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I don’t know what that means, sorry.

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Because there are some signs the bubble might be about to burst. Some of the purchase orders have either been rescinded or downsized, and - ironically - thanks to capitalism AI is becoming unaffordable for some businesses. As popularity increases, AI companies are raising prices and this is leading to human labour once again becoming cheaper than just vibe coding everything.

Sources:

• https://peq42.com/blog/openai-canceling-many-large-purchase-orders-ram-price-is-dropping/ (original article on Yahoo Finance is paywalled)
• https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/economics-ai-tokens-crashing-down
• https://fortune.com/2026/05/22/microsoft-ai-cost-problem-tokens-agents/

Do you never leave the house for any period of time where you might want to bring some of your media?

In short; do you never travel?

Plex charges for downloading your own media through your own local network onto your own local devices.

I’m not talking about remote streaming. I’m not talking about downloading media while you’re already out of the house. Nothing about local downloads to local devices should require Plex’s servers, so it should come at no cost to them, which makes it a pure cash grab.

So yes, Plex does charge for local use :)

Federation doesn’t fix the problem, at least not in its entirety. I posted a longer comment in another thread but the long and short of it is that accounts need to be portable if it’s going to work for a git hosting solution.

The comment: https://lemmy.zip/comment/26430897

The problem is, I have an account on lemmy.world but switched off during a time it had major problems with downtime and broken images. When I wanted to switch to another provider, my account was not portable. I hadn’t posted or commented an overwhelming amount, but it’s still not associated with this account.

So let’s say someone creates a federated Git hosting platform and feature matches GitHub with Actions/CI etc, so there’s no reason not to switch. Let’s then say git.world starts acting up, but you can create an account on git.zip instead.

Now you have given up your commit history and any commits you make from your git.zip account is not neatly linked with your git.world account.

I’m sure this problem can be solved, but it’s vastly more important for it to be solved before federated Git hosting can replace the “security” of GitHub. We do have to consider the fact that some people point to their GitHub profile when job searching, so git contributions and commit history is more valuable than Lemmy posts.

Thank you ❤️

Thank you ❤️

Do you have an archive of the archive? archive.is seems to be captchablocked as it is impossible to get through the captcha, it just reloads every time I solve it.

It’s funny coming from the Plex thread into this; ~100% of people who keep using Plex do so because it’s centralised and it makes sharing their library with their network of family and friends easier.

The truth is; a lot of us feel like we need more internet accounts about as much as we need genital warts. Part of the reason GitHub got successful was the fact that you only needed to register once and you had access to fork and PR all the repos on there.

Decentralisation is great for self hosting things for, well, yourself and your household, but it’s got hefty downsides. Account creation is a friction point for others to join and collab.

Isn’t that kinda exactly what the OP was saying with their comment about MBAs realising they have non-paying users?

I don’t run Plex so I don’t know, but from your comment it sounds like the Plex Pass isn’t “all past, present and future premium features”?

Or were you theorising about a future where they do ask you to pay more?

My mother also worked at a switch board. When she moved into hospitality, and the guests needed to make a call, the switch board operators immediately clocked her as having worked there. My mother presented the information about the outgoing call request exactly as the operator preferred to hear it to quickly make the connection.

I feel you about wishing you had more time with your grandmother. I was far too young to even know what questions I could have asked, and it would have been so interesting to hear about the occupation during WW2 and the early post war years.

Not to mention the fact I miss her in general, she was the sweetest lady a grandson could ever ask for ❤️

Because Americans claim they need the second amendment and all its school-shootey downsides in order to protect themselves against a tyrannical government.

Then a tyrannical government appears, and said government also starts executing your citizens in the streets.

Maybe it’s just my leftist bubble of woke protecting me from the truth, but I have heard exactly 0 cases of armed resistance from the people referenced in the first paragraph of this post.