A Tabaxi drunken master Monk / awakened? Mystic who makes everyone think he’s a bumbling idiot while actually controlling the battlefield and subtly manipulating the minds of the people around him. In short, Darth Jar Jar (but not necessarily evil).

(I came up with the idea back when the UA referenced were new; I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a better/more official way to construct the character now.)

I know exactly who that is: Abserd!

Get a drain snake; they work way better than any chemical solution.

Statistically, it’s at least possible that the amount of cost saved by killing some smokers faster could be offset by causing other smokers to need medical treatment who would otherwise have avoided it.

It’s more a matter of whether you do YT for yourself, or for the money.

Frankly, the people doing the former should be leaving Youtube for Peertube. I feel like Fediverse advocates ought to be trying to figure out ways to court them.

When the only people hitting the dislike button are the people using the addon (because that’s the only circumstance in which it counts), WTF else did you expect than for the dislike ratio with the addon to be higher?

I’ll be even more cynical than that: I think this policy will be abused to suppress legitimate news/current events videos with a POV the oligarchs doesn’t approve of (e.g. pro-Palestinian, pro-Adjuster, etc.).

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Chrome, as the damn-near-monopoly rendering engine, gives Google hegemony over web standards. That’s incredibly valuable because it puts them in a position to (e.g.) inflict DRM on the world.

Can we just stop and appreciate for a moment what a fucking outrage it is that Google is allowed to negotiate its own punishment at all?

Just because something is defined legally instead of technologically, that doesn’t make it vague. The modification violates copyright when the result is a derivative work; no more, no less.

There’s no need to “make it legal”, things are legal by default until a law is passed to make them illegal.

Yes, and that’s already happened: it’s called “copyright law.” You can’t mix things with incompatible licenses into a derivative work and pretend it’s okay.

An N100 isn’t “without a GPU;” it’s got Intel UHD Graphics built in – moreover, even though it’s a pretty cheap chip it’s also a pretty new one, and thus supports recent video codecs.

Meanwhile, my AMD Ryzen 5 3600 does not work for transcoding, even though it’s way faster than an N100, because it’s not an APU.

You’ve only proven my point that having a GPU with hardware transcoding support is what makes all the difference.

Otherwise any old PC you have lying around will do as a Jellyfin server.

Unless you want to be able to do on-the-fly transcoding for clients that are picky about codecs (e.g. because they’re only fast enough to decode ones with dedicated hardware support). In that case, you’re going to want your Jellyfin server to have a GPU with decent hardware encoding support.

(I learned this the hard way: my Jellyfin server is running in a VM on Proxmox and I haven’t figured out GPU passthrough yet, so some of my media fails to play on clients like Roku because the codec isn’t supported.)

Jellyfin is a server and client apps, not a whole OS. For a client device like a Raspberry Pi, you need to be running a Jellyfin client app on top of something else like LibreELEC.

So what you’re saying is that there’s no way to make it legal and it simply needs to be deleted entirely.

I agree.

No, I said no such thing. Quit putting words in my mouth.

What I said – the only thing I said – was disagreeing with your rationalizing of the wear as somehow a good thing.

I’m not sure how much of a “lost artform” it can be when you can just buy a can of the stuff at Home Depot.

(Sure, that isn’t “the good stuff” as per @Orbituary@lemmy.world, but IMO it’s not a big deal. “Clear” and “thin” are the correct choices for OP anyway, so the only disadvantage to this premixed spray compared to buying flakes and mixing it yourself is that whatever is leftover in the can will probably go bad before OP has a use for it. Also, I’ve found spray shellac to be very easy to work with, but I suppose YMMV.)

On one hand, the patina of real brass oxidizing can be pretty nice. On the other hand, the ‘patina’ of brass-colored paint rubbing off of plastic or pot metal or whatever the Hell that thing’s actually made of… not so much.

but something P2P would probably work if you can stream from multiple seeders

Which is, in fact, exactly how PeerTube works: it’s got BitTorrent built right into it.

Frankly, it’s ridiculous how people keep harping on this “problem” as if it isn’t long since solved.