There’s no tailscale for Roku.

How would you handle a mother in law at a retirement community with a Roku and no access to the router that serves the condo?

platform your streaming sites won’t go above 720p

I don’t think that’s true anymore. In Firefox you can check “play drm” and it will let you stream Netflix and others in 1080p.

Chrome and Edge on Windows do it standard.

you’re generalising over a huge range of developer quality and basically saying that they are all worse at building software than linus

You claimed that Linux could see regressions just like all other projects DESPITE the different methodology.

basically saying that they are all worse at building software than linus

That is claim that any AI use of any type results in regressions. That is obviously false.

Just because AI suggested using glue on pizza doesn’t mean that everyone now puts glue on their pizza.

“if that were entirely true, what i said would not be.”

I explained the difference in methodology and you doubled down as if they were the same.

Your statement was about other projects having regressions because developers are using AI to write code for them completely hands off and compared it to Linux where AI is used to make suggestions but a human is ultimately responsible and has to write the patch.

Apples and Oranges.

The difference is that Linus uses LLM’s as a tool, not as a hands off content creator.

The LLM points out something a human missed in the same way spell check finds typos. Then a human reads the suggestion and writes the fix.

Docker doesn’t require podman at all

Podman isn’t an addon for docker. Podman is the open source alternative containerizer to docker. When I first encountered Docker’s AI Bonzai buddy called Gordon, Lemmy responded with, “Lol, everyone knows to not run Docker.”

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No, I am aguing that if you were capable of setting up Cisco BGPs in the mid-90s, when documentation was ass,

Documentation was far more thorough and accurate than today. First was everything was simpler. No VMs, No Containers. No https certificates unless they were e-commerce. The second reason is that documentation wasn’t an afterthought because the project is done by volunteers. I got a 100+ page binder from Netscape just to cover how to configure their build kit. (The software to make a customized installation CD.) Today many projects documentation consists only of, “Check out the Discord.”

The last important factor was the rate of change was slower so the documentation you got in 1996 was still completely accurate in 1999.

Edit: Re docker engine.

The guides say install docker engine and point you to the docker website. Once on the docker website, the docker documentation tells you to install the docker gui to get the engine installed and walks you through the procedure of installing docker gui.

Jellyfin but you not being able to follow a dead simple guide.

The fact that others had the same problem without solution means it isn’t follow a dead simple guide. There are multiple guides. Just setting up docker means you have to already know to not use it and run podman. Because if you follow the online guides on docker’s own website, you end up with a docker gui and their AI assistant installed.

And to think you were running a whole ass ISP…

You are arguing that setting up an Internet server is as simple as it was 30 years ago. You are arguing for the sake of arguing.

Not at Cisco. With a Cisco. I ran a mid sized ISP in the 90’s until I was bought out by a cable company and retired. Although several of my employees went on to work at Cisco. I also had a few friends who were executives at Cisco because we all started at a company working for Vint Cerf and Bob Khan (they were the angel investors) back before most knew of the Internet.

First it’s a VM because I’m not going mess around with stuff on bare metal. Create docker is a can of worms because you have to pick a reverse proxy software like nginx, traefik, caddy. Which means you need to understand all three to know which to pick. Then there’s setting up the certificate with the dns provider. So I got nginx working with a certificate but gave up after the VM running Jellyfin couldn’t see it. Googling showed someone on Reddit with the same problem but no answer other than others saying “works for me”

The start of this thread is “number one reason people don’t move to Jellyfin is ease of remote access.”

30 years ago I was compiling slackware and configuring dns servers, and setting up BGP on Ciscos. But a few hours of attempting to setup Jellyfin was a failure. It was far more complex than setting up dns/bind.

That’s fine for your personal remote access but that doesn’t help your 80 year old mother in law watch videos of the grandchildren on a Roku.

That’s a shame because if AI was used as a tool, it would still have the community helping to make the ports functional.

Hand created ports also had performance issues, missing features, etc that took years for the community to fix.

It seems like it’s a problem of over hyping the results like what has happened with AI everywhere.

Could someone link the article so I could understand it rather than read an opinion of an opinion?

Nyt gave me this before asking for a login:

"Our business today is not healthy,” Sharma declared in a July letter to Xbox employees.

Sharma, formerly the president of product within Microsoft’s CoreAI division and a chief operating officer at Instacart, made her first 100 days at Xbox a high-stakes campaign to win over hearts and minds.

The most expensive tier of Game Pass, a subscription service with hundreds of new and old games? Discounted. Console mascots on competing platforms? Throttled. The clumsy integration of artificial intelligence? Nixed."

I was arguing this 20 years ago when people were complaining about Kotor2. Kotor2 didn’t need more content. It needed to fix what was already there. Or even remove more so that the existing story could be completed instead of being cut off.

Instead most were saying Kotor2 would have been better if only it had the few more planets that were cut for time constraints.

The publishers learned that consumers want more content in a game even if it’s buggy and bad.

I did that and it works well. The only problem is that when the battery goes to 0 on a long outage, the UPS can’t recharge it. I had to pull the battery, charge it with a lifepo4 charger, then reinstall.

Short outages are fine.

If you are using a buck converter you might as well use a ups. They’re both going to be ~ 95%.

I don’t understand the purpose of the exposed daisy chained cables. If it is not meant to be frequently unplugged, then why not wire an internal bus of 14 awg with Wago?

Selling products as loss leaders is not some absurd esoteric strategy,

Selling at a loss is fine. What isn’t fine is coming back later and grabbing the hot dog, a hot dog you already paid for, out of your hand because you didn’t buy the soda a while later despite nothing in the hotdog purchase that required the purchase of a soda.

They sold it with Linux and then later grabbed it out of the customer’s hand.

Their plan was to make up the difference in game sales. You were paying full price with the cost shifted to the games to trick you into thinking you got a bargain.

If I sell you a hot dog for $1 with a business model that you will buy an overpriced soda 5 minutes later at the stand next door, I don’t get to take that hotdog back after sale when I see you didn’t also buy the soda.