Billegh

Yes, but live content piracy is still in its infancy.

😏

I always felt that the default package situation for Ubuntu was far better than Debian’s. Like, no, I don’t want to set a root password and then manually install sudo or doas after and then add myself to the relevant group and then remove the root password…

Can confirm. I arch bottom, btw.

There are dozens of us!

Pretty much. Snap is the only one with a semblance of anything appearing to be security, and nearly every container requires you to turn it off to run.

I’ll hold out for riscvd

Probably still playing with his jackdaws.

I was installing something decades ago that set the default runlevel to 6 and inserted itself as a runlevel 6 service. It would reboot until it had finished the changes it wanted to make and then set the runlevel back. Weirdest trash software. The service stayed to “apply updates on reboot”

I’m glad I don’t have to work there anymore.

One, so that it’s already ready if I ever need to use it seriously, and two, so I can continue to observe its progress and dependencies.

I suspect Plex will not give us a lot of warning if they decide that old lifetime passes aren’t good enough anymore. Money grabs like that are best as a surprise.

I have two Plex servers I maintain, for myself, friends, and family. Both also have jellyfin serving the same sources. It’s trivial to maintain them side by side. Since it’s there, I can easily use it occasionally and see if the things I don’t like about jellyfin have been fixed.

VPNs are not trivial to use for normies.

Same here, but I am also maintaining jellyfin alongside it. In case Plex decides that “lifetime” means something other than what I expected it to mean. I’ve long ago gotten my $80 of usage out of it.

Jellyfin is… ok. It works, it works consistently, and it is consistently almost great. But I provide “cable replacement” and “streaming supplement” services to family that doesn’t live in the same house, and will all likely break a box that managed a VPN.

Given the above, we’ll ride out Plex until they go nuts. Hopefully jellyfin will be polished enough for child use by then.

Perl is damaging to one’s health.

Moreso mental health, but extended use can cross that hurdle easily enough.

Swing is what all these xml layout tools have been trying to replicate, honestly. Some get close, but far too few.

It warmed my heart when GWT basically copied swing for its layout. Made that super easy to learn.

The individual things themselves weren’t really the issue. Swing was by far my favorite.

The issue was cross platform ui development. If you didn’t target Java, swing wasn’t viable.

Ugh. Cancel reminder, ready to take my chances with rectal cancer…

Hah! Yeah, qt has some really neat interfacing. And it is in so many places you wouldn’t expect it to be…

I won’t, Godot is perfectly cromulent.

Having built applications with Microsoft’s mfc, Java’s swing, the omnipresent Qt, and whatever nastiness Mac was using in the early 00’s, electron is worth the silliness. Trust me. Trust me.

Clicking on “Add” just gives a contextless “this only works on desktop” with no explanation of why or why not. About doesn’t really explain why either. Could use a more helpful message there.