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Comment · 6 months ago
Yeah I know- I have accounts on bluesky and mastodon as well- but I try not to isolate myself to one network, there are plenty of non-usa accounts that were only on X who I followed for technology and art/photography stuff. shikata ga nai I guess.
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Comment · 10 months ago
I feel this. And agree- like when I started playing with cloud tools in 2006... AI tooling has quickly become a main part of my daily workflow.
Comment · 1 year ago
Well that ansible job was quickly ran, buhbye atop. Very concerning coming from Rachel and not some rando. I know a number of fortune 5's that use atop for troubleshooting as well. So as others have commented if you had this baked into images or loaded with puppet etc than now may be the time to cleanup.
Comment · 2 years ago
Bonus points for articles that start with a tldr and don't try to bury the lead
Comment · 2 years ago
Actually had this happen with a boomer long ago. Not saying that insultingly- just a difference in generational cohorts. I use Google keep for all my notes. The guy stopped mid meeting and asked me why I felt he was so boring that I would just play on my phone during the meeting.

I turned the screen and explained the typing was me taking notes. He and I had a good laugh and had a better understanding about this- ever since then I tell new people in meetings with me that I am going to take notes on my phone.

This guy and I became good friends but this is just a difference in technology utilization between generations.

Comment · 2 years ago
Holy cow, was this a test of my ad blocker?
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Comment · 2 years ago
Delete Nazis killed a number of good deeply technical pages, always citing some obtuse wikilaw. There was a time when contributing was encouraged and assisted. Now if you make a new article one of these pricks will delete all of your work no questions asked with their fake voting process where they pull in their little cadre of friends.

Now I just add data to places like GitHub and subject specific wikis. I treat wikipedia like Pinterest at this point.

Curious if I am the only one that has such a dislike for wikipedia?

Comment · 3 years ago
Tldr. Never, ever take a tam role at Amazon. My leadership actually told me to avoid that role when I worked at Amazon as I was curious about more customer facing roles.
Comment · 3 years ago
Ditto, not sure why everyone hates on plex so much. Sure they do some dumb stuff- but overall media handling capability has improved. I am still pissed about camera upload and podcast support. But not enough for all the reddit user rage I see.
Comment · 3 years ago
Use both Plex and Emby. This does not concern me since I think of Plex the same way as I think about a SIP provider. They provide the connection brokering so my devices and my server can handshake.

I have Emby as a backup because some media might have issues with transcode on plex. Jellyfin is a distant third for me due to transcode issues with hdr 4k content. (When last tested)

Either way, my content is for me- still not sure why people are crazy enough to pirate a ton of crap, buy space on a cloud provider then sell it on reddit.

I am sure the backlash on this move will be on par with when Plex said they wanted to collect media hashes and everyone swiftly raged at them.

The sad thing is Plex used to be awesome they killed camera upload and their podcast product is garbage cloud only trash. Plexamp is awesome. It just blows my mind they they don't create a podcast polling module where you can store data locally.

All of their recent focus has been on trying to be a multi streaming site aggregator. If they took a lesson from ye olden dogpile I think they would see this is a bad cart to hitch your horse to- they really need to get back to self hosted stuff.

This ticks me off... But their DVR and advert removal tooling for live TV tuners still rocks and I use for accessing my CATV and OTA channels.

Someday I will drop them- this is just another bad choice by very schizophranic leadership at Plex.

Plexamp is my main Android auto car music app, maybe I drop them for all but my live TV and music use?

Curious why Emby is not brought up more- I love it much more than jellyfin for stability.

Comment · 3 years ago
That is why I selfhost. Digital ocean has an appliance you can spin up and play with in about 10 minutes.

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