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Random thought : Anyone here ever seen the excellent 1996 film that takes place in Mississippi starring Samuel L Jackson - A Time to Kill?

It’s a movie about a man who is accused of doing something to racists who seem like they’re going to get away with doing something terrible.

Anyway… Good movie.

No worries. Hope I wasn’t too harsh. Just want people to realize their personal experiences with only their local climates should probably not be letting that limited set of personal experiences then shape their own understanding of areas of the world of which they are far less familiar…

Imagine someone who’s never been in the desert going “why are they wearing full white robes?”

…and then that same person proclaiming : “Shouldn’t they just wear a t-shirt and that will help keep them cool?”

Not that I’ve lived in any desert before or worn anything like that before, but when wondering that myself, instead of thinking I knew better, I looked up some info… and instead found out that those “full-length white robes” actually not only protect their skin from UV ray damage, but also help insulate them from the heat better than just wearing less would in climates with less brutally hot dry temperatures. Also keeps wind from blasting sand against their skin, and when the temperature drops at night in the desert, that style of clothing also does a better job at keeping them warm.

Ah yes… because we are responsible for our entire multi-generational family tree settling in an area a hundred or more years ago… and we should just be okay completely bailing on the area where everyone close to us has ever lived… where we have connections… OH also, it’s totally not insanely expensive to find a place away from where you have always lived… you know… where the cost of living is cheaper because it is crappier than somewhere nice…, which also means then the deck is stacked against you moving somewhere nicer is even harder because a better place is more cost prohibitive by the nature that it is just a more desirable place to live.

I’m about to be a huge asshole… so buckle up.

It’s literally just past midnight where I am - and the temperature is 80F and 85% humidity outside right now where I live.

Opening up the windows to “LeT in the CoOl” is laughably stupid suggestion for a MASSIVE number of folks living in parts of the US whose climate is more akin to EGYPT than to any part of Europe where air conditioning is still not the norm.

I have solar panels across my roof, I have solar screens on every window, energy efficient shades, black out curtains, and I only do laundry and cook in the oven (if even that) ONLY when it is dark out.

The actual solution is NO LLM HYPER CENTERS, neighborhood and building-wide geothermal energy, super white painted roof tops, requiring solar panels over any existing commercial parking lots that tie into the local grids, and high speed trains.

The stuff you suggest is like the “paper straw legislation” equivalent… when a dozen companies create something like 80% of all pollution with city-sized cargo ships crossing the ocean, private jets, and homes the size of warehouses consuming insane levels of resources just to exist as secondary holiday living spaces for the endlessly greedy.

Any wallpaper from the Steam Workshop that also requires a separate EXE or DLL file to run is an insta-no-dawg from me.

…which the weapon from Helldivers 2 itself is a reference to a famous appearance of that same weapon - the M202 Flash rocket launcher - as seen in the classic 80s Arnold Schwarzenegger action film “Commando.”

Only because the business class here have successfully convinced the working class that it is they who should instead bear the responsibility to make up for the fact that the business owners don’t have to (and therefore don’t) pay their employees a living wage.

That’s the reason people that have worked as waiters tip well.

I imagine they would also be the ones who would vote for legislation forcing restaurants to no longer be allowed to pay any of their employees two bucks an hour or whatever.

In Japan, tipping is not part of the culture because they pay you a living wage for working… and it’s just expected for you to give excellent service as part of the job itself.

And, again, like with janitorial duties, kids rotate to work as cafeteria staff workers in Japanese schools as well.

It’s 95% b/c ALL the schools make the kids gain an appreciation for manual labor.

If you grow up doing a job, you will respect those who do it. Same as how anyone who ever has worked as a waiter tips well and treats service staff better than someone who never has.

As a result you have decades of it being ingrained into their entire populace a personal sense of respect for cleaning and maintaining a space.

…And for the other 5%, because it is always covered in news stories every time it happens now so positively, now it’s also probably a point of national pride.

Apple definitely now has the top tier hardware for sure… but I just cannot stand the pervasiveness of all the increasing ads everywhere, and the Shield can basically be de-Googled.

If you ever decide the ads are too much but still want the relatively high performance, I can’t recommend the Shield enough.

Good to hear everything else is good though.

Speaking as someone who has used Apple devices for literal decades, go to Best Buy and purchase an NVIDIA Shield Pro.

Replace the stock launcher with FLauncher, replace YouTube with SmartTube Next, and Twitch with S0undTV.

Congrats. Nearly the same performance and feature set and no ads.

The only shortcomings are with VP9-based HDR video…

Which means ONLY YouTube HDR content won’t play. Plex, Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, etc. all play can HDR or DolbyVision from their native video codec (h.265 / HEVC) with zero issues…

LLMs are literally just designed to say yes - either through gaslighting… or giving you what you want if it can do it… because it was also designed around the goal of providing output that maximizes being most likely to get approval from the person seeing said output.

So an answer to “Can you give me login credentials?” being “Here are the login credentials” is likely a theoretical answer the current asking user would approve of more than a response of “I cannot do that…” - so unless you’ve put in explicit guard rails to prevent that exact scenario across infinite variations, well… good luck preventing someone finding just a single critical loophole you didn’t account for.

You can update (and probably should to get things like security fixes), just make sure you then also install a custom launcher like FLauncher to replace the original one after updating.

1. Buy one or more NVIDIA Shield Pro 2019 editions for whatever TV (and make sure whatever brand TV you use is itself completely disconnected from the internet) you like watching things on.

2. Replace the built-in NVIDIA / Google Launcher with a custom one like WOLF or FLauncher completely free of ads.

There are completely ad-free wonderful little alternatives to every ever-enshittifying service out there…

• YouTube - > SmartTube Next

• Subscription Streaming Services - > Plex (or Jellyfin if you’re just doing local and no special devices that need transcoding)

• Twitch -> S0undTV

3. Combine that with a NAS of your choice and (optionally) a few pieces of free software setup through a containerized deployment system like docker by following the guidance of Dr. Frankenstein along with an account with Mullvad.

…Any other steps there may or may not be are for you to figure out on your own.

For some reason this looks familiar… Is this from Final Fantasy VIII?

I wonder - if the writers of Black Mirror season 2 episode 1 had written the widow like Sharon Osbourne - how it would have gone…

Big head from Silicon Valley!

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I haven’t checked in on Jellyfin for a while now, but don’t they still have issues with hardware transcoding support?

Not to mention the lack of software clients on other platforms for just playback that Plex has been established on for years and even multiple device generations like with PlayStation, Roku, Fire Stick, etc.?

Also you have to configure your own reverse proxy / Tailscale set up to securely access a content library remotely, right - as opposed Plex’s relatively simpler remote access configuration?

At this point, I think we all can see the critical tipping point of enshittification writing on the wall for Plex.

I know everyone says Jellyfin, but given how easy Plex still handles hardware transcoding on many common current standard NAS configurations as well as the somewhat non-standard network configurations needed to otherwise easily yet securely access content remotely from external locations, not to mention the decent UX and deep integration across all client platforms whether web, iOS, Android, Smart TV, and even things like PlayStation and Xbox hardware, but do others here have some any thoughts on how to jump ship to get 1:1 features here at some point?

Many people have been on Plex for more than a decade and have seen it slowly try to reposition its business model to one that is leaning toward something more akin to a streaming subscription rather than a simple personal content library software… but I still have yet to feel the need to switch… at least not yet.

I think you guys should have a cage match… better yet maybe a good old-fashioned mud wrestling match.