I don’t know how important this is to users of Vivaldi, and I don’t know how good Vivaldi can make their blocker by middle of next year, but this may force me to Firefox. Or maybe someone makes a local proxy like in the old days to do ad blocking Idk.

Probably just so you don’t accidentally waste time unknowingly rereading a book.

Testing the Jellyfin photos thing out now. I don’t know if it’s working right, but when I first looked at it the issue was I thought it seemed very video focused. I guess otherwise I’m learning docker after all.

Fair enough, last time I tried docker, which was a long time ago, I had all sorts of issues with permissions and persistence. I guess it’s probably better now.

I don’t want a research project. I just was hoping there was an easy to use program to make the viewing better than samba shares. Maybe I just need a set of programs that will display thumbnails over samba.

Well, what you could do is run a DNS server so you don’t need to deal with IPs. You could likely adjust ports for whatever server to be 443 or 80 depending on if you’re internal only or need SSL. Also, something like zerotier won’t route your whole connection through your home internet if you set it up correctly, consider split tunneling. With something like zerotier it’ll only route the zerotier network you create for your devices.

It seems like they already cooperate about as much as is likely, so this is mostly symbolic. I also question whether Russia, China or India - the political players here in my limited opinion, will let UAE throw around more political weight just because they joined BRICS. Heck, China and India are more political competitors than partners.

Honestly I’m constantly amazed it was on this long. I think not having ratings or traditional competition lets streaming shows go longer than they should.

It was never that good, and it just started declining from the pilot. I slogged through S3 due to “giving it a fair chance”, and I regret that every time I think about S3, which I’ve mostly forgotten. ANY other sci fi show and I would have dropped it probably in the first episode, or at my most tenacious in the first season.

syncthing will work with pretty large amounts of data, unless you mean having the storage space on each device is the “won’t work” issue.

Noise doesn’t matter in a data center which is where the switches live. The power use might be more than a 1gbit, but they’re in line with any dual power enterprise switch really.

I will have to see that. I would be concerned about pushing cat5e that fast. I am not sure about cat6, but again that speed is not fast enough to buy new cards for the computers and if we were buying cards I guess the 10G fiber cards are likely cost competitive now that servers are dumping them as obsolete.

Yea, I think 2.5G is really searching for a market, that may not exist. For home use, 1Gbit is in general plenty fast enough, and maxes out most US customers Internet too. For enterprise use 10G is common and cheap. The cards to get an SFP+ port into any tower or server is just really small. Enterprise is considering how to do 100G core cheaply enough, and looking for at least 25G on performance servers, if not also 100G in some cases. If you’ve got the budget you can roll 400G core right now in “not insane pricing”.

2.5G to the generic office (that might well be remote) is likely re-wiring and unnecessary. And that’s if you don’t find ac WiFi sufficient, i.e. sub 1G.

I mean, to the extent politically we supported the Afganistan and Iraq war, this isn’t much different as far as I can tell. Much of the US is pretty pro war for some reason.

I’ve seen some sketchy motels in my time, which is why I stopped staying in them. Hotels, especially major chains tend to be decent to great quality, and are usually cost competitive with AirBnB according to several news stories and lemmy threads over the last 10 months or so. And they have less weird requirements about you doing bed stripping / cleaning before you leave.

I don’t know Rishi Sunak, but “a man is a man and a woman is a woman” seems like a tautology to me, so how it’s “'sickening’ and ‘ridiculous’” escapes me, except as making yet another statement into a “dog whistle”.

Of course he probably doesn’t mean it this way, but taking the performative definitions and removing sex from the definition, then there is no actual thing to reference other than back to the word. There’s no definition available - it becomes a qualia as far as I can tell. Actually, in some ways less than that - it becomes a bit of a “no true scotsman” argument, or a “what is canon in franchise” sort of thing. Because the performance of a man or woman is basically whatever each individual person says it is. It can convey nothing that isn’t a stereotype and is likely harmful.

Anyway, the terms become meaningless - and in general anything we cared about there was to me actually based in the sex, not the gender anyway.

I am not an expert, but it seems like most developed countries are learning to deal with a shrinking population. The current decline hasn’t had effects like loosening up the job market, so it seems to me this means it’s not currently causing any problems that would be catastrophic. There’s clearly enough workers for the work that needs to get done.

I think there’s not yet been a article of all the ‘doom and gloom’ of population decline that actually explains why it’s worse than overpopulation.

Maybe the UK is very different from the US but I find I use cash more now than I used to since I got into buying used items from private parties. This includes cars, farm equipment, mowers, camera equipment / lenses, and more. If you’re at auctions you get a discount for paying cash (which honestly I think is a bit of a scam, but there it is), same for buying gas at a gas station. If you’re at a swap meet or the like, or a yard sale - no one is setting up a square account or something, nor do they want to deal with your paypal or venmo or whatever. They want you to give them $10 or whatever and take the used item.

So - some of this I’m sure is the limits of the US banking system, but also no one wants to need to do extra IRS paperwork for a one time sale of something. Yes, a lot of it is “dodging taxes”, but I also see the other side - if I’m selling my old books and that bike I haven’t used in a decade in a once a year or less yardsale - it’s a little ridiculous to need to do sales and income taxes on each $2-$50 item that would be required with digital payments.

Well. I rarely use cash in stores or restaurants, but I also see it for local chicken BBQs or little town fairs - the local legion or whatever doesn’t have a portable card machine…

That is… An interesting choice.

Yea, I was thinking about that and the whole reign of terror thing wasn’t great.

Ehhh, you could say the same thing about the US in a lot of ways (think Iraq invasion). People need something - I don’t know what - to actually start an uprising. In either country, if you really try and start an uprising you’re going to be crushed. I also think even in history (to my limited knowledge) most coups and the like were one elite overthrowing another, and I don’t think the records of it making life better broadly is that inspiring. People are just constrained, and they either need to have nothing to lose (very few people in developed countries) or be extremely ideological. The extremists have trouble garnering enough support to actually do anything though.

So - while I’d love to see more accountability of governments, I’m not at all sure that not overthrowing a government says that much about the people as a whole.