room when any intimate scenes were in a movie and I honestly do feel like it fucked with my perception of sex a bit. Like it’s this taboo thing that should be hidden away and never discussed.
- Comment on Automakers urge Trump administration to clear way for self-driving cars 4 months ago:
I was talking with a coworker a few months ago, who to my surprise was a big Tesla supporter. He was convinced Elon would take personal accountability for FSD because it was THAT good. I told him he’s living in a fantasy world.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 4 months ago:
Ok sure, they aren’t routing, just using P2P like I mentioned. It’s still not possible to access remotely without using plex services. This is what you are paying for. If you don’t want to pay for their auto-config remote streaming it’s easy enough to do it yourself.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 4 months ago:
Because he’s right. You can’t access your own server remotely without plex’s infrastructure (provided you don’t just set up that infrastructure yourself). You don’t need to open ports or anything. Your server reaches out to plex server, which creates an entry point to your network. Your stream is then either routed through their servers or possibly setup as P2P stream.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 4 months ago:
All it means is you can’t go through their servers. If you setup a different way to access your network (VPN) it’ll still work.
- Comment on Thinkpad for the win 4 months ago:
Not sure if it’s changed by now but a lot of the social apps for Android would just take a screen grab when taking a picture, so when uploading from Android the pics looked much worse than iPhone.
- Comment on 25 arrested in global hit against AI-generated child sexual abuse material 5 months ago:
I don’t think this is actually true. Pretty sure if you feed it naked adults and clothed children it can figure out the rest.
- Comment on transformations 5 months ago:
Damn fine print!
- Comment on transformations 5 months ago:
I once ordered two mugs from Etsy. It was literally two mugs in a cardboard box. No bubble wrap, no nothing. Arrived in about 8 pieces.
- Comment on Tinder will try AI-powered matching as the dating app continues to lose users 5 months ago:
Anecdotal but tinder is by far the best for me.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 6 months ago:
If it’s a never before thought of idea how can there possibly be ads for it? No one has ever thought of it and the product doesn’t exist right?
Like I said, there are always other ways. Maybe you searched something related the day before and don’t remember. Maybe your friend did.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 6 months ago:
It can always be explained by something else. Recency bias being a big one. It’s very possible you saw an ad yesterday as well, but didn’t notice you saw it because you haven’t talked about that item. Talk about it today, see the same ad, and now you think you’re being listened to.
It’s very possible your father googled something after hanging up the phone. There are endless ways they can connect you to knowing your father.
It’s possible someone on the same wifi network as you or your father overheard the conversation and looked it up.
All of these are far more likely than everything you say and do being recorded without anyone ever finding any definitive proof.