I didn’t see anywhere in the article where they say they were going to buy the houses for that amount. Do you have other information?
'Cause otherwise - those homes have been severely devalued because of that data center. Unless the CEO was feeling generous (ha), those homeowners would be forced to sell for a bottom-of-the-barrel price. And that is much cheaper than litigation.
Why aren’t the datacenter owners ever willing to spend, say, $10 million on making the data center actually quiet instead?
I think you know the answer to this - $10 mil on soundproofing doesn’t make the Bottom Line go up. The only people they’re trying to please are the folks that profit off the company.
I also am a fan of Mint Mobile, but IIRC they were bought up by T-Mobile a few years back. I’m waiting for their inevitable enshittification, but riding the wave until it crashes.
I hear Factorio calling…
Far too interesting for this community!
Maybe, but what he really has is a good scapegoat.
“Oh, we didn’t know he was demented”
“We can’t be held accountable for what a crazy pedo made us to do”
“Our intentions were good, but he went crazy”
In an effort to lift everybody’s spirits, Zuckerberg offered to host a company-wide hackathon an attempt at a lighthearted diversion that landed with a thud among employees.
lmao “Hey, you guys wanna work more, but ‘for fun’?”
Tells me that AI was already ingrained in the process. Reeks of “well, we’re doing it here & here, why not with her voice, too?”
He’s programmed to waffle when he becomes unpopular enough.
“Slow” is fine as long as the story’s decent and/or it’s visually interesting. Haven’t seen any of the movies you mentioned, but stuff like the original “Solaris” or “Fantastic Planet” work for me.
The movies/shows I enjoy either forcibly grab my attention or they inspire interesting daydreams. Like a “what if they went through that other door instead?” kind of thing.
… well, at some point any hobby grows to the point where purists show up.
There’s give and take with everything. Is it “self” hosted if you rely on Docker - a 3rd party with control over their own infrastructure? Or hosting it on a Debian OS? Is it really “private” if it’s connected to the internet at all?
Are you running the Plex Server application on some hardware so other devices can access the library? Hey, that’s self-hosting. That’s it.
I’m in the throes of attempting a migration from Plex (lifetime pass, here) to Jellyfin, and my main issue is echoed elsewhere: It’s a headache to set up secure external access. My users would either need a new account through some auth gate I’d have to set up & manage, or I’d have to wire everyone up through wireguard or something they’d have to remember a password for and blah blah blah.
Plex is the only thing my home server is sharing. I don’t have anything directly exposed to the external internet. In any case I can think of, doing this “right” means extra steps (on top of new steps) for my current users, plus new security concerns & added user management for myself.
Thing is, I remember a time when getting cosmetic surgery / Botox was the “I’d never do that” thing. Now it’s getting harder to find people in the public eye who haven’t had it.
I think all it’d take is Google/Apple/Meta/MS to normalize the requirement.
Because it makes the big line go up. Anything to prove that “AI” is anything other than a dumb series of if/then statements.
Huh, yeah kinda weird to only have part of the project open source. Interesting
Nothing about Waveform is FOSS (afaik), but I’m on board with your idea - with open source apps I’m all for giving money to the devs making useful stuff. Waveform hiding basic functionality behind multiple $50 DLC purchases is just heinous, though.
and I’m trying to point out how dogshit Waveform’s business is & how skewed the original source material is. Nothing personal.
Is this an ad? I dunno why one would use this over Reaper. Waveform looks like a traditional “free” app that’ll slowly get features cut out & resold in their already-established “extension” store. $50 for MIDI tools?? Hard pass. Wouldn’t even have made my list of contenders with business practices like that.
From the source blog post, they limited their options to:
Sure, if you’re trying to pick a DAW out of a pile of the worst DAWs available, Waveform “Free” looks pretty good.
I’d avoid all of those options. If you’re looking for a free DAW on Linux (from someone who knows not to call Audacity a “DAW”) - Reaper has an indefinite, full-featured, free trial period. Full version is $60.
FOSS options include Ardour and LMMS, both of which include features Waveform hides behind hundreds of $$$ worth of “extensions”.
I was confused at first, but then I realized they meant Meta’s Pervert Glasses.