are you happy with how you are?

I used a thin client, HP T610+, and installed Windows XP POS.

this is a point-of-sale version of windows xp that’s basically XPSP3. it comes with Ethernet, WiFi, touchscreen drivers, etc. works really well actually.

I firewalled it from internet access and allowed my kid to surf the intranet I host along with standard 90s 00s kids software.

• reader rabbit
• Disney interactive games
• encarta 98

I also used a kid keyboard that deviates from the typical 102 keyboard. no function keys etc.

you could do the same with an old x86 laptop too, recommend using a dual core CPU if possible though.

to ensure nothing is broken, I used software called deepfreeze from Faronics. it freezes the system and restores the system after reboots. just to make it clear, this means any changes to the “c” drive will not be permanent.

to keep the save files I used a some batch scripts/shortcut trickery and re/store them from the NAS when the apps start and end.

in the end it’s sitting in my tech closet after my eldest lost interest after a year. Now I’m waiting for my youngest to break it out again.

different strokes for different folks. I enjoy a fresh clean project that I can start with. I hate picking up someone else’s mess so using AI in that manner completely goes against what I enjoy as a dev.

it originally sounded to me like you were having AI generate the hierarchy and project structure, but it sounds like you’re just using it to generate file templates.

Thanks for the insight.

legitimate question.

how do you expect humans to maintain a project that didn’t base its patterns and organization on human thought patterns and organizational strategies?

so say we all!

I am completely open to new perspectives and have changed my position based on someone else’s opinions. that’s just how we learn and grow.

I will not change my opinion because someone said it’s dumb or personally attacks me. if anything, I’ll double down on that hill just to spite them.

I have a feeling everyone knows who I am, and those who don’t haven’t blocked me yet.

it’s fine. I’m not going to apologize for my opinions because that’s somehow worse than defending unpopular opinions.

I’d rather be the person who owns their hill and dies for it than someone who runs from hill to hill because the group thinks it sucks.

I get it. they’re just trying to show their usefulness and skills.

I did have a talk with them after work at the bar and told them not to worry about it. the best way to show your usefulness and dedication is to do the job you were assigned to do.

there are plenty of opportunities in your career that you can use to showcase your abilities without you needing to invent them on a whim. if anything doing that will do the opposite of what you’re intending.

bright kid, just needed to be hit a couple times to see how the real world works.

I had a new dev that was tasked with changing the colors of a button. took them 3 days to do it.

when I finally got the PR there were over 300 files changed and over 100k changes.

they “fixed” the while space. I asked them who asked them to do that. “Nobody, it’s just maintenance on the codebase.”

I then had an hour long call with them reviewing everywhere they “fixed” the whitespace and got through 10% of it. I asked them if they wanted to have another call tomorrow to review the rest or if they wanted to put the changes forward they were tasked with.

they got the hint and fixed their shit.

rejected

“you’re welcome”

good is subjective to the opinions of the group.

objectively, Python is a smoldering pile of trash waiting to completely ignite. it does have one thing going for it though.

it’s not JavaScript.

My original comment wasn’t telling anyone what to do.

I was telling the jellyfin community what I was going to do. y’all didn’t like that too much though did ya?

then you came at me calling my comments asinine while attacking my position that the community is toxic as fuck by telling me to “ignore the problem”. yeah, thanks for telling me what I should do.

when I pointed out that your comment is exactly the kind of toxic shit I can’t support, what’d you do? you doubled down and told me more of what I should do!

thanks, if I need bad advice I know where to go now.

the only time I said what anyone should do, it was addressed to the whole jellyfin community as a fucking favor because y’all are a toxic bunch of snowflakes that are clearly too emotionally immature to understand you’re alienating outsiders and killing the jellyfin brand.

I guess the point that you’re not understanding is that I expect Plex to abuse me. I know what their motives are. All I know from jellyfin is that if you even mention “Plex”, the community will come out of the basements they hibernate in and shit down your throat for even suggesting anything other than jellyfin.

Jesus fucking Christ you guys! look at yourselves! how about y’all read your comments to your spouses or mothers and see if they think you’re a bunch of toxic assholes. you obviously won’t listen to reason from a stranger.

shit man, I don’t even fucking care about your asshole project enough to get this deep in comments. I just believe that FOSS deserves a better community than these shitheels.

yes please explain to me what I have to do.

that’s not toxic behavior at all! /s

I’m not a member of the Plex community, never have been. I expect the service to be tailored to make the company a profit. That’s literally all I can trust them to do.

so what can I trust the jellyfin community to do? right now they’re toxic as fuck towards me because I’m telling them they’re being toxic as fuck. the software they built could be the most beautiful and elegant solution in the whole world. but…I’ll never know that because I can’t get past being vilified for calling an apple an apple.

