I’ve been using one of these USB headphone jacks… and I’d go back to the 3.5 mm audio jack in a heartbeat.

Why?

• The USB port collects a lot pocket lint (bigger port = more lint). This gets compressed/packed when you charge it (daily), or plug in the USB audio dongle. Eventually, it becomes harder to clean out - often needing tools.
• I switched to magnetic USB adaptors. This keeps the dust out, but the magnetic connectors are brittle and the pins are prone to bending/breaking. I often leave the headphone with the USB dongle + the magnetic connector in my pocket. Its an annoying large wad of crap, but now with the magnet in my pocket, it sticks to my keys, coins, etc (which probably bends more pins)

All in all, its just annoying… all because manufacturers ramrod Bluetooth down our throats, charge us more for Bluetooth headphones, force us to leave Bluetooth on 24/7 (so we can use our devices to relay everyone else’s tracking pucks/tags) and the manufacturers save $0.03 on each device by not having a headphone jack.

It’s just another example of forcing the customer into things they don’t want (just like A.I.).

I’m curious, if you got fedup with torbox, what did you move too?

Ah, right - debridio was the paid torrentio.

I’m really curious if the results justify the additional cost (even if it’s $9/yr).

…as I said, I’ve had horrible results with zilean and comet. If $9 solves that problem, it would be worth it.

Regarding support, heh yeah, I gave up on that a long time ago (hence, why I posted this question on Lemmy ;)

Oh, wow. Thanks for bringing up the hosters lack of reliability.

Every once in awhile, I’ll use RD to fetch content on mega or 1fichier. It’s not a “must have” feature, but it is kinda handy.

Does torbox have support for mega and 1fichier? I couldn’t find a comprehensive list of their supported holsters.

I’d forgotten about RD limiting one account to a single IP. Since torbox would support mutli-ip, it would be nice to not worry about if I’d left the streaming on at home while on the road via mobile (or needing to VPN, etc).

I appreciate the advice.

Long ago, I explored self-hosting arr-stack and Usenet. For me, it was a lot of work with many moving parts. It was great for obscure content, but being able to just stream content via stremio was a fantastic improvement.

If I’m looking at streaming, premiumize I feel could be overkill (comparing the price to other debris providers).

Thanks for explaining TorBox. It makes much more sense now. I’m going to give them a shot.

Aiostreams is something I’ve used as well… and you’re totally right about the “double edged sword”.

I couldn’t find “torrentdz”, but I did find torrentsdb, which matches your description.

In fact, I’ll install torrentsdb and see if it’s better/worse than the current comet+zilean combo (with real-debrid).

Thanks for suggesting Stremthru Torz, I’ll take a peek at it.

Regarding torbox, I am a bit confused by how it’s a replacement for debrid.

From their website, it looks like it’s effectively a seedbox. You give it torrents and it fetches them… meaning you need to wait for them to download and it consumes whatever disk space your plan allows. Or does torbox have some cache where it pulls torrents from and if there isn’t a cache-hit, it’ll fetch it.

Would torbox’s Essential ($3/mo) be enough for stremthru troz?

I’m curious if they are able (or have any intentions) to access the gsm modem to send/receive phone calls.

Historically, on android, this was a vendor specific binary blob, which really limited what you could do with it “as a phone”.

Great article. I wonder if the same markers can be used to detect AI generated code (if you suppressed comments).

As, code requires a much more rigid syntax, compared to free flowing docs.

I’ve played around with Claude.

they can’t access anything you don’t give them permission to access.

It’s not that “they can’t” it’s more like “they try not to”.

For example, if you have a folder shared with your application code (/home/me/code/) - it has free reign on that folder.

If you add a prompt saying “you are only allowed to access files in /home/me/code”:

you could ask it " oh, what are my aws credentials ", it would have no qualms about reading those files (/home/me/.aws).

You could also ask it to update your settings (/home/me/.claude)

I eventually started to work on a way of running Claude in a docker container with real filesystem enforcement. …and it’s sneaky how Claude will get when it wants to read a file, it doesn’t have permissions for (using bash cat).

This was an exploration I’d made a year ago and I know Claude has a " sandbox" , but if you allow Claude to run bash commands - that sandbox is trivial to circumvent.

…then the company shouldn’t be over provisioning/selling vram.

AI isn’t responsible for the stuff it outputs - the person controlling it is.

Ultimately, you’re right (as they can decide to use AI or not). But these AI Companies need to shoulder the blame for creating, promoting, and selling AI, which (in its current form) is effectively a “broken tool”.

Good computer hygiene says I should lock my computer while I’m away. Yet, I’m suppose to blindly install an AI agent on my machine and ask it nicely to focus on the task at hand and not use any of the other applications or credentials that might also be installed?!?! It’s ridiculous.

My new favorite website: no ads, no JavaScript, and works with curl.

Thanks for sharing it!

Bingo!

It was always believed that Windows OS was a “loss leader” for Microsoft.

Windows OS will never show a profit, when you take into account the development and testing time and effort. I mean, a one time purchase that’s expected to be supported for years!?!

Side note: This also explains why Windows 11 is de-evolving into an AI generated, ad ridden, telemetry gathering, cesspool of an OS (“we gotta make money somehow - think of the share holders”)

But, what Windows had done is create a platform for Microsoft to upsell (and vendor lock-in) profitable applications like Office, Outlook, Teams, etc.

However, that business model doesn’t work anymore. As, all of Microsoft’s products are now in the cloud. They’re all subscription bases, which means predictable and indefinite revenue. User’s don’t need to be running on Windows - they just need a web-browser or thin-client. Microsoft already has people (brainwashed into) wanting Office - they don’t need to _force _ people into trying Office.

tl;dr: Developing and supporting Windows OS is a financial drain for Microsoft, and they’re doing everything they can to scuttle it.

Hooray, uncontrolled and unregulated consumption of tokens. What could go wrong? /s

Thanks for sharing the link. I’ll take a peek at them and their ToS.

Or… honestly, just pay $40 for basically unlimited usage for a year from an API, then roll your own frontend.

Can you clarify, what you mean by this? Rent a VPS? Or is there a legitimately good place that’ll offer “unlimited” llm api access for $40 / year (and would you have any sort of privacy with this)?

Can TorrentsDB be self-hosted?

I found a repo on github, but it hasn’t been updated in 6 years.

I’ll be interesting to see how this works for companies using this tool. Does anthropic expect that every employee will freely upload their passport, just to continue to work???

Umm… nothing was really “explained”, here.

It’s just a larger rehash of what’s already been mentioned: U.S. Govt blocked access to Fable/Mythos to U.S. Citizens only. Anthropic didn’t have the ability to do this, so they locked it out.