mrnngglry

No shit. You make PCs at lower specs at a higher price for the consumer, this is what you get.

Long-term, this is what the tech industry wants. Sell the best hardware to data centers and force consumers to rely on cloud compute via a subscription model.

It’s bleak.

In my experience, all it takes is one instance where a stream buffers or needs to transcode down to a lower quality. There are a lot of variables between your home server and someone else’s smart tv or set top box. Streaming services are really good at accounting for most of that and making it work reliably. I am sure most of our media servers are way less reliable, especially outside the home.

I had zero idea this was a thing. A true TIL. Thanks!

I like Whipper or Fre:ac but I’ll give this a try.