032 Mendicant Bias

Don’t want to discredit your experience but…

Me and my wife visited Copenhagen for a short city break back before we were married (and before we had much money). People were very welcoming. For example, we visited a small wine bar and could only afford the very cheapest option, the owner did not care at all and happily hosted us for the duration. Same at the coffee spot across from the hotel - guy there helped us get our bearings.

Now, that’s not particularly noteworthy compared to other places in Europe that we’ve visited, but we definitely never felt unwelcome. The only issue I had with Copenhagen is a me-issue, I’m not a seafood person at all, and that’s a huge part of their cuisine. I’m fact, that’s a recurring issue for me. Love food, but not seafood! But then love places that love seafood! Argh!

Now we know why he’s keeping Elon around, he needs a lift.

How is that any different from Plex? Other than presumably a worse experience.

Why do you need to explain to your family and friends how to switch to Jellyfin, if you have a lifetime pass and therefore aren’t impacted at all by this announcement?

Similar price for a lifetime Plex pass (until end of April)… just saying…

What paid content? I have a Plex lifetime pass and I can’t recall ever being asked to pay for anything? I can remember them dumping free TV channels in there at some point, but I simply switched that off and it’s not come back.

From reading the article, sounds like you’re situation won’t change.

I’m not sure where you’re getting that from, the article literally states the price hasn’t changed in 10 years, and still hasn’t, but it finally will on the 29th of April.

This tracks with my experience as it’s probably been 10 years since I bought the lifetime pass and here in the UK it’s often on sale for basically the same price (about £75 if I recall).

Past performance does not guarantee future results

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7174760.stm

I guess teaching people how to drag-and-drop audio files onto their phone and open them with VLC would be a much shorter article.

It would be a consistently worse experience going forwards, which I think is the point. A little effort up front (and fun, probably, if you’re into this sort of thing) for a more convenient user experience (and probably extra satisfaction as well) is the reason people do this sort of thing, is it not? Sure, compared to some things you can do with self hosting, it’s not going to be life-changing. But, worth the effort for some. I’m taking notes from this thread as it’s probably the next thing on my to do list.

Any word on how it plays on the Steam Deck?

Alternatively, shout out to Boost for Lemmy - from the creator of one of the best Reddit 3rd party clients (RIP Boost for Reddit).

The linked article was certainly interesting/alarming, but the original article that seems to have prompted it was a bit questionable to me. Seemed to be a contrived argument from someone knowledgeable to know what all the options meant, complaining that someone who didn’t would get confused - yet in reality, that “normal” user isn’t going to go looking in the extended menu, they would just click the icon, or press the physical button on the laptop.

Yeah, it is a whole lot more gay but even that is not out of the ordinary for CRPGs at this point and had been pushed by companies like Larian, Obsidian, and Owlcat. Hell, the Mass Effects and Dragon Ages deserve a LOT of props for how horny and gay they were and normalizing the idea of picking the right dialogue options for a sexy card cutscene (also see CD Projekt Red).

Haven’t played BG3 yet, but I’m interested to read this because I’ve noticed a lot of discussion seems to be about romancing characters, and I don’t remember that being a prominent feature in the first two. That said, I was a kid, so maybe that just went over my head at the time. Or is that something that Larian brought in from their other games?

Finally I had to choose an app, as there is no official one. Now I’m in Mlem, but I don’t know if it’s better or worse than the others.

I’m just here from Reddit after the Boost app finally stopped working. So now I’m running “Boost for Lemmy”, would definitely recommend it. It was one of the best 3rd party Reddit clients.

Any recommended reading for pass keys to get me up to speed? I use Bitwarden and have been happy enough with just passwords via that for a long time now. Only time I’ve seen pass keys mentioned really was Google trying to push it on me but I don’t use their password manager.