“very better”? Anyway…

It won’t last. Right now it’s new, but ultimately it will become an actual initiation ritual to knock it down, or perhaps a harder version to steal something out from under its nose. It doesn’t know who you are if you wear a mask (or stay out of its line or sight) and don’t carry something broadcasting your IP.

This looks like just security theater.

Meanwhile, aren’t cameras cheap? If let’s say hundreds of those were sprinkled around, maybe behind an opaque substance so you could also put up 10-100x more of them but 9/10ths being fake, and you swap them around occasionally, that might not be perfect either but could work better than a robot offering a nice, easy, fun target to play with, just like in video games. (Nobody ever enjoys video games these days though, do they?)

Oh that’s no accident, nor do your words go far enough, unfortunately, bc they are doing stuff now that actually was fully illegal, back when the US government was more functional and pursued antitrust laws against Microsoft. :-(

I meant like a daily usage situation - e.g. working from a terminal, running MacVim, and things like Firefox and Slack etc. all work fine from a Mac - but I don’t self-host, and I run actual Mac OSX itself, so my answers may be of limited utility to you.

If someone else is reading this I would look into running a Jellfin server from a machine running Linux, which can be connected to from a device running iOS or Android or whatever they want - but your kodi+mpd already sounds like it should do the trick.

Hopefully you can avoid running Mac OSX itself, but if that’s not possible then perhaps at worst you could get a machine that does that and then partially isolate it on the network? (though that is beyond my skillset:-)

For TV I just an ancient ChromeCast (iirc it’s a first-generation even!) and that works from everything (ironically one of the harder solutions was from Samsung mobile, though even ancient iPads have apps that will make it happen). I worry about when my TV and especially the ChromeCast dies what will I do - it will take so much time to investigate a replacement, it seems all/most of the newer solutions are trying to inject ads or whatever into the stream, or even just not working as simply as the old. Mine is security through obscurity, which only works for so long until the hardware flat wears out:-).

And I barely have a backup solution - just a single SSD that I put stuff onto when I think about it, and is aging so when it too wears out… I have so much catching up that I need to do, I’m setting myself up for pain most likely:-(. But also I tend to “stream” most things rather than “download”, so my need for thus is extremely much smaller.

Oh yuck. I also switched away - half Linux, two-thirds Mac (hehe, all fun:-) - but not everyone can manage that.

Many people want that, but can’t bc of their jobs.:-(

I haven’t either… bc I’ve been privileged to not have to work with Satan Windows for almost a decade now.:-)

Maybe it’s… “new to them”? 😜

Naw, you’re right - these must be young people, easily impressed by all the memes since the 80s that they’ve never seen before and therefore think are “new”. :-D

Maybe it’s Miss Pacman?

And don’t post, apparently, only doom scroll to consume bot-produced content.

Unlike here on Lemmy, where we repost memes from Reddit:-). (j/k, there are some true heroes here who truly produce content and we love them for it!)

That’s all very well and good and all, until it meets another worm and wants to talk. Perhaps one of the opposite gender…

Other than bots, who else is even still on Reddit…? :-P It’s bots interacting with bots, all the way down.

It’s not about “mad”, it’s about pushing boundaries. If they decide they want to…

It’s not only that - it’s also Huffman’s golden parachute package.

The Reddit we knew is dead - long live the Fediverse.

That is when Reddit starts selling Reddit Premium to not sell all your data, bc fuck all you all apparently, according to spez.

Edit: holy shit that may have already just started.

The young person equivalent terminology is now “Gyat” which (I’m not making this up!) was reportedly coined by a streamer called YourRAGE. The more you know… (the more you wish you didn’t?:-P)

Edit: the (accredited on the wiki page of the word) original origin story.

Roughly one year ago, you say? Gee, I wonder what could possibly have happened roughly one year ago, hrm? Can’t really think of anything particularly memorable that happened roughly one year in the past… [them, OP and all the commenters]

I have responded to so many of these “who tho” requests, but they all end up in silence without even a reply. At this point I’m thinking it’s some kind of script that sea lions were told to follow.

Brace yourself, bc based on discussions here and what he’s said, I think Biden will remain the nominee. Yes, that should chill you to the bone, if it causes Trump to win. However, everyone seems too afraid to buck the system right now - e.g. Harris is not well-liked already, by anyone it seems, and stands to gain the Presidency handed to her by Biden, so she’s not going to risk that sweet deal by trying to remove him. If he did so willingly, which he’s already said that he won’t, then that would be one thing, but otherwise…

To increase the number of people who would click on the article to read it.

Who would downvote something like this, without leaving a comment to explain why!?

Sometimes I wish I could see that info, in rare circumstances like this.