Subpoenas don’t do much when the law just gets ignored anyway

All the more motivation for self hosted servers

Get involved in primaries if you don’t like the candidates that gets put forward. But when there is a shitty blue vs shitty red contest you still have to decide which is the least stinky turd and get out and vote for it, because they do get a lot worse. A lot worse

Sure, just before an embarrassing retreat is announced, but it gets framed as oh we are so merciful for not wiping them out. Just like last time before they made a deal to pay 300bn or something to Iran as well as handing control of the straits.

Notice that the markets have jumped the last few days? Because the whales know this is bullshit before big cave in to end / pause hostilities

How is this even a toss-up?

I’ll give it a try. I’m a bit surprised it’s needed since the VPN excludes local network connections anyway

What’s the alternative?

I don’t get it

Ooh good to know, if this works

How do people deal with this, do you turn off VPN whenever getting in a car?

Sure, but no way I’m buying a google product for this, I’d much rather a diy approach

It’s just for a client, the current approach I’ve been trying on a pi 2B isn’t working well enough so a bit more power would be good. The 2B only has H264 hardware decoding but osmc+Kodi+jellyfin/jellycon doesn’t seem to allow transcoding and the 2B just doesn’t have enough power to play other formats.

Maybe another option is to run the dedicated JF desktop app in a GUI, because at least you can tell the server to transcoder to a suitable format that the pi can play. With the stick PC a full wipe and install of some lightweight Linux system would hopefully also work

Interesting, good to know that there are open source / privacy respecting (seemingly) options out there

I’ll give it a try. I think it suggests model 3B somewhere but can try it with a 2B

But that’s the point of competing in and winning primaries, you can choose good candidates this way

Ok, I’m going to try and wipe it and put a lightweight Linux system on it, it’s a lot cheaper than a 4B pi (although a 3B may be possible), will see how it goes

Good to know

I tried using the pi 2B again, I’ve been using the GUI & browser to show jellyfin and the interface is so sluggish I think it would be hard to use regardless of the ability to play videos

Ok interesting it looks like it does do 1080p H264 hardware decoding https://cdn-shop.adafruit.com/pdfs/raspberrypi2modelb.pdf

Pretty sure I tested mine on video playback and it struggled (quite badly), but I didn’t check the playback format, maybe if you stick to the right codec then it works.

Do you know what number model it is? I tried using an old 2B but it was too slow and doesn’t have hardware decoding as far as I can tell. I’ve heard you need around 4B for media playback, but the price is not so great for a simple use like this. Stick PCs seemed to have some cheaper options, including hardware decoding, with the advantage of plugging straight into the HDMI port