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Agreed on both points.

The traditionally attractive factor is another tell with AI generated imagery. One of many that is fading as new models are built.

“… I know this!”

Are they like focus on iOS and macOS?

I have gigabit, and struggled to stream. Turned out I had the Quality of Service (QoS) /traffic priority settings on my router misconfigured.

This might be something to look into.

Can a remote user download something from your network at a reasonable and consistent speed? (Not using Plex)

Can you upload a large file somewhere and monitor the speed and see if it maintains speed as expected?

For me, these two things were also performing at unexpectedly low speeds, or being wildly inconsistent until I fixed my QoS settings.

It’s a bummer that hard drives are priced this way. It’s been common for a few decades now.

Huh, that’s unintuitive to me. I remember people talking about too many hard drives in a case using too much power before. Overloading it, etc. 1-2W each would not overload a normal power supply. 🤔

Did hard drives just quietly get super efficient when I wasn’t paying attention? Or is something else going over my head here?

Irony poisoning?

Yeah, using “self hosted” in your title is misleading.

They loiter in thrift stores.

… just run this bash script straight from the internet, it’ll be fine …

Wow, the option to purchase things is really that bad huh?

I hate not knowing if my bug report is valid.

I always thought it was a bad idea for people to treat Discord as a free CDN.

I hope they hit on something stand-out soon. To establish more sustainability. Seems like everything is in change right now.

Sever access sellers are kinda shitty and not what Plex should be about. IMO.

I’m not saying this action is good.

I did agree that using that word is probably going to far. I was merely trying to elaborate on the sentiment you were rejecting.

what is beautiful is political. Valuing art based on beauty is political. Maybe your friend is ugly. Maybe they are not, and that’s why the portrait was done.

The act of creating is expressing power, and the expression of power and choices about who and what is valued is the core of “political.”

It isn’t always a clear cut thing, sometimes it’s a deeper philosophical idea and much less on the surface.

Maybe “political” is too far and “a collection of choices that reflect and potentially propagate culture or societal beliefs.” Is better.

Being able to make a choice is power. However small. And politics is all about power. Art is all about choices.

oh no