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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How AI broke the smart home in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Walk into a room and the lights are on, why? Just why?

Every room has a different need depending on what I am doing, so even that makes no sense.

If I had to set a timer to adjust when the house is at various temperature I could, but the savings is negligible, just let it be comfortable all the time. If anything the best addition to the house is solar power instead of trying to squeeze 20 euros a month out of some automation system.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Ps2. Plenty of games, it’s still the most popular system made.

Add the network adapter and a hard drive and you can use real hardware to play the games, or store your games on the network and skip the hard drive.

Or use a USB if you want. No hard mods required.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
It won’t be accurate, but if you don’t care it is an idea.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Why would you bother if you can just get the ROMs and skip owning the console?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Why do you care so much about some stupid “awards show”? Fuck that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t know anything about this game.

I also know that game awards are a bunch of bullshit so I don’t give a fuck.

Also, I noticed this game is on my wishlist. Huh.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
My main focus (apart from zero security and horrible multi user) was all the anti consumer additions they put into it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yes 98 was terrible. 2000 wasn’t so bad.

But XP started the data harvesting, the lying to users, the forced applications, and so much more.

On top of even worse security than 2000 (also nt) had.

I could go on for days how bad it was.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
XP was when everything went to shit. It was awful and all the enshittification began right there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I didn’t. So why is that?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t like Disney, they have been dead to me for a long time. And I don’t like that they got cozy with OpenAI.

But if they had released a “disney studio” with AI that they trained on their own data, and let people make fan disney shit, I wouldnt really care that much.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

If jellyfin was easier to use and had the same options as jellyfin

Just guessing here, but I think it just might.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Jellyfin has local channels? Why don’t you just watch local channels?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Reddit ruined reddit for everyone. AI has nothing to do with it. Well except Reddit making a deal with google to sell everything on their for training AI. But again that is Reddit ruining Reddit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I think the user simply had no idea what they are doing. I read their post and they say they are not a developer anyways, so I guess that explains a lot.

They said in a post: I thought about setting up a virtual machine but didnt want to bother.

I am being a bit hard on them, I assumed they knew what they were doing: Dev, QA, Test, Prod. Code review prior to production etc. But they just grabbed a tool, granted it root to their shell and ran with it.

But they them selves said it caused issues before. And looking at the posts on the antigravity page, lots of people do.

They basically started using a really crappy tool without any supervision as a noob.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Wait! The delveloper absolutely gave permission. Or it couldn’t have happened.

I stopped reading right there.

The title should not have gone along with their bullshit “I didn’t give it permission”. Oh you did, or it could not have happened.

Run as root or admin much dumbass?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yes. Yes they did
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix kills casting from phones⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I had no idea. Stupid drm. My device dammit. It will play where I want it to.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix kills casting from phones⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Jellyfin has a plug in for open subtitles. I think all my media already has subtitles so I don’t need to download them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix kills casting from phones⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I have had a lifetime pass for years since maybe 2014 or so? They added photo sync, that was awesome, then they took it away. That sucked.

I simply run both at the same time on my server, they point to the same library. The compose file is stupid simple (as is plex’s) so why not.

Better is relative, but I like Jellyfin better. Plex’s choices for my library layout suck. Jellyfin gets to the point, and fast.

Either way, doesn’t cost anything to run both, and set up is about 10 minutes if you already are using docker.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MKBHD's Panels wallpaper app is shutting down⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Wallpaper App? Like WTF? Isn’t a wallpaper just whatever you put there and that is pretty much freely available?

PAY!!! I don’t use wallpaper at all, but if I did, I couldn’t imagine paying!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix kills casting from phones⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I guess I don’t do the casting thing much, but what would the application have to do with it? I mean you cast the presentation from the device, does it care what is on the screen at the time?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix kills casting from phones⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What features? I have both and I vastly prefer Jellyfin. Plex is slow and the menus dont get right to the point.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw it, I’m installing Linux⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That distinction makes a difference. I was thinking you were saying once installed you had to do command line stuff. Like a person was here the other day that thought it passwords could not be changed without a command line.

But since you did clarify, hardware is indeed a pain if it isn’t supported. I put a lot of that on the vendors. Why would a mouse need its own drivers and software? That seems crazy.

And to put it into perspective: I have 3 monitors, different resolutions and refresh rates. I did nothing to make it work, it just did. My desktop and laptop have been pretty much zero effort on my part to make them work.

On the other hand I have 3 windows machines that I am dealing with for others and the audio driver is clearly the issue with one, nvidias driver with the other, and a failed MS update with the third.

Guess what? Every fix requires the command line. In Windows. Computers can suck.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosted Onedrive alternative⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
But that is exactly what I am saying. Everything I have on my phone has an app. Immich for photos for example.

Each app that stores things on my server already manages the data to get there.

So is there a need for a file server that works on my phone like this person is asking about?

I mean I do have SMB access from my phone as well, but I hardly need it since individual apps are already pushing and pulling data from my server.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosted Onedrive alternative⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Does copy party do s3 buckets?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosted Onedrive alternative⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The odd part of that is what files do I have on my computer that would be useful on my phone?

And when it’s on my phone there is likely already ab app for that, eg. Music, calendar, notes, etc.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I have a computer that failed updating to 24H2 and has been broken ever since. Huge pain in the ass and no matter what I do, looks like reinstalling is the only fix.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw it, I’m installing Linux⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
This is not true. People repeat it all the time but it not true at all.

Windows is far more difficutlt even in this regard because now you have essentially two control panels.

Also discovery of what you want to do is harder in windows.

And the kicker is if your windows is broken and you need to fix it, guess what it’s command line for you.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw it, I’m installing Linux⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

it can be absolute pain for those expecting things to just work without any interest on why they experiencing issues.

I think that describes computers.

Windows does the same thing, only worse because it is harder to trouble shoot, and harder to fix if you find yourself at the point where a reinstall is the only way out.

I am dealing with a laptop like that now for someone else, and it would be simple if it was linux, but of course its a pain in the ass because its windows.