WeirdGoesPro

I did it.

I saw it. 10/10, better than anticipated. Strange feeling of relief when the sun came back.

Ricky Stanicky is a comedy, but it isn’t a stoner film. It is more like a lighter version of The Hangover with less drugging and drinking. 7/10, it was a fun romp with John Cena.

Haven’t seen “Snack Shack” though.

https://www.racknerd.com/NewYear/

They’ve gone up a little, but they’re starting at $11 per year.

Idk, Plex knows Jellyfin exists, and they know that their server users are experienced enough to make the switch if needed. Without the people running servers, they are just a shitty Netflix spinoff in an already over saturated market.

I think the most likely route that Plex will take is the one they have already started to—exploiting the non-server-running users to accidentally make use of the streaming and rental services. I’ve had total dolts in my sharing community who were logged out for a month and then asking me why Plex had adds all of a sudden.

I’m somewhat ok with this. Users who can’t tell the difference between being logged in and logged out are going to get what they get. If they’d just make library the default view over recommended again, we’d be totally square.

Are you using Nginx to make your app available on the web? If you are on a home internet connection, how confident are you that your ISP has given you a static IP?

Running Nginx and Tailscale to route traffic through a VPS with a static IP has been way more reliable for me than any attempt at static IP hosting from a home connection in the past. At $5-$15 per year, a VPS is cheaper than the hassle of troubleshooting with an ISP at home.

We all know what Plex is for—the weird streaming integration wasn’t even part of the original design. They have to act like they don’t approve of the pirates because it keeps them from being next on the litigation chopping block.

They’ve done some annoying things in the last 5 years, but there is a huge gulf between tech literate people and the tech illiterate entertainment business. They know this, and they say the things they need to say to keep on keeping on.

Meanwhile, they have not reduced the 100 account limit for sharing with others, nor have they tried to paywall account sharing services as a business plan. Seems like their actions don’t threaten us salty sea-dogs at all.

Since BOINC is on your list, I want to ask—is there a version of it that will display the cool screensavers via web UI? I would run BOINC 24/7 if I could show off those cool data processing screens, but there is no use for a screensaver on my server.

Thank you, I learned some things today.

I see, so it sort of scales where they take some or all of the UBI back in taxes based on your income? Would the tax evasion that is common with the ultra-rich thwart this design?

And if only the poorest demographic has the extra $1000, then wouldn’t that concentrate potential price increases in low income neighborhoods?

Thank you for answering my questions and feel free to tap out whenever, I just haven’t had the chance to ask anyone about this who seems to have done any real research on it.

For the record, I don’t think it is a bad idea—I want it to be a good idea and I would benefit from it.

I just don’t trust corpo America to let us normies experience an increase in our quality of life without it putting a target on our backs.

I’m glad to hear about the rent cap. Does that apply to new developments as well? Could somebody tear down an old apartment and build new ones at double the cost?

I’m not trying to slam UBI or interrogate you, I’m genuinely curious. I just have a natural resistance to getting my hopes up after watching nearly every other proposed social program in my lifetime turn out to be varying shades of bullshit.

This has been my primary question about UBI: if landlords know that everybody has an extra $1000 per month, what stops them from raising rent by exactly that amount?

My biggest concern with UBI is that it would be great for a couple of years, and then the greedy fingers of capitalism would find a way to start clawing it back. I don’t see how UBI works without including a bunch of protections to keep the newly financially stable populace from being exploited again.