This is dumb. Shell isn’t just sitting on their stuff. They’re selling it - selling it to people who buy and use it. This is like saying OJ wasn’t responsible for what happened, it was the knife manufacturer (but not the distributor or the retailer the ad firm etc)

Jesus believes in the “free beer” kind of free software

Thanks for the link, I was living under a rock I guess.

Why is anything good? Existence isn’t a question of value.

What makes your existence any more or less meaningful than a speck of dust in some distant nebula? Does the fact that we breathe, shit, and wax poetic about the hallucinations we derive from our bundles of nerves really amount to anything when we know how impermanent it is? I say no

There is no meaning to life - there is no good or bad for being around at any one time.

Some people try to fill this hole by convincing themselves that service to others, or great accomplishments in their eyes, will somehow tip some cosmic scale and demonstrate/reward their goodness.

The bee doesn’t examine it’s own life, yet many believe their lives are worth living (because it benefits other life).

🤷‍♂️

No help here, I guess.

Toner refill kits help with this.

I got sick of the experience that every time I wanted to print, my ink had dried out. So I went on eBay and found an office style Ricoh color laser, scanner, fax combo one. I think I spent about 250 on it.

When the first toner (the first ones are not fully filled) ran out, I bought powder and chips on Amazon. I refilled the cartridges and used the new chips and boom.

Cost for that was like 30 bucks. Official cartridges were hundreds.

Came here to say this.

It isn’t the disc that’s important, it’s the ownership - the ability to make use of your investment without depending on the manufacturer after the sale.

It feels like almost nothing works without Internet connection anymore…

Imagine Billy Joel remakes “We didn’t start the fire” but replaced it all with stuff happening over the last couple years… The song would last 45 minutes

Weird!

The rise of the surveillance state that none of us wanted. Roaming death squads putting kids into concentration camps. Threatening to annex Canada, Greenland, Venezuela. A system of checks and balances that turned out to be a complete fiction. We spend billions on bombs and missiles so that we can get involved with Israeli genocide/rape/torture and other war crimes. AN INSANE NARCISSIST FLEECING US ALL AND NOONE SEEMS ABLE TO STOP HIM.

What’s not to love?

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

I like Plex.

When I bought my Plex lifetime pass I saw it as an investment. So far, it’s paid off handsomely.

I’m still getting great experiences, able to access it from anywhere in the world, on basically any device, seamlessly and simply.

I get it that the jellyfin community is really excited about their thing - I just am not.

I’ve run jellyfin, it was kind of cool I guess, but there was nothing compelling about it. So I uninstalled it. What is jellyfin’s “must have” feature, anyway?

I wouldn’t go out and build a new car when I’m perfectly happy with my 10-year old sedan. If you’re expecting me to go through that just because the new ones cost more than I spent years ago, you’re insane. I wouldn’t go and re paint my house just because the old company now charges new customers more for their paint.

I paid for it, it works well. There’s no reason (except all the FUD I keep seeing on lemmy,) to even think about dismantling and recreating it with something new.

Keep building your dream tool Jellyfin people - Godspeed, but your community should target acquiring net-new users instead of trying to scare and poach happy users away from what they already have.

Plex still costs the same to me. Lifetime pass means no price hike, and it “just works.”

I don’t think I said anything about Infinity. Tell me one thing which is truly infinite… Greed may be close.

Are you saying that increasing income for the same work can’t lead to inflation? Or that businesses aren’t opportunistic and interested in maximizing revenue?

They will charge what the market will bear… and the market will suddenly be able to bear just a little bit more 🤷‍♂️

That’s an interesting idea though inflation often doesn’t match affordability of consumer goods. Saw a different thread recently where that was discussed - inflation gets measured on commodities, not the end products people actually buy. Explaining why some products can easily cost 150-200% more when inflation itself goes up just a little. Plus 70% of all statistics are made up, you know

Raise the bar and suddenly everything else gets more expensive as fatcats try to capture all that new discretionary income that the poor have…

Don’t normalize automated driving enforcement, ALPRs and police surveillance tech. I get the spirit of this story that the watchers should be held accountable, but when the electric eye is on us we’re all criminals. The surveillance state needs to die

The assumption that the Democrats aren’t fascist is why the cycle remains unbroken

They’re all corrupt. Just ask the dead Palestinians

Ok

+1 for SA…

Other Guys

Yeah that’s what’s stopped me…I used to trip the light fantastic, but anymore, the thought of ego death isn’t liberating, and as I’ve gotten older my background anxiety (set) seems to only go in one direction. Kids, House, work, etc… it’s a little late for me to tune out and drop out

But I’m very afraid of exposing the server to the internet and it being hacked or such.

I see this sentiment a lot… and I don’t get it.

Your server is going to be secure almost by default. Add the firewall and only open the ports you actually serve, and the majority of your work is done.

But if you follow a decent hardening guide you’ll find many of those other little ways people can exploit the services you do leave open, and you’ll lock those down too.

Then at that point, you have dealt with 99.99% of the script kiddie / bot threats that will ever find you.

What is the source of the fear when regular Joe’s discounts themselves and say no I won’t expose my hardware? You know the cloud is just someone else’s computer, right?

I’ve been self hosting a publicly exposed domain which serves http, mail, etc for literally more than a decade. My logs are filled with background noise but my stuff is fine.

No tail scale, no cloud flare, my cloud is mine

Moral of my story - Don’t be scared, try to be smart and keep your stuff updated via automation