Nah, that’s too obvious, could have just been a coincidence. This, though…

Can you not? I haven’t really used OpenMW, but I’ve been thinking about using it to go through Morrowind. I assume it’s not perfect, but I got the impression it was getting to be pretty good.

I never really used Spotify, so I can’t make any direct comparisons, but one thing I can say is that Lidarr and Jellyfin will not help with exploring new music. They’re things you host yourself, so they can only interact with your own collection.

Lidarr manages a music collection and works primarily through a web page. I’ve only personally used it on desktop, so I can’t vouch for the mobile UI. Desktop UI seems good enough, no real complaints. You can use it to do things like index your collection, show what you may be missing, standardize folder structure, file names, and metadata tags, and automate downloads of missing content or upgrades for low quality content through bittorrent or Usenet. There might be third party apps to use it if you prefer, but I’m not aware of any since I never felt the need to look.

Jellyfin streams audio, video, and I think ebooks. It has a web client, too, but it also has official client apps for desktop and mobile. The UI is decent, pretty intuitive, no real complaints, but I feel like it could be improved somehow. Still, it works well, and it doesn’t cause problems. However, Jellyfin has had some security vulnerabilities in the past, so I think it’s recommended you not directly expose it to the internet. So instead of setting up port forwarding on your router, you’d want to use something like a VPN or maybe an SSH tunnel to get into the house from outside. That makes it a bit more technical to set up since you need that extra service to access it safely, but that’s only necessary if you want access from outside the house.

Jellyfin and Lidarr is a potent combo for managing and streaming a collection.

So it sounds like they can’t really enforce the fine, but they can restrict me from the region for noncompliance. Blocking me seems well within their rights, I suppose. This whole hypothetical was based on the idea I don’t depend on their market at all, so it’s not like it’d harm me.

But does it really constitute doing business in that country when you do everything your home country? Your servers, your workers, your ISP, your bank accounts, your currency coming in and out of those accounts, the companies buying your ad space, all completely out of their jurisdiction, but since someone within that jurisdiction reached out and made requests to my web server, I’m obligated to abide by their laws? It doesn’t seem tenable. It effectively means that any commercial website must comply with all laws anywhere in the world or geoblock outside their intended range.

Does Imgur even have infrastructure in the UK? How could they even levy a fine? If I’m running a business in the US or Canada or EU and the UK tries to tell me to to pay a fine, how can that possibly be enforced? I’m running a service entirely outside their jurisdiction. It’s not my responsibility to enforce the laws of foreign nations.

I think a lot of economies are entangled in the modern day, so it’s not so easy to do without punishing your own citizens.

Of course, when Trump levies huge tariffs that make it too expensive to be so entangled, that helps encourage decoupling.

If I remember correctly, you don’t really need Prowlarr. It’s useful if you’re using multiple *arr services, but Prowlarr manages your indexers, the place *arr services look for content, and syncs them to your other *arr services so THEY can do the search. I don’t think Prowlarr itself ever looks for content automatically, only if you manually search through Prowlarr.

On the scale necessary to actually do anything meaningful for Ukraine, no, they don’t project force.

allow your gods

We don’t worship our politicians as gods like you sycophants do.

If you’ve got a spare PC or one that’s always online, you can host something like Jellyfin for yourself. Make your own streaming service. With blackjack and hookers.

It saves them money in the same sense it saves every other information source money, it reduces traffic. But just like other sites can’t serve ads without traffic, Wikipedia can’t prove its worth and ask for donations without traffic. Eventually, people will start asking themselves why they need to support Wikipedia when Google’s AI tells them everything they need to know, unaware that Google’s AI can only do so because it scrapes Wikipedia without paying for it.

And in return, they drive traffic away from the sites that collect the information in the first place, causing the sources to lose revenue.

I don’t particularly like giving the permission, but it is made to help you find WiFi spots. That’s easier if it knows where you are in relation to the spots, so there’s a legitimate reason to ask for permission.

That doesn’t mean they can be trusted with it necessarily, though. I dunno if they can or can’t, just saying that having a legit reason to ask doesn’t necessarily equate to trustworthy.

I don’t know what the process is like to become a certificate authority. I imagine the answer is technically yes but realistically no, at least not as an individual. You’d be providing a critical piece of internet infrastructure, so you’d need the world to consider you capable of providing the service reliably while also capable of securing the keys used to sign certificates so they can’t be forged. It’s a big responsibility that involves putting a LOT of trust in the authority, so I don’t think it’s taken very lightly.

It’s to make sure you’re actually reaching your intended endpoint. If I’m visiting a site for the first time, how do I know I actually have THEIR certificate? If it’s self generated, anybody could sign a certificate claiming to be anybody else. The current system is to use authority figures who validate certificates are owned by the site you’re trying to visit. This means you have a secure connection AND know you’re interacting with the correct site.