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onlinepersona , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Am I the only one preferring low quality media over high quality one?

Nope. Most of my stuff is 720p because I won't be watching it again. My library has significantly dwindled in size. Only my absolute favorites are stored in high quality. Everything else is SD and quite a bit has been deleted.

Let's be honest, most stuff is shit and forgettable / not watching again. They are just remakes of readaptations of sequels. You know that by the time you want to watch it again, there will be a remake just as bad.

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onlinepersona , to Technology in Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission

Exactly the same path Recall will take. Install Linux Mint, folks...

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onlinepersona , to Technology in China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say

Do you want a livable planet or "fair competition"? China is doing what's necessary and the west is complaining about " distorted competition".

The priorities are clear.

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onlinepersona , to Selfhosted in Anyone self hosting on Mac mini M1/M2?
onlinepersona , to Free and Open Source Software in What happened to Louis Rossman's live yesterday?

I am I'm favor of an "open" source license minus profiting off of your forks, which I understand makes the resulting license not open source. In a capitalist system, the capitalist class will take every opportunity to parasitically take where ever possible. Nothing free in a capitalist system, including living. Free development comes at a cost, even iif made purely out of passion.

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I don't get why people still believe they have to gatekeep the open source definition or how to prevent capitalists from exploiting free labour.

Life and circumstances aren't static. They are constantly evolving. Just because capitalists treated open source as a threat, back when it was created, doesn't mean they didn't learn how to exploit it and those who work on it. They do now and it's only natural to evolve and try to find a way to protect from such exploitation.

To stand still and point fingers at others trying to move forward is conservative, the exact opposite of progress.

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onlinepersona , to Selfhosted in Anyone self hosting on Mac mini M1/M2?

That's great if it's your experience.

I'm just saying me and others have consistently had different experiences, and OP can get a better experience at half the price, with the same (or better) energy consumption, all while supporting the Linux ecosystem directly.

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onlinepersona , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in 2.6M Piracy Reports Against French Users Resulted in 234 Financial Penalties * TorrentFreak

That's cool. It's your choice. I'm cheap and patient, so it's all good.

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onlinepersona , to Selfhosted in Anyone self hosting on Mac mini M1/M2?

That may be, but buying a Mac Mini is like buying a device made from the ground up for Windows, where any other operating system has to reverse engineer 100% of the things to work well, or you have to emulate another OS on it (which comes with its own pitfalls), and it's 200+€ more expensive than its nearest equivalent.

Every single company I've worked at which introduced Apple Silicon to its developers has had headaches with compatibility. The worst I've seen was it taking a developer a month to get up and running because the specific component we used didn't have a build for the specific ARM architecture. Multipass, UTM, podman, docker desktop, all didn't work until colima and forcing the VM to emulate x86 + forcing docker in the VM to use the x86 image worked. There was a persistent problem with disk IO since it used 9p or whatever. Installing dependencies from scratch meant waiting 30 minutes on the M2.

Why pay a premium for less compatibility and worse specs? Just get yourself something that works, which is cheaper, maybe even supports a company that invests in Linux and its ecosystem, and be able to ask an existing developer community instead of asking the subsection of linux users that run your specific app on however you're running linux on Appe hardware.

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onlinepersona , to Programmer Humor in Such a pain in the sas

Happens to the best of us🤣

I spent what felt like an eternity debugging a website because it wasn't updating. You gussed it, I was looking the build output of webpak in the wrong folder.

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onlinepersona , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in 2.6M Piracy Reports Against French Users Resulted in 234 Financial Penalties * TorrentFreak

I dunno how old you are, but I come from the time of internet where loading pictures happen line by line. It took me a decade or more to get my library.

I'm patient. I don't need my stuff to be there immediately. Maybe that's the minority, I dunno, but a little bit of anonymity and patience ain't hurt nobody.

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onlinepersona OP , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Anybody know why Anna's Archive is torrents only and not IPFS?

Thanks. That's a good read.

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onlinepersona , to Fediverse in Introducing ink.key, a fediverse music collective/net label.

That's cool and all, but how will they make money?

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onlinepersona , to Fediverse in Introducing ink.key, a fediverse music collective/net label.

Might as well suggest smoke signals. IRC is way past its prime. Matrix and modern protocols exist.

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onlinepersona , to Selfhosted in Anyone self hosting on Mac mini M1/M2?

The problem with Mac hardware is that it's ARM and vertically integrated with everything Apple. Not all hardware is supported by Linux because Apple won't write any linux drivers and everything is reverse engineered. You're better off buying something non-Apple which linux properly supports.

If power consumption is an issue for you get, a R9 7950X consumes as much and at times less power than an M1/M2 (I think even M3). Check out GamerNexus's charts. IINM AMD in W/Ghz performs better than Intel across the board.

No idea where you are, but you can get a small factor PC from one of the vendors that preload linux, or configure a small form factor PC of your liking for cheap and put linux on it. You'll get more out of your money for the same or better performance with about the same energy consumption (or a bit more).
Somebody I know who happens to live in Hungary got himself this cheap beauty. They deliver all over Europe, but if you live elsewhere on this planet, there probably is something similar like this out there.

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onlinepersona , to Programmer Humor in COMEFROM

I honestly thought C++ (aka dumping ground of programming concepts) would implement this for "completeness".

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