I just want to use my player of choice, and play a locally hosted file. I don’t want to deal with the visual compression artifacts or choppy sound that comes with streaming through a poorly coded player, I’d rather run a full bitrate file through VLC on my own rig that’s tied into my surround sound system in peace.

Bingo. Same goes for pretty much any show from the 90s and beyond that didn’t get an HD remaster. It’s the same quality with older shows on any legit streaming service.

Anyone can setup a honeypot with the right knowledge and resources. The kicker is to go about it in such a way to attract users and not tip anyone off of ill intent.

Better yet, launch it in a VM with an antivirus

Ok bud.

Huh? All I was saying was that someone who’s brand new to Linux is going to be up to their eyeballs in their new system to barely comprehend the very concept of an init system, especially on the more polished, user friendly distro that do a good job of keeping those mechanisms under the hood.

Not very keen on sarcasm, are we?

Or have any clue what systemd does out of the gate, especially on a more user-friendly distro having never used linux

You must compile every single software package from source, but only after you’ve examined every single line of the code yourself!

1995 called, they said you’re doing it wrong, and RMS is going to be very mad at you.

Yup, those little inline filters. Even building the circuit for $5-10 in RadioShack parts was pretty simple.

Cause people like porn. I’ll be honest, when I downloaded some music video or something that ended up being porn, I usually wasn’t too disappointed, with the exception that I now had to go find what I was originally looking for again and wait for it to download. Shit used to take forever back in the day.

I’ve been using it in a windows VM. Unfortunately for my work, I need the formatting of Excel and Word to be legit that I can’t for the life of me seem to replicate in Only or Libre. That and PDF rendering always gets a little wonky somehow.

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We have the NFPA 70, aka the National Electric Code, which is free to access as long as you sign up for an NFPA account and allow their email spam. A physical copy of the book is about $50, not terrible.

California has their Title 24 Part 3 (California Electric Code) readily available online for free, no account needed. Want a printed copy? $200, loose leaf. Granted, loose leaf let’s you swap the pages as they’re updated in the interim years (the code cycle is every 3 years), but $200 is ridiculous.

The reason I bring this up is inspections. An inspector is not going to sit there while you Google a particular code to prove them wrong, especially when half the results are from forums of people debating the code. But an inspector will sometimes change their tune when you grab the official code book, flip to the relevant code (thank the maker for reference tabs), and point it out along with conditions and exceptions. I’ve had inspectors reconsider a field ruling explicitly because I had my code book with me (and was able to efficiently navigate to the relevant section). Problem here is that since the code is updated every 3 years, the CA code lags the NEC by 2 years, and our jurisdiction uses the most recent publication, this cycle gets expensive quickly. While it’s a seemingly trivial amount when your business is off and running, it’s yet another expense that makes starting a business tricky.

Probably have to do customer sheet selection and flip them over, but for 1000 pages that could be a pita

See if there’s a way you can print “booklet” style, it’ll make it where you can fit two pages on a sheet in landscape format, then cut each page or bond it. Just a thought.

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Exactly right. Net neutrality stipulates that carriers must treat all traffic equally, not how a provider can meter your connection.

Nah I feel ya, I’ve been seeing all the various configurations since I came to Lemmy. I’ve just had a hell of a summer work-wise (6-7 days a week, yay being a small business owner) plus a good amount of travel for weddings and the like, so I just haven’t had the time to sit down with it all. One of my clients has a whole bunch of 2 year old metal and SAS drives they’re giving me in a few weeks once they get underway with operations due to a corporate upgrade, and once I slow down for the winter season I fully intend on diving into this.

I’ve had a Plex server running on FreeBSD for years, I just haven’t set it up since moving back in June. But I’m getting really tired of all the bullshit from these streaming services, and I’m looking forward to taking back control of my entertainment. I just have to make it palatable to my wife lol.