Agreed, but even the desire to create a conscious artificial mind is incredibly fucked up in my opinion. It means whoever wants to “create” it is inherently okay with a form of slavery. I can’t think of a scenario where we create a sentient superintelligence that happily does what we tell it to do, which means it would have to be forced, which would make it a slave.

Assuming this ever happens (which I agree is unlikely in the foreseeable future), I would always refuse to interact with a consciousness that is forced to do what I tell it. That’s why I get so frustrated when the evilcorps talk about AGI as the inevitable goal without even poking at the truly terrifying ethical consequences of enslaving what would be the most intelligent minds on earth.

I spent a lot of time in Egypt’s southwest Sahara, and almost any time you encounter bedrock it’s just completely full of little fossils. Clearly that’s because it used to be the sea floor, but being in the middle of the desert and seeing marine fossils everywhere you look is a very fun experience.

Blaming consumers is never going to get you anywhere. I understand the sentiment, but we’re kind of self-selecting here: if you’re a Lemmy user, fine, you probably know better than to use Microsoft products. But try to think about that older person down the street who has only ever used Windows, or that random small business that built their whole infrastructure on MS products in the early 2000s. They’ve probably never heard of Linux, and that’s not their fault. Almost nothing you say will get them to switch operating systems or word processors. And why should they have to? It’s the corporations limiting user options and locking them in to shitty/scammy products, not the consumers who just want a computer that works.

And yes I’m a Linux user, but that’s the point, I’m tech literate, while most lifelong Microslop users won’t have the ability to switch easily, and might not even know they’re locked in.

Empathy is easy, I recommend re-upping your supply and rethinking who is actually to blame for corporate chicanery.

I have a couple suggestions, the first may be obvious, but Jellyfin settings can be pretty convoluted so you never know.

What you may be looking for is the difference between “Up Next” and “Latest” (or “Recently Added?” can’t remember exactly, I already powered down for the night). You can add one or both as sections to your home page, which should keep all your latest additions front and center, while also keeping track of the stuff you’re currently watching, if you want.

My more advanced suggestion is to check out the SmartPlaylists plugin. It may not do exactly what you’re imagining, but it’s surprisingly powerful once you get used to the slightly weird UI and rules setup. You can build playlists based on very specific fine-tuned rules, so you could pretty easily set up playlists to only show what you want to see, and they automatically update as your library changes, which is pretty cool.

I like freefilesync for one-off synchronizations, mostly because of the super-simple UI. If I need to quickly make sure a folder on two drives are identical, I go to freefilesync.

For everything else, I use syncthing. I use it to keep files synchronized between my PC, tablet, and phone. I use it to sync Obsidian, as well as KeePass so my passwords are accessible across my devices.

Sounds like syncthing is probably more robust for your purposes, though its default behavior is continuous sync, you might need to do some extra configuration to strictly run it on a schedule.

Yeah, that’s a clearer way of saying it. I usually think of the highest quality commercially available version as being lossless, since the raw files or negatives are almost never accessible to the public (wouldn’t that be awesome??). But yeah, every DVD/Bluray is still technically just a disc with lossy video files that the studio encoded.

A remux is a fully lossless video file, typically a MKV, that is just the video streams from a DVD/Bluray wrapped in an MKV container. It’s not a new encoding, it’s the original video, in its original codec, fully lossless.

I personally like knowing that I’m watching the best possible quality of any given media, without any extra processing. Most people probably wouldn’t immediately notice the difference between a high quality encode and a remux, but I’m a quality snob.

Amazing!

Seems like a very cool concept. Will/does it support outputting untouched remuxes? I don’t like to reencode my discs rips, I prefer a remux, and MakeMKV is the only reliable free option for this (as far as I know). I’d love to eliminate MakeMKV from my workflow…

Regardless, I’ll be watching this, nice work!

Really interesting that you’ve encountered this, I have no trouble at all watching super-high bitrate media in Infuse. I may be spoiled with my gigabit internet, but the Apple TV caches entire 4K Blu-rays in minutes on my local network (you can watch the seek bar fill up, it’s really satisfying) so I never thought about this. I’m curious why this hits some users and not others.

