It’s hard to keep track of all the things I’m not supposed to download. That’s why I have a NAS. I get a sense of fulfillment from seeing those empty, empty drives that can’t be used by anyone else to download things they shouldn’t.

https://youtu.be/Kmo8sh77G6Y?t=169

Exactly. If it’s displaying the line-in correctly, I don’t see what a firmware update would bring to the table.

It’s a display. Once it’s achieved being able to act like that, then you should be done for as long as the hardware lasts.

And I’m not your mate, shining star, light of my life

Pal, my dude, my buddy, you’re raging against someone’s garage proof-of-concept as if they held the key to the software problems on modern smartphones, and downvoting anyone who tells you to chill out. Lots of people do much more useless things than this every day, so why does this one thing enrage you so much?

Dude. It’s a hobby project. It doesn’t need to solve major global market problems for you. What an absolutely bizarre thing to get this angry over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_loUDS4c3Cs

An interesting take on the technical hurdles it would have taken to even be able to fake what we saw during the moon landing.

tl;dw: It might have just been easier to go to the moon instead.

I mean, if that fits your use-case, I’m not gonna tell you not to get it. Plenty of folks just need a machine for scrolling a social media feed, documents, and Youtube.

But anyone who wants more than what amounts to a Chromebook can get it pretty affordably with the low-end macbooks. Effectively tripling your speed for another $200 is definitely worth it for lots of folks, and memory paging is a lot faster than it used to be.

Benchmarks can be hit or miss, but aren’t totally useless:

N150: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+N150

Low-end M1 from 2020: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Apple+M1+8+Core+3200+MHz

And finally, the A19 they’re talking about using: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Apple+A19+Pro

Intel celeron N150?

I mean, yeah, technically it’s got more ram, but that’s literally the only thing going for it. I’ve got a mini-pc server with that exact CPU. It’s good enough for what I need it for, by my wife’s 5 generation old M1 Air from 2020 trounces it several times over in terms of speed, even with 8GB.

Buddhism is a looter-shooter confirmed

For AI, it’s because they’re the cheapest way to hook up tons of memory to a GPU.

Nice fronthawk

Lol, tell me about it.

And the serial dongle sounds much more sensible than requiring what amounted to a SCSI terminator, of which you could typically only have one. Need to use other software with a SCSI dongle? Shut down your machine, swap them out, and start it up again, 'cause SCSI don’t like that hot swapping.

I remember it as far back as the 90’s. Usually referred to things like SCSI dongles that authorized the use of expensive software like Maya (which was ~$50k at the time), because online DRM activation wasn’t really a thing yet. Probably goes back further than that.

Goop loop

What would you like OP to do? Nothing they’re doing is helping or hurting Plex. Nor is it helping or hurting anyone else.

Plex is enshittifying. I’m not sure how much they care about the opinions of Lifetime Pass users, or particularly care whether those people continue to use the service, at least when it comes to streaming personal media libraries.

For example, Windows is thoroughly enshittified, but I’m not going to tell users of Win 10 that they need to switch away right now, or that they’re bad people for continuing to use an old product they previously paid for. Just that they should jump ship whenever they’re ready to move on from Win 10.

I don’t think OP said literally any of that, so I’m confused. OP already has a lifetime Plex pass, so OP is sticking with plex, since as the server owner, a plex pass covers everyone streaming from their server.

I’m still not sure who’s being fucked in the context of what OP wrote. Either way, nothing OP is doing is financially supporting Plex, because that ship already sailed back when they bought a lifetime pass.

I mean, if you already have a lifetime pass, it’s not like you’re giving them anymore money or supporting them from here on out. Not sure how that’s “fuck you, got mine.” Who exactly is being fucked here? It would make more sense if Plex had a limited number of passes that people hoarded early on like boomers with property. In this case the financial side of things is already a done deal, and doesn’t somehow deprive others of a resource.

Right click, select “open.”