Plex has been around for a while, long before “capitalism happened” as you put it. At the time it spawned a whole lot of different alternatives, it also triggered how we interact with our media libraries. I recall having to set-up my own server and client before I could start to import and manage my own media. That wasn’t trivial, least of which caused by needing to rip DVD without the high speed access to internet acting as a source.

For a typing test to work, the text (in a paper book) and the computer need to be “on the same page” as it were.

It reminds me of a typing test that the HR test facilitator lined up incorrectly, causing my test to have a 99% error rate, fortunately they were so incompetent that they recorded a 99% success rate.

I just nodded sagely when they complemented me on my typing skills.

When I last played with this a decade or so ago, there were several map tiling solutions in the geosciences that are self hosted.

From memory, “World Wind” is a good search term, but there’s others.

So … I’ve been making a weekly podcast for over 14 years. For all that time I’ve had complete control over my own content by hosting all the audio, the transcripts, the website and the RSS feeds on an AWS S3 bucket for a couple of dollars per month.

I submitted the RSS feed to several aggregators like iTunes, Spotify, YouTube and others. There’s eBooks, I send out weekly email, post on Mastodon and Lemmy (previously on Xitter and Reddit) and it’s included in other podcasts, news broadcasts and magazines.

How is adding PeerTube adding anything except more cost to me? What is the benefit of this that goes beyond people using their preferred podcast player downloading the audio from my own existing platform?

I use sshfs.

There’s a thing called an Advanced Health Directive in Western Australia, legally outlining who and under what circumstances is permitted to make decisions on your behalf.

I would talk to your medical team and ask them how this works in your country. It’s also when you discover what the cultural beliefs your team has and if they align with yours.

I’d be doing this sooner rather than later.

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The problem is that people voted for them.

If you ever have a fair and free election again within your lifetime, how do you propose to overcome this demented voting behaviour?

While contemplating that, how do you propose rebuilding your country that has been damaged in the collateral and insidious manner by policy decrees made by an orange man in a red hat?

From where I’m sitting on the other side of the planet, you have your work cut out for you.

Tim Winton, Cloud Street

This discussion around what to tip hides an employment system that values employees to the point of underpayment and poor working conditions.

Perhaps you should instead frequent establishments where tipping is not expected because the employees are paid a proper wage.

That way, you don’t have to argue about tipping your bartender too much, or not enough, instead you can focus on drinking a superbly crafted concoction of your choice.

I’ll also note that tipping is not universal.

Easy fix … vote for the other guy.

Every time someone posts a wall of text as an image, or a meme with poor contrast text, or some random image that can only be interpreted on a 4k screen, rather than a mobile phone.

From that page:

But the chapter - ASIO on the Brink - also reveals details of the “false allegations that ASIO was working in response to US intelligence direction and not on behalf of the Australian Government, and that US intelligence was implicated in the dismissal of the Whitlam Government”.

WTF? No.

On 15 October 1975, the Leader of the Opposition, Malcolm Fraser announced the opposition would block the governments’ supply or money bills in the Senate until an election was called. The opposition took this action because it believed the government was incompetent and the worst government in our history.

https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/your-questions-on-notice/questions/why-was-whitlam-sacked-and-not-just-a-double-dissolution-called

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Once you turn 50, not 59.

That may well be true, but in my experience every single scientist asks stupid questions every day. The difference between them and politicians is that they write it down and pursue answers relentlessly, while politicians do neither.

In other words, don’t be afraid of silly questions, everyone is in the same boat.

If this is a new stupid question, perhaps you should make it a separate post.