Literally, i put on like a podcast or 10min science video or something to listen to while i shower. Gotta be dopamine maxing

I remember way back when with the Folding at Home project. That’s a type of machine learning distributed. People happily contributed their computer time. Hell, there were contests around how much compute time a particular group could give.

Yeah, when I say I don’t do politics, it’s not because I don’t care about the problems or they don’t affect me, it’s because I’m tired of talking about it, I have enough other shit in my life that’s stressing me out and it’s not going to do anything anyway.

Crushing boredom is absolutely still a thing. I guess you could move it over into mind-numbing boredom if you really wanted to get pedantic. If anything, it actually makes boredom more likely. The internet has caused a severe amount of overstimulation in most people, and so now things that they used to take enjoyment in mean nothing to them.

A difference in the type of data. A Minecraft world is just a series of coordinates. There’s a lot of repeat data. It’s very easy to algorithm your way into something much smaller.

Game data is textures, audio files, level maps, etc. Things that are not repeating data that can be easily condensed.

Clearly, the existing solution just wasn’t good enough. /s

Honestly the biggest problem is how much people are overthinking trying to make a Linux OS for a phone. Starting from zero and making a mess instead of just forking asop and redoing the UI/storage framework. We don’t necessarily need something made from scratch just something that’s actually open and in our control

Those exact type of issues have existed in the past it’s why the FBI uses ad blocking and recommends that it’s used for security. There have been several browser vulnerabilities over the years that required absolutely no interaction from the user whatsoever it simply had to load the data.

The whole reason that manifest V3 was such a big deal for unlock origin is that it prevents it from intercepting and stopping the initial connection to The domain in the first place it can only remove it after it’s been received and even that was limited. On Firefox everything is still normal it’s able to completely stop the browser from ever reaching out in the first place

Really? If anything I have the opposite problem all the normal people I’m aware of probably don’t even need steam just the web browser and plasma. Pretty much everything is in the web browser these days I mean they might want the dedicated discord client but that’s ultimately just a web browser in a box and will also work perfectly no AUR required

What do you mean? Films and TV exist they’re shown on Voyager it’s one of Tom’s obsessions. Technically I guess they aren’t really making new ones but that’s just because the entertainment moved over to the holodeck novels

I’m very tired of the rhetoric that Arch is only meant for tinkerers. If all you do is have plasma steam and a web browser it’s no more or less likely to break than any other distro. You could go your entire life without ever looking at the terminal.

And while yes this malware is a problem it is specifically in the aur, the arch user repository an unofficial repository not officially supported, just don’t use it. Unless you need a weird piece of software generally related to some type of specific hobby you’re unlikely to ever even want to look at it anyway.

Not wanting to live in the Star Trek universe is honestly crazy it’s basically Paradise compared to the real world, even billionaires would likely be better off in that universe from a fulfilment and happiness perspective

The fact that it seems to be using a standard two prong plug outlet means it’s incredibly power efficient just bring a jackery with you

Yours must be better than mine I don’t even get rejection emails just silence

It’s apparently shockingly common . I wash mine once a week part of the end of the week laundry routine

The nginx rce relied an a series of requirements that affect almost nobody. You had to be using a very specific module and processing a specific type of data reverse proxy was not affected.

But regardless I get your point that anything can have an RCE. However as you say at the end in principle that does not mean you should just give up and expect external projects to handle your security. VPN is a great way to access your services and it is good defense and depth, but for the sake of being a successful project to the masses? It’s basically a dead end Road

Actually, i mentioned the memory leaks as it’s been a consistent issue for years now. Again normal people cant and won’t setup special containers with memory limits as a crappy work around.

You may not like that i don’t blindly glaze jellyfin because it’s open source. However I’m just being realistic about what it needs to actually be a viable replacement for plex for the masses.

It needs to be able to match media properly, it still struggles with this even when you go out of your way to make sure the media is named in the exact manner the documentation dictates. It needs to be able to be used remotely simply through the web, having to set up a VPN is not a viable approach, it needs to be able to function long-term without eating up all the system’s memory and requiring regular restarts to prevent it from going out of control. Subtitles need to work on all clients, as it stands right now Roku subtitles are non-functional like 80% of the time no matter what you do, some TV browsers struggle with it as well.

I am sorry that that upsets you, but it is the reality and it is the reason the projects like these tend to mostly be used by the technically inclined. Including myself, I was able to put it in an unprivileged secured lxc container, so that I could use it through the web and set memory limits, but most people cannot and will not do that. I would prefer to see it be successful and be able to tell everyone never touch Plex again, but I know that telling people it’s ready to go while it has a myriad of basic issues is not helpful.

I am right there with you on the docker hate I get the idea but the docker system itself is a huge problem. The amount of people that do not realize it completely bypasses system firewalls is very sad and unfortunate and leaves a lot of people vulnerable.

I personally try to use lxc containers that I set up myself for containerizing services and install them natively within the container

Ok? I will take it like it is. Jellyfin is a flawed product not currently suitable to replace Plex for the average person and is only particularly usable by technically inclined users capable of protecting themselves through VPN or other means. As well as dealing with things like failed matched media and memory leaks that are frequent.

That is how it is, and that’s how I’ve been taking it from the start.

Once? No jellyfin has had about 4 major RCE issues since the fork. At least 4 that I’m aware of. Blaming it on the previous code only makes sense if the split is recent. They have had time to completely rewrite if they really want.

I’d like to see plex die entirely, but I know too many less technical people that use it . They are not going to set up a VPN , end of story end of discussion. And I’m not going to tell them to use jellyfin when it will likely continue to have major security issues and could compromise their systems. I have no doubt that Plex leadership is fully aware of this, they know that even with them pushing more subscriptions and higher costs they are going to continue to have users because the alternatives are just not able to keep up and are not viable for the average person just the technical users which they would have lost to alternatives regardless