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 You open up a Commodore 64, and the box says "welcome to the world of friendly computing." You turn on a modern PC, and it immediately threatens your data unless you agree to save your data to *their* cloud service. That right there is why we talk about vintage computers. Folks need to be reminded of what's possible. Jellyfin is awesome. I pay $0/mo in streaming fees, which never ever increase. Storage is cheap and can also back up my family photos. And I've never lost a show or album due to licensing issues. I acquire as much new media as I want to, and pay nothing if I'm disinterested. Jellyfin is exactly the media future I expected as a kid, and it's glorious.
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 @vkc What are you running the backend on? I've considered Jellyfin before because it has vastly more front ends than Kodi, but Kodi doing client/server in the same app has been super convenient for my streaming boxes.  In non #WWDC news, KDE Connect continues to do basically everything I ever wanted out of the Apple ecosystem.
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 @vkc I’ve tried it. KDE is massively slower and needs more resources than macOS on my quite old 2014 MacBook Pro. So yeah, good that it works for you but it’s not a real alternative for most non-nerds. Plus, there’s effectively zero professional media software available on platforms KDE runs on.   @vkc I liked the idea of forwarding phone calls to PC via Bluetooth from Windows though |
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@vkc it’s kind of nostalgic, computers used to be made so they would serve us!
Now they look like a tool made to squeeze the last drop of information from us, if they have to “perform” some tasks for us to do it, that’s the price they pay…
@vkc This. Exactly this. We're no longer in control of many machines we own. Instead of solving genuine technical challenges, we have to work around anti-features – artificial problems that should not exist in the first place. Many systems today are outright user-hostile.
@vkc Friendly computing also revolves around Linux as well.
Windows and macOS aren't the only options THANK GOD!