haiyaaa…that explains it.

I have never had a smart TV worth a damn.

why you gotta bring reason and logic to this jellyfin orgy?

sounds like a poorly optimized system tbh. My Plex instance loads within a few seconds. on roku, android, and web.

keep in mind I’m using nginx caching and some advanced configs.

how dare you bring facts to this community! we just want to shit on anything but jellyfin!

I’ve never seen Plex users argue in support of Plex. only comments along the lines of, “I use it because…”

the jellyfin users are generally the ones getting bent or upset because people still use Plex for their own personal reasons. they then accuse the Plex users of not contributing to jellyfin because they still use Plex. “if only you used jellyfin, xyz feature would be magically finished because you are a part of the community!”

point is, the only people arguing here are jellyfin users. Plex users are gonna Plex.

they just need Detroit crackheads. five guys and a week and they’ll have every building in Houston stripped.

but you don’t understand! just one more model bro. seriously, just one more training and we’ll have it bro.

bro. bro. bro! just one more model to train.

please, bro. please.

and that is when I’ll diy should I need any foss cameras.

and this is why my security system will never connect to the Internet.

I’ve had cops ask for my footage before that sneer at me sending them the raw files. “why can’t you just pull up the app?” or my favorite, “you should use ring, then we can just send a request to them for the footage.”

sure, pig. sure. I’ll open my home as a part of your distributed network surveillance botnet. /s

if something so simple can kill an entire industry, that industry should not exist.

other than drop all support when “big ma bell” enters the chat with a corporate competitor and you have aging infrastructure built into your home.

it’ll be like those crappy intercom wall units from the 1970s all over again, except you won’t be able to turn on your lights or plugs.

*until the ZigBee alliance is purchased by a large corporation.

wait that happened when it merged into the Connectivity Standards Alliance in 2011.

my point is that merging home utilities with any technology is like drinking bleach. a small amount won’t kill you, but a large enough dose over time will.

being in the tech sector myself along with watching what the tech oligarchs are doing should warrant at least some caution.

IMO anything that is associated with corporate interests cannot be fully trusted. I understand that IOT cannot exist without corporate buy-in, but at the same time I think it should be acknowledged that anything that cannot exist without corporate interference is damaging to consumers.

bunch of greedy fucks.

greed should be a registered mental illness that’s no different than OCD, schizophrenia, or PTSD.

Alexa, why does daddy yell and hit mommy?

remember when Texas power turned off peoples heaters when they were freezing to death as Rafael Edward Cruz went on a tropical vacation?

yeah, they did that because those people registered their smart thermostats with the company and gave them control to set the temperatures in their own damn homes.

“smart” means, “you don’t own it”.

I have three unopened google pucks that I received as gifts over the years.

I had four, but I opened one to take apart to help identify if it was possible to hack it.

at the time it was not. the only part that can be reused it the plastic shell.

the only way, and I mean the ONLY way I’ll put hardware in my brain is if I have resurrection level support like in Altered Carbon.

the fear of losing my outward identity over the ability to live forever is worth losing.

I use my teams app on my work phone to notify me when I get dm’d while at work.

when I’m not at my desk I don’t hear it because the phone only comes with me if I have to go to location for work.

my personal phone only sends me notifications from my wife, email, and phone calls.

I only get phone calla from work for emergencies only, like “the building is on fire, help us!” emergencies.

I was caught 0 times as a teenager. My mom never found my porn.

oh she knew. we all know.

working at a medium sized enterprise, about $100m in profit a year.

we got a new CEO. The old one refused, REFUSED, to implement AI in anything we did outside of alerting and monitoring.

new CEO within a week made an announcement that we were developing our own AI model to interact with customers etc.

at least I know the real reason why the board replaced the last CEO.