miah_

I don't want to touch my phone to stream music in my home. I don't want a app involved, apart from maybe setup. I don't want 'cloud' involved _at all_.

I want to point my music 'streaming' device at a NFS or SMB directory and play music. Would be better if it supported some OSS streaming protocol so I could just stream off my LAN (think mpd/dlna but I have no idea what protocols are "best" here).

I'd love to open up foobar2000 or whatever, and point it at what speakers I want and let loose.

Ya, some rpi solution is "probably best here". I know they're(Sonos) going for 'this works for people who dont know what a rpi is", but stereo gear works for a long time. I don't want to be on some 'upgrade cycle' because they've decided I need to upgrade hardware so they can harvest more dollars from my wallet.

Maybe the problem is that ["I have a stereo", "mp3's", "CD's"] and they are targeting people who want to play Spotify from some 'i-device' to a speaker and don't have a stereo. Either way, the hardware is 100% avoid for me. Its a gamble on 'will it work' and 'will they support it?'.

Sonos hardware is the stuff I see at thrift stores for ~$8 and won't even bother with. When you're as user hostile as they are you end up in landfills.

Wish somebody would figure out how to unlock them and convert them into general purpose music streaming systems.

quell surprise.

This is the tech industry in a nutshell. Over promise. Under deliver. Executives profit. Workers get laid off.

Me too. I'd like to explore the tree and see what can happen but have zero interest creating an account, tracking progress or whatever. I got the gist of what the game was about in the first few minutes.

The Health Insurance for my wife, two children, and myself is _$1500_/mo and that's _with_ a $20,000 deductible.

When I started working ~25 years ago, my health insurance was typically fully covered by my employer and I had no deductible that I was aware of. The cost of insurance has only gotten worse, and finding a plan without a outrageous deductible adds to that.

As a society, this is something we can totally solve. So many other countries have socialized healthcare. Its not an impossible goal.

Too bad! You don't own the company or make the decisions. The value of your life has already been determined and paying a low wage to someone far away makes the most financial sense for these companies.

We exist in a terrible, and great time.

It was a LED moonite. It wasn't scary at all.

They had amazing hair. I loved all their hair commentary. Best response to a literal media circus.

Very good, but needs more furry art.

Whats hilarious is that Kibana started out as a Open Source.

Hard to trust anything released as OSS these days that hits this site run by a for profit company.. Its all destined to have a rug pull after some VC funding. Considering HyperDX is a for profit company, I'm sure we won't have to wait long!

Grayjay is also excellent.

https://grayjay.app/

Just use Firefox.

This is why I only watch Youtube via Firefox mobile, plus I can use a adblocker with that.

Google is garbage at this point. Every employee there is simply promotion farming and has no concept of what a backbone is. Everything they do is utter trash and only about feeding their algorithm or collecting your data.

Instead of waiting for the rug pull, just use something open source.

If this integrated with Metasploit or some other tooling I might be impressed.the graphics are cool though.

Several, I have enjoyed the content from https://www.youtube.com/@tomwayling

I really like imcdb, or The Internet Movie Car Database. Want to know what cars were in a movie? Check imcdb!

https://www.imcdb.org/

The best way I've found is: stop using apps. If I'm using the phone, in either making a phone call or using Firefox. Apps might "solve some need", but it seems like all of them are more interested in data collection and selling that data to "their partners". We're better off throwing these black mirrors into the ocean.

Having worked for many bosses like you, I think the solution is clear: tech needs more unions and co-ops.

Software has historically been offline first. This is not a issue.

The film 'Crimes of the future' from David Cronenberg talks about this, though the subject matter is pollution and plastic instead of milk.

A SpaceX representative has done the math and while potatoes make better bricks, human blood is cheaper. So if you'd like to be part of Elons new Mars colony sign up for our mission at your local human grind^H^H^H.. gathering center!

Who the fuck uses software like this? Not me.

Basically every action the big tech companies FAANG, MS, HP etc have all done for the past decade+ has been detrimental to users. Oh sure yes I want ads in my Operating System and I want every browser to be Chrome with a mask, oh right I also want to pay a subscription to use a printer. Just absolutely bonkers brains in power at tech companies lately.

Crypto bros ruin every single thing they touch.

Its very much for people who are trying to lock down their systems. Its also very much for people who want to meet the Common Criteria. It can be both. But for some people, its very much over kill.

This is why I stockpile manuals and other guide books, and pirate as much as possible. The publishers don't really care about anything other than cash, even on media they haven't published or updated in decades. I will gladly buy self published and, small run media new, but everything else is used/second-hand. The abuse only stops when you set boundaries.

Its because Selinux wasn't really designed for "sysadmins" it was designed for "governments" or organizations that need to meet a specific level of security as a contractual/legal requirement. Selinux came out of the NSA and is based around the Trusted Systems Criteria / Common Criteria, aka the Rainbow Books. If you look at 'Trusted Solaris' (or IRIX, AIX) you'll see very similar systems.

Is this poor design or simply, not designed _for_you_?

I agree, its a royal pain to manage, and it might be overkill for a small shop trying to lock down their web server. Thankfully there are other solutions, and operating systems that may better fit your use cases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Criteria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Solaris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-Enhanced_Linux

Based on my exexperience: In some cases yes, in many others no.

When employers offer it, its generally to _their_ advantage more than yours. Often, its a way for corporations to avoid paying out vacation days when you leave. You might "have" unlimited vacation, but its all up to your manager. Want to work a 4 day week using "unlimited vacation", its not going to happen. Just like phone companies saying you have "unlimited data", there is often a catch.

You're better off getting PTO days which are tracked and guaranteed.

A company I worked at had "unlimited" vacation, I had a surgery. You'd think this would be a good candidate for using that "unlimited" vacation, NOPE. Thankfully I lived in California (while my company with "unlimited" vacation was in Oregon), so by law I had PTO days on the books, and I had A LOT of them. I had to use my banked PTO to recover after surgery, otherwise I was asked to take medical leave (which comes with half of your pay rate).