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While I’ve used the pi as a media server before and it did admirably I think you have the wrong idea, it’s just a set top client. A Pi Zero could probably do just as well or pretty much anything that can run Kodi … which rules out AppleTV sadly.

and I’m right there with you not supporting other peoples tech. My parents Chromecast got a PiHole exemption because screw explaining why they’re watching a static screen for 3 minutes where ads used to be … every time; if their tv app even loads without phoning home in the first place.

better value than streaming? yes

better value than free? debatable

I think it’s also technically illegal in Australia but because the rights holders can only come after you for the retail cost of whatever was pirated it’s functionally legal. the MPAA would rather sue a kid in the US for hundreds of millions than one in Aus for $14.95.

this is why I only go to concerts between 11:59 and 12:00

Pi4 just streaming Jellyfin, nothing fancy.

didn’t know infuse had a lifetime cost but look how that’s working out for plex.

I would rather ssh into a linux box I own to bash my head against bluetooth compatibility issues than have everything just work while a company sells every last bit of data they can steal from me.

and now I am too

But Blanks are still useful, I will literally never run out of unusable driver CDs, scratched CD-Rs, AOL cover discs, failed DVD burns, etc …

also floppy discs don’t shed foil flakes when they get wet, just superior coasters.

only torrent software I’d recommend

and not just for this reason but also because you can run it headless over a webUI … self hosting is an addiction

like most things apple when it works it’s the best user experience out there, but if you have the slightest little issue good fucking luck.

I can’t speak to infuse (because I’m self hosting to get away from subscriptions) but Jellyfin is extremely picky about file formats on appletv, I found myself using VLC more and more often until my Pihole sd card died and I found myself with a Libreelec box that just runs anything I throw at it without complaining.

the search for a remote half as good as a siri remote has begun.

but literally has literally always meant figuratively.

a few GB of photos

get an m-disc burner and make multiple full backups to distribute around your family

ML has been sold as AI and honestly that’s enough of a scam for me to call it one.

but I also don’t really see end users getting scammed just venture capital and I’m ok with this.

let’s walk it back a minute then.

We have Rojava as a current modern blueprint for functional anarchy but I tend to believe it will be less about dealing with nation states on their own terms than creating a new paradigm that the nation state simply cannot function within.

Every single change in human history had to be thought first and then turned into a reality.

Merchantilism subverted Feudalism. Feudal lords didn’t think they where inventing capitalism, they just wanted their debts to be decoupled from their land so they could shake down their Serfs even when the land didn’t provide a harvest. History is far less intentional than you seem to believe.

you didn’t come across as hostile at all.

thinking that we need to meet power with power is exactly what I’m talking about though when I say we’re products of our environment.

we won’t be pirates or criminals or revolutionaries we’ll just be people.

Anarchy is anti-fragile precisely because we’re not a unified front and treating people as equals is a profoundly simple and powerful idea at the end of the day and you can’t fight an idea with bullets.

we are very much products of our environment, it is not our place to say what anarchy will look like to those who will wield the tools of direct democracy like breathing but simply to plant those trees whose shade we will never sit in. Point out the hierarchy and power structures and oppose them at every turn but realise this is a generational project and the state will not give up without a bitter fight.

also Ted Kaczynski used technology to attack the system, just because someone is Anprim doesn’t mean they don’t have an email address.

check the serial number.

you don’t zoom in on that if it doesn’t check out.

“I’m like the only one who’s not a lesbian” - Bow

I thought 20TB of storage would last me forever

I’ve had low storage warnings for years now

why imagine when it is

luckily you also get less of them for the increased price