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How it feels to try and get Plex to import all your torrented media

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you are right to be careful here. But it certainly is also not a "requirement to deploy jellyfin" either. It's just a good practice to minimize attack surface, no matter what you expose. Unless it's meant for the general public and advertised, then this makes little sense :-)

Also, most selfhosters have at best one IP to use. This helps with the one-IP-multiple-webservices problem anyway.

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As of last night, Someone Went Android-free and Google-free.

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but it's easy to calculate and compare with other offers. it does not stop working without subscription, which is the case with many other subscription models. actually I think it's reasonable, as it also provides an incentive to continue supporting old models to the company and properly reflects the economic facts surrounding the product.

like, if you buy Samsung or whatever, this cost is also part of the price. if you lose or brick your phone, you still paid for updates you'll never have the chance to install.

but of course it's important info one should be aware of when buying this phone

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How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027)

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And, btw, the Android thing also doesn't affect anyone without gapps. Chill out.

so only 99% are affected, that really calms me down.

Many services that are connected to finance/payment require gapps, car sharing, banking etc.

you are right about secure boot, but this was rolled out with proper alternative routes from the beginning. i did not see anything like this for Android at this time

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Over 3,000 years ago the Assyrians developed a remarkably advanced underwater technique, as illustrated in this ancient relief. It shows Assyrian soldiers using goatskin bags filled with air to breath

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The garden hose as a snorkel is completely different. The air pressure is at above sea-level pressure, while your lungs are compressed by the weight of the ocean - so depending on your depth.

These bags, as depicted, are also under pressure at roughly the same depth as your lungs. So you can easily breath. It's just that the volume of the air gets smaller as you press the bag under water.

To overcome the force pushing the bag upwards, you can use stones or lead, like scuba divers do. It might be less flexible as the volume of the bag changes with depth in contrary to modern scuba diving equipment. So surely depth will be limited, but it's not as bad as you depict it.