Came here to say exactly this, SOMA is an absolutely amazing game and it’s all about this question.

You know you can get your money back if you sent it to the wrong person, right?

No you can’t, take a 100 bill and throw it out of a tall building, how do you plan on getting it back? That’s the equivalent of sending Bitcoin to a random address.

But even if you give the bill to a random person you can’t get it back, you might forcefully take it, and even if you sue the person and he’s legally forced to give it back to you he’s not forced to. The exact same is true for Bitcoin, no one can revert a paper money transaction.

Your arguments are nonsense, just because lemmy is a decentralized social network and better than reddit, that doesn’t mean that blockchain is useful for anything.

No, but it means you recognize the usefulness of decentralized platforms.

In what application do you need 0-trust validation of tokens?

An example would be money but others could be international ownership tracking, e.g. cars.

Also if you use it for money, what happens when you accidentally send the money to the wrong address? Since it’s decentralized no one has the authority to get that money back to you, do they?

Same thing that happens if you give money to the wrong person. Is that an argument against paper money?

Absolutely, I even mentioned that it’s an impossible problem, even so it’s an elegant solution to it, because it’s more profitable to participate.

Maybe the output to managers needs to be Excel for some reason, e.g. there’s some processing afterwards with another closed tool.

First of all no technology is the only way to solve a problem, for example Lemmy and Reddit essentially solve the same problem except one is open source decentralized and the other is centralized and closed source. With that in mind, Blockchains solve the decentralized 0-trust validation of tokens, which can be used for anything you might need a token for, e.g. money or proof of ownership. Sure, you can do that in a centralized manner, but the fact that we’re having this discussion over Lemmy instead of Reddit should be enough of a proof to you of why you can’t always rely on centralized solutions. If you have any other technology that solves tokens in a decentralized 0-trust way I would love to hear about it.

Is it that you don’t understand the problem or the solution? Or maybe you got scammed and lost money by buying a picture of a monkey that someone assured you would be worth way more, akin to an old person being against emails and thinking they solve nothing because once they sent money to a Nigerian prince.

Yes, but not to the same extent. Both AI and Blockchain are amazing technologies, but those people that are pushing either as the next big thing since slice bread don’t understand them.

Blockchain is an elegant solution to a decades old problem that’s actually impossible to solve called Byzantine fault tolerance by making it costly to bad actors to the point where it’s better for them to become good actors. It is revolutionary, but very unlikely that someone will make a profitable product out of it, especially because the two more obvious uses for it already exist and are open source.

LLMs, which is what people are calling AI, is also a very cool new step for text prediction. But it’s not in fact intelligent, so it can’t do anything without supervision, and more often than not it’s easier and safer to create something yourself than to fix a possibly broken, possibly malicious creation by someone else. LLMs are great for stuff like brainstorming or suggesting short pieces of code that I was about to type anyways, but to think they can produce a book or a program on their own is absurd.

However, as much as I think Blockchains are elegant, they solve an abstract and very specific problem, whereas LLMs are good at solving generalized stuff. There are plenty of applications that would benefit enormously from having LLMs, e.g. a bot that finds, summarizes and points you to documentation at work would help anyone having to deal with documentation to make them more efficient, and companies that invest in these sorts of solutions might come up with great products. But most of the time they’re using it as a buzzword or worse trying to remove a person’s job which will backfire.

It can be generated as an excel file or as another file type which we cannot use.

This is probably a dumb question, and there’s likely a very good reason why this can’t be done, but can you not generate an Excel file from one of the other formats yourself? E.g. have the program output a CSV and write a python script that parses it into an excel file. That way you might have more control over the generated Excel and maybe be able to do it automatically.

Oh no, a random on the internet who can’t read the list of issues to understand they are all service and not deployment related, with no qualification whatsoever and who reads like an angry teen thinks I don’t know about a technology I’ve been using since before he knew how to talk. I’m devastated.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ what do I know, I only do this for a living plus manage a couple of home servers with dozens of services for almost a decade.

I would bet that the problem is with Plex being inside docker. Might be one of those situations where being more experienced causes issues because I’m trying to do things “right” and not run the service on my server directly or with root or on network host mode.

But being inside a container causes these many issues I can’t even begin to imagine how it would be to get it to do more complex stuff like be accessible through Tailscale or being behind authorization.

Nope, Jellyfin works directly same as always has

Even though they’re both on the same LAN? That sounds stupid, why would I need my videos to travel half across the globe to go from one room to the next?

