Laurel Raven

I am so glad this wasn’t a thing when I was in school, I can’t think of much that would have made me more angry than having to defend something I wrote myself against accusations of plagiarism

Or worse, being written by AI

Was your first clue the account name @NotTheTimCurry?

Because I went with Jellyfin and it worked well… I don’t know if I even checked out Emby, I’m not familiar with it, but I’ve had no reason yet to look for something else

I would say Flatpak is a good choice if you want or need features in the latest version of a package that isn’t in the version Mint runs, which is typically based on the current Ubuntu LTS version (or whichever one was current for the Mint version you’re on).

The main drawbacks are size on disk and the ability to work with other apps and the system, but neither issue is as bad as they’re typically made out to be… If you’re only installing one or two Flatpaks, they’ll seem massive compared to installing the version from apt repos, but that’s because they need to bring in supporting packages which are used by other Flatpaks, so if you use several of them, the space for each is a lot closer to the apt/direct installed version.

And the permissions, which can be annoying if you run into an issue with them, are typically defaulted to something that works correctly for each package, so you likely won’t need to worry about that hardly ever.

But otherwise… Yeah, if you don’t know why you’d want the Flatpak version and it’s in the Mint apt repos/system install, go with system install. Switch to Flatpak if you’re finding features you want missing that are in newer versions.

But they’re shouldn’t really be any reason to use Snaps on Mint.

It does, in theory… However, in theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice, they very much are not

I’d say “don’t give them any ideas” but I’m pretty sure they’ve already thought about it and have it planned for the near future

And the icing on the shit cake is it peacing out after all that

The fact that the movie turned Hammond into a kindly grandfather figure rather than the rich, greedy bastard he was in the book was probably one of the bigger mistakes in the adaptation… The way he’s presented as a visionary who actually cares in the movie makes the cut costs not really make that much sense.

Greedy capitalist fuck who only sees how much money he can milk out of the park like he was in the book? That made perfect sense.

For some unexplained reason this is making me unreasonably angry…

I would be very surprised if they don’t go there eventually, and I’d even bet they’ll try at some point to force lifetime pass owners to switch to subscription

If you ever think you’ve found a corpo that can be trusted, no you haven’t

This has no impact on anyone that actually paid for Plex.

Yet.

They’re going down the pathway to enshittification and very few companies that start down that dark path turn away before they destroy everything good they’d made for everyone, free and paid alike. Maybe that won’t happen here, but from all of the times I’ve seen that same song and dance, I would be finding alternatives to switch to, personally. But, it’s obviously up to you to decide your own comfort level if you want to start now or wait to see how far they go

This makes me glad I went with Jellyfin for my home server

Yeah, those of us who’ve gotten familiar with the terminal often forget that it generally lacks discoverability and getting to the point of knowing how to find things in it can be painful and annoying.

Not enjoying the terminal isn’t a failing. GUIs exist for a reason.

Yeah, it’s… It’s a pretty bizarre reason to downvote someone, but if that’s what they want to do, nobody is going to stop them from wasting their time

Microsoft, you already got me to leave Windows, you don’t have to keep sending me reminders, I wasn’t at risk of wanting to come back…

How is the Union that gave its people the GDPR is the same Union pulling this?