I’m seeing that you can use VPN like tailscale, setup a reverse proxy, or just open ports. Just opening ports and giving direct access is a security vulnerability and not recommended. VPN is easy, but not something I would want to try and get my clients to sign up for and show them how to use. Reverse proxy seems like the best option, but that’s not easier than just installing the Plex client for streaming that has the proxy built in.

Unless something has changed, it doesn’t have the remote streaming capabilities of Plex. Not saying one can’t remote stream, but it’s not as simple as installing a client and logging in. It requires network config and security, VPNs, and each client to setup stuff too. Please correct me if I’m wrong on that though.

Plex has been enshitifying but I’m on the lifetime pass so for me things are free and just work still.

I’m fortunate to have an effective scrum master. She knows the products will enough to properly interface with our different stage holders. The amount of shit that doesn’t make it to us because she’s essentially our firewall to the customers, is astounding.

That said, there are plenty of other business decisions being made that are rapidly leading to a team wide brain drain. The top brass is so out of touch with reality, and they make major decisions on that ignorance without consulting anyone that knows anything. It’s also turned into a boys club at the top, so there’s no individual accountability, just yes men.

Your right, but I can imagine what it would be like, and that’s something.

They don’t want every website to do it though.

You asked if it is, and the response was “yes”.

Sure, for basic projects if you don’t value security or efficiency.

Midwest US, but it’s really down to the insurance policy. This particular procedure was 100% covered other than copay. Copay was usually $50, but for specialties it was $75. If you have insurance, definitely check your policy. A lot of times vasectomy is explicitly called out.

It cost me a $50 copay with insurance (US), maybe $75 because “specialist” I don’t remember. Without insurance idk the cost, but I’d guess under $500.

Best $50 I’ve ever spent. Quick procedure, quick recovery with an excuse to not do anything for a couple days.

Read the room.

It’s not about your system. It’s about every system connecting to the Internet. It’s not local age verification, it’s widespread monitoring by the government.

I’m curious how this works in action. If you use a VPN provider that doesn’t do logging, and inherently you’re traffic is encrypted via that VPN, what are they spying on? That’s kind of the whole purpose of running a VPN in the first place.

If they happen to somehow see the unencrypted traffic, I hope they enjoy sifting through ass loads of torrent data. Good luck, shit bags.

I know I would sooner be court marshalled than join the military. I wonder what the response would be like in the general population if they tried this. My hopium says it wouldn’t fly, but I’ve seen how shitty my fellow countrymen and women can be.

It was like that when I got here. Also that crunching noise you heard and sparks you saw were a typical poop for me.

AI is the most rushed to market product I think I’ve ever seen in my life. It makes Cyberpunk’s release like like a polished gem in comparison. Yes, things evolve over their life cycle for better or worse, but none of this other things have been so ingrained in everything, cost even a fraction of LLMs, both monetarily and environmentally, it sucked as hard.

AI is a different monster. A shitty shitty monster.

I remember reading that. My brother is in the AF, and through some system, they can get gear like Garmin Fenix watches that does GPS tracking and uploads to their cloud and can be synced with Strava. It’s wild that stuff like this isn’t strictly monitored to prevent this exact scenario.

Wow you’re soft.

I did just check and I was wrong. I idle at 1.6GB. I may have been thinking of a single app I had open when I looked the other day. I did just open Firefox and it took about a gig. Opening about 20 tabs and navigating to different sites did Bum it up to about 5gb. So yea, 8 is on the lower end, but it’s usable and I’d bet most people would be fine. Throw in things like swap and high speed storage, I feel most people wouldn’t notice. Definitely not enough for high usage though.

I miss when 4gb was good enough.

I got a free, going to be recycled, dell with 8gb of ram from work. I threw in an nvme and installed Linux. It’s not the lightest Linux install, but it is Arch, so definitely on the lighter side. I idle at under 1gb and under normal use don’t break 2. I do some coding which uses more but nothing super crazy. MacOS probably uses a little more ram, but it’s not Windows. I’d wager than the vast majority of people don’t come close to using all of that RAM, and power users are going to get hardware for the task, and this isn’t it.