As an entry-level subscription, the new tier won’t offer several benefits in the full YouTube Premium ($13.99 per month) subscription, like downloads, background play, or the ability to watch music videos ad-free.

I wonder how much electricity is wasted on this alone. Probably so many people leaving their screens powered on just to continue listening to something without it stopping.

I’ve been paying for Mullvad for a while and didn’t realize this was even a thing until this announcement.

This is the one program my dad explicitly uses in the Microsoft suite of programs that I thought, “Ok fine we’ll keep paying for this shit.” Time to start looking into alternatives. Microsoft… Even when I stop using their software they still cause me endless wasted time.

I would love decent RISC-V hardware

Hell yeah. My favorite shell for almost 5 years, now. It was definitely an adjustment trying to get away from Bash-isms, and everything shell-related online essentially expects Bash. But it’s just like their tagline says, it’s a shell for the 90s. It’s great.

The problem with Markdown is it kind of sucks. CommonMark didn’t even defragment the markdown world, since there are numerous incompatible extensions. It seems like gfm is the best among them, or at least the most featureful.

I know there are other options like RST or AsciiDoc, but I don’t know which among them is actually “the best.”

Pi-hole is one of my favorite pieces of software. It is the reason I began self-hosting six years ago.

Unfortunately I can’t play around with it anymore because I live a thousand miles away from everyone I support who actually uses Jellyfin. My experience with the Android TV app was embedded SRT subtitle support is now 100% good as of late last year, but embedded PGS trips things up so much that I cannot use them.

Sublime never offered lifetime subscriptions. https://web.archive.org/web/20150928064400/http://www.sublimetext.com/sales_faq You can even see as far back as 2014 that if you purchased Sublime Text 2 when Sublime 3 was still in beta:

• Upgrade Policy
  A license is valid for Sublime Text 3, and includes all point updates, as well as access to prior versions (e.g., Sublime Text 2). Future major versions, such as Sublime Text 4, will be a paid upgrade.
• Expiration Date
  Licenses purchased for Sublime Text 3 do not expire, however an upgrade fee will be required for Sublime Text 4.

You can find that disagreeable, but it was not something they hid from us customers.

I don’t use it for myself but my experience with Jellyfin is the subtitles UX kind of sucks. It got a lot better on the Android TV app recently (ty to the maintainer!), particularly with improved subtitle support, but because of ExoPlayer it still can’t play bitmapped embedded subtitles easily, only .srt subtitles.

The experience on iOS/appletv with Jellyfin/Swiftfin was so bad that I ended up recommending Infuse. Infuse is a great app, but it’s not a libre app, which kind of clashes with the rest of Jellyfin in that regard. And, once again, it needs massaging: unless you want to be popped up with a buy Infuse Pro pop-up your video and audio has to be in certain codecs.

As I said, I don’t use these things, myself. I don’t even have a TV. But every now and again, I will put a file up for some relatives, and I want it to be totally directly playable, because my server is just an old laptop. So I have to spend a lot of manual time making sure the files are juuuuust right. If there comes a day where there’s direct playback with embedded PGS or SRT subtitles on all platforms that will be the day the Jellyfin suite of software becomes 10/10 software for me.

How do you manage your podman pod? I just manually wrote it out into a script just this past week, but it seems inelegant to do all these commands so manually.

Codeberg is one of the best websites on the Internet right now. This blog update of theirs doubly confirms it for me.

This whole thing is extremely cringe. There isn’t any other way to put it. Trump. His executive order. The compliance. It’s all cringe.

Ugh. I’m completely convinced computer technology peaked 8 years ago and every further step has been descent to hell.

The shit that goes on today even makes me regret having studied computer science

You’ve heard it several times, now, but once again: Asahi works really well for what it is, but it’s definitely a compromised experience. For example, on my M1 Macbook Air I cannot plug in a USB-C dongle and then plug in an external monitor. The driver support just isn’t there. I think if I had an Macbook Pro with a built-in HDMI port I would be able to use that… but alas, I do not.

If you want to use macOS and then use Linux on the side now and again in a dual boot setup, sure. If you want to use 100% Linux on your computer… there are better supported options.

Here is a table of supported features but it isn’t really the full picture, because it doesn’t give you a clear view of things like putting the computer on standby consumes more idle power than it does with macOS, or drivers for hardware video decoding don’t exist, so all video is software decoded. The processors can do it really well, actually, but obviously it’s more power-efficient when it’s done by dedicated hardware.

beginning to think that i should write a bot to automate job applications to ai companies and send dozens a day

counterpoint: stonewalling c programmers are so annoying.

Is my understanding correct? Traefik itself isn’t a traditional web server. The primary thing I host is my blog, so I would need another web server to serve that content.

Caddy operates on the principle of sensible defaults. These defaults can be optionally configured further if you desire, but from what I’ve read Caddy just shifts the defaults to good modern options when it’s ready to do so on newer releases.

But if you must override these choices or need to maintain compatibility with some other software, you can define them explicitly. Here’s how you’d forcibly enable or disable http2/3 https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/options#protocols, for example.

I should look into that to see if I can restrict Vaultwarden, since I VPN into my home network anyway.