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I believe Infuse has Jellyfin support on Apple TV. But they want like £100 for a lifetime license or £2 a month / £13 a year.

Reminds me of companies that still call themself “startup” even after several years with a successful product. Just so they can rip employees off with low base pay and unpaid overtime because “we’re a startup”.

But what do you do with your Passkey in your password manager if you have to login on another device (you don’t own)?

I’m running a local SearXNG which still provides usable results. I don’t see the point in paying for what’s basically a smart phone book. If everything fails, I’m going full #oldweb and use #webrings or some of those retro lists.

Even better: YouTube still provides RSS feeds. You can “subscribe” to your favourite channels by adding them to your RSS reader.

And for desktop, there’s also FreeTube.

They’ll probably make “Maps+” soon after.

News Explorer on macOS, iOS and ipadOS. Syncs everything, so whatever device you pick up, you can continue reading where you left off. Also supports following people on Mastodon and YouTube channels via RSS.

As someone who always had some kind of PDA (CASIO digital diary, Palm, Compaq iPaq) and switched onto the smartphone bandwagon pretty early (SonyEricsson P800/P910i, Qtek 9000, various Androids and various iPhones) … I don’t think I could enjoy the experience with a dumb phone. I love modern technology too much.

I once had a colleague that religiously only used a Nokia 3210 (the newer 3G/4G model). Which meant 160 character messages only. No emojis, no photos (as MMS were expensive). He was also the kind of person to use paper maps when driving - incl. stopping to look for alternative routes if some road was blocked or jammed. That’s definitely not for me.

The only way this could work for me would be to have some small PDA that can connect to the phone to use the Internet. And I appreciate that both devices have been merged into smartphones at some point.

There were ads! But these were simple banner graphics of 468x60 pixels. In the worst case it was an animated GIF. But hosted on the same server as the page and without any tracking shenanigans.

Yep, back in the days the early bird price was $169 and MSRP was supposed to be $199. And now we’re looking at $225 pre-order price.

That’s their servers being hammered at the moment.

How do you think this will go down? Parents calling the ISP with “please unblock porn sites for me”? I see various things why this won’t work. From ISPs not wanting to increase the number of service calls over Apple’s Private WiFi MAC addresses to these kind of customers not even knowing how their devices appear on the router. Nah, completely unfeasible.

Your ISP doesn’t see which device accesses the Internet. They only see their router.

OTOH, most routers already have features to block websites for specific client devices. But good luck putting the onus on the parents to configure that properly.

Because it’s always a few fuckwits ruining it for the rest.

it should be built into your internet contract

This works fine with personal contracts like your mobile. (EE has a porn filter that you can disable in your account.)

But it doesn’t quite work for contracts that usually have multiple users. Like your home Internet. Because a child could connect to your WiFi and access that shmutz.

it’s rotting peoples critical thinking

@gork is this real?

And if you want some customisation, e.g. some repeating string over and over, you can use something like this:

yes "b0M" | tr -d '\n' | head -c 10G | gzip -c > 10GB.gz

yes repeats the given string (followed by a line feed) indefinitely - originally meant to type “yes” + ENTER into prompts. tr then removes the line breaks again and head makes sure to only take 10GB and not have it run indefinitely.

If you want to be really fancy, you can even add some HTML header and footer to some files like header and footer and then run it like this:

yes "b0M" | tr -d '\n' | head -c 10G | cat header - footer | gzip -c > 10GB.gz

Wasn’t there something a few months ago about Microsoft handing out secret API calls to developers of other antivirus products so they can quietly disable Defender during the installation of their product? Some guy had this reverse engineered from an installer…

“European Starlink rival” is a bit far fetched when there’s merely rumours that they might be able to offer a similar service. But that’s the stock market for you.

A similar project in Europe (well, mostly Germany) is Freifunk.