Jellyfin, get your shit together or you will never get past the whole “Plex is shitty” phase.

winners don’t care about winning, they only care about being the best they can be. maybe focus on more of that and less shitting on Plex for doing whatever they’re doing.

You can just not care about the community and everything keeps working. A “shitheel” company will do everything to make your experience suck.

And a toxic shitheel community won’t do that?

it’s comments like yours that makes me feel vindicated in choosing corporate over FOSS, and I know I’m not the only one.

Thanks for doing your part in proving my point.

it’s almost as if a small group of people are desperately trying to make people change to jellyfin.

6 months ago I was seriously looking at jellyfin as a Plex alternative. Now? nah, I’m good.

I’ll take a corporate shitheel company over a roach infested toxic community any day.

the more they push the less I want anything to do with jellyfin, and the leaders at jellyfin should be made aware of what their community members are doing.

Not really animated but not really not-animated.

The Fuccons. they’re Fuccon fantastic!

edit: I did some more digging on The Fuccons and they were a short episodic skit on a longer running Japanese show called “Vermilion Pleasure Night”. it’s a really good representation of early 2000s adult entertainment humor highly niche but entertaining enough with dark humor.

cool. go be angry somewhere else.

I have no way of auditing what I’m putting money toward.

same can be said of FOSS. back channel deals, betrayals, hostile takeovers. all of these things can(and have) happen to FOSS projects. all under a false pretense of “openness”.

There’s no way for the community to keep it going if it stops or goes to shit.

previous point. it’s stupid easy to change licenses and lock out contributors. it’s happened several times. although you can technically argue anything before the license change could be forked, the event usually puts a bad taste in the public mouth and contributions dry up anyway. nobody wants to support a project with uncertainty.

Money given toward proprietary software is money that would be better donated to FOSS whose developers actually give a shit about bettering the world.

I’ve known plenty of FOSS founders that were huge pieces of shit. racist bigoted sexist shitheads. At least with proprietary vendors I can trust they will do anything to continue being fluid/viable.

just want to add, not all FOSS founders are pieces of shit. same can be said for vendors as well.

Proprietary software isn’t worthy of your respect or support. At best, use it if there are no FOSS alternatives, but don’t give money to something that could rapidly enshittify at any moment with no recourse and no way or recouperating your money.o keep it going if it stops or goes to shit.

why isn’t it? if it’s a generally better solution don’t you owe it to yourself and your “customers” to use the best solution? yes, use FOSS. yes, work with FOSS devs. What do you do when the project refuses to incorporate features you would like, even if you’re willing to pay for them? then there’s no difference between proprietary and FOSS, right?

enshitification doesn’t just affect vendors, it happens to FOSS projects all-the-time. I’ve personally experienced it when a bookkeeping app removed support for USD. when asked the founder refused to address it and simply stated that they couldn’t continue supporting a currency that fuels so much corruption in the world. now tell me, how does that garner my respect or support?

Money given toward proprietary software is money that would be better donated to FOSS whose developers actually give a shit about bettering the world.

see point above. you hold FOSS too highly as if the people who create these projects are impervious to corruption or greed. these are regular people like you or me. they have goals and dreams they want to achieve too, and sometimes the projects they started become vessels for them to achieve those dreams.

Proprietary software isn’t worthy of your respect or support. At best, use it if there are no FOSS alternatives, but don’t give money to something that could rapidly enshittify at any moment with no recourse and no way or recouperating your money.

You’re just repeating yourself now.

my point is, there cannot be light without darkness. FOSS and proprietary software are two halves of the same coin. to be so blinded by principles or to fool yourself with some moral superiority complex is only going to make things worse.

use what you need to solve the problems you have. sometimes that includes using vendor locked solutions. it’s not wrong, it’s just life.

I would make handcrafted furniture, work on my garden, and contribute to open source software that supports both farming and woodcrafts.

yes, but actually no.

Plex pass members can continue sharing.

this isn’t directed just at you, but the whole jellyfin community in general.

not sure why, but the jellyfin community seems to be becoming toxic as fuck. I’m getting hard “best friend” vibes from it. if the Plex community leaves for jellyfin it’ll be on their own terms. just be welcoming to us and your numbers will grow.

if y’all keep acting like a jealous “guy” friend we’re likely to go somewhere else.