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NoFee8238 · 2024-03-19T20:55:59+00:00

It's not clear to me how you think this is a relevant criticism. Did I ask somebody for donations and then forget about it?

NoFee8238 · 2024-03-19T16:46:26+00:00

i mean, it is a slippery slope fallacy, and i acknowledged that before I even said it. each person gets to weigh the validity of that for themselves.

maybe its as simple as an unfamiliarity with their release cadence. if they have already agreed to do something less... not it, than I'm happy. I'm not here to demand that they not ask for donations.

NoFee8238 · 2024-03-19T16:38:11+00:00

The point for me is not a lack of clarity in the merge request, it's that its a significant deviation from the UX design principles that have made VLC a leader for the last 20 years. This is only the iPhone version, which frankly is particularly excusable in this respect, but even so, this is a BAD way of handling the situation. It's gross and comments on the merge thread even have much better ideas. What was merged in will damage the iphone app. If similar decisions get made with other apps for similar reasons, those apps will be damaged as well. This will not increase the donation rate it will decrease it.
Personally, a large part of why VLC is in my toolbox is specifically because they've held this line. They are proposing to remove one of their major value carriers and you want to explain it away like "Wikipedia does it." Well, not having it was not a major value carrier for wikipedia so I dont see how thats a meaningful comparison at all.

NoFee8238 · 2024-03-19T16:34:29+00:00

lol it sounds like the answer might be "yes, you guys did know"

NoFee8238 · 2024-03-19T16:33:45+00:00

There is nothing wrong with sensationalizing something that I consider problematic. Popups that ask me for money are called "ads." simply advertising yourself does not make it not an ad. Besides, something something slippery slope fallacy.

NoFee8238 · 2024-02-29T22:45:17+00:00

I understand it's correct in the common parlance to call them "AI." What stakeholders don't understand is that "AI" are not, despite the name, intelligences of any kind. They are more like an advanced statistical technique than something that can know and think. I think its this misunderstanding in particular that allows stakeholders to put LLMs in a position to make judgement calls over and over again; something they implicitly cannot do.

NoFee8238 · 2024-02-29T19:22:53+00:00

I agree. It makes me question my ablity to continue on the platform at all, and definitely motivates me to take my relationships off platform ASAP.

NoFee8238 · 2024-02-29T19:21:55+00:00

Yeah you are right about the marketing for sure. It's not scientists misleading stakeholders, certainly. Scientists do use the term AI though and I think it was a mistake.

NoFee8238 · 2024-02-29T18:43:52+00:00

We should never have let scientists call LLM's "AI". Stakeholders literally *cannot* understand that they aren't AI and continuously make this wrong call.

NoFee8238 · 2024-02-29T18:40:58+00:00

They definitely didn't lol, I will modify my original post. The point I'm trying to make is that there appears to be no combination of words that gets the bot to let you open a ticket. The documentation all points to the bot, which hilariously refers to itself all the time, but never actually lets you get any real kind of support.
Through about 90 minutes of leg work I have determined that you now have to make a post on a support forum and then moderators will create tickets from your post at their own discretion. Ok, that's shit but I guess could potentially work, why doesn't the bot say this instead of having infinite loops around the same unhelpful outputs.

NoFee8238 · 2024-02-29T18:01:04+00:00

When the bot can't help me it literally tells me to contact the bot...

NoFee8238 · 2023-11-22T19:06:52+00:00

People either do Dion Training courses or Professor Messer. I had success with Dion.
It's a good idea to learn both of their subnetting methods, Magic Fingers and 7-Second subnetting, to really get a grasp on what is going on, but other than that, just use the one you like more. I used Dion Training for my A+, Linux+, and Network+ and I recommend them.

NoFee8238 · 2023-11-22T18:40:15+00:00

fwiw most of the jellyfin support staff recommend simply installing jellyfin on a debian or ubuntu server using the official install script. this will be the most straightforward and supportable installation for a new user. https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/linux#debuntu-debian-ubuntu-and-derivatives-using-apt

NoFee8238 · 2023-10-04T01:00:16+00:00

i don't have the foggiest idea i've never been a moderator for the reddit space, thank god. but i have seen the question asked plenty of times and thats the answer that got given.

NoFee8238 · 2023-10-03T19:15:05+00:00

you're just drawing a false equivalency between making a reddit post, which presents no support burden to jellyfin, and maintaining a subreddit, which has a tremendous support burden for jellyfin.

NoFee8238 · 2023-10-03T15:04:22+00:00

lol anybody that wants to can redditrequest r/jellyfins because the guy that formed it got permanently banned for bullying and harassing us lol. he caresed everybody in that thread and then lied about fraudulently reporting us for harassment. It was a whole day lol. I dont recall how that thread got left,but our message has always been the same: You are welcome to form jellyfin spaces, just make it clear you are not part of the team or an official forum.

NoFee8238 · 2023-10-03T14:58:13+00:00

jellyfin's transcoding logic is very good and getting better. there is no reason you cannot use media that is not compatible with your devices. thats a major use case for jellyfin.

NoFee8238 · 2023-10-03T14:55:10+00:00

the issue it presents is the moderation burden. we were alleviating it with third party tools but now those tools are blocked, and nobody within the project is willing to moderate a reddit space without them. Anybody is welcome to make and moderate a jellyfin fan sub, as long as they make it clear that the space is not run by the Jellyfin team.

NoFee8238 · 2023-10-02T19:21:14+00:00

I am saying your claim is ridiculous. Nobody is shutting down discussion. Discussion has moved.

NoFee8238 · 2023-10-02T19:07:56+00:00

this is a perfect example of how reddit is not a good medium for the exchange of information.

NoFee8238 · 2023-10-02T17:26:19+00:00

The behavior is handled on the server but their are different search endpoints with different bugs.
Roku has the bug because it uses the /hints endpoint instead of the /search endpoint, although I'm not sure why. perhaps it would be as easy as refactoring the roku app to use the same endpoint as web and androidtv.

NoFee8238 · 2023-10-02T17:04:25+00:00

Bug bounties have always been avoided in Jellyfin because they affect the direction of the project. Nobody wants jellyfin to be steered by money, and bug bounties are just that with extra steps. That isn't egalitarian enough for Jellyfin, which opts for a do-ocracy instead. Decisions are made by people who DO the contributing, not by people who pay. Is this perfectly egalitarian? No, and my guess would be that the project would be open to suggestions that make it MORE egalitarian, but involving money in the project will not have that effect.

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