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This is felony level bait-and-switch going on, here. This really should have criminal charges attached to the perpetrators.
this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2024
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Telecom companies and trying to fuck over their costumers, name a more iconic duo
Dupont and nature
Nestle and pretty much anyone
Samsung and the Note 7
This one was about blowing them, not fucking them.
Had an upgrade while all that was going on. Got a free 50 inch TV for staying with Samsung for my next phone.
One of the companies making GPS navigators for cars used to advertise lifetime map updates. Small print: lifetime of the device, two years after release
I bought my dad's 2014 MKZ off him 4 years ago. They stopped producing GPS updates several years before I bought it off him. According to the device, there are times it thinks I'm driving through farmland when I'm at a Target parking lot.
I had a Google GSuite account from back when they advertised it as a free for life solution for families who wanted to use their own domain. They stopped offering this a long time ago, but kept us around. A few years ago, they tried to end it, but walked that back after facing resistance. We were among the earliest adopters and many of us shilled pretty hard for gmail over the years. Not only would they have gone back on their word, but my app and media purchases would be tied to a crippled no-email account (identity only) because they didn't have a migration path to normal gmail. That means multiple logins. Also, the gsuite inbox doesn't have the inline ads or anything while the regular one does. I've been working to move away from google because I imagine they'll try to end this again later, but also just because we understand better who google really is.
The site the greedy little pigboy runs was instrumental to the resistance but since it's enshittified, we may not be able to resist again. Its fine to say something is for a lifetime, but you have to honor that or you've been dishonest and no one can trusts thing you say.
The only reason I still have google around is android. When we finally get a linux daily driver phone that meets my minimum needs, I'm migrating the remainder of my stuff. I'll happily give up some functionality to do it. I just hope they can keep their free for life promise until then.
I can only vouch for my setup; many variations are available.
- Nextcloud - files, photo autoupload, contacts, calendar
- Postfix and dovecot (and a bunch of friends) - email
- Pixelfed - private instagram. Can federate, but I've never enabled that.
- Opnsense - firewall, vpn, adblocking via unbound. Wireguard is my choice, but any would do. I get all my lan stuff available everywhere.
- Jellyfin - media library. It's kinda sucky, though, thinking of going back to plex, unfortunately.
- Lemmy - well. You know what it is :)
- Graphene on a pixel
Hit me up if you ever decide to go self hosting route and need a hand with a thing or two!
Curious about your issues with jellyfin? Ive been using it basically issue free for a few months
Takes half a minute to start playing, which gets annoying real quick when a toddler gets involved with all the short videos.
Random buffering every 10-15 minutes on most 1080p as well as 4k videos.
Random buffering every couple of minutes on certain videos - the whole of the office us is the last one I remember.
Crappy multi audio track support - some of them play, but most don't. What was most infuriating at first was jellyfin happily selecting the track I want in UI and then just playing the default one anyway.
The UI is kinda crap - I understand moving on a tv screen is more difficult, but god damn - what jellyfin is doing with arrow navigation is plain masochistic.
When it works - it's beautiful. But it rarely does so for long enough.
I really want to like it, but it's doing its best to push me away.
And before you suggest anything - I've already tried everything there is to try that's available on the open internet. Happy to hear something that's never been posted anywhere, though!
Did you configure video encoding?
I haven't really had any of these issues. Those would certainly be enough to push me away. I know I was having somewhat similar issues with consuming the content before enabling hardware acceleration. I haven't tried changing audio tracks so idk there. I'm sorry to hear you've been having a bad time
I also used GSuite for a long time. Its betrayal of its users is a big part of why I switched to Proton. Much better UX.
I do love that so many people on the internet know exactly who you're talking about when you say "greedy little pig boy".
I mean I only when from an iphone fanboy to a google pixel to deGoogle. I'm on graphene and don't have a google account. Been using Grayjay for yt and imported my subscriptions from there. Mail I'm using proton. I hope in the future, I can completely degoogle and not use youtube at all. A true alternative like peertube, but not too many people are on that.
I agree about peertube. I'm lucky that my niche has some creators with a peertube instance at urbanists.video (like c/fuckcars) for me to watch. I check that before youtube now and it cuts my YouTube usage by 5-15%.
I know we're off topic, but do you have call recording on Graphene? Also, how does the adblocker work. I find most adblockers use the VPN to create a loopback to listen on. I use a VPN frequently, so that interface isn't available and I block ads via hostfile.
I generally find that peertube lacks much content but I've found a few channels that I am actually interested it. I find that the video quality is usually higher than what youtube gives me, so I use peertube for the few videos a month I can.
Also, I'm replying from a linux phone running postmarketos, a pixel 3a specifically.
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