r00ty

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[–] r00ty@kbin.life 3 points 1 year ago

Nah. Netflix used to be a reasonable price and a very decent alternative to the rip off prices of cable and satellite TV.

Then of course every other media company wanted to charge the same price each time splitting off shows that used to be on Netflix.

It's reached the point that it would cost the same ripoff prices to get all the services needed for most people to watch what they'd like to watch.

This is just too much to pay per household per month for entertainment.

Bring back one service that provides all the TV (not even movies) for less than 30usd/25 gbp and I'm there. But I'm not subscribing to them all. It's ridiculous.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, I checked myself when this was first a thing. Debian 12 and Ubuntu 22.04 latest are on 5.4 and 5.2 respectively.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, I run forgejo for my own stuff. So, let's say I decided to host something that is subject to a copyright complaint. As soon as people start using your repo and their lawyers get a whiff of it, they'll just take the IP of your server and DMCA the owner of the IP. Whether it be me, or the host. It's an entity they can go after and will need to yield to appropriate law. The effect would be the same as the DMCA going to Github.

But on tor, it hides the entity operating and running the server. Making it a lot harder to find the person to even send the DMCA to, let alone start the legal wheels turning, if it were ignored.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I mean, not saying anyone should, because evading copyright is bad. But technically, you could run say forgejo as an onion service. Connecting git to clone from it would take some extra steps but, if hidden well it'd make it somewhat harder to take down.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 3 points 1 year ago

Damn, I was hoping for the verge video.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 5 points 1 year ago

It can help draw a line I'd agree, but I've gotten used to it now I think. I used to have it worse. I operated out of the bedroom for the first few years I was remote and that wasn't good at all. The new house had a bedroom that was really too small to be a bedroom. So it became an office room.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why do you need all that? I have my work laptop sitting at the back of my desk. Most monitors have two inputs. I've got an older 1080 with HMDI+DVI and a newer 1440p with DP/2xHDMI.

So I have the laptop in HDMI on both screens (it needed a USBC to HDMI cable for one of the outputs), and a simple USB3 switch for the mouse+keyboard.

So when I'm working I fire up the laptop, switch the USB over to that and swap the screens to the HDMI inputs. When I'm done working I can fire up the desktop, swap inputs and USB and in seconds I'm switched over.

I've been doing it this way for years and years now.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been working from home for over 15 years now. One thing I do not miss is the "social" aspect of the office.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jeez, don't report on it. Now there's going to be an even bigger crackdown on them.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 1 points 1 year ago

I guess it likely comes down to power rating, then. Also, with our old oven it used to take around 2x the time the current one does. That was just because the seal on the door was old and worn.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 1 points 1 year ago

I had one of the older style air fryers around 12 years ago. Those were much smaller and not oven like. I think they were ideal for making small portions and especially good for re-heating food the next day.

These newer ones do seem a bit like a smaller, more efficient oven. Again, I reckon it would be useful for a lot of smaller stuff I use the main oven for, but we just don't have the space in the kitchen for one.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 18 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I thought you guys had 240v circuits precisely for this kind of load? On a decent 30a 230v circuit (they generally don't use anywhere near 30a though) here in Europe it takes considerably less than that. I'd say mine takes 5-8mins for 230c (which is around 450f) and it has a rated power of 3500w.

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