Yep, and there are leaner, better Linux distros as well. Void Linux outperforms all of the author’s picks on older hardware, and there are also the BSDs to consider. Hell, even MX Linux (based on antiX) would be better than anything Ubuntu based.

I wasn’t contradicting you, I was agreeing with you.

Cash is only “less convenient” for the banks and businesses that would prefer to track you. A cashless society is a society fully stripped of privacy, a society where poor people are guaranteed to stay poor, and where only the rich can afford privacy and security.

Oh weird, it didn’t do that to me before but trying it again now it does the same thing to me. Apologies for the snark.

It does you just have to click through to the source cited by Thom. Click the link halfway down the OSnews article, “Michael Tsai, quoting Mysk”, then in the resulting article click the link that says “Mysk”. That takes you to the Xitter post by Mysk with the screenshot and description (I ran it through Xcancel so as not to endure Xitter’s shitty site).

“three downvotes…better delete my own piss” ~ Bear Grylls

Clicking links is difficult, I get it. Here, I did that for you:

https://xcancel.com/mysk_co/status/2064401062224879888

Considering they are sending all of your iOS activity back to themselves without encryption, to track you for ad serving, yep.

https://www.osnews.com/story/145322/apple-adds-keylogger-to-ios-app-store-for-targeted-advertising-tied-to-your-account-and-unencrypted/

Your verbs are present tense and not past tense

I was clear in other comments that I was speaking of what I knew to be true at the time, therefore the tense was correct from my perspective. I was told that the situation changed about seven years ago, I acknowledged this and expressed happiness for current Plex users, and then came several different people piling on telling me I’m lying, I’m wrong, I’m misleading, even after I stated that my experience was ten years ago and I acknowledged that things had changed since then.

To be abundantly clear, from my point of view before I was corrected, the present tense was correct based on my experience. I acknowledged the corrections and was still accused of lying and misrepresenting. I just don’t get that. I don’t understand why immediately acknowledging and accepting and even expressing genuine happiness that the situation has changed leads to attacks from all sides. I don’t understand why any of you refuse to acknowledge that I was speaking of an experience a decade ago, you all insist that I’m trying to say that is how it is now, and I’m not fucking doing that at all.

This place takes itself way, way too seriously, in my opinion. I’m sorry for any toes I stepped on without even meaning to, and I won’t comment on the matter further.

I never misrepresented anything. I spoke of my experience, and when I was told the situation had changed I was clear in several comments that I was happy it is now better for current users. You are talking as if I am intentionally misleading people when it’s clear that I am not. Why are you doing that?

I’ll say it again: it was my experience at the time, ten years ago. There is no misinformation. Apparently the situation has changed for the better for Plex users and that’s great. But I’m not going to change what I said, because it was what I experienced; to do so would be misinformation.

And my experience was nearly ten years ago. I’m glad they updated the documentation. Thanks for the link!

Why would I lie? It was my experience at the time, if it has changed for the better since then, that’s great for Plex users.

Good to know, and it would have been nice if that support rep had just told me that ten years ago instead of inadvertently talking me into dropping the service altogether. Hell, it would have been nice if that was in the documentation, but obviously they have a vested interest in mining your data.

Still, for all of the reasons above and more, I’ll never use Plex again. I occasionally help a friend keep his Plex installation maintained and it’s just a shitty service compared to the more open options in my experience. I’ve told him about the better options but his sunk cost mindset (he paid the current lifetime fee) won’t let him migrate.

Plex requires a Plex Pass subscription to share outside of your local network. Plex doesn’t allow you to watch media on your local network if your internet service is down, even if you have the Pass, because the service requires a constant connection to the Plex service itself. You can’t use apps on most streaming boxes and sticks without a Pass subscription. Plex records telemetry on all of your viewing habits and shares it with any of your associates who also use the service.

I switched from Plex to Emby a decade ago because of the restriction on local network streaming without an internet connection. My internet service went down and I said to myself “well I can at least watch my locally hosted files on my tv sitting next to the server”. Nope, not allowed. I emailed Plex support about it once my internet was back and they said that wasn’t a bug, it was by design. I dropped it then and there even though I had a lifetime Pass subscription.

Which is why I said “some people”.

Before the RAM and storage pricing nightmare, the performance vs price for a Pi 400/500 would be an acceptable trade off for some people. These days, it’s cheaper to buy a laptop with a busted screen on eBay and remove the top half. You get the performance of the HP keyboard at the Raspberry Pi price point.

Thanks, AI overlords, I guess.

Agreed, and until the Moto Graphene phone drops one can just buy a used Pixel from a trusted marketplace like Swappa, and no money goes to Google from that used device sale. Save money and keep a perfectly good used phone out of a landfill at the same time.

Fennec is the closest thing to a mobile version of Librewolf. It doesn’t have all the privacy and security tweaks as Librewolf but it’s far better than mobile Firefox.

There’s also Firefox Focus but it’s more difficult to use as a main browser since it defaults to wiping all traces of history and settings after each session.

Her arrest and detainment by ICE is inevitable; she is brown and Somali, and it doesn’t matter that she’s a US citizen and a sitting member of Congress, Trump’s SS will eventually arrest her once he feels it’s the right time. That will be a breaking point in this whole affair; if the people of this country allow the President to arrest his political enemies just for being his enemies, we are truly lost. If we allow that act to stand, it will have a domino effect as then he will feel emboldened to arrest any political enemy, no matter their race or citizenship or political party.