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Unless you've been laid off and are having a hard time getting a job - which may not be many people but still sucks for anyone trying to make it by without dedicated income :/

Soon(tm) it'll be on the store. Having to build and push to tizen is the absolute worst part of jellyfin (if you have to) otherwise there's clients for every platform - even LG's webOS.

There's also finamp for music specific playback, so jellyfin can pretty much do everything

It is plainly fuckin stupid. But it is the republican way.

I think a lot of the people who don't "favor republican politics" have a solid understanding of that platform and see the harm it causes.

Like actual harm.

My mom was laid off over 10 years ago by the decision of a republican governor. The ability for schools to feed poor kids was more or less cut off (i was one of those poor kids. They scaled back 21st century & state SNAP; thankfully my parents were able to achieve upward economic mobility before conservatives in indiana really squashed that.)

Mitch Daniel's claim to fame before Purdue was closing an orphanage. Thanks to economic uncertainty surrounding conservative leadership it is likely Purdue's semiconductor manufacturing facility will not take off.

Mike Pence helped to make sure more cases of AIDS would develop in his state.

This place isn't an echo chamber because "orange man bad" or "mike braun stole my elephant ear at the state fair" but because many of us critically analyze the impact of conservative policy and understand the harm it causes.

I'll be less biased against the conservative cause when they stop going after personal liberty and slowing down the economy so their favorites can get richer. Mike Braun's leadership is hurting farmers and decreasing Indiana's ability to make sure industrial waste doesn't end up in the water table.

I'm sure there's more they are making suck but i was only involved at Purdue for the last decade, and family is in DNR - at least for now.

I wanna empathize more with the conservative struggle but i don't see how any aspect of life is improved by forcing us all to be a certain religion while ensuring we put women and minorities back at a disadvantage.

Idk Indiana republicans suck. The progressives in indiana worked hard to make sure i could afford to pay taxes but i get the gist the republicans would never have liked me given I was on welfare growing up.

It seems like it should be, you just may want to test various encoding settings for your media - for example i have all my stuff in m4v containers with h264 and h265 encoding bc i know for certain that directly plays on my apple tv without needing to transcode.

I'm sure that will be fine, but just watch out for any media incompatibilities that may require transcoding (unless your server can handle it just fine)

Those are very good questions! Your interest is admirable and can pay off in a lot of cool ways if you keep working at it.

Keep in mind that self-hosting (Systems Administration, among other kinds of specialties) is quite a bit different than programming but there will be some overlap.

Self hosting:

I think the youtube channel, NetworkChuck, is a great place to start. His videos are structured well and provide practical explanation to the tasks being taught

Take some time to learn networking - You may not want to get a technical certification but searching for CompTIA Network+ training can teach you what you need to understand how you can build out more complicated infrastructure

Docker is great, at the very least study containerization and virtual machines

Invest in hardware - consider a low end PC or raspberry pi (or other single board computer) that you can practice installing software or otherwise make mistakes without taking down your main machine

Think about what sorts of software you'd want to host yourself - there's loads of "Awesome-Style" lists to get some ideas of what you can run

It's a journey - You can learn a lot in a week, but don't expect to have everything flawless immediately. It takes time and regular practice.

Programming:

This is much more difficult to answer because you'll probably learn lots of languages. It's maybe more about what you want to program, as in "what kinds of things do i want to make".

YouTube, or if you have access, LinkedIn Learning, have loads of learning material. Search for terms like "android application hello world" or "first android app". Tutorials are plenty.

Invest in a book or review things like MIT's open courseware for computer science information. It will help with programming even if you're not learning a programming language specifically.

I use python a lot because it looks pretty and works - i can use CircuitPython to program microcontrollers (Adafruit products, for example) pretty easily.

Shell/Powerscript - these languages are about automating computer tasks. It can be very helpful in the realm of self hosting and worth exploring.

I haven't tried to do anything with android since java was the sort of default, but it wouldn't be a bad idea to start learning with android development - learning new programming languages can be easier when you already know how to program. Install Android Studio, go through some app development tutorials, and then experiment.

It's hard work to learn, but you'll be amazed with what you can do after regular practice!

That could be a fun kind of ddos attack for a botnet - compromise your competitors' machines and download collective TBs of infringing material, then report it as an anonymous whistleblower!

Tbh it's just hard to see the value proposition in the age of cloud computing. I think aspects of the underlying technology are cool but basically every crypto project that comes to mind has been an actual scam. Sure there's eth and RDNR that was built on top of it but why should i spend what will ultimately be more money in periods of high demand (gas goes up when more people use the network) when i can just plug my credit card into amazon or microsoft AND get the benefit of infosec regulation like PCI-DSS. Crypto just doesn't ever inspire confidence because bad actors consistently shit in the punch bowl while providing no extra utility over existing cloud providers.

When distilled down crypto-compute just seems like cloud compute with extra steps, which is already just using a computer with extra steps.

We already can rent GPUs to run AIs with tokens - those tokens are just managed by govt instead of some random.

I'm still in that "just build almost everything in grassy fields" phase but i chose train anarchy instead.

Terminal escape

Privilege escalation

Command injection

I was just gonna say. So many good memories with my dad going to Fry's. The sole reason i went HARD into techie stuff