Jack is outrageously funny, irreverent, and a bit too adult for broadcast TV at the time.
Just like Brisco County, he was just a little early. A couple years later when the dedicated cable channels hit their stride he would’ve been very successful (FX, SciFi, etc).
I bought the Jack DVD’s, they were like $20 - totally worth it.
Mods being mods across instances is a major problem that, like most of this, I don’t see a solution for.
It seems all the positives of federation have an equal, and equally significant, negative.
I think starting a discussion about these kinds of issues is important.
It’s an area where all of OSS has issues. It comes with projects being developed by individuals their own requirements.
The challenge comes when “we” (the tech community) want to see such projects expand… Into the non-tech community. If that’s to happen with any project, the requirements of that community need to be considered.
And they’re a fickle bunch that are unwilling to learn how stuff works.
This may be even better than the email analogy.
I think conceptually to us that works, but it really doesn’t work for the average person.
Partly because you get “if it’s like email, why not just use email?”. Most people don’t understand how email even works, that it’s a kind of federated system, that their account resides with a certain provider/host, etc.
People were starting to get it in the late 90’s/early 2000’s, but then Yahoo/Google happened, then smartphones.
And kids who grew up with smartphones often really don’t get how things work, because their experience is with a capability-limited device where that stuff is even more obfuscated.
At best, average people think in terms of an app, and are utterly uninterested in any behind-the-scenes stuff. And to them, picking an instance is behind-the-scenes. “Why do I have to do any of this?” I mean getting people to create an account and track passwords is hard enough.
The most damning thing I see there is that they use twitter and facebook, which does seem to be true.
Haha, two of many I refuse to use. I don’t blame the company, they gotta use the channels of their consumers, unfortunately for them.
Yep, influencers want you constantly connected to the doom-sayers.
At one time getting the weekly newspaper was sufficient.
Then CNN happened with cable.
most passengers will smell like some prawns that were abandoned in an alleyway six months ago
Hahahaha
The local hardware is limited (That’s the export control).
But I believe the consumer-accessible signal from satellites is also limited on accuracy.
Is what true?
Everything here are disclaimers by the app dev.
Hahahahaha
Yea, I don’t want any smart devices.
My short term solution for some crucial monitoring needs has been Yolink products.
I have their hub (without voice nonsense), a couple temp monitors (for a fridge and freezer), and a couple switches (really for power monitoring).
I have their app on my phone with minimal permissions. You don’t need the app - the system will do SMS or email alerts.
Plus it it has a button on the plug/switch for manual operation.
The yolink brand is a decent compromise.
Bruce Campbell??
OP should’ve lead with that!
Currently watching Jack of All Trades and Brisco County Jr., two shows that should’ve had years of episodes (especially Jack).
Bruce just gets it.
Second, the CEO (disingenuously) stated they dropped SMS support because of engineering costs - , I don’t trust them.
There are free SMS apps, because your app hasn’t handled SMS ever, you just use the SMS API. Android itself handles it all - as of about 2012, all apps were required to use a single SMS database
First, signal doesn’t come anywhere close in feature parity.
Second, the CEO (disingenuously) stated they dropped SMS support because of engineering costs - , I don’t trust them.
There are free SMS apps, because your app hasn’t handled SMS ever, you just use the SMS API. Android itself handles it all - as of about 2012, all apps were required to use a single SMS database.
Just use the OptiPlex for everything. The RPi lacks the horsepower, and storage capability.
I’m currently using a 7 year old OptiPlex SFF as a NAS, backup point, media converter, and media server. I’ve upgraded the storage drive to 8TB.
I do have another old NAS I use only to duplicate my data store locally (I keep 3 local copies of data, and a cloud backup).
The OptiPlex draws 15w at idle, about 85w when converting video. My NAS draws about 5w at idle. I initially tried serving media from the NAS, but it’s performance is frankly abysmal. Instead I run Media Monkey, Jellyfin, and another media server on the Dell, which has no problem streaming to my crappy Samsung TV (not using an app, just the crappy built-in DLNA client) It works even better with decent devices, like my phone, laptop, iPad.
Your biggest concern with that Dell is the power consumption. As I said, mine happens to draw 15w at idle - I got lucky
What are the specs on your OptiPlex? Is it a mini tower or SFF? That would help more than just telling us the model.
Depending on your sensitivity to failures (drives die) I’d get 2 data drives for the Dell and mirror them, using the current drive just for the OS.
You’ll need to direct that port for the given service in the router control panel.
For your current server you have a port forwarding for that port already. Just add a port forwarding rule for the new service.
I mean what’s new?
It was like this before Musk bought it.