I can’t speak to how often, but it definitely happens.

Its a perception thing, they see it as “I dont have to’learn’ anything I just follow these tutorials” even though a similar amount of effort would get them through the few commands they might need on Linux.

Eh, no use crying over spilt milk, youre here now. :) Linux is still stuck in a weird cultural hole, its not your fault it took a while.

Ive always been familiar but a daily driver of windows. I started self hosting a year or two ago, and recently switched my office PC to Linux with a secondary win partition. Ive just never had issues with windows but I’m pretty tired of what they’ve been up too lately so for me it was time. Whenever I get around to grabbing another m.2 for my living room rig I’ll do the same for it.

This is the thing that gets me about that level of user. I understand basic users who dont care prefering windows, but I always kind of found it amusing to watch people “Linux too hard booo CLI…now excuse me while I learn to manipulate the registry, and run scripts/disable certain things via the checks notes CLI.”

Believe it or not, straight to jail.

Damn I didn’t know VLC was on android lol, definitely my desktop go-to!

I wonder how much money gets spent on all this vs how much it would cost to just not suck major ass. Neither approach is going to eliminate piracy, but at least trying to attract more flies with honey wouldn’t send more people to the black sails purely out of spite lol

Its like how in general (in the US) you dont have an expectation of privacy in public - You went to the mall, if someone is filming at the mall you might get caught in that.

You performed nude in this movie that was released to the public, you can’t then get mad that people are looking at you nude. Are we going to start monitoring streaming services for people who start a movie then click immediately to 00:49:32 a few times a week then go arrest them too?

Steal the album, buy a T-shirt at their concert!

Ironically most of these patented meds were developed with US funding, but somehow it isn’t socialism when corporations benefit.

#TeamGuillotine

I like how the entire defense is “If people actually saw our materials before signing up, our reputation and business would be destroyed”

Its jot newgrounds if it doesn’t end in violence ❤️

You CAN take steps to limit your exposure in varying levels of effort, the problem is a lot of that means “not using the thing” (ie gmail, Facebook, etc) and most people are not about that life, gripe as they might.

I’ve paid for private email hosting for over 5 years, run grapheneOS on my phone, my fb is deactivated with messenger having limited perms on my phone and kept in an isolated container on desktop, self host a number of services like password management and storage - etc etc.

Am I safe from big tech? Not completely. There’s still 1000 ways your business gets out and about, and on desktop I still use YouTube logged in and all (no yt on phone though.) They’re still only getting a small fraction from me compared to other people though.

I don’t remember which game, but there was one that it came out that they straight up lost the files for and had to download from a ROM site to put on the virtual console thing

I pirate cause I can 🤷‍♂️ I spend a lot of money on media and gaming, sometimes I’m not $60 interested though lol.

I graduated high school in 2004 😭

I know I’m a techie but I can’t wrap my head around how people have ZERO idea how any of this system (internet) works and sometimes even get mad if you try to explain it. So much…everything revolves around it now.

I don’t like cars, but when I had one I still learned the basics of how it runs and how to do a certain level of maintenance. I can’t imagine just living some “haha car go brrr” life.

The pi4b can’t handle h.265 so I’d have to upgrade anyway, I guess I’ll look into a NAS and maybe a NUC instead of the pi. Thanks for the input!

What nuc do you use? I’ve seen people touting the N100 as this miracle chip but IIRC it’s like 1Ghz to my pi’s 1.8 I think? I know moving away from the pi is fairly inevitable but IDK what to move to. A NUC sorta thing makes sense, but at the same time if I bother to buy new hardware I want to be able to run a game server or two and I assume I’d probably need more power than a NUC for that (I haven’t actually looked into reqs for that yet, although I know some games are explicitly more RAM intensive.)

I’m aware, but AFAIK NAS devices with some brains aren’t really suitable for containers so im not sure how to get my storage and my services

Or am i overthinking it and I can just point jellyfin/etc at the NAS? Might have just solved my own problem I’ll look into it later 🤣