If you care about utmost privacy, you probably want to use Kagi, then generate privacy tokens and move them to a different computer and search from there. It’s pretty much guaranteed privacy. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/privacy-pass.html

Kagi is also just the best search engine around at this point, at least that I’ve found. Worth paying for privacy in my opinion.

So I’ve searched and searched and my wife and I watched a lot of YouTube timelapses and we couldn’t find one that grew that fast. Not saying it isn’t the max, but it’s probably very abnormal

please go ahead and explain how it’s incorrect. You’re gonna want to explain how you can easily watch twitch streams from people on other continents in full 4k and how you can pirate 4k movies through VPNs on other continents as well. If what you say is accurate then those 4k downloads wouldn’t show up in 4k and pirating through a VPN literally wouldn’t function at all.

absolutely not… you can travel literally a thousand miles without hitting a router if you’re traveling transcontinental, whereas if you’re in a dorm in college and you live right next to an T1 node you can be hitting 15 different routers because your college actually uses a virtual network provider from the other side of town.

Hops absolutely does not correspond to distance in any reasonable sense. Youtube also buffers to avoid that transcode quality issue, so no you’re getting the quality you ask for, but the bitrate might be different depending on your physical internet speed. The distance has jack shit to do with it.

latency and ping has absolutely nothing to do with video quality. the quality as it’s received by the client is going to be the exact same. You’re not losing data in the process. it’s not like a container ship that’s traveling across the ocean and for every 100 miles it travels it loses a container. If you’re getting buffering then sure, maybe you’re calling that ‘quality’ but it absolutely is not what anyone else means when they say quality.

Wut. Quality has absolutely nothing to do with distance to the cdn server. That makes no sense whatsoever.

I’ve been using jellyfin for like 7-9 years and have never had that happen lol.

edit: apparently jellyfin hasn’t existed that long so I must have been using it since the day it came out 😂 I know I started using it the moment Plex took apps or plugins or whatever it was and made them paid. I realized it was being enshittified and immediately left.

Isn’t that Android? Sorry, not touching Android unless it’s something like Calyx or Graphene or lineage. I’ll just build myself a pc to connect to my TV if I wanted to go anywhere near that.

Have you used an Apple TV or are you just claiming that the shield is better because you like customizing things more?

You’re talking about Streamyfin right? Yeah I’ve had so many issues with that. I just use infuse, but infuse is terrible for actually sorting and categorizing stuff. And it slows down massively with large libraries. I got to around 850 movies and it suddenly bogged down like crazy. Like, the Apple TV is super responsive still, but the app just has trouble loading each successive movie.

Apple TV was the best media thing I’ve bought in over a decade. No ads ever, incredibly responsive (league of its own compared to stuff like Roku), and is able to stream from my Jellyfin server. Beautiful interface, fast, clean, simple controller with a battery life that is easily over a year. Just a really good product. Roku can suck by nuts. Literal full page ads in a product that advertises that it has zero of them. Even the most expensive version. Fuck Roku.

The NYT link says that “real tennis” was invented 200 years after court tennis, but the real tennis rules link says that court tennis was inspired by real tennis. Which is it?

I’m pretty sure that federally it’s mandated that you have to be able to mail it in.

Is that the same for the ones with the C wire or any of the other crazy wires?

How does tails get the bits so low?

Companies spend hundreds of millions on lots of shit that doesn’t work. There have been plenty of studies saying that ads are not nearly as effective as companies think they are. Do you think that companies are somehow smarter than the people outside those companies?

Being exposed to a product that exists is not an ad. An ad is explicitly something that a company has paid to make visible to people. If a company isn’t paying for it then it’s not an ad, no matter how much it sounds like one.

And yes, going to a store and trying shit out is exactly how it should go. Reading reviews and talking to others is exactly how it should go. Companies paying to manipulate people of the world using psychology is what ads are. Not seeing a product being used in the wild.

a paid notice that is published or broadcast (as to attract customers or to provide information of public interest)

There’s a good document from the SWAG reverse proxy that explains it all. I reverse proxy everything on my unraid server through swag and have for years.

Man we need a giant comparison table. I looked into these but have been trying out SiYuan.

You’re getting downvoted because it sounds like you think COVID is fake. I agree with you that companies made up every reason they could to raise prices, but it was because COVID was a good scapegoat, not because COVID is fake.

They already have your photo for your passport or license and they don’t need permission to take video or photos in an airport at all.