I guess that’s what Gibson meant about the future not being evenly distributed. As also a millennial (and an older one, at that) I got all my porn from the Internet when I was that age, albeit having to wait for individual images to load at 56kbps at first.

You can imagine how excited I was for my household to get DSL, LOL!

There are many aspects of reality that MAGAts refuse to admit to themselves but understand on a subconscious level. That’s why they’re now making the military MAGA via leadership purges and actions like this.

I mean, sure, in terms of OS choice.

I think there are some other decisions that give it a run for its money if you don’t limit the scope to computing, though.

As for your other point, there is no good universal Lemmy linking thing for posts.

In another comment I mentioned that there’s this lemmyverse link thing. From the way you phrased that I’m not sure if you don’t know about it, or do know but just don’t think it’s good, but I think it’s about halfway to being useful.

What it needs to get the rest of the way is to:

• default to some kind of load-balanced or at least round-robin instance selection instead of defaulting to the original instance of the link given, and
• be built into the Lemmy UI(s) so that it’s easy to grab a lemmyverse.link URL to share.

IMO what we need is a different sort of thing more like load-balancing than caching, where users from outside the Fediverse (i.e. who aren’t logged in to the server whose URL they’re trying to load and thus probably don’t actually have a strong preference about which instance they actually view it from) get redirected to other instances to help spread out the load.

There’s no particular reason why the entirety of Hacker News and Reddit needs to be piling in to view this thing that was posted to !linux@lemmy.ml just because a feddit.org user happened to have been the one who wrote it (and possibly shared it).

Posts and comments already have a chain icon for the URL of the view of them on the user’s current server and a fediverse graph icon for the URL of them on the poster’s home server, but maybe there needs to be a third icon for the lemmyverse link url or something like that.

That’s not a “post from feddit.org,” that’s a “post by a feddit.org user on a lemmy.ml community.” It may be DDOSing feddit.org because that server’s view of it is the link that happened to go viral, but there’s no reason folks outside Lemmy couldn’t view it on the server it’s actually posted on, or some other third node like lemmy.world or whatever.

IMO the trouble is that there are so many of the things now that I need a damn flowchart to understand how they work together and which ones I need.

(No, seriously: I want to set up an *arr stack but don’t understand how. Could somebody please send me a flowchart??)

Facebook marketplace

The real !mildlyinfuriating is always in the comments. I’m damn near locked out of the used market these days because I refuse to use motherfucking Facebook.

Yes, obviously. Why the fuck wouldn’t it be?

Streets are for people. That means:

• Walking in the street is an OK thing.
• Roller-skating in the street is an OK thing.
• Skateboarding in the street is an OK thing.
• Riding a bike in the street is an OK thing.
• Riding a horse in the street is an OK thing.
• Driving a horse-drawn carriage in the street is an OK thing.

So why should driving a kids’ plastic toy car, which has similar performance to the above, be any different?

High-powered fast vehicles like cars and motorcycles are the exception in requiring a license, registration and insurance, because they are the interlopers. Everything else is there by right.

You must be an electrical engineer or something, since you’re apparently so used to thinking about flows backwards.

They should display all your accounts as a word cloud and have you draw a line (directional arrow) from the source to the destination. Yes, using your finger (on a touchscreen) or the mouse.

#shittyuiideas

“Nuclear is expensive” is a post-hoc circular argument, though. Nuclear has become expensive now because the hysteria about it, and accompanying massive political opposition, lawsuits, and paranoid regulations mandating massive overkill factors of safety, have succeeded in their goal of driving up the cost to the point of non-viability.

But back in the '60s, before the backlash had a chance to get going, we were building tons of nuclear plants at such cost-effectiveness that the economic worry was that the power they would provide would be “too cheap to meter.” And guess what: with very few exceptions, those power plants were, in fact, good enough in terms of safety and released no notable pollution throughout their entire operating lifetimes (or lifetimes so far, for the ones that are still in operation today).

At this point, sure, you’re right: it doesn’t make sense to build nuclear in 2025 because it’s incompatible with our paranoid regulatory environment, and also because our capability has atrophied after a generation of not training nuclear engineers because there was no job market for it. But that’s an “us” problem, not a problem inherent to the technology.

The world would’ve been massively better off if Greenpeace had stuck to saving the whales and we had built a trillion killowatt-hours worth of nuclear over the past 40 years instead of the gas-fired generators we actually built. Even at the cost of an additional Chernobyl or two.

I’m looking on that company’s website but not seeing it. I see the “R PRO-1 PoE mmWave Multisensor” and the “TEMP PRO-1 PoE Temperature and Humidity Sensor,” but those have different capabilities. Apollo’s “AIR-1 Air Quality Sensor” is also WiFi/USB-C power, not PoE.

To be fair, you can buy it as an “easy to assemble kit” for $138, which makes it very clear that you’re paying $92 for labor/calibration/certification.

Has anybody designed a wired PoE version yet?

I read OP’s question as him streaming from a Jellyfin server to this box, not using this box as a Jellyfin server itself. Could be wrong, though.

Also, it’s my understanding that transcoding is 100% about hardware support for the codecs and that integrated graphics that have it (TL;DR: 12th gen Intel) are going to perform pretty much just as well as even a high-end discrete gaming GPU for that task.

(I say “gaming” GPU because I was reading about the Arc Pro B50 the other day and it has two separate sets of transcoding hardware, so it presumably would actually perform better in terms of the number of simultaneous streams it could handle. But short of something like that, it apparently doesn’t make much difference.)

Genocide was already a stronger term, though. This isn’t a de-escalation.

They should move the “KDE Neon” name to this new immutable version.

An IMO better article that explains why the radio telescope was a legitimate military target: https://en.defence-ua.com/events/ukraine_strikes_the_rt_70_radio_telescope_in_crimea_and_its_even_more_important_than_s_400_radar_loss-15674.html

But why? Is there really not already some other project that does that, that the dev could join instead?