Some of it yes, the claim for example, but the rest is still pretty bad UX (and even that is stupid, I shouldn’t need a claim to watch locally), I’m an experienced self hosing person and I’m getting frustrated every step of the way, imagine someone who doesn’t know their way around docker or is not familiar with stuff… Jellyfin might be less polished as some claim, but setting it up is a breeze, never had to look at documentation to do it.

Jellyfin has an app for fire stick, it works flawlessly

It’s curious that I’m almost in the opposite boat, have been using Jellyfin without issues for around 5 years, but recently was considering trying Plex because Jellyfin is becoming too slow on certain screens (probably because I have too much stuff, but it shouldn’t be this slow).

Edit: this made me want to check in Plex, so I’ll leave my story for people amusement:

My experience with Plex:

• Write the docket compose
• leave out the claim because it’s optional and I have no idea what it is
• launch it
• asks me to create an account
• not really comfortable creating an external account to access my local server, but okay.
• discovered I already had an account. Huh? I wonder why I don’t remember ever running Plex then.
• login to that account
• shows me a bunch of stuff
• find it weird that it already scanned everything, especially because I didn’t pointed it to my media
• proceed to try to watch something
• can’t play due to DRM
• WAT?
• go back and discover there’s a bunch of content that’s not in my library
• ok, so this must be some free content
• how do I configure my local library?
• spend 15 min navigating the UI trying to find it
• open the docs, they say to click the settings icon
• that icon is nowhere to be seen
• click a similar one
• can’t find anything the docs say I should
• maybe I’m not on the right site? site is <IP>:<port>/web/yaddayaddayadda so it seems correct
• try to go to <IP>:<port> get to the same page
• look at the docs on how to access the web app says to go to <IP>:<port>/web
• try that, get a message about not being authorized
• WAT?
• read some more docs discover I need that claim
• spend some time trying to find that in the UI
• google it up, find the link
• go to that page, grab the claim, set it up on the server and restart the server
• I’m able to get to the web app now
• Do you want to access it from the internet? If this works it would be great, so yes!
• setup my library
• let it scan and try to watch something from it
• UX sucks, video plays in a sort of popup in landscape on my phone.
• Ah, dumb of me, I probably have my browser set to desktop mode
• No, I don’t.
• Ok, so the web is maybe only expected to be used on desktop, let me install the app
• Install the app, login to my account, only have the Plex provided content
• Look around trying to find the media I scanned, find a thing saying my server is disconnected
• WAT?
• Go back to the web app via IP, try to look into settings
• “You are not connected directly to the server”
• WAT?
• everything else seems okay, I even enabled remote access there and it says it’s working
• Every few minutes the page says my server is not available for a few seconds then comes back
• It’s now been 1 hour and I haven’t been able to watch anything.

It’s now been 1 hour of trying to set this up and I give up. Jellyfin is much more easy to setup, and even if Plex was instantaneous I could have loaded my TV library hundreds of times in the 1h I just wasted trying to get this to work. Probably every other time I tried I got similar results which is why I have an account there even though I don’t remember ever using Plex.

Edit2: after some nore more fiddling managed to get it working, not sure what I changed, so now:

• Open the app, see my content there
• Try to watch something
• “You’re watching in indirect mode, quality might be bad”
• Ok, so it’s not connecting directly to my server, anyways, let’s ignore this for now, maybe it’s getting confused because it’s in a docker container
• “Activate Plex”
• Ah, ok, it’s the “pay or not now” screen, not now
• No subtitles play
• Try different subtitles
• Still nothing
• Plus quality seems shit
• Confirmed, it’s reproducing at 720x300 even though it’s a 4K video
• Look at docs, figure out the direct play is about converting the video
• Select maximum quality which according to docs should use the original file
• Still get a 300p video
• Figure out maybe it’s the android app that’s the problem, go to the TV, install Plex and connect to it
• Video takes forever to load
• Give up again after a couple of minutes waiting for the movie to load

So are Dachshunds, what’s your point?

The plural of anecdote is not data. Read my other reply which contains actual data and several scientific papers on the matter. Plus in the beginning of that video, even if for just a second, you can clearly see the dog is very uncomfortable and panicking.

Yes, but people with trauma tend to look at things emotionally and not rationally. People who were attacked by dogs wanting to ban dogs is as valid as people who were mugged by a black person wanting to bring back race segregation. But the truth is that several studies have shown no correlation between breed and aggressiveness. Not to mention that people misidentify Pitbulls. Also breed specific legislation is not the answer.