I suppose it’s still a chain but Tops pizza always hits.

My household has boycotted them due to this so there’s definitely some of us.

This is me at 42

Sony

You can have drugs on holiday ;)

Shit, I have 3 or 4 holidays every year and it still feels like I’m always working. How the hell do you cope without a single holiday??

I opted out by just writing gdpr in the reason box. Nothing else, just gdpr. It got accepted.

I use my phone but it is connected to the car so it displays on the bigger screen. Much easier than a little phone screen in a cradle.

I’m a long time Linux user 20 years or so and have tried loads of distros in that time. Eventually I got fed up and settled on Mint for quite a few years, but about 6 months ago an old colleague told me about Zorin as he was impressed with how it felt ‘proper’ from a user perspective. I tried it and actually liked it so much I fully switched to it as my main OS. It’s got all the user friendliness for when you just want to use it for work tasks, but still everything else underneath for when you want to experiment etc.

You mentioned it was using Bluetooth to communicate with the actual machine so I’m assuming they are not directly connected to the internet in any way? If that’s correct then it’s just a case of understanding the Bluetooth comms which is probably some basic BLE stuff they put together by tweaking the sample code from the BLE chip manufacturer.

I’d be ripping that app apart and patching it to skip the payment step.

Another ‘Woo Emby’ here!

Honestly it just works and works well. I had all sorts of issues with Plex with subtitles not working and weird transcoding issues where red blocks would randomly appear. Also I found Plex kinda ugly tbh. I tried Jellyfin and it seemed a bit ‘hacky’ but this was a few years ago so maybe it’s improved but I currently have no reason to try it again. If you’re using Plex/Jellyfin/Emby you are most likely pirating media so worrying about GPL violations is probably not top of the list.

Try Emby. It’s a more polished Jellyfin although it’s not FOSS I find it much better than Plex

As a former director of a tech startup it all goes downhill when you bring investors on board to raise capital. I had to do many things I disagreed with because once you bring investors in you generally end up facing life ruining financial penalties if you don’t deliver what they want.

I only use frigate on a single camera and it’s ok. If I was doing more then my NAS supports an M2 coral. Would have bought one but there was a massive waiting list and now I’ve lost interest.

My QNAP NAS drive. As well as storing all my media I also have various containers running all sorts… My Home Assistant instance, MQTT broker, ESPHome, zigbee2mqtt, Frigate, and Emby to name a few. It does so much for something so small and cheap to run.

Yep I know. I just found it to be poorer quality. Emby is much more polished.

People should try emby instead. I find it the best of the 3 main contenders.

I used to be excited to upgrade my phone every year because it was during a period of innovation. Now I just have a pay as you go SIM and whenever needed buy a midrange phone outright and use it until it dies.