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I don't think the poster means that, I think they are drawing parallels to the flaws of gun anti-regulation to AI. Both arguments are bad is the point

I don't know why people keep saying this. You either pay for a service, or you get a company extracting as much data as they can from you for advertiser or VC money. Servers and bandwidth cost money

Honestly I just use PiVPN on my clients and Jellyfin over HTTP. (The VPN encrypts traffic, don't worry). It's more secure than exposing it to the public internet in any way, really. After I had a goddamn Minecraft server get joined by a bot I stepped up security - in 2025, any hole will be exploited for data and botnets. If you're hosting for family, I think there's still value in the security Plex is offering by being the middleman between your computers in your home and the outside world.

It makes sense once you accrue 1000 hours on /g/ (10 years ago, it's a much dumber place now)

I don't know about you but as a lifelong Albertan my life would improve if my city had even a little bit of the culture of like, Seattle. I'm not guessing, I have been there and it would be a place I'd consider moving if they weren't under fascist dictatorship keen on eradicating my people.

Didn't you know? There's a War on Christmas!

Marginally, compared to the large detriment that car dependency objectively is, and the raw materials extraction required for everybody to own 1, 2, 3+ cars. My comparison isn't with ICE cars, it's with functional public transit systems. I don't wish to argue about the particulars because inherently cars are the wrong solution to moving a lot of people around, because it's bad for society and doesn't even scale well, evidenced by the 401 and many other major highways.

I've always said that electric cars are basically a red herring for improving society. I don't really care much because it's a lateral move. Call me when we start getting electric cars of the train variety.

Yup, I'm sure THESE smart glasses will be the one that everyone suddenly loves. Yeah nah. But it is pretty funny to watch people learn why Google Glass failed again and again.

Honestly I just don't like how HEVC compression ends up looking. It looks like everything has had noise added and then smoothed over, and I can always see it. AV1 or AVC are also my personal pics. AV1 for filesize and AVC for compatibility.

For buying food at one of my last jobs, I had a choice between fast food and the save-on-foods food bar. Once I started getting sandwiches for less money that were healthier, more filling, tasted better, and were CHEAPER from save-on-foods there was no going back for me.

Yeah, I got a phone at 12, and I now think that might even be too young for an internet-connected smartphone. Too many young boys getting radicalized into the far right by Tiktok and Instagram reels. I am not advocating for Life360, just making the internet a time and place rather than something that's on and available 100% of the time.