Why do you hate property rights?

I’m not defending cheating in online games or interfering with Valve’s service, but if you think the solution to stopping them is attacking “software hacking” in general as a concept, that juice ain’t worth the squeeze. “Software hacking,” fundamentally, is nothing more than modifying the operation of your computer, your property that you own. It’s no different than buying a physical paper book and then writing notes in the margin.

If you’re proposing disallowing people from doing that, you’re attacking the concept of property rights itself.

IMO the trouble is that there are so many of the things now that I need a damn flowchart to understand how they work together and which ones I need.

(No, seriously: I want to set up an *arr stack but don’t understand how. Could somebody please send me a flowchart??)

Reminder: the Atlanta referendum is still being illegally suppressed. Even though it’s now completed and open, Cop City still needs to be closed and destroyed.

It’s ridiculous that this sort of fuckery is even possible, considering that it’s supposed to be Free Software.

Tangentially related: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/09/18/is-it-convenient-would-i-enjoy-it-wrong-question/

Zero useful information about which routers are vulnerable. I’m just gonna assume my fully up-to-date OpenWRT with a non-default password isn’t.

“Nuclear is expensive” is a post-hoc circular argument, though. Nuclear has become expensive now because the hysteria about it, and accompanying massive political opposition, lawsuits, and paranoid regulations mandating massive overkill factors of safety, have succeeded in their goal of driving up the cost to the point of non-viability.

But back in the '60s, before the backlash had a chance to get going, we were building tons of nuclear plants at such cost-effectiveness that the economic worry was that the power they would provide would be “too cheap to meter.” And guess what: with very few exceptions, those power plants were, in fact, good enough in terms of safety and released no notable pollution throughout their entire operating lifetimes (or lifetimes so far, for the ones that are still in operation today).

At this point, sure, you’re right: it doesn’t make sense to build nuclear in 2025 because it’s incompatible with our paranoid regulatory environment, and also because our capability has atrophied after a generation of not training nuclear engineers because there was no job market for it. But that’s an “us” problem, not a problem inherent to the technology.

The world would’ve been massively better off if Greenpeace had stuck to saving the whales and we had built a trillion killowatt-hours worth of nuclear over the past 40 years instead of the gas-fired generators we actually built. Even at the cost of an additional Chernobyl or two.

Been using Kubuntu for 7 years now, after having previously used Ubuntu, Debian and Gentoo.

Not sure if that means Kubuntu belongs on the “Plateau of Sustainability” or if I’m just permanently stuck at “trauma-induced return to Ubuntu,” LOL

The point is, there shouldn’t be a distinction. To make one is to support prejudice against installing software from elsewhere.

If you use “installing” for stuff from the Google store but any other word for stuff from other sources, you are aiding and abetting Google’s anti-property-rights propaganda.

I read OP’s question as him streaming from a Jellyfin server to this box, not using this box as a Jellyfin server itself. Could be wrong, though.

Also, it’s my understanding that transcoding is 100% about hardware support for the codecs and that integrated graphics that have it (TL;DR: 12th gen Intel) are going to perform pretty much just as well as even a high-end discrete gaming GPU for that task.

(I say “gaming” GPU because I was reading about the Arc Pro B50 the other day and it has two separate sets of transcoding hardware, so it presumably would actually perform better in terms of the number of simultaneous streams it could handle. But short of something like that, it apparently doesn’t make much difference.)

They should move the “KDE Neon” name to this new immutable version.

Just truncate it at the first punctuation mark (or space if they try to game it by removing colons and hyphens).

I got that sort of showing off out of my system two decades ago using Gentoo in college.

Hell, a top of the line graphics card alone costs as much as a decent used car!

Spoken like somebody who hasn’t shopped for a decent used car recently.

“Cash for Clunkers” really fucked us over.

I have multiple computers.

They’re running Linux, Linux, Linux, Linux, Linux and Linux.

That’s not what that means and you know it. It refuses to work unless it can successfully phone home over the Internet.

I use KDE with pretty much default settings. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

See my other reply expanding on why Raspberry Pi specifically.

Otherwise, while your strategy worked when I was a kid – back in the DOS/early Windows days we had to actually figure out how stuff really worked out of necessity, and often without help from the Internet because we weren’t online yet – those days are gone. The expectations of easiness are too high now, and kids would just get frustrated and bitch about wanting to go back to a “just works” tablet or phone instead. They really need some additional killer feature to be excited about, that they can’t get with a generic device running a web browser, in order to be motivated to explore.

My kids have Raspberry Pi 400s but are too young to get into reading the guide book that came with them yet, so even under (what I consider to be) those ideal circumstances they mostly ignore all the local software and just try to play the web-based games they found out about from school. 😕

In other words, even a Raspberry Pi isn’t a guarantee of fostering real computer literacy, but I still think it gives the best chance (better than a generic old PC, and way better than a consumption-oriented tablet/phone).

Mini PCs / old Optiplexes don’t have built-in GPIO and a huge database of kid-friendly projects to do with them.

It’s that software and community and hacker ethos built into the design that makes the difference, not the performance specs of the hardware. The point is “facilitating kids learning about computing,” not merely “being a desktop computer.”

I mean, I guess you could install Raspberry Pi OS on a PC and add a GPIO breakout board (like this or this) to try to replicate the pedagogical experience of a Raspberry Pi without the “overpriced” hardware, but it’s not going to be nearly as straightforward as just using a real Pi.

Not allowing ISPs to pick and choose winners among web services is absolutely what Net Neutrality is about. Bundling or discounting subscriptions isn’t technically the same thing as zero-rating, but the end result of making a particular ISP-preferred service cheaper than alternatives is the same.