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[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

The free version of ChatGPT is 4o or 4.1-mini at this point. You can't even access 3.5 without paying, ironically, since it's legacy now.

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 5 days ago

Years ago my ex was trying to get me into anime and they decided to show me Made in Abyss and it put me off anime for years

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Being able to sell FOSS is one of the freedoms "free software" refers to.

Honestly though I think the thing that struck me the most and I found kind of scummy was their "value statement" where they were advertising the OS by comparing it to the prices of the proprietary software is includes alternatives to. You misreading the website wasn't an accident, they designed it in a deceptive way IMO.

If they were more honest about it, I wouldn't have any problem with them charging for the convenience of having everything pre-bundled. Of course you could set everything up yourself, but Linux is notoriously finnicky. People want a complete experience, they want support. They want the slick branding.

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

As far as I know Zorin is FOSS, for what it's worth. It's mostly just bundled FOSS software with some slick themes and accessibility features, plus a few in-house system apps which they do seem to provide sources for.

They mention that it's open source on their website but they don't mention FOSS probably because the libre/gratis distinction is confusing for people.

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Even from a viewer perspective, this sounds depressing to watch. I don't really get what people get out of this.

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 week ago

Ever heard of Bitmoji? Or Apple's Genmoji thing? People do create stickers of themselves doing gestures or facial expressions, it's fairly popular... And most of Instagram is people posting thirst traps and selfies. Not sure why you're singling out furries here...

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Editing the systemd services seems a neat solution here. Rather than editing the package-provided service files directly, you can create overrides using systemctl edit.

Another more hacky option would be to use the PostUp directive but account for the case there's no tailscale0 device yet. Write a simple shell script or something.

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

In IPv6, a /64 is only supposed to be used for a single subnet. If you have a subnet smaller than /64, things will break. SLAAC needs a /64, which means Android phones for example can't use IPv6 on a subnet smaller than /64.

/64 might seem huge but that's just how IPv6 works. The entire 64-bit host ID is used for encoding MAC addresses into the IP address, or creating randomized privacy addresses. It needs to be huge so that it can do that statelessly.

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Be that as it may, the Plex official guide for setting up "remote streaming" walks you through port forwarding. That implies that when they say remote streaming, they mean port forwarding by default. I then had to go digging to find mention of the Relay service which seems to be a fallback. (Apparently it isn't even supported by all clients)

Surely if they meant they'd start charging for Relays they'd mention that explicitly, and not use the term "remote streaming"?

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's the confusing mess of subscriptions and seemingly locking basic functionality behind a paywall that's skeevy, not paying for software itself. I have happily paid for software before and would again. Plex has never appealed to me though, and they're certainly doing nothing to make themselves more appealing.

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Do you have a source for this claim that the new pricing scheme only applies to the Plex Relays? As far as I can tell it applies to anything they consider "remote access", regardless of whether it goes through their servers or not.

 

It seems that the issue was resolved behind closed doors, so it could have been resolved behind closed doors to begin with, and then if the defederation was to go ahead simply announce the defederation.

Making an announcement "it will be defederated in 48 hours" made for this weird countdown drama thread (we even had programming.dev people show up and be sad about defederation!) that didn't really go anywhere, and then y'all just locked it when we refederated and made it clear that you were never interested in input and you'll be running the instance as you please (which is well within your rights of course). So what was the point of the thread?

I can see how it is nice to have warning if a community you're involved in is going to be defederated, but it also drags drama to our nice little corner of the fediverse, and pins it at the top of our feeds for all to see. In fact it shows up as the top of every feed for me, Local, All, and Subscribed. I can't get away from it.

Every time these threads show up they end up blowing up. Honestly, if you didn't make these threads, I wouldn't care who you defederate. But because the thread exists, I have to come in and I have to have an opinion. That's a personal issue and I recognize that, but I would hazard a guess that I'm not the only one. People who have never interacted with Blahaj nor the instance getting defederated show up in these threads sometimes. These threads invite drama, and for me personally, whenever they come up they make this space feel significantly less safe and make me want to leave Lemmy as a whole because it feels like it's just nonstop defederation drama for days at a time, but it's pinned at the top of my feed.

Maybe these threads actually provide utility, and I should just take these threads as a sign I should take a break from the Internet for a bit. But to me, they just seem like they're all downsides.

 

I know you're supposed to pronounce it along the lines of "blo-hi", but the Anglicized "blahaj" is so hard to resist!

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