Ya, you're definitely confusing instance with community. I get the argument that fragmented communities can be a problem, but the ability to roll your own instance is not the same thing and is in fact the strength of the fediverse.

I also think the conclusion is suspect. But note that they are comparing “emissions”, not amount of fuel used. One would think they’d go hand-in-hand, but maybe not.

I have a PHEV, and try very hard to avoid the gas engine from starting. I can go about every other day without gasoline, and even on the days where I go further than my range it’s not too much. I measure my effectiveness overall on miles between fill-ups (7 gallons). 1000 miles is what I consider good.

What do you mean by “the average buyer.” Wouldn’t all buyers currently be in the same exact position?

I needed that explanation like I need a hole in the neck.

I don't see anyone "throwing trash" on Jellyfin, only pointing out that there are some downsides. Just as it also has some advantages over Plex.

Plex is undoubtedly on a downward trajectory, and I'm glad Jellyfin exists. But it does not yet have feature parity with Plex, and if you use it for music there's simply nothing better than Plexamp. You waive away the requirements to remotely stream on Jellyfin, but the fact that you suggest simply opening up ports highlights that one of Plex's strengths is it's ability to remotely stream without jeopardizing your network security.

I run both concurrently, Plex for the remote streaming, OTA DVR, better living room apps, and (by far the biggest feature for me) for Plexamp. Jellyfin for proof of concept.

I'm not a Plex shill, and am preparing for a day that Jellyfin is the better answer. But for me and my users, that day hasn't yet arrived.

I believe you. I'm just saying that quality of streaming remotely hasn't been an issue for me (other than my MIL being a boomer and messing up her settings.)

That's not been my experience, except for my MIL who somehow keeps resetting her client quality settings to 720 making my server transcode. My ISP is also really shitty so I'm honestly not sure the bandwidth numbers leaving my server.

My personal choice has been the “walled garden.” And as “walled in” as it is, it streams Jellyfin just fine.

I’m far from a spreadsheet super user, but Excel really is in a class by itself. The rest of the office suite, however, is easily replaced by open source.

The sheer idiocy of this take. Libre Office (or other open source alternatives) haven't been around forever, and paying for software you use isn't exactly an outlandish idea.

I work with Excel a lot for work. I've been tempted for a few years to buy a perpetual license for my personal machine because using the same software is just easier. I haven't, and obviously now I won't be.

But don't put down paying a reasonable price for a perpetual license for software you use often. It's thinking like that that's gotten us all-subscription options.

I have no idea. But to be wife-approved it’s got to be navigable from the couch, and a USB stock doesn’t sound like it would be.

I use Calc, and it does just fine for my use case. But I know people in finance whose work relies on the powerful advanced features excel has and LO just doesn’t yet.

Funny enough, I haven’t touched a word processor or slide deck program in years.

That explanation makes it worse.

I’m sure I’m in the minority, but I don’t think team uniforms is the place for any political or societal statement, save for perhaps Jackie Robinson day. And that’s only because it’s still baseball related.

At best it’s performative, at worst it’s just a capitalistic ploy to sell more merch.

My feeling is have all the themed days you want, and stock the team store with rainbow hats (or hello kitty, or whatever.)

Issue for me is changing the uniform, as it puts people in a weird position. While I think the pitchers here are bigoted and homophobic, I support the choice they have to wear the standard hat (which, if I’m understanding it correctly, they always had the choice to simply wear the bog standard hat: the decision to write bible verses is where they crossed the line).

I unironically would rather FFmpeg be in charge of, well, anything instead of Musk.

3.5 million is the increase in value over what they paid. That means they were making well over $100,000 every year for the past three decades, and they are complaining about paying cap gains.

Fucking Boomers.

Although increasing the exemption amount to peg inflation does make sense.

Do you think physical distance is keeping the data safely within our borders?