I doubt that Amazon is slow rolling it. Demand for EV trucks is insane. I was working on procuring some in a different industry a couple years ago, and we just could not get them in any meaningful quantity. Lead times were years out. I think we actually got one during the time I was on the project.

I bought a minipc and put OPNsense on it. Its been just over a year now. Very flexible, very easy, and rock solid.

She’s not a him, just FYI.

Even so, she won’t.

I used wireguard, then switched to Pangolin. Wireguard was simpler and worked better with mobile apps though. I’ll prob switch back for most apps.

Quite a journey.

Unfortunately for us, they’ve been even nicer to the pedophiles in their ranks.

It was live streamed on YouTube. Many YouTube channels have the trial in it’s entirety. It’s not very long as trials go. Maybe 10 hours over a few days (or something like that). I’ve only watched part of it so far.

Got it.

Ah, I see the unclear part. I read this line…

I imagine sitting on coach, searching for show. Then you want to watch some, and then you have to wait half an hour for full episode (or even season?) to download.

As if OP already had a media library, and was outside of their home, sitting on a coach (bus?) and wanting to watch something from their existing library on their phone/laptop/tablet, thinking they’d have to wait for the entire thing to download. This would not be the case. If OP had no content library, and wanted to browse for something new, then yes, you’d need to download the entire thing and add it to your media library first.

1. Getting stuff into your media library require downloading the thing.
2. Watching stuff (even remotely) that already exists in your library does not require downloading the whole thing.

attempts to query 8.8.8.8, regardless of your DNS settings.

Streaming box / stream app makers have been working around local DNS for a long time. Sometimes of course they’re assholes that want to do shitty things and do this to make interdiction harder. But sometimes there are legitimate reasons. Ones I remember… users who don’t really understand what they’re doing can be overly aggressive with blocking and block things that are necessary for a particular service (causing support problems). Sometimes the ISPs DNS servers have shit performance, and using a well known commercial provider like cloudflare or google can improve performance at scale. It’s not always evil.

You can’t watch media before it’s completely downloaded.

This is not true for just about any use case.

If you use *arr, you’ll likely use Plex or Jellyfin for a media server. That server will do progressive streaming. Netflix by contrast does dynamic adaptive progressive streaming.

Progressive streaming means that playback will start once your client has downloaded and buffered enough of the selected content from the server. The amount is typically a fairly small portion of the stream, like 10 seconds or so, though the specifics are left to the server and client configs.

Dynamic adaptive progressive streaming has a multiplicty of streams optimized for different devices, formats, and quality levels. This might be a few hundred copies of the same video asset, but in a few different codecs, a few different color encodings (ie HDR, SDR), and a quality ladder of maybe 10 steps ranging from low quality SD to moderate quality UHD (like maybe 300kbps at the low end, and 40Mbps at the high end. And these will be cached around the world for delivery efficiency. On playback, the client (player) will constantly test your network throughput in the background, and “seamlessly” adjust stream quality during playback to give you the best stream your network and client can support without stopping to rebuffer.

For example, if you’re on a 4K/HDR TV with Atmos sound, and great network throughput, you’ll get the highest quality HDR streams and Atmos audio. Conversely, if you’re on mobile that doesn’t support HDR and only stereo audio, you’ll get much more efficiently coded HD video (or maybe SD) and stereo audio streams that are more suited to playback on that device. It would be impractical (huge cost and minor benefit) to try to replicate dynamic adaptive streaming just for yourself.

In any case, even if you’re just pulling off a NAS, you shouldn’t need to wait for the entire file to download before you can start playback. If your files are properly coded, you should be able to do progressive streaming in just about any use case.

If you haven’t read about the Milgram Experiment, it’s a fascinating, and disheartening journey into notions of authority and compliance. In short… Milgram’s finding was that most people do what they’re told–even when they known it’s wrong–simply because they’re told to do it.

There is no verification that is true.

But there is a nearly continuous stream of occurrences where Meta is caught lying.

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You’re still affected by this as nearly everything you buy was transported on a truck.

Also, Californians pay 3x the national average for electricity too.

That seems logical, but I’m sure the courts don’t intend for us normies to enjoy reciprocal rights. If the ruling doesn’t already say so, they’ll fix it soon.

No. Debian on the server. CachyOS on the laptop OPNsense / FreeBSD on the router-firewall appliance.

I don’t really feel like I need a single OS across everything. The lack of that has never been an issue.

Most Americans don’t understand the distinction between partisanship and politics. The phrase “I’m just not political” usually means either “I don’t want to hear your partisan bullshit right now.” or “I hold objectionable views that I can’t articulately defend.”

This is an interesting bit:

The women who work as courtesans at Sheri’s are hired as “independent contractors” by their employers (Jeremy Lemur, the brothel’s marketing director, provided a statement to Mother Jones that emphasized that specific phrasing multiple times). However, the terms of their actual jobs may not pass the “ABC test,” a legal framework used to determine whether a worker should be considered an employee.

And it’s not just the employer saying that they are independent contractors, the courtesans themselves say it several times. Such as:

“A lot of us are artists,” explained courtesan Paloma Karr, who is also a writer and activist. “We have all sorts of other jobs."

There’s a lot more to it than just a few quotes, but at least from the article, both sides seem to think they are independent contractors.

Honestly… I’m surprised to see it’s commemorating the police instead of the dead terrorist. I didn’t have high hopes when I clicked the link.