Andrzej3K [none/use name]

I’m currently daily driving a 2011 MacBook Pro running Arch, and it does surprisingly well. I mean, the screen is a weird resolution, the battery life sucks, and it gets very hot, but other than that …

+1 I use gitea and it does everything you’d want from a git server with minimum resource retirements, unlike Gitlab which is heavy

I got into Linux by building HTPCs and then media servers, so it’s been a while since I watched anything hunched over a computer monitor tbh

It’s not just a generational thing — most of the millennials who were torrenting 15 years ago (which was a lot of them!) have completely forgotten by now ime. Now I’m longing for the days when ‘VLC is the best media player’ was common knowledge and not arcana

I have lost track of the times that a liberal/conservative acquaintance has completely gone off on one at me, completely oblivious to the fact that I’m biting my lip for the sake of politeness. The irony is that it’s always “you can’t say anything these days” etc etc I KNOW MATE, I CAN’T

Something that Westerners would do well to remember is that the revolution may not happen where you are, but it doesn’t have to

Anything to do with dns

That’s not how monopoly ends in my house

Also to force privatisations on the member states who don’t have the clout to just ignore the rules

You have to pay it forward to two people or gulag

Dominos Tests Limits of what Humans will Eat https://youtu.be/31JNEVHZxO8?si=o86xWZBMC-jw0xAl

https://wiki.servarr.com/

Just because an economy of scale is real, doesn’t mean the work being done is meaningful or necessary. I’m arguing that the last couple of decades have seen a lot of work being created in order to necessitate traditional ‘economy of scale’ business models — aka a factory with an owner — when other ways of doing things may have been better in terms of global energy efficiency. E.g. the transcoding/compression only needs to happen once for each use case, the whole movie could be buffered rather than maintaining a server connection for the entire runtime. There are examples outside of streaming too ofc, and I’m not saying cloud computing has no use cases — but nobody really believes that the Netflix model is based on sound fundamentals, do they

I’m not an expert in this field ofc, but I suspect simply serving a file would be way less energy intensive. There are less centralized alternatives too such as torrent streaming, which may or may not be more efficient. It would be nice to exist in an economy where we could explore these questions!

I don’t think so. Afaik, factors such as subtitles, different languages, different client hardware, mean that transcoding everything on the fly isn’t quite as crazy as you’d first think. I imagine there’s some sort of DRM stuff too, which is going to take its toll.

But I stand by what I said about the business needing the energy cost in order to justify its existence. It’s not just a question of revenue/expenditure — e.g. constantly needing to expand capacity makes a compelling story for investors. Capitalist efficiency, innit

I read somewhere that they transcode everything on the fly, which they insist is necessary. The real point though, imo, is that cloud services have to be incredibly energy intensive in order to justify their existence to begin with.