I don’t think that’s true. Their techs may claim that, but you van buy compatible modems online and find a helpful phone support person to get the details you need. Read up a bit on it first because they’re not going to walk you through it.

I have successfully avoided cable up to this point, but I did use my own modem back when I used DSL. It wasn’t advertised anywhere, but I just took the details from their modem and called support for the last bit I needed and used my own. It worked well, and I had my router be separate so I was able to just toss the modem when I got better service.

I’m not OP and am a dev, but also prefer flat files. Here’s my reasoning:

• versioning - I use snapshots in my filesystem (BTRFS), which is more than enough, and have a git hosting solution for things I care about more
• sync is plenty fast on OCIS and Samba, it’s just kinda slow on Nextcloud; I’m sure Seafile is better, but it’s not something I do frequently anyway, especially since backups from devices is automatic and uses a different, fast system
• incremental - not my use case, most of my files either never change (movies) or are small (text flees)

My main concerns with Seafile specifically are:

• developed by a Chinese company and doesn’t seem particularly open to contributions
• mostly written in C, so there’s a good chance of security vulnerabilities
• documentation about the disk format isn’t very open, so third party tools don’t really exist
• main target is larger orgs, so I’m unlikely to get very good support

With flat files, I can easily switch to a different service if my needs change.

Here’s what I’ve used and can recommend:

• samba - just a network share
• Nextcloud - full featured cloud suite (calendar, contacts, etc)
• owncloud infinite scale (OCIS) or the Euro fork [Open Cloud]{https://opencloud.eu/en) - the POSIX driver has a flat file structure and still supports users and shared data; OCIS is designed for larger installations, but running on a smaller, single instance totally works too

Since you rejected NextCloud, check out the other two. I’m switching from NextCloud to OCIS right now, and I may end up using OpenCloud if development looks stable.

Cool, I looked into it and yeah, it seems like Beidou is incredibly similar to GPS, so it really shouldn’t matter. GPS seems to be a little more accurate for the average person, but otherwise they’re largely the same.

I assume you’re talking about Kauffman, who is the founder of LBRY, but that relationship ended when LBRY lost a lawsuit and Odysee was acquired. It is decentralized, using arweave for video hosting and a blockchain for video metadata.

The main issue w/ Odysee is its near complete lack of moderation, which allows extremists, conspiracy theorists, and other undesirables to earn money. This is because Odysee gives creators the power to moderate their channels, unlike YouTube where most of that is reserved for the platform itself. Odysee is about as free-speech as you get, and that unfortunately allows less desirable content.

My understanding is that Odysee is essentially what you get if you have P2P (not federated) PeerTube w/ a profit motive.

Is it? I haven’t looked too much into it, I just assumed a newer system would have tracking built-in.

So now I’m even more confused about why Iran would care which system it uses, if both truly are passive.

Agreed. I’m just saying you deserve to live. Whether you do should be your choice, not your doctor’s or your government’s.

I’m guessing they banned it and switched to China’s system to spy on their citizens.

Hey, maybe they use a second ! to improve security immensely.

I need to move mine, my current solution kinda sucks.

If I thought I deserved to live

But you do, everyone deserves to live.

Yup, just like we were going to wait 2 weeks to decide whether to engage with Iran, or get trade deals during the temporary tariff lift. So much trust right now.

Can you provide machine specs? Maybe you’re using an Nvidia card without drivers or something? Or maybe it’s a laptop and it’s using the wrong GPU?

Again, I agree with the first responder, make your own post so it gets more visibility and provide as many details as you can.

It’s not just odd releases, it’s also releases that end in 10. 24.10 is short term too.

For new users, if you’re within a year of the next LTS, just use the most recent release and switch to the LTS cadence once it launches.

step 2: run 3 commands in console or use discover

Just one, no? Usually the installation instructions will tell you which package to install for your GPU.

And my axe!

People keep saying they want an alternative to YouTube, but then reject every alternative that exists.

Odyssee and other YouTube alternatives tend to host far right content because that content was banned on YouTube, so those creators flocked to the alternative platforms. The sites themselves aren’t exactly encouraging that content, it’s just where people end up due to the loose rules. The best way to fight extremism on an alternative platform is to post less extreme content and drown out the less desirable content.

That’s basically what happened here on Lemmy. At the start, it was mostly tankies and far left extremists, and gradually it became more mainstream as more mainstream leftists ditched Reddit and joined Lemmy.

If you want an alternative to YouTube to succeed, you need to use alternative platforms that already exist.

Would you rather use the same contraction for both? Because “its” for “it is” is an even worse break from proper grammar IMO.

Sure, but other platforms do exist, and he could post to those as well as YouTube. Other creators do, such as Gardiner Bryant to PeerTube and Louis Rossmann to Odyssee.

If he really hated Google, wouldn’t he be motivated to invest his time into its competitors? Maybe he does, idk, I didn’t watch the video because I’m not a fan of his style and I generally try to avoid YouTube.