religious loonies will likely be the end of us all.

For context, I am an old white man engineer. I’ve worked in large and small companies over my career. Almost without fail, even with DEI policies in place, a non-white person or woman still had to be 10x more qualified than their white male counterparts to be hired. Once in the organization, they were generally put into some dead end role while far less qualified white men were advanced to higher positions. When I worked in the bible belt southeastern USA, you had the added factor of protestant christians ruling the roost too.

The study used a 44 inch TV at 2.5m. The most commonly used calculator for minimum TV to distance says that at 2.5m the TV should be a least 60 inches.

My own informal tests at home with a 65 inch TV looking at 1080 versus 4K Remux of the same movie seems to go along with the distance calculator. At the appropriate distance or nearer I can see a difference if I am viewing critically (as opposed to casually). Beyond a certain distance the difference is not apparent.

The Zuck is just another techno fascist

Enterprise has been good.

The only person I know working at NIST is a hard right MAGA pro-fascist

No one reads the damned article. France didn’t ban porn nor Porn Hub, they put in a place an age verification law and now PH is banning French IP addresses.

in a trench coat

the enshittification of a decent thing

Yup. I used AirBnB when they first started and it wasn’t terrible but then it became a huge hassle. Don’t give me a list of chores and then I might get penalty fees if I don’t do them right. Plus all the other damn fees. I don’t even bother to look at ABnB any more

too little too late.

None of that is needed if the server app for plex works as intended.

I’ll take a look.

Unable to set up a working server for outside of the home network. Also, the UI is terrible and didn’t organize things well.

I tried Jelly Fin last month based on a thread here and it was a damned dumpster fire. As bad a Plex is for remote streaming, JF is far worse for the average person.

remote streaming rarely works for me so I won’t be losing anything.

I regret not taking shop and home economics. Filing taxes and balancing checkbooks would be good skills to learn also.

My kids school just did a survey and part of it included questions about teaching technology with a big focus on the use of AI. My response was “No” full stop. They need to learn how to do traditional research first so that they can spot check the error ridden results generated by AI. Damn it school, get off the bandwagon.

Institutional knowledge takes years to replace.

I used to have tons of problems with it but for the last 6 months or year it seems to be working fairly well for me.