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- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 5 days ago:
Do I need a Plex Pass AND a Remote Watch Pass?
No. To stream personal content remotely from a Plex Media Server, you only need one of the following:
The admin account for the Plex Media Server has an active Plex Pass Your account has an active Plex Pass Your account has an active Remote Watch Pass
From the blog post it looks like users that share should be fine so long as the server host has an active Plex Pass account. Link
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 1 week ago:
It appears to be device dependent, some have the initial online setup requirements, even the Community Forum on Roku’s site tells a poster they will need to setup with the internet connection and then can disconnect after setting it up.
Last post in this thread with a response by a former moderator.
You will need an internet connection and a Roku account to activate your Roku TV.
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Once the activation is complete, you can disconnect from the internet and continue to use your TV
- Comment on U.S. Workers Are More Worried Than Hopeful About Future AI Use in the Workplace. 3 weeks ago:
I’m sorry slazer2au but our employment AI noticed you slacking off today, we’re going to need to terminate your employment at this time.
For real, at least in a lot of the southern US, companies look out for anyone that discusses unionization and will find a reason to fire them. At-will employment is a curse. My favorite busting technique is the tried and true “Who needs a union? We’re a family here.” Followed by a pizza party instead of a real bonus.
- Comment on Britain Orders Apple to Build a Backdoor Into Your iPhone 1 month ago:
As far as I know Apple didn’t give in, Trump and the FBI wanted it during his first term but I don’t think it happened. At least I hope it didn’t.
- Comment on Britain Orders Apple to Build a Backdoor Into Your iPhone 1 month ago:
Global access is wild, basically it means if the UK could force this that any five eyes country would then have the same access without needing to look bad to their citizens.
Also, how hard do we expect Apple to fight this? I have a hard time believing they would just pull out of the UK but I could be wrong. From what I understand China has this type of access because they don’t allow E2EE.
- Comment on Google's slow Chrome Extension reforms anger developers 1 month ago:
I’m shocked I say, shocked… well not that shocked.
I think the most interesting part of that whole thing was the people at AdGuard and Privacy Badger apparently believing the advertising company wasn’t going to hurt them.
- Comment on Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites 1 month ago:
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Don’t apologize, this shit is rage inducing.
- Comment on Mexico asks Google to reject U.S. renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. 1 month ago:
It’s not official until the Government enters it into the Geographic Names Information System. Once that happens Google will begin changing their maps.
- Comment on Trump signs exec order delaying TikTok enforcement action for 75 days 1 month ago:
It’s interesting that under the law ordering the shutdown or sale he could have given them 90 days and chose to only do 75.
Must be some kind of power move or they already have a deal and it’s all theater like that 12 hour “shutdown.”
- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 2 months ago:
I hate to defend Zuckerberg but if true he turned down investing and claimed short form wasn’t going anywhere it’s because he had some proof of that. Vine wasn’t doing well and eventually shut down, as did WWE backed short form video app Tout. At the time it looked like it wasn’t worth it.
- Comment on Meta asks the US government to block OpenAI’s switch to a for-profit 3 months ago:
They have Meta AI baked into their apps now and are building a 10 Billion dollar AI facility in Louisiana that they want to use Nuclear Power to run.
So I’m guessing the plan is to hurt the competition that is already ahead of them and hopefully get enough time to buy them out or pass them.
- Comment on Plex redesigns its app to look more like a streaming service | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
I’ve put a lot of effort into making plex posters that match/have a uniform look for 90% of my library, from what I’ve seen this will make all that useless as they switch to what appears to be fanart only. I don’t necessarily care for that change.
- Comment on Amazon is shutting down Freevee 4 months ago:
Once they added advertisements to Prime Video, they no longer had a need to have FreeVee. I assumed this would have happened sooner, but I’m not shocked. Hopefully this frees up space on all those Fire devices that were forced to have the app without the ability to remove it.
- Comment on The Open Source Project DeFlock Is Mapping License Plate Surveillance Cameras All Over the World 4 months ago:
Not only do you have to watch cities for these things, you need to read the privacy policy on some websites to see what their physical locations are doing. Lowe’s and Home Depot both have Facial Recognition and ALPR policies.
I can’t even come home at night without being hit by a Flock Camera, we have one outlet and they put it right when you turn into the neighborhood, for “safety” of course.
- Comment on The Pentagon wants AI to enhance the capabilities of US nuclear weapons systems 4 months ago:
Are they going to name it WOPR or Joshua? Maybe some teen will feed it crazy info and it’ll start trying to find the launch codes on its own.
- Comment on David Zaslav says Trump will fuel big media mergers 4 months ago:
From your list AMD+Intel is the most believable, allegedly Qualcomm has already made inquiries about buying Intel.
