JovialSodium

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[–] JovialSodium 46 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Clickbait title is unhelpful but did it's job in making me curious. Guessing it's this for those that don't want to watch a video.

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/european-union-makes-legislative-change-that-will-change-in-game-purchases-forever-3167394/

[–] JovialSodium 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Maybe self host your own VPN on a VPS and connect the jellyfin server as a client as well as any other devices you want to see that jellyfin server as other clients and configure the VPN server to not override your default routing and to allow clients to see each other? In my head I don't think that would conflict with your protonVPN connection.

Your traffic would be encrypted between devices so I wouldn't say https is nessesary and thus no certs needed.

The rubs that occur to me are that I'm not sure you can do this on a free tier VPS which is the only option I see given your financial limitations. And your devices all need to be able to connect to said VPN.

Edit: Slightly less worse English.

[–] JovialSodium 6 points 2 days ago

Conciseness and directness help.

As an example, there was someone I worked with that tended to ask around a question.

"What do you know about x? What do you know about y? What do you know about z?"

Instead of "How do I get from x to z?"

I think they just want to understand the underlying process. And I can understand that. But I wasn't their mentor and it was at times frustrating.

Not suggesting OP is doing this. Just a general thought I had in regards to the question.

[–] JovialSodium 33 points 2 days ago (6 children)

My tenuous understanding from an article I read about the AT protocol but barely remember is that it can't be fully decentralized. I think you have to use bluesky for user authentication. And I think it said the hosting hardware requirements would be significant to the point where it's not very feisable. I welcome corrections/clarifications.

Point is, assuming that's reasonably correct, true decentralization isn't possible. And by it's nature as a big corporate owned site, enshittification is inevitable.

[–] JovialSodium 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Give them some time to get it right! The Xerox Alto only came out 52 years ago.

[–] JovialSodium 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Nope. I fiddle until it does what I want. If the thing I'm working on is complex or I'm struggling with it I'll keep versions of configs. And I back up working configs via an rsync job. Which isn't a particularly robust solution but I'm content with it for my needs.

[–] JovialSodium 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I've had that same sense of Kevin Smith movies not holding up. But still loved Dogma last I saw it which was... maybe a few years ago. Maybe I should again. But then maybe doing so will ruin it.

[–] JovialSodium 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This was 15+ years ago. I was driving with several friends. Among them was Jane (not actual names) who used to date another friend, John. Who was not present. This friend group in the car, while fairly mutual, was more Jane's clique than John's. Except me, who was closer to John. It occurs to me after writing that introduction to mention I had no romantic interest in Jane, not that kind of story.

Anyway, we started talking shit about and making fun of John in the car. I don't remember how that got started or why I participated. I liked John and bore him no animosity at all. I guess just young and dumb and wanted to fit in.

Someone who was in the car told him about this and he called me out on it. I remember him being particularly bothered that I'd talk like that about him with his ex around others. Which, pretty understandable. I saw the wrong of it and felt like a real piece of shit. And that friendship never really recovered.

I don't talk about people behind their back anymore or engage in any other kind of gossip.

Edit: couple changes for clarity.

[–] JovialSodium 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The Philippines. I'm almost positive, anyway.

[–] JovialSodium 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Best I can tell post blur, those posts are marked NSFW. You can choose to hide those posts. Assuming you're signed in anyway, I'm not familiar enough with that interface to tell.

[–] JovialSodium 2 points 1 month ago

The crossover I didn't know I wanted.

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