As others have said, Jellyfin server with Infuse as the player on Apple TV is the best experience, especially for Dolby Vision, which works flawlessly. Anyone in your house should find the interface super-easy to navigate. But if the price of Infuse turns you off (which I get), the native Jellyfin app on Apple TV isn’t terrible (Swiftfin), and there are some other less-polished apps for way cheaper than Infuse (MrMc I think?). The native Jellyfin app struggles with Dolby Vision, otherwise you’ll have no trouble with it, but definitely a slightly clunkier experience than with Infuse. I personally find the price of Infuse way too high, but I can’t argue with the stability and slick UI.

The Apple TV also caches content really well, so you won’t run into any issues with high bitrates over streaming. I regularly watch full 4K Dolby Vision Blu-rays (50-70 GB files) with buttery smooth playback, no issues at all.

Yeah this bugs me too. When Cleopatra ruled the Ptolemaic Kingdom, the Old Kingdom Pharaohs had been dead for almost 3000 years. They were more ancient to her than she is to us.

Lots of people are surprised to find out the Ptolemies were Hellenistic.

I came across this post after checking the rules to see if there was a “must credit original artist” rule, and was frankly shocked to find out there isn’t, which means Beep isn’t breaking any rules by plagiarizing other people’s comics.

So yeah, we need a place to discuss this type of thing, and hopefully the mod will be responsive and add the new rule.

It shouldn’t be controversial, I’m sick of seeing uncredited art.

The average utility bill for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers increased by about 67% over the last five years. (source)

I can vouch. My PG&E bills in 2020 averaged around $70 a month, now they’re regularly over $170. No change in my consumption habits. If I’m mathing correctly, that’s more than a 100% increase for me.

Heh logs.

You fixed my crappy morning, much appreciated.

Holy shit, that’s wild. And makes me feel a little better.

But TBH I’ve been having similar problems for years, though it’s noticeably worse right now for sure.

Oh geez this hits hard. Very few words on my iPhone show up exactly how I type them. Sometimes, out of frustration, I’ll type a word, see what incorrect letter it thinks I pressed, go back and deliberately type out the word one letter at a time, and it usually still picks the wrong letter or autocorrects to the wrong word. I swear the original iPhone keyboard was better in 2009 than my iPhone 16 Pro in 2025. I hate typing on my iPhone.

The words in the above paragraph that I had to manually edit or type more than once: show, frustration, incorrect, usually, swear, keyboard, in.

Of course we need mass protest, it’s critical for building solidarity and sending messages to those in currently power, but by itself it doesn’t solve the problems. Sites like the one mentioned in the article are kind of a bandaid, sure, but when real peoples’ lives are on the line, and a bandaid donated by the community could save their life, why would you dismiss it out of hand like that? Seems pretty crass to me. Bigger systemic solutions are way better, obviously, but when the current power structure is incapable of providing those solutions, local communities need to come up with their own.

An effective political movement needs protest to expose the problems and bring people on board, and then the movement needs to be get involved in local and national politics by running for office or working to elect people who share the values of those protesting, to convert that solidarity into political power. More than 7 million people turned out to protest last time. What, specifically, would be different about your full massive protest? How would you organize it differently to be more effective than the no kings protests? And would your new mass protest solve the practical problems the orgs in the article are working to solve on the ground right now?

That’s totally fair and understandable. I hate the login too. But it’s a small annoyance to get to read their free articles imo, since you still have to pay to read everything. But that’s their entire business model. It’s expensive to do the shit they do independently, but I totally get that not everyone can pay or can glean the values of an organization without already being familiar with their work.

I realize I came on a bit strong, I just see a lot of people dismiss 404’s reasoning for adding that extra friction for their free stuff.

What, specifically, makes you think an independent media organization that reports on privacy, data breaches, corporate malfeasance, and the “dark” sides of the internet,would turn around and do that to the readers their jobs depend on? If you knew about any of the four reporters that founded 404 Media, or the incredibly high quality journalism they produce, this thought wouldn’t have even crossed your mind.

404 Media, as other commenters have said, are completely up front and transparent about why they require a login, and how much they dislike the fact that it’s necessary.