Majestic

“For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads: "We came in peace for all Mankind." As the United States was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock.”

Carl Sagan

History rhymes. Look at what's happening right now in the world and this quote is as applicable as ever.

It's mainly people who want live sports which have to be live so they can talk to their friends about it.

And/or people who want cable TV but don't want to pay $100/month (pretty hard to get usenet/torrents of most stuff that isn't available on streaming, good luck getting Lifetime, Hallmark, and Bravo content for example through your sources in a timely manner if at all and some people strange as it is enjoy the experience of flipping on a channel and just watching whatever). These services typically include all the premium channels as well so it's equivalent to pirating several streaming services and very convenient for non-tech-savy types who can just buy a "dodgy stick" for $500 and enjoy unlimited stuff.

People are dropping the paid services so their choices are lower prices, accept lower profits, or get out the hammer and start suing the proles to scare them into paying again. And we all know which of those is most appealing.

Piracy has been ailing for a while. Cope types talk about the piracy hydra but that's fake. Stuff is more expensive than ever with less incentive. For example rarbg shut down years ago and nothing replaced it. One little site did but it shut is doors permanently after tons of problems late last year. Since then? Nothing. So one head died, one head appeared and then also died. PT's occasionally implode due to greed, drama, admins getting tired, and yes rarely busts. The danger to the deeper ecosystem is the higher ecosystem and lower hanging fruit being entirely shut down leaving anti-piracy types who have to justify their paychecks looking hungrily under every rock.

They're already trying to ban VPNs under protect the children.

For proprietary streaming apps where I want to be able to see what's going on because I'm allowed a higher resolution than a 720p blurry mess? Apple's TVos seems pretty great. Zero ads, smooth, devices are overpowered for watching just TV. It does have apps for Jellyfin and Plex though I'd have to suggest infuse instead which is a $12 annual subscription for 4k or any proprietary audio codecs but it does work pretty well.

For everything else some version of libelec or corelec depending on the device in question it's being installed on. There are also external launchers that keep Android but remove most of the problems.

If you want plug and it works then AppleTV. If you're interested in putting in some work maybe a custom launcher on an android install. Beyond that libelec, coreleck, and Kodi.

Kodi maintains a big csv list of hardware (and software) with capabilities and suggestions here: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=376035

Thanks for the kind offer.

Funnily enough I have a WD HDD enclosure that I shucked a drive from not too long ago. I do recall someone mentioning the circuit boards on those being functional as a USB to SATA bridge but I suppose I presumed they need mains power and didn't want the extra mess. That and I guess I wanted to keep the one I had pristine in case I need to RMA after putting it back together again as I've heard people have real mixed experience with RMAing shucked drives and with prices the way they are well I'd rather not take chances given I've only the one.

It is impressive but not truly massive. There are dozens of people on /r/datahoarder who have near or over 1PB (1000TB) of storage so it could be one of them volunteered the space.

By contrast with something like the internet archive we are truly fucked if it goes belly up as it's multiple PB of storage.

According to the asklemmy community (which is not about support for lemmy):

https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

Do you have a link to that claim? The last time I saw a similar claim it said she said it on a radio program or something. So is there any documentation I can bookmark or is it just hearsay? Because while early ST (ToS, TNG especially) definitely had some vibes, I kind of been under the assumption lately that Roddenberry was an idealist who wasn't any more communist than some turn of last century bourgeoisie who imagined mass communal projects and a peaceful futurist transition to a kind of very regimented social democracy.

Well for one they've hosted the zionist entity's air force and it is believed helped them launch their attacks during the 12 day war including a potential decapitation attempt on a bunker where the leadership was.

For another we're not certain that it is a policy of state to attack them. It may have been a zionist false flag or it may have been an independently operating commander under their mosaic defense model designed to combat decapitation strikes who did so.

No thank you. I like Firefox the way it is. I hate big changes for the sake of designers keeping their jobs changing my tools and workflow and making things ugly.

Edit: To be clear, I agree with you in general. I just got bugged a bit by those three things 😅

You do not. You are misinformed and propagandized. Your choice of examples revealed that clearly and nothing you say can refute that fact. Read Marx, read Lenin, your understanding of the state is lacking.

For one, anyone educated would understand that Americans are the best example of sheep in the world and that many Europeans are good second examples. The British for example with their high tolerance for a surveillance, laws that criminalize all manners of small trivialities, etc, etc. Educate yourself.

“We have to comply with the law”. This has become Russia or China where the sheep people do whatever an oligarchy dictate.

"What are we a bunch of Asians?"

Also China isn't run by an "oligarchy" but by a dictatorship of the communist party via a mandate of the masses (they execute CEOs and rich people there, we let them rape kids and commit horrific crimes of greed and fine them less than they made off that crime). Russia is but so is the west and I prefer the term capitalists or if you prefer the original French "bourgeoisie".

There was a study from one of the big ivy league universities that showed that in the US the people don't get what they want, popular policy is consistently not passed nor popular will acted on. Princeton I think.

So it's not what people per se want, it's what the ruling class (capitalists in the west) wants. And they've decided that because the rate of profit falls and their demand for profit grows that they need to put the population under lock and key because they've made economic conditions worse and they're going to get worse yet. They need a police state to control the workers who might want better conditions or gasp to take some or all of their wealth. This is part of that.

This is also because China is rising and they are terrified of people seeing a more equal, just society that can be created through socialism. They are terrified of dissenting voices so they want to remove anonymity so they can terrorize dissidents and opponents into silence. They saw what happened with their attempts at narrative shaping in Gaza, they are deeply alarmed that tik tok won't be the last thing, a new one could pop up anywhere, right now they play whack a mole, they want to control the whole thing top to bottom.

As to people being sheep. It's more like they're beaten down. You defeat this today they come back in a year and then again and again. They have all the money, all the time and are willing to wear people down, use their capitalist owned media to propagandize and sensationalize for this until the people are exhausted and stop fighting it so hard. People work long hours, they take home less money than ever, the government openly abuses people, the police don't act fairly and persecute black people, there's a sense of there being no fairness and not enough time. The people are also mis-educated. They're led to believe there's this big problem, they don't understand technology and passively accept their leadership has some amount of good will in how they pass laws and govern to address real problems the bourgeois press has done its job of propagandizing them for. They can't see the whole picture because of these facts.