Denmark is attempting Schrodinger’s VPN ban. Seems like every week it’s defeated and re-emerges. What a waste of administrative time.

And yet my own skills and experience are still at my fingertips.

Non-browser companies I don’t like are sponsoring a browser engine alternative so they don’t all end up getting hosed by Google’s lock-in.

As long as the end result is what I want I am alright with jerks I don’t like footing the bill if our separate self-interests are momentarily aligned.

This is a wait-and-see for me.

I have my library serving from an old work M1 Max MacBook because it has a lot of GPU oomph. GPU transcoding is available when needed.

Jellyfin users, how is the transcoding situation? I have a mix of AV1 and H265 and I need to get smooth playback to my living room Apple TV for families’ sake.

I’m just hoping whatever comes next isn’t space junk that makes colonization and satellites in general impossible.

The sooner the better. Less LLM infatuation means better customer service, less overall environmental impact, and more water available to cities.

C’mon, be fair. Country writers are toiling in their Victorian libraries to come up with such literary marvels as rhyming “suds” and “buds.”

There are only so many words in the English language to describe one’s ideal pickup truck going down a long dirt road.

I pay for it. Finding good results in the first page saves me time and I enjoy the optional AI filters and domain-based weighting.

All social platforms get worse all around us. Fedi isn’t perfect or drama-free but around here every third post isn’t a targeted ad that knows too much about me trying to make me feel guilty or inadequate.

And welcome to the jam!

The bar. Friends are alive and well but I drifted apart after a few career moves in and out of my country.

Though technically based on our cells replicating and dying off the “us” from 20 years ago also no longer exist.

I think you would have an easier time searching for those who didn’t.

Relive a random fun night with my college friends in a bar from 2003 that no longer exists.

Miss you, old friends.

“I never visited that island with its dated room decor, poor WiFi signal and awful water pressure in the showers after 8am.”

That $7/myth also likely involves 30% platform fee surcharges. If there were more Peertubes and similar federated or community-owned models the fee could lower as more money goes directly to the creators.

If there was an easy solution more people would be doing it already. Just food for thought.

It’s going to take a big cultural shift to get enough people to pay content creators through subscriptions to compete with ad-driven models.

Eventually YouTube’s hubris will cross the line where enough people will just assume the ads are so bad it’s not worth trying to watch a video. As somebody with technical means and no tolerance for ads I’m astonished more people aren’t there yet.

The black screen on the TV could be related to your TV’s HDR settings. Only recent TVs have started to decrease that temporary stutter between SDR/HDR.

It was annoying as hell in ad rolls before I started to pay for YT lite so my kid wouldn’t be advertised to.

No longer paying since they shuttered the YT Kids app on TvOS.

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