Trust me. You need Plextastic. Its got all the cool new stuff. Just a small fee.
You will come around.

Please yes. I want this to be a thing.

Gotta refresh em sometimes. When ublock stops managing youtube perfectly, I reload all the filters. Sometimes I don’t even need to close out the browser, just the filters.

Totally off topic, but I drink at a bar called Spaghetti Western!
Hillsboro, OR.

Ya, that’s the really obvious take. That’s teh way you do biz these days.
Like, that’s what’s gonna happen to all those ‘lifetime’ Plex accounts. Sure, you still have access to ‘Plex-classic’. But you don’t get any of the new Plextastic services … unless you want to pay the $1,999 upgrade fee …

So much venom. That’s weird. Because they are all useful to some degree or another.

I use Brave. (The free one. Obviously.)

And I use Vivaldi. And Firefox. And Waterfox.
And even Chrome.

I do a lot of work through browser-based utilities. I like to set one browser up with all my server clusters pinned. This is the Brave/Vivaldi role. It doesn’t go online, just server mangement.
And I’ll set up Chrome with all my work sites. Because that’s the standard, and its gonna run all that work shit reliably. Login to my work google here.
And I want a dirty actual-browser with uBlock, SuperStop, and kill-sticky. Usually Firefox. Might get my personal gmail here.
If I’m on a machine where I need an additional role, or perhaps some extension that I don’t want in my main browser, I install another browser to handle it.
They are tools, folks. Use em. Don’t let them use you. Don’t be a tool.
:]

Thanks. Now I know that bowling balls float.

I think because I got into NextCloud to “de-google”, I just accepted some maintenance load.
My intent was to manage my documents. The CORE office suite works sufficiently. Now I update my resume (and manage a few other documents) on my own website, no google.
I uploaded a bunch of music. The music apps are kinda crappy, but they also work sufficiently.
I never got around to setting up email for NextCloud. Looks like maybe I never will.
My searxng instance in my homelab died, and I nuked it. I think when I rebuild, its going on this VPC.

I see NextCloud here quite a bit. What I don’t see discussed is the cloud hosting option.
Hetzner has two NextCloud offerings.
They have a storage service backed by NextCloud. I think that’s new. I don’t use that.

They also have have NextCloud available as an installable app from their service.
This is what I use. https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/apps/list/nextcloud/
I had to actually follow the directions to get it running.
And I have to patch it occasionally. Mostly, it takes care of itself.

I use the cheapest 1vcpu VPC.
Yes my NextCloud service is a bit sluggish sometimes. But I’m paying like $6/month.
I’m pretty happy with it for storing music and updating my resume.
Maybe if I had the more demanding use cases like some commenters, I might not like it so much.

Twits. It’s a social class and a diagnosis.

Yes I have. It was not good.

That is definitely a pile of dirt. Sweet.

Good. Pay me. More. DR engineer!

Mmm. Ok.
Well, I’ve rarely heard a better use case for AI than to confound AI surveillance.
It could keep an eye on your current count and contribute extra ‘work’ if you are lagging.

3-2-1
Its really common for companies to not have an offsite backup. My own employer only offsites the customer data, not our core biz stuff. And I setup the offsite replication. It did not exist until I built it. (Proxmox Backup Server is tha best!)

I wouldn’t mind seeing lines of comments and external documentation as metrics. Perhaps as a ratio to functions or sections. I know, requiring it would just lead to crappy documentation, but that’s typically better than none at all, and there’s a lot of folks out there just too busy with their brilliance to write up what they just coded.

Good luck. Parts of it read like the Bible. A good deal is really, really dry.
On the other hand, you can open it anywhere and start reading. There’s no real start or end. It’s just too big and complex to be viewed sequentially.

Would they even be able to tell if you just submitted every prompt twice, and thus doubled your usage?

Ya, this is new in that it burns money much more quickly, but its very not new in that its one more way your boss crawls up your ass.
So you waste your time and burn their money.

I think the thing from a decade ago was about them emitting chemical messages through transpiration. Nova did a piece where transpiration and the fungal network in the soil were reconsidered as a whole communication system. I recall it was popularized using the same “scream” terminology in pop-sci rags.