I hate to break this to you but they’ve had it for decades. fb.com rewrites to facebook.com

This. Why pay £6/m when, with self-hosting a Samba/NFS/NextCloud instance, I pay a fraction of the corporate cost.

Currently I’m paying ~£15/m as my server now has a GPU for better streaming and local assistant purposes. It uses ~80W. Without the GPU I was paying ~£4.50/m, which gets me:

• Network-wide traffic protection, ads, spam etc.
• Hub to remotely control, secure and automate my home
• Cloud media, frequently synced between devices
• CCTV
• Password management
• Email
• Notekeeping
• Instant messaging
• Streaming for locally stored movies, shows, music, podcasts, books, audio books and YouTube subscriptions
• Multiplayer Minecraft server
• Website/blogsite
• Remote desktop access
• Group video calling/presentation hosting
• 54TB shared storage between everything
• Network-attached storage

Imagine the cost of outsourcing all these services for unlimited access, unlimited* storage, unlimited e-mailboxes, and complete independence** from outside influence. I know I’d be paying £8/m to Google for their 2TB media storage plan alone.

*Limited by the drives you can afford
**Relying only on the developers of the software
It cost approx. £200 for the base parts, £200 for the GPU and £900 for the hard drives. A valuable investment.

I’ve worked out that I’ve had the server running for 3 years. If I take into account the money I have saved by not paying Google £8/m, I’ve saved £40/year. If I account for Netflix £25/m, I’ve completely covered the £900 I spent on storage. Disney+ £15/m takes me well over the remaining hardware costs. The media I own is far less than that offered by streamers but it’s everything I can need for the next 20 years+. I’ve counted. Every other service is just a bonus.

I can understand from the perspective that I prefer to refer to myself as a woman rather than a transwoman. Human or person works too

Pretty much everything from Johnny English

And a smart TVOS just opens the gate to eventual input latency, chip overload and a worse experience overall. Best to go back to basics or stick with the new

I wasn’t able to acquire one but can attest, with research I learned that the Viera is one of the best choices, if not the best, for the combined SD/HD compatibility of composite out, HDMI and (some models) SCART in, a large screen that complements any input, and a solid build quality that’s withstood time so far. The backlight might be a failure point, but despite its age isn’t impossible to repair.

The only way to be comfortable in this system is to disadvantage others, step on others’ backs. The most ethical way to earn comfort in a greedy capitalist society is to earn, borrow and steal as much money as you can. The moral code of a thief stands: Steal only from the rich.

Probably Albert Dyrlund

I can recommend Beets for tagging, with the Lyrics plugin. Perfect for my Navidrome server and synced lyrics work perfectly on Symfonium

Ty – That sure doesn’t instil hope for them

You guys have user bios? What client do you use?

I thought the whole purpose of the joke, the punchline, was that leaving your phone in rice would attract an Indian to the food, who would compulsively fix the phone for you. That’s what I heard in school with that joke anyway

I imagine it’s more like this

This but Minority Report eyes

Don’t use Reddit and other websites, and delete accounts or connections to them
¯\(ツ)/¯

I thought the only site you should ever trust is the original one, GOG.com…

As I’ve seen gaming server subscriptions go from £36/y to £23/m (Xbox) in a few years, and cloud CCTV storage from £40/y to £16/m (Google via acquisition of Nest) in a few months, I say we count our stars when a subscription cost remains fair.

You use blurring? Literally #FuckCensorship

1. Shift, an ecoconscious, as-yet untainted tech brand from Germany
2. I thought Lenovo, but I seem to be wrong - they were playing with concepts, nothing on the market yet.

• If you wish to buy from Shift you might need to enable a translator, as I believe their store is only in German.
• The only bone some people have picked at in terms of Shift’s ethical values is that they manufacture in China, but Shift maintain that their labour standards within the factory are kept high

Maybe they’re competing with the old Mac desktops, the cheesegraters before they were made completely proprietary. Now, I’ve always dissed Apple consumers for buying a phone that’s 50% more expensive and 20% less powerful or feature-filled than the competition, but once I learned the going price of Mac desktops are 300% more expensive than the most capable custom, my mind was blown.

And yet Apple’s success and following is proof that Framework’s desktop might follow suit.