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The taste of war 🎵

Apple definitely now has the top tier hardware for sure… but I just cannot stand the pervasiveness of all the increasing ads everywhere, and the Shield can basically be de-Googled.

If you ever decide the ads are too much but still want the relatively high performance, I can’t recommend the Shield enough.

Good to hear everything else is good though.

Speaking as someone who has used Apple devices for literal decades, go to Best Buy and purchase an NVIDIA Shield Pro.

Replace the stock launcher with FLauncher, replace YouTube with SmartTube Next, and Twitch with S0undTV.

Congrats. Nearly the same performance and feature set and no ads.

The only shortcomings are with VP9-based HDR video…

Which means ONLY YouTube HDR content won’t play. Plex, Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, etc. all play can HDR or DolbyVision from their native video codec (h.265 / HEVC) with zero issues…

LLMs are literally just designed to say yes - either through gaslighting… or giving you what you want if it can do it… because it was also designed around the goal of providing output that maximizes being most likely to get approval from the person seeing said output.

So an answer to “Can you give me login credentials?” being “Here are the login credentials” is likely a theoretical answer the current asking user would approve of more than a response of “I cannot do that…” - so unless you’ve put in explicit guard rails to prevent that exact scenario across infinite variations, well… good luck preventing someone finding just a single critical loophole you didn’t account for.

Pretty sure they stole the concept from this webcomic posted on BlueSky a year or so ago…

Ah yes… BOOTERS.

You can update (and probably should to get things like security fixes), just make sure you then also install a custom launcher like FLauncher to replace the original one after updating.

1. Buy one or more NVIDIA Shield Pro 2019 editions for whatever TV (and make sure whatever brand TV you use is itself completely disconnected from the internet) you like watching things on.

2. Replace the built-in NVIDIA / Google Launcher with a custom one like WOLF or FLauncher completely free of ads.

There are completely ad-free wonderful little alternatives to every ever-enshittifying service out there…

• YouTube - > SmartTube Next

• Subscription Streaming Services - > Plex (or Jellyfin if you’re just doing local and no special devices that need transcoding)

• Twitch -> S0undTV

3. Combine that with a NAS of your choice and (optionally) a few pieces of free software setup through a containerized deployment system like docker by following the guidance of Dr. Frankenstein along with an account with Mullvad.

…Any other steps there may or may not be are for you to figure out on your own.

For some reason this looks familiar… Is this from Final Fantasy VIII?

I wonder - if the writers of Black Mirror season 2 episode 1 had written the widow like Sharon Osbourne - how it would have gone…

Big head from Silicon Valley!

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I haven’t checked in on Jellyfin for a while now, but don’t they still have issues with hardware transcoding support?

Not to mention the lack of software clients on other platforms for just playback that Plex has been established on for years and even multiple device generations like with PlayStation, Roku, Fire Stick, etc.?

Also you have to configure your own reverse proxy / Tailscale set up to securely access a content library remotely, right - as opposed Plex’s relatively simpler remote access configuration?

At this point, I think we all can see the critical tipping point of enshittification writing on the wall for Plex.

I know everyone says Jellyfin, but given how easy Plex still handles hardware transcoding on many common current standard NAS configurations as well as the somewhat non-standard network configurations needed to otherwise easily yet securely access content remotely from external locations, not to mention the decent UX and deep integration across all client platforms whether web, iOS, Android, Smart TV, and even things like PlayStation and Xbox hardware, but do others here have some any thoughts on how to jump ship to get 1:1 features here at some point?

Many people have been on Plex for more than a decade and have seen it slowly try to reposition its business model to one that is leaning toward something more akin to a streaming subscription rather than a simple personal content library software… but I still have yet to feel the need to switch… at least not yet.

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Sorry, just pasted it from my doc. More of a note for myself. Use whatever you want.

Wanna use this opportunity to shill an awesome cookie recipe by Adam Regusea.

Recipe :

Ingredients

• 113g (1 stick) butter
• 200g sugar (1 cup granulated or brown, but I prefer 1 2/3 cups powdered sugar)
• 5-10g (1-2 teaspoons) molasses (optional, replicates the taste of brown sugar)
• 1 egg
• 10g (1 teaspoon of Morton whatever brand you want kosher) salt (use 2/3rds of that if your butter is salted)
• 4-8g (1-2 teaspoons) vanilla extract
• 3g (1/2 teaspoon) baking soda
• 230g (about 1.5 cups) bread flour (1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour is OK instead)
• 100g chocolate chips or other mix-ins

Instructions

1. Get the oven (convection if possible) heating to 375ºF/190ºC
2. Melt the butter
3. Mix in the sugar (and optional molasses) until smooth
4. Mix in the egg until very smooth
5. Mix in the salt (FYI, some people might not like their cookies as salty as I do), vanilla, baking soda, flour and chips

The dough should be a little sticky — you can chill it for a few minutes to make it easier to shape.

6. Divide the dough into six 115g portions and roll each into something like a golf ball.

7. Space them evenly on a baking sheet — no parchment paper or grease necessary (but you can use parchment paper if wanted).

8. Flatten each ball into something like a hockey puck and tidy up the circular shape.

9. Turn the oven off and turn the broiler/grill on maximum.

10. Give it a minute or two to heat up, then put in the cookies near the top.

11. Let the broiler brown the tops of the cookies until golden — this should only take a minute, so don’t walk away or they’ll burn.

12. If you’re doing multiple pans of cookies, brown them each one at a time.

13. Turn the broiler off and the oven back on to 375ºF/190ºC.

14. Give the broiler a couple minutes to cool down, then return the cookies to the oven.

15. Bake until they spread and look done to you — mine take about eight minutes as this stage, but they’ll take longer if you don’t have a convection fan.

For perfect “chewy” texture, take them out when they just look a hair under-baked.

Let the cookies cool and solidify before scraping them off the baking sheet.

I think you guys should have a cage match… better yet maybe a good old-fashioned mud wrestling match.

Is this @[email protected] ’s alt or something? 🤣