Do you have to register again each time you get a new potato?

I absolutely see suffering everywhere. None of this is lost on me.

But I see that suffering amplified under the current administration in a way that it wouldn’t be under another leader.

Progress takes time and ignorance of this fact is what conservatives feed on. Dividing people is their specialty. They want you to feel hopeless, to give up, to waste your voice on infighting so they can further secure power even though they are in the minority.

Republicans cheer for every vote for Jill Stein. Every person who believes each candidate is somehow equally repugnant and chooses not to vote. These things help them cling to power and they have 0 incentive to change the system.

I’d take four years of nothing over everything happening today in a heartbeat.

Point is, “vote blue no matter who” as a tactic does not win elections

Unlike “vote for the single issue you care about” - that works real well right? How’s president Stein doing? Has she ended the wars? Solved childhood hunger? Fixed the education system?

Like it or not democracy means compromise, and the US flavor of democracy means compromise between just two candidates. Despite our opinions we agree that the majority (or, fucked up constutional congress majority) sets the rules. Throwing away your vote on other candidates does not change this. As much as I wish I could pretend it signals social preference to the people in charge, it doesn’t.

A vote for 3rd parties may have told Kamela to go fuck herself, but now we get trump as the consequence.

Oh yes, Jill Stein! The people’s President! I had totally forgotten about Jill Stein, the candidate who is totally not propped up by Republicans to siphon away Democratic votes in swing states.

I’ve been living under a rock for the last year - how’s her administration been going? Has she ended all the wars and state sanctioned kidnappings?

Thank God so many people voted for her, can you imagine if anyone else had won? Good those votes weren’t wasted on someone with a statistically significant chance of winning.

Changing candidates is a great thing to push for during the primaries, but in US elections there is a point where candidates are locked in and only 2 people have a chance to win and everyone has to choose between those two no matter how imperfect they are.

Agreed! They helped elect Trump - look at the impact he’s had! They should be proud!

I blame the people who enable the perpetrators. While the US is still a democracy, that includes people who voted for the perpetrators, as well as those who threw away their vote allowing the perpetrators to win.

The blame doesn’t stop there, I also blame the DNC’s bungled handling of the election, but regardless, I have zero doubt in my mind that there would be fewer government kidnappings under Harris regardless of how shitty the circumstances of her nomination were.

In what way did voting for 3rd party candidates last election stop perpetrators? In what way will voting for third party candidates stop perpetrators in future elections? By all means campaign for them, raise awareness, but if they can’t make it past the post your votes are wasted.

Until US moves away from FPTP system, you have to work with the system we’ve been dealt, while pushing for reform. Just wishing it was different doesn’t help anyone but the worst candidates.

Single issue voters and third party candidates because “both sides bad” is what got us into our current predicament.

Don’t be a single issue voter for third party candidates because “both sides bad”. Feel free to vote that way in the primaries, get out and campaign for the candidate you think is best, but when they don’t make it to round 2, don’t throw away your vote - that does nothing for US elections.

Also, fuck ICE, but “my opinion gets lots of upvotes on Reddit” is not a basis of government.

I have a 4 bay Synology NAS and it draws ~50W when running. Not astronomical, but if always going is potentially ~$100/yr. If the disks don’t need to be spinning, it idles at a pretty minimal wattage, so realistically maybe I’m paying half that, but if we’re being frugal it’s a lot of headache for something that’s not much less than just picking 1 streaming service/month and rotating (before you factor in the cost of hardware).

In terms of drives, a 4k movie is ~50-100 GB, so 24 TB saves you enough space for ~240-480 4k movies. It’s up to you to decide if that’s enough. Last I checked, the optimal $/TB was ~12TB drives, so worth considering starting with fewer larger drives if it works for you.

In terms of processing capabilities necessary, that kinda comes down to how you consume your content. Encoding audio is trivial. Encoding video is difficult. If you’ll always be playing on devices that can handle the raw HEVC output of bluray disks, then your server CPU doesn’t matter.

If you want to play on devices that may not be able to handle the full uncompressed content, or stream outside your home network without gobbling up all of your bandwidth, you will need to transcode the video. This can either be done on the fly as content is requested (in which case you probably need a capable CPU), or you can take the time and do it in advance on a PC, and just upload it to the Jellyfin server and request the compatible version when needed.

Getting in the habit of encoding your own files to your preferred spec or automating it with something like tdarr is time consuming but worth it in that it let’s your Jellyfin server be leaner (but takes more space on your NAS).

For me, I only stream Jellyfin content to one client (my ShieldTV), which is always on my network and capable of playing all video/audio formats I need. For that reason, I have a raspberry pi as my Jellyfin server because it doesn’t need to do anything more than download cover art and serve files.

I can’t speak to the sound levels of the specific NAS you’re looking at, but if you’ve ever owned a computer with 3.5"HDDs (I’m guessing you have), you’re familiar with the brr brr brr seeking hum & low grumble they do when moving files around. That’s the main source of noise and it’s primarily when you’re using them (aka watching a movie) so it’ll probably blend into the background. But I wouldn’t put one next to my bed.

Clearer than ever, but still (currently) >4x WHO recommended pollution levels

https://www.iqair.com/us/china/beijing/beijing

China in general has improved drastically but it still has pretty big issues in the winter due in large part to the increased heating demand.

Takes a lot more than a dozen or so downvotes to discourage me :) I see it as a learning opportunity for folks without (properly configured) adblockers.

https://github.com/liamengland1/miscfilters

Anti-paywall filter :)

They are, in fact, the same.

Also a decent ad blocker will make your life better :)

Not on Firefox with uBlock Origin ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Only time will tell who the awards go to, but of note, Goodall was always about celebrating climate progress instead of the doom and gloom messaging around inaction, so I hope she would be happy to be associated with an award for climate progress.

Dead platform full of bots clings desperately to life by selling out the attention spans of the remaining few users too oblivious to notice the pot boiling.

What? Even if you take the argument, which is full of shit, at face value, tons of people are citizens to countries other than their birth county. Born or married into a family that grants you citizenship rights? Moved somewhere and changed citizenship?

It’s up to India, not China, to determine who gets Indian passports, and it’s China, not India’s, fault for not issuing a Chinese passport to this woman if they view her place of birth as Chinese territory.

Cats are remarkably capable predators, and cat owners are remarkably irresponsible.

Letting your cat be an “outside” cat is bad enough for the environment. Not spaying/neutering said “outside cat” is how we get feral cats everywhere.

That said, I dont love the vague “eradicate feral cats” language. Would greatly prefer a broad spectrum spay/neuter/tag program to naturally reduce their population.

Predator-free NZ was always destined to ruffle some feathers though.