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I mean, duh? Influencers only get paid if they do and say what the sponsor paying them wants them to do and say. You can, of course, NOT do that, but you won't get a 2nd check, so the whole job requires you play along with your bosses and do what they want.

There's not a single really trustworthy influencer type out there that takes sponsor money, and you shouldn't trust ANY of them to do anything other than what they have to do so they get paid.

So, I posted this on a similar thread a few days ago, but plex and/or jellyfin do an amazing job of user/library seperation, music streaming, AND have apps for every relevant platform you'd remotely care about: phones, computers, browsers, widgets plugged into your tv, etc.

It's a little odd nobody has bothered to do a really good multi user/library audio-only app, but plex+plexamp or jellyfin+finamp is a pretty great solution as it is.

So if we light the planet on fire to fuel the AI, the AI will then tell us how to put the fire out.

Okay sure, but how about we just... don't do any of that?

Since when has a cat needed permission to go wherever it wants?

I've saved tons of money by only not playing games I get for free. Much more affordable that way.

I'm now imagining David Caruso sitting there at his desk licking hard drives. Thanks a lot.

Honestly, this should be actually illegal. It's a fraudulent job posting designed to waste my limited time, but it's okay for these companies to do shit like this because of uh, reasons?

I mean I'm not blaming anyone other than the manufacturers who make things and then arbitrarily decide to stop supporting them while they're still perfectly usable, leaving basically no choice other than trashing and buying a new one.

I mean you can escape it by just not using google's shit.

I know it's not an option for everyone, but you can use email that's not gmail, and online office suites and file sharing that's not google docs and drive.

(I went with mxroute for email, and a nextcloud with embedded only office for the docs/drive replacement.)

As someone who isn't a fan of e-waste, I really hate these little "appliance" type NASes. Companies abandon them while they're still perfectly usable and meeting someone's needs, and tell you oh sorry, I guess you should buy a new one and throw your current one away. (Which, annoyingly, the article also does.)

Heh, you're not kidding. Their website barely actually loads, and I gave up trying to see who they were using as a datacenter because each page load was taking north of 60 seconds, so uh, that tells me everything I could possibly need to know about their service.

One thing to consider, as well, is that SSH is extremely well reviewed, audited, and battle tested.

If you get "hacked" via SSH, it's almost certainly because you had a bad password (don't use passwords!), and not due to an exploitable bug in SSH.

Some random Docker management tool? Eh, I wouldn't wager any money on you getting hacked, either through missing a configuration step, or a permission being too lose, or a flat out stupid decision made somewhere in the code that's exploitable.

SSH + lazydocker is a reasonable choice if you want to go the SSH route and is my 'oh shit, portainer-via-vpn is fucked' backup.

Jellyfin and/or plex will do that, and it's what I'm using.

The BF has an account and a music library, and I have a different one.

Looks like your landlord and the people who flipped my house hired the same electrician. They did the same stupid thing jumping the load and ground so that it'd pass inspection (the little tester will show everything properly grounded).

Unnnnfortunately, that's also a good way to cause serious damage to things and in my case it managed to short in such a way that it melted one of the phases coming into the house and damn near burned my house down.

Don't do stupid shit with your outlets, kids, because uh, yeah, fire.

Honestly, it feels like being a tech bro requires you to have a brain defect where you read or see something meant to be a warning and it causes you to somehow interpret it as the best idea you've ever seen.

Basically sums up the last 20 years of Silicon Valley and their nonstop hopping from dumb to dumber to dumberest.

Open source people "cheering" for Broadcom and Qualcomm based chips? I'm horribly confused as to when the open source types decided they liked greedy, horrible, shitty companies?

This isn't really a novel approach. Ads with fake links that lead to malware is basically the state of Google search results for every damn thing now.

Everyone should adblock, but especially low involvement actors like Google until and unless they sort out their malware, fraud, and scam ads. (They won't.)

Oh no, what a loss.

If this is for 24/7 use, don't do USB drives. The problem, typically, is that the SATA->USB chipsets will, at some point, shit themselves and you'll have random things crashing or even data loss.

They're really just not designed for constant load, and a server-esque workload is just asking for shit to break at random and data to be lost.

And yes, I know lots of people use them like this, but this is very much a case of it's perfectly fine until it's not.

A big point of confusion that keeps happening in relation to OCI is that there's actually two "tiers" of free, and one of the two is subject to resources vanishing.

If you convert to a pay-as-you-go account, all that shit stops, and you're treated as an actual customer while keeping all the free tier stuff.

I suppose you could get hit with a surprise bill if you're not careful and use things that have a free tier and then convert to billing (example: you exceed your object storage free amount), but if you don't use anything outside of the compute resources, it's just as good without the resource reclamation stuff.