If I can’t control something 100% local, I don’t buy it. If it requires an online account in any way, it’s trash.

Oh man, that’s bogus. That’s for sharing that.

Wait, what exactly does Ecobee require chrome for? I was looking to replace my Nest thermostat with an Ecobee.

It’s true for any variation of Linux. Hell, the vulnerability (Mimikatz) that was crucial in the most expensive cyber security attack in history is still there in Windows.

And for X11 to be exploited you would need to get and run malicious code in the first place. The Linux security model kicks in before you get to that point.

The security model is also very different between Linux and Windows. Linux is just inherently more secure.

Ok, so you’re implying people were using their videos for free instead of paying for the streaming services. Then Plex wanted more money so they’ve started to charge people for using their own stuff.

That’s fine, and frankly I agree with that.

But your initial reply to me is still irrelevant to the discussion.

It’s irrelevant because even Plex themselves made no mention of their in-house streaming stuff. The discussion is about being charged to view your videos, hosted on your own self-hosted server, viewed on your own device.

But the blog post from Plex was specifically talking about charging for remotely accessing your own files. So your point is irrelevant to the discussion.

Streaming requires high-performance, high-bandwidth machines that cost anywhere from several dozen dollars to several hundred dollars a month. You build a resilient high-availability network, and you could easily be looking at several tens of thousands of dollars a month.

Are you under the impression that Plex uploads the movie files to their servers and then transcodes them there, or something?

And the hard work happens on your own hardware. All Plex’s servers are doing is acting as a signaling server, but no media or routed through Plex’s servers.

It was a sarcastic jab. I don’t agree with software piracy in general, that’s all.

Vim (and NeoVim) are as much coding environments as VS or JetBrains. The difference is in the defaults.

Maybe they were referring to the Microsoft Halloween documents? Which were leaked on October 31 and was basically a manifesto against FOSS in general and specifically against Linux calling it “communist” software.

You can run into some issues with missing features, for which you’ll have to manually hunt down what’s missing and manually install it.

https://isthereanydeal.com/

Oh no! Your pirated game isn’t working properly! Let’s blame the OS!

As much as I dislike Windows, it’s incredibly uncommon for it to blue screen unless there’s some kind of hardware fault. And if it’s happening in Linux too, you’ve got bad/dying hardware.

In Linux, if your system is hanging for a bit then coming back, then it’s probably a drying hard drive.

One thing you can check with is Burn In Test on Windows. It will stress all the individual components and tell you what’s failing.

I’ll use the crappy Win11 lappy just for MS office

LibreOffice works very well. I use it often in a company that uses Office exclusively, and I’ve never had a compatibility issue.

How can I downvote you multiple times?

Aurora gets a vote from me. I set it up for my technically repulsive father, and he gets on just fine with it.

Remember when he said he knows more about engineering than anyone else on the planet?