“Your massage to go out and close those…”

I assume you went snowblind from having to type “message” that many times lol.

I get that. I even accept he’s a terrible person from the backlash. Just quit shooting yourselves in the foot by repeating exaggerations is all I’m asking.

And it’s disingenuous at that. I’ve been trying to figure out why this guy is a fascist through all these posts and comments that keep popping up and it seems like the common thread is that he’s against immigration. Which… fair. That can definitely be a dog whistle. But when I keep seeing things like “he says they should all be shot” when I’ve read the quote myself and that’s not the point he was making; it kind of makes me doubt the rest too.

If he’s a bad dude, say the bad things and let me make the decision myself, your exaggerations are hurting your own cause.

Maybe I’m reading more into your comment than you intended and if so, sorry in advance.

But I don’t know why people don’t understand that the distribution, maintenance, and marketing of things is not free. We’re not entitled to other people’s time just because the tools they’ve used are based on FOSS. If you don’t think those things are worth money then you’re free to fork and do it yourself, that’s the beauty of FOSS.

Wikipedia is just… facts. The Wikimedia Foundation collected and collated those facts using unpaid community members funded in large part by charitable donations over the course of decades. Arguably they have even less right to withhold access to the data they’ve been entrusted with than anyone else in this situation considering the other parties are private entities.

I understand the desire to label anyone supporting the beast that is these AI companies as complicit… but let’s try not to cut off our noses to spite our collective face. It’s not the librarian’s job to make morality decisions about who’s checking out the books, it’s their job to distribute the knowledge and keep the library open.

Realistically how were they going to stop them? I mean, practically speaking.

They offer the entire thing free to download and no slop company has ever hesitated to steal literary work from actual publishing companies and authors that are currently suing them.

Seems to me like their options were get paid or not get paid.

We are a species that seeks unexploited niches for resource optimization. In the past those resources were things that made us directly happy like food and shelter but now we’ve moved on to more abstract concepts like “wealth”. That drive and ability to abstract and outthink our competitors is how we got to the top of the food chain on this planet.

There is no off switch.

Don’t know why you’re being piled on. I’ve been on Reddit since the bad old days and I’ve only been temp banned (from certain subs at that) once, maybe twice lol. New accounts every yearish, fought about politics, called people names I probably shouldn’t have… I dunno what people are doing to catch all these bans.

It’s a corporate hellscape nowadays but there have always been rules about decorum.

They’re consolidating their marketshare and decreasing cost through every method available to increase revenue. All the avenues of piracy have just become the lowest hanging fruit now that these companies aren’t growing anymore.

Sounds like you’ve gone down all the paths I can help with lol. Mine streams just fine using Frigate in HAOS and using RTSP. The two way audio doesn’t work quite yet but I also haven’t tried too hard to diagnose since the audio otherwise functions, so I’m assuming it’s just a configuration issue.

I also 3D printed a mount I found on Thingiverse since the ones it came with didn’t angle it far enough for my needs.

I guess I should’ve said “on its own dedicated hardware” too but, still.

I think I remember reading somewhere about a firmware update that was pretty recent (8/2025) specifically for latency issues, you might want to check that out if you’ve had it awhile.

Have you thought about moving your HA off your server and onto a miniPC? I know you weren’t really looking for advice but that seems like the move to me tbh, doesn’t take long to migrate and it might clear up a lot of headaches.

#2 ;)

You know how many times I’ve tapped “bookmark this page” or the “tabs” button instead of the “Saved Bookmarks” button that I’m trying to hit?

Or the fact that I can’t open a bookmark from a “new” tab on mobile, I have to navigate to a random site first before I can access them (unless it’s a “pinned favorite” too).

I’ve switched to a lot of foreign media tbh. Irish television is killing it right now for example.

That sucks bro, sorry they did that lol.

If it’s direct then why the 10GB limit?

Has no one mentioned shucking yet? I’ve had 8 shucked drives in my server for 5yrs now and the motherboard died before any of my drives did.

Buy western digital external drives (MyBook and Passports) to tear them apart for the white-label drives on the inside. No warranties after you start using them (unless you save the enclosures to send them back) but they’re essentially the same drive as the red label NAS drives for about half the price.

All storage prices are insane in the current market but if you’re careful and test the drives before you use them (since that’s when you usually need the warranty) then you shouldn’t have a problem. Just be aware you’re either going to need to use the “kapton tape trick” or buy “SAS drive adapters” from your online store of choice for about $10 apiece to allow the drives to power on outside of the enclosure.