Agh Plex always rubs me the wrong way… It acts like closed source software as much as is possible. Went with Jellyfin and it’s been great. But haven’t tried music.

Meanwhile Verizon has already been unlocking after 6 months

If it’s a personal machine in which you have a choice on browser why not just use one of the native Jellyfin apps?

major browser supports HVEC now, other than Firefox.

Every other major browser is an overcommercialized pile of crap (or built atop the same) that can afford to pay for the licenses to use HEVC or has no qualms shipping proprietary code with their software that they don’t control.

Also apparently on Windows you can enable experimental HEVC hardware decoding support. You’ll need to install “HEVC Video Extensions” (from Microsoft themselves) ($0.99) in the Windows App Store and toggle “media.wmf.hevc.enabled” in about:config.

Absolutely and without question yes

Jellyfin can handle the transcoding to AV1 where needed. Albeit that’s a bit less ideal than direct play as you need the hardware to transcode.

plex/jellyfin etc high quality video support

H265 isn’t the only option there. AV1 is great and fully supported by Jellyfin (and I imagine Plex?)

Apple TV has been reliable for many years. Don’t even have an iPhone or iPad anymore but the OS gets the fuck outta the way and it probably has the least spyware of all the commercial options.

Building your own with like, a Pi or a PC is the best option if you mainly have pirated content… If you stream anything that option isn’t great because your device won’t pass all the DRM checks to play higher definition/4k stuff. (Someone correct me but last I looked into it this was still true)

I would just do a minimal reinstall if you had used this as a personal computer OS before

And also take the battery out

The screens are pretty fragile, however they’re protected when folded. Just don’t drop them onto anything while open…

Other than that they’re surprisingly robust. I’ve had 2 Moto Razr models and a Samsung Z Fold. First Razr did break the screen by leaving it open in a stupidly precarious position and it hit a piece of metal below directly on the folding screen when it fell. But day to day use I never worried about it.

It’s time.

Us instance admins appreciate it I promise

Yeah I’ve had email verification on since the first bot signup wave like a year ago and we have a few on the list here.

Sigh…

I’ll look into it. Thanks for pointing them out.

Most banks I’ve used allow SMS notifications for things like deposits and purchases.

The check things is true but I need to use it like less than once a year so eh.

Do we really need banking apps? Fuck it I’ll use their website.

I don’t think the illegal part has anything to do with the AI

I’ve never been in tech professionally, I’m a truck driver (now working in the office of company but still drive sometimes) but I have always been into tech. I selfhost as much as possible. Bitwarden, jellyfin, seafile, etc. and also run a Lemmy instance. I like tech projects and control.

I wait a few days or so to see if they’re planning on an emergency release to fix new bugs they didn’t catch but I’ve found upgrading fairly easy, though I have a dedicated and fairly bog standard install and a smaller instance.

They could just use capacitive touch for controls, inferior to buttons but just as cleanable. There’s little reason to not have both options

I can’t imagine why these things even need an app.

You have to set the thing up with water and all, just hit the buttons on the device.