It’s ok, whenever you get annoyed about his ego, just go watch the clip of Ole’ Bill trying to pontificate after his trip to space and Jeff Bezos cutting him off. The look on his face is so sad and frustrated.

Yeah, Altman is a complete ass and very full of himself. Not at all surprising.

In that vein, a remake of Sim Life using neural networks and all the latest “learning” and “evolving” tech.

Rosanne Barr would have absolutely ruined the show and it would never have been as popular.

I’d love to get a copy if you’d be willing to share it.

Are there any easy ways to auto purge stalled torrents (either after a certain amount of time, or if they’ve never seen a complete copy after some time?) I have most of the *arr suite and use qbittorrent. I recently installed qbit_manage, but I’m not sure how to use it yet.

Perhaps, but withholding footage is not a good look. Good thing the police never withholds foota… oh

Not sure how this is emptily shilling though. Am I paying for a service? Yes. Will I stop paying for a service if they start “refusing features?” Also yes.

Like I said in another comment, I was happy with Netflix back in the day, but now, nope. I have self hosted alternatives.

If a service is not worth it for me, I stop paying. Different people have that line at different levels, and for me, today’s Spotify Premium is worth it. In the future it may not be.

No need to be so hostile.

To each their own. For me, I really like the Discover Weekly/Daily features to discover new music and I can’t see how I would ever “already have MP3s of all the good music” since that’s an ever changing set. Heck, I still have a ton of old mp3s I used to rip and/or download, but I haven’t listened to them in a while.

I would gladly pay for a similar AYCE movie subscription, but I refuse to sign up for a ton of different services and play the “which service is that movie on again?” game. Instead it’s a very different approach for me.

I have the family premium plan and honestly love it. I haven’t downloaded an mp3 in years because Spotify is so convenient. As far as subscription services go, this one is top tier for me.

Now when we look at movie streaming… well that’s what the music streaming could have been like. What an absolute mess.

Different product. I use IDrive as well since it has a native Synology app.

FYI, my Pi4 has more than enough cpu and memory to run Home Assistant with a couple hundred devices.

That’s where a properly functioning government would be able to step in. Parking lot taxes are going up x%, but if you install solar panels, you get an x% tax break.

That and add a steep tax for single purpose solar fields.

One runs Home Assistant (Pi4), and an older one runs RetroPi (Pi3) for my arcade cabinet.

I have another Pi3 that I used to use as a Steam Streaming device to put my PC games on the projector.

https://www.blackseanews.net/en/amp/read/167918

Russia uses migration as a weapon to occupy its newly annexed territories.

I can’t opine on the recognition or not re: Artsakh, but regional politics absolutely plays a role. Unfortunately Azerbaijan has more Allie’s on the West than does Armenia.

However, the move from Russian gas supplies to other sources makes sense.

That is a very common tactic with Russia. Annex land, then forcibly remove the local population and move a bunch of Russians in. Then it becomes easier to claim the “new territory” as filled with Russians.

Again, I think the major distinction is the recognized borders of the territories. Artsakh is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, not Armenia.

I think the complication is that Artsakh has been recognized as Azerbaijanian territory for quite some time whereas Crimea has been recognized as Ukrainian land.

Yes the USSR drew the lines, and it seems to be done on purpose to cause ethnic tensions should the USSR ever collapse (and surprise surprise, that’s what we have now)

On a related note, I heard somewhere that the reason Bush “messes up” that quote is that he realized mid sentence that he didn’t want a sound bite of him saying “shame on me”.

May just be a rumor though.

Better yet, public execution to set an example.

EU please do what California utterly failed to do!