- Comment on Massive generational gap: Gen Z flocks to multiplayer, while 55+ sticks to single-player 5 months ago:
I’m not that old, but time is flying at me, and in my experience it’s that older people don’t have the same time options and skill level to “git gud” at newer games and that just makes online games less fun for some of us. So single player games we can take our time on and finish without somebody in the headset barking at us. I really prefer things like Fortnite STW these days, I can log in and choose to pair up with others or go it alone and I have the option to choose my difficulty level with the different biomes.
It’s ok, one day Gen Beta will be the same way with the Z’s, it’s the circle of life.
I still play online some, but I’ve come to the conclusion I’m not great at it and never will be and I’m ok with that.
- Comment on GTA Online is no longer supported by Steam Deck thanks to a slightly baffling Rockstar anti-cheat update 5 months ago:
There have been posts on X/Twitter/Nitter and some Discords that some of the Mod-Menus have bypassed the anti-cheat, which makes all of this crappy for Deck players.
- Comment on Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions Gets First Gameplay Trailer, Will Launch On PlayStation Plus 7 months ago:
JK Rowling doesn’t believe Transgender people are the sex they identify with and as such is labeled a TERF, Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist, and many, especially on the internet believe she should be boycotted and no self respecting person would give her or her properties a money. You typically will see some form of that comment in most postings related to her or Harry Potter.
- Comment on Google's Exclusive Reddit Access 7 months ago:
“Search or website ads” as a “commercial purpose” and that no one can use Reddit data without permission or paying a fee.
That stock isn’t going to sell itself, it needs value for Spez and friends to earn those golden parachutes.
This is bad for the open web, especially if more large sites follow this idea.
- Comment on Police pulled over a Waymo car that drove in the oncoming lane in Phoenix 8 months ago:
This should be an automatic impound of the vehicle and when the rep comes to pick it up hand them the ticket. Or you know, make the police send them a damn ticket.
- Comment on Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs 8 months ago:
Why won’t those people vote against the religious legislative class? Are they outnumbered?
For a lot of people religion is like a salad bar or buffet, they pick and choose the parts they like and ignore the ones they don’t. That seems to extend towards their politicians, be my brand of religion and policy and I’ll let you do almost anything because at least you aren’t that other person.
- Comment on Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs 8 months ago:
If you live in a conservative run state, watch what they do, in Georgia on the final day of legislation they do “sine die” which we sometimes call sign or die day where they just push through a ton of shit with little or no going over it before hand, they passed one of these social media ID laws that targets porn too, and it went through without pretty much anybody knowing about it from what I can tell.
What kind of database of depravity to use against you are these people building.
- Comment on Adults and teens pick dumbphones to curb social media addiction 9 months ago:
That’s why I said I wonder if their was a niche market for something like those devices, meaning I wondered if some company could make a newer modern version, like Apple used to make the iPod Touch for a while, which were almost the same as the iPhone just without the cellular connection.
- Comment on Adults and teens pick dumbphones to curb social media addiction 9 months ago:
I wonder if there is a niche market for something like an old Dell Axim x50v or a Palm Pilot that could do those smartphone functions on a wifi connection, that way you have the best of both worlds, carry a dumbphone. However, you could still walk into a local Library or even some McDonald’s and connect if need be on the other device.
Of course, then you have to inconveniently carry two devices and the temptation would probably still be there.
- Comment on Binit is bringing AI to trash 9 months ago:
Basic analytics will be free but it’s intending to introduce premium features via subscription.
Nickled and dimed by a thousand subscriptions… Seriously who would want this? Who is going to pay to have their trash monitored by some data company?
- Comment on Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week 9 months ago:
They played the long game and got almost all modern browsers to become Chromium-based so they all will have the same problem. Is there any alternative other than Firefox at this point? If I were the one making the billions I’d almost applaud their tenacity.
- Comment on No one should have to “grow a thicker skin”: Valorant studio commit to harsh penalties for harassment 9 months ago:
What’s their policy when someone buys one of these systems from one of these dickheads?
Most likely their policy is the same as the one Microsoft has for their games and consoles. Microsoft once told me, we’re sorry you purchased a banned console but banned consoles cannot be unblocked, buy a new one next time.
- Comment on Microsoft: Windows 24H2 will remove Cortana and WordPad apps 9 months ago:
Wordpad was my go-to for quick edits of things, it’s so much better than “new” notepad. I have Notepad++ and while good I just don’t think it’s a replacement for Wordpad.
- Comment on Prison Architect 2 developers part ways with Paradox months before it's due for release 10 months ago:
I was already weary of the change from 2D to 3D, then they had a couple of delays and now the main dev is bouncing just before the supposed release, it all looks really bad. This seems to be a wait a year or two and see if Paradox sorts it out kind of title.