On LG WebOS, the Homebrew Store has an Ad-free YouTube app that works well too.

I have 2 strips that are tied to their systems and they keep giving me trouble. The Matter stuff though, has been rock solid and there’s no need to use their app at all.

I have a couple of Matter-over-WiFi (no dongle required) from Meross.

They’ve been fine since the latest firmware when they added power monitoring over Matter (previously it required their app for that as the protocol itself was lacking those sensors).

I think that’s just people. Lemmy just happens to be one of the forums where that’s observed.

But if they are indeed right, and that fire they have about it is used to defend their point-of-view until it’s been so scrutinised and counter-argued that either it has been shown to be incorrect, or no counter could undo the initial argument, is that not progress?

Lemmy is not academy. This is a web forum, most of us are not here to do formal science.

Guess what, most if not all veggies and vegans are also doing something morally dubious at best.

Factory farming, extensive farming, they’re all bad for the soil, bad for native wildlife, bad for native plants. The societal impacts of factory farming are also not small. In the end, the moral lines people draw are mostly at different places, neither is undoubtedly better than the other.

As it currently stands, the morally correct option for food production would probably be for a large amount of the population to starve. That, of course, is also not entirely morally correct.

Disclaimer: I am personally omnivorous. I have a son and many other relatives and friends who are or were vegetarians or vegans. I love a lot of veggie food and used to frequent vegan restaurants, so I have absolutely zero qualms with it.

I have personally tried to give up meat twice, once for 6 months and once for a year. On both cases my health suffered massively for it, and I went back to eating meat. I had a cousin who was, for many years, a hardcore vegetarian. She was also of the opinion that eating meat was wrong. A few years ago she reintroduced fish in her diet to overcome health issues after fighting them for years. Most symptoms subsided in a handful of months. I believe she now also eats beef, although infrequently and in small quantities.

I’m sorry to be that guy but reality is more complex than whatever moral line any one of us would like to draw. You’re not wrong but it would behoove you to acquire some nuance on your thoughts.

Amazingly, the same countries who are at risk due to aging/decreasing populations are the ones now refusing as much entry of people from other countries as they can.

And there’s always regex101.com to help develop and test your expressions!

It’s not just that. I’m a techie. I’ve been in the industry for decades. I know my way around computer very well.

I want to like Jellyfin and I want to ditch Plex (even though I have a lifetime license) because of what it has become and where it’s headed.

That said, the other day my Plex server had some issues that took me a while to figure out. Since when it failed I just wanted to watch an episode of a series and relax, I once again fired up the JF client. I couldn’t get seek to work, I had to manually find and download subtitles (that’s not always the case but when it is, it’s pretty annoying), and ultimately I couldn’t watch my series at all as playback would randomly stop, the player would close and I’d be back at the menu, without the position having been recorded and with no way to fast-forward as seek didn’t work at all.

I ended up spending 15min figuring out what was wrong and fixing Plex, then watched my series undisturbed.

Like I said, I want to drop Plex for JF, but in the 3 years or so that I’ve been running both, every time I fire up JF I end up running back to Plex as I just want to sit back and watch a bloody series or movie.

Of course it is. I’m not disputing the fact that different people have different preferences and needs. I’m disputing the idea that a restaurant should never have a phone line unless it’s used to take reservations.

Yeah possibly. The article doesn’t specify it but I’ve seen systems that would give you the automated message but still put you through if you stayed on the line.

I, on the other hand, prefer to do it online and wouldn’t mind this. Horses for courses.

Why even have a phone number if it is useless?

Really? Are reservations the only use for a phone?

I don’t know which small phones have been released recently but I’ve used an iPhone Mini and decided against it. Not because it’s small but rather because it’s not small enough.

See, I do like a big screen more than a small one. That said, the phone is something I carry in my pocket so there’s a balancing act to be done there. What was really great about the original iPhone’s size was not that it had a small screen. It’s that it was small enough that I could reach all corners of the screen with my thumb.

None of the recent small phones I tried had that advantage. In that case, since there’s no clear usability advantage to the smaller model, I’ll take the larger screen instead.

The problem is that some of the block lists are just too eager on the blocking.

I don’t see how the author can claim that NextDNS or AdGuard are any better in that regard though, as they rely on the same lists. 🤦

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50887893

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/94042/alcohol-most-harmful-drug-based-multicriteria/

Alcohol is a lot worse than “sleep, sloppy fighting and risky driving”.

I have high hopes for Matter but as it stands today it’s a pretty big mess and usability is generally horrible.

money is meant to change hands and should never become an asset worth holding.

Forgive my admitted ignorance. If money should never become an asset worth holding, how can inflation be better than deflation for the working class?

Proportionately, the rich hold a lot more money assets than the poor, who generally don’t hold any or very little.

“Alleged?” What game are you playing here, Guardian?

This must be the most well documented attempted coup in the history of world politics. Not just a coup, but also (ongoing) plans to assassinate the President elect, the Vice-President elect and a Supreme Court justice.

Please point out at which point I was hostile.

Very well, I will give you the benefit of the doubt one last time.

I don’t know what backups you’re talking about

On an iPhone, Settings -> Apple Account -> iCloud -> iCloud Backup -> Back Up This iPhone.

backing up the entire device and everything that’s on it including all the apps?

That’s not how it works. App binaries are not backed up as part of this. Neither are photos if they’re already backed up as part of iCloud Photos (though still part of iCloud).

One of the major advantages of using this kind of backup is that I never worry that I’m going to be without my access to my bank. Even if my phone is lost or stolen, worse comes to worse I can restore the backup on a new phone and all encryption keys, biometrics authorisations, OTP, etc. are restored with it.

On the other hand, I have ways to store all the photos, videos, music, texts, and any other things like that which might need backing up and can’t just be re-downloaded from the app store.

“I have ways” is not the same as there being an iCloud alternative. You may have ways. Does the average user, without having to go through hoops and likely getting lost in the process? That’s what an iCloud alternative has to look like to be an actual alternative.

I agree, if you’re using something like Logic, paying for iCloud makes sense right now even if it is overpriced and unnecessary.

This last point alone shows how much you don’t seem to understand what the problem statement is. Using iCloud may be unnecessary, but that was never under discussion. Of course, no one needs automatic and transparent syncing between devices. The point is that if you want that feature and you’re using an Apple device, your only alternative is locked down to what Apple offers.

That is what it means to not exist an alternative to iCloud.

I hope this helps clarify. If you are going to respond, please keep this last point in mind as that’s the part that’s important.