I also work in tech, and was what you’d call a low need customer.

The Xfinity service in my entire neighborhood would go down almost daily, and sometimes more than twice a day. On top of that, it would sometimes cut out just long enough to disconnect my remote shells, causing me to have to reauthenticate. It was horrible, my new (community) fiber is a huge improvement. I think it’s gone down once since having it installed almost two years ago.

True, but again, you’re making a lot of assumptions here. I don’t see anything about proxies anywhere.

He probably got caught because of an internal audit, that’s the assumption I would make.

Use grayjay.app, they have it for desktop too. No ads, sponsorblock built in, and has multiple platforms in one place.

It’s much easier for me to manage if it’s a file issue though. It’s much more difficult to manage an actual network 3000 miles away, especially if something actually goes wrong. Basically, “it won’t play” can be checked locally. If it doesn’t play locally, I’m happy to fix it. But I’m not about to troubleshoot her network issues for her.

Saying I’m “supporting a chunk of her network” is like saying Netflix supports a chunk of their users’ networks. It’s just not true.

Good question, I’m also in tech. She does drive and of course opens bank accounts, but it’s like it all goes out the window when she needs to do anything remotely technical. I would say that most of the users I’ve encountered are not that bad, but she is unique in that way.

You replied to someone and said “my wife has no problem using tailscale”. Is your wife not another person? Sure, same household, but if you’re not running a pirate TV service, why does she need tailscale, and how is that different than sharing with my MIL?

Also, why do you keep using the terminology of “pirate tv service”? Why is it suddenly not a home media server if I want my mother in law to be able to use it? I don’t share with people outside of my family.

You seem to think that because you’re using Jellyfin, it’s automatically not piracy. But you certainly can do piracy with it, it has tools purpose built for it like Jellyseerr. So how is that not a “pirate tv service”?

Do you not know that you can also upload your own media rips to Plex? Is that still a “pirate tv service”? At what point do you assign the (fairly negative, at least legally) connotation of piracy to a service someone is hosting out of their homelab?

Too hard, she can’t even open a PDF file on her own.

Then it’s not a drop in replacement for Plex, is it?

I do NOT want to support my MIL’s network which is 3000 miles away. It simply will not happen or work for either of us. Until Jellyfin has a decent way to support remote users, I simply cannot change her over.

If Plex folded or somehow forced my hand, I would just kick off all of my family and use Jellyfin on my local network. They’d hate losing access, and I’d hate them paying $$$ for a thousand streaming services, but at this point, that’s what would happen.

Would you like to explain to my MIL about how to set up tailscale for her entire network so she can stream to her TV?

Seriously. Someone tried convincing me that it would be an easy lift to send my MIL across the country a preconfigured Pi so that she could have web browser access to Jellyfin. She only has a computer for doing taxes, and watches everything on her TV.

Not only would she get confused every step of the way, even if it was just plug & play, she would also blame me if ANYTHING happened on her network and want me to fly out to fix it.

I’m not about to take that responsibility just so she can watch the latest episode of 90 day fiance. I have enough pain when she needs to sign into Plex.

Try just telling someone that they need to switch to Linux with no other details. They’ll either get confused/overwhelmed by choice, or possibly choose one that isn’t user friendly and hate it.

People have to start somewhere, and I see no issue with recommending user friendly distros to get them going.

The other catch with WP is that there’s a lot of overhead, and you have to keep it updated to avoid security issues. Static site generators have minimal overhead and updates, but may not be as easy to use when building the site.

Rivian didn’t over produce, and notably, didn’t go all in with the new authoritarian regime. Also, a 36% decrease in sales is much less than having $800 million (in MSRP) sitting in lots. The R1T is a very successful vehicle if you compare it to the Swastitruck.

This absolutely depends on your location. My power company recommends charging at night, when the grid isn’t as strained. My area primarily uses hydro and wind, and this article seems to be talking about solar which is not very efficient here.

Much of the study is focused on the area around Stanford, which has access to a large amount of solar power nearby, so it would make more sense there.

I sure hope that “some time” is coming soon, because I’m exhausted after three years and counting.

I’m not saying there wouldn’t be layoffs without it, but it certainly would be better. I know from experience that a lot of the people that were laid off were a critical part of the team, and those that remained had to bare that load. It has burned me out several times, because I’m doing work that should be done by two or three people.

I’m a DevOps engineer, if that counts.

It is, at least in my experience. Further, my recently laid off colleagues have been trying to find work for months, some of whom have been applying for jobs that would require pay cuts, with no luck.

Pretty much every job listing in the tech space gets hundreds if not thousands of applicants because the layoffs have not stopped for three years. You can see what I mean at layoffs.fyi. In tech, 60,000 so far this year, 153,000 in 2024, 264,000 in 2023, and 165,000 in 2022.

That’s not even counting those that graduated in the last couple of years. Those people are in an extra bad spot because they have a large amount of college debt with no way to make their payments.

All of STEM is suffering because of corporate greed and rising anti-intellectualism.