Arch split out the h264 decoders from vlc, and its not installed by default, so last time I needed to use it, it didn't work. No idea why they did that.
CameronDev
joined 2 years ago
Yeah, it was how my family transitioned to digital TV. USB tuner stick + windows media center. And then MS killed it.
If you want a media box, windows used to be a really good option. Back when windows media center was a thing. Not so valuable now though.
I have a lot more faith in tailscale holding the fort against enshitification. They at least seem to have planned their business plan around free tier for advertising, and minimising the cost of the free tier traffic. Can't predict the future of course, but from a business model POV, they appear to be well setup.
Headscales main issue is that they rely on the tailscale app, and if the app got paywalled or locked to tailscale, that would kill headscale overnight.
I am very happy with headscale so far though, bit fiddly, but once setup it works very well.
I have all my domains on my pihole pointed to the local address, so I only noticed when my uptime monitoring of the external sites started pinging me. But for me, the outage was at 10pm, so it really didn't matter either way.
There are no domains that are infinite time ownership (AFAIK, please correct me if I'm wrong), but its pretty close to ownership. I have the rights to the domain for 10 years, and I get first dibs on renewal after that. So its sorta renting/sorta owning?
Yes. I bought the domain through them, to keep it all nice and simple.
Yup, happy. A 3 hour outage once in a blue moon really isnt a big deal. Especially when I pay $0.
I host a website for my partners business, and as I pointed out to them, while their website is down right now, so is everyone else's, so not really losing customers.
Would certainly liven up the tour de france.
Finally, the answer I'm looking for. Brb
The packages still exist, you can install them, its just not by default. Their argument for splitting is that they can be updated independently, but that doesnt explain why the h264 plugins aren't just included by default.