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I like this method of shaming corpos making piles of money on free labor much more than what a certain other open source CEO is currently trying.

I'm just waiting for the 'but we can't afford it!' lines to start coming out of these companies as their next excuse as to why they couldn't possibly contribute back to the software that makes their entire business work.

And, well, okay, but if your business doesn't work unless you have the unpaid labor of thousands of volunteers, perhaps we don't need you?

OPUS is such a delightful format

Agreed. My audiobook library was transcoded from various formats to 32kbit OPUS and they still sound about the same.

Shocking how decent it is with spoken voice and stupid low bitrates.

I'm shocked I didn't get downvoted to shit myself.

It's just that it was VERY clearly either sanctions or a NSL, since the Linux Foundation is in the US and the two things that result in a public entity like that making silent, un-explained changes are, well, sanctions and NSLs and you don't say shit because your lawyer told you not to.

I don't necessarily agree that tossing contributors off an open-source project is in the spirit of the OFAC list, but the problem almost certainly is that they're employed by some giant tech company in Russia.

And, in Russia, like in the US, and Israel, and China, and anywhere else you care to mention, tech companies are almost always involved in military supply chains, since shit don't work without computers at this point.

Which leads to a cycle of being unable to work with Weapons, Inc. and someone works for Weapons, Inc. so now that person can't be worked with either and so your choices are.... comply with the OFAC list, or take a stupid amount of legal risk up to and including angry people with guns showing up to talk to you.

We really don't know the whole story and immediately jumping to "Imperialists bad!" is how certain chunks of Lemmy roll these days.

I think they'd be much happier if they all moved to North Korea and helped achieve the goal of Juche by becoming dirt farmers.

The first one or two, maybe. The next 50, eh not quite as much.

I suppose I'm just a boomer who doesn't get the kids anymore?

If it was Chris Roberts, it'd just be a JPEG of a dinosaur and a promise that the mount is in the pipeline for early pre-production to be added to the next major quarterly alpha release once it's ready.

Also it'd be $499.

It's nice when the uh, um, jerks? self-segregate. Saves so much time having to filter them out.

(Also it was kinda obvious they were twats when their admin team was spamming new community communities with endless stupid groups.)

Because I stuck a 1TB sd card in my phone and don't have to deal with transcoding or dealing with, well, anything, but copying new files over and listening to things.

I've developed quite the liking for stupidly simple solutions, and 'copy the files to a sd card' is about as simple as it gets.

I'm going to go another route here: do you need streaming?

Like, I've simply gone with a giant pile of FLACs that I put on a SD card for my phone, and use over the NAS for when I'm at home and don't currently use any fancy-pants streaming stuff.

So like, depending on how you're using your music library, you might not even need to drop deep into the giant self-hosting rabbithole for this.

I hate to be that guy, but uh, what do the logs say?

The container logs would probably be most useful since you should (probably) be able to tell if they're having issues starting and/or simply not attempting to launch at all.

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That's probably because they built a protocol specifically for a usecase, rather than building a protocol and hoping that someone will come along with a usecase.

Introducing the new smaller Mac Mini! 25% the size, three times the price. We think you're going to love it!

(I'm waiting on a M4 Mini too.)

And just because lol, the 4 easy payments of $0.48 isn't the $1.90 price either.

Good job, afterpay?

Hercules was MDA if MDA wasn't garbage (thanks IBM!).

But yeah went from a XT with MDA to a Pentium system.

Real caveman-discovers-fire moment.

Personally, I'd start with a therapist.

I'm not really wanting to judge someone else's relationship, but the vibes coming off the post very much indicate that this is not a proper partnership, just your wife doing what she wants, while you're miserable.

Also, I'd take the teaching job, regardless of pay, if it simply results in your wife not being able to buy more shit. If your kids are fed and clothed and housed, then, well, she can figure out what she wants to do to keep spending money. (Assuming she doesn't just stuff it all on secret credit cards you don't know about, or whatever.)

At the end of the day, your kids are priority #1, and you're #2 because you can't take care of your kids if you're not taking care of yourself. Your wife comes in at a distant #3, especially since she already doesn't seem inclined to take care of herself.

...so the front fell off?

CGA? EGA? Well look at you, Mr. Fancy Rich Guy Computer user.

I lived the MDA life until waaaaaaaaaaaaay into the SVGA era lol.

I don't think chrome was on sourceforge's list-of-malware they stuffed everything in, but it was bundled with a lot of legitimate software.

Google bought a lot of their marketshare, and did so with any method that resulted in an install, including bundled installer crap.

for-profit company

In the US that's the big rub: fair use exists, but if you're using it commercially it becomes a lot shakier and less likely to be ruled as fair use in court. The general history of case rulings is (tldr version) if you're making money from using someone else's work, then you should probably pay them for the work you're using. See: the crazy settlements over samples in songs that have happened.

If you hoover up the grand total sum of human knowledge, pay nobody anything, and profit from it, then you're very much on shaky grounds.

Which is exactly what anyone who wasn't wanting to just snort some concentrated outrage knew was the case.

And you can argue as to if OFAC list should apply to things like this or not, but the problem is that the enforcement options for OFAC violations include 'stomp you into the ground until you're powder', most people are just going to comply.