Awesome stuff but here I am with my single mini PC that has Jellyfin and Immich wondering why I would need such a big setup.

At some point I realized that the more complex I make it, the more resources it needs and the more maintenance it needs so I only get things I think I really need.

Refusing AI by using an AI generated meme?

But why?

Counterpoint.

What if they do and you die anyway?

This is why you need to be cryptic and give a task that is ambiguous so they will wonder for the rest of their lives what they did wrong.

What about a system that works like torrents under the hood and every time you went to watch something you just download it with an expiry date?

You just need a metadata system like lemmy so people can find the videos, and once they decided to watch it, it downloads it for them via the torrent protocol.

The only disadvantage is that it won’t be streaming but let’s be honest, streaming isn’t a huge advantage for shorter clips + high bandwidth (which you need for streaming anyway).

You can also further optimize it by making each video cut into 5 min chunks so you can always download the first one and start watching sooner.

The only drawback, like others mentioned, is that it works best with a savvy user base instead of just spoon feeding you and giving you little control (which apparently people just love these days).

But but but, it has the word “my” in it

/s

Exactly, I’m glad more people are seeing it this way.

The goal of capital is to gain power and leverage, they don’t really care about some numbers.

It’s the dream of all tech companies to become a monopoly, they even say it with a straight face. They want as much control as possible? Why? So they can use the leverage for even more.

The beautiful/horrifying part is, the system weeds out any company that does not do this. The only way is for the end users to push back.

The part that was the tell was that it worked on first try.

Okay, in which way? Did the person just run the first attempt with all their wallet info in production?

Even a vibe coded wouldn’t be that stupid… I hope.

Oh excellent, thanks for sharing.

What if it’s already 0?

How so? It’s only 10 increments

How about

x=x-x

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I just explain how when you watch Netflix, you use their computers, that’s why it costs money. You could just use your own computer at home but it takes some setup.

Have you considered being born with a trust fund?

Cause fractions can be figured out in context. You can store the numerators and have the denominator as a constant in the code.

Holy shit, sounds like this would enable people to have a community in which m every person has a Jellyfin and they each use all of them.

One person could specialize in documentaries and another in shows.

Combined, it would mean a huuuge library.

I wonder how high demand content would work. As in, if a TV show is watched a lot, could it be saved in multiple servers and the swarrm figure out who streams from what to balance demand?

Controversial opinion: I think software moving fast isn’t a good thing.

The more versions come out and the more focus there is on new features, the more half baked/abandoned the existing features become and there will be more vulnerabilities.

What a terrible idea.

If I were to pay for a digital item, I would get a guarantee that the data is valid and works.

As in, paying for LLMs, imo, is actually a worse deal than standard micro transactions.

They are more like loot boxes, you pay for the chance of a good result.

Depends how broad your definition of algorithm is. Is sort by upvotes an algorithm? I say no but sort by hot is.

So it is possible by this definition to have a feed without any algorithm.

It’s not the word, it’s the reductionism.

We used to call all those media except people naturally didn’t want to lump them all together.

Yes but imo patch is now update