Great post, thank you.

It’s an Israeli company, that’s a no from me boss.

That’s it. That’s the only reason.

Manufacturing labour costs are far cheaper outside of China but the skills aren’t available. While labour costs are always a factor, the US just doesn’t have enough skilled manufacturing engineers or the supply chain you get somewhere like Shenzen.

It sounds like this was his personal email account.

Maybe this Lemmy interface is confusing me, is there meant to be an article linked?

I really don’t think this qualifies as enshittification. There’s no evidence they’ve taken funding or have any shareholders they need to appease. They also only increased prices and have not moved the paid/free boundaries in any way.

I think it’s much more likely this is a side project that simply doesn’t pay for itself well enough, and the alternative would be shutting it down. If people aren’t happy with that, it’s totally reasonable to just cancel.

There are copilot ads in the dotnet docs.

Jellyfin has a BDFL and is an organisation with assets, so it’s not impossible. However, considering it was forked from Emby by GPL nerds in response to licensing issues, I think it’s very unlikely.

They took VC funding (which is also bad), selling to private equity is very different (they strip mine businesses).

I’m in the same situation. I wouldn’t call Jellyfin better, but I far prefer using something that’s not becoming progressively hostile to my use-case of self-hosted media.

I don’t know why you’d equate might-enshittify to already-enshittifying. Especially when Jellyfin isn’t VC-funded, the leading indicator for enshittification.

ChatGPT energy costs are highly variable depending on context length and model used. How have you factored that in?

For me there’s a big difference between funding someone anonymous (to me) who might be an asshole vs someone known to me who definitely is. I can tolerate the former, but not the latter.

Do people really have so little self-control that they can’t just not use a network connection if it exists?

Have you ever met any people?

You’re not wrong but culturally and historically, Sony Music is American.

Florida in particular.

Happy to hear you out and I didn’t downvote, but I’m not sure how it’s racist. The original cartoon doesn’t seem racist (though Bugs Bunny has plenty of that in other cartoons) and I’m not sure how this frame could be taken that way otherwise.

People who use that phrase lack any sense of irony or self awareness.

Everyone knows that ultrasonic cleaners are great

Mate, wtf is an ultrasonic cleaner?

Edit: this is a rhetorical question, I’ll read the article.

I don’t do it, but if I did, I would consider apologetically offering the machine translation inline with my post. Why put the burden on them to do it if you want it to be read?