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Re:Pray for Chaos on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:31AM (#50337327)
Truth. And I am very nervous about the future, so of course it resonated with me for that reason alone
Re:Pray for Chaos on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:18AM (#50337147)
I’d expect George to weather this future better than most of us. I don’t see evidence of mental health issues in his post? Sounds pretty spot on to me. But then maybe I have issues..
Pennsylvania is already $250/y regardless of usage.l and they already raised the price from the initial fee.
Re:ElementaryUI – Swift, in the Browser on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:23AM (#50300134)
> Latest Version: 1.0.0 (September 4 2018)
Re:Genie 4 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:31AM (#50274281)
The point is that lay people don’t even know they’re being advertised to. They think product placement reflects the product rather than the money spent to place it there.
Re:Microsoft and Epic Games Suddenly Agree That AI Is Theft on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @09:46AM (#50273470)
You’re saying we should support the billionaire overlords because some indies trying to use new tools will produce results that people parrot on the internet as slop?

I’ll take the slop.

Re:Genie 4 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:24PM (#50268631)
My 17yo niece shows me Nike ads on her phone, and when I ask her why she’s showing me ads, she gets upset and tells me they’re not ads — they’re web experiences.

What is obvious to you/us is not obvious to most..

Re:Diamond Transistor on Monday October 26, 2026 @11:13PM (#50254336)
I think you just described the placebo effect!
Re:GPT-6.1 Terra on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:58PM (#50250031)
naming suggestion: small, medium, large, x-large

it's almost like ya'll let the AI name it ;)

Re:Plex laid off the whole player team on Thursday October 22, 2026 @04:25PM (#50200530)
Absolutely, but that said, the web app is very good and may get you farther than you expect (i.e. combined with chrome casting). That even works remotely if you connect via dashboard.pixelbrite.site
Re:Plex laid off the whole player team on Thursday October 22, 2026 @09:24AM (#50194982)
This is replacing Plexamp for me:

https://pixelbrite.site/

Re:Plex laid off the whole player team on Thursday October 22, 2026 @09:23AM (#50194973)
https://pixelbrite.site

Music is a top priority for me. If there’s something missing it’s either coming soon or you can email me and it’ll be added

I landed continuous playback yesterday, where it automatically picks more tracks like your been playing https://pixelbrite.site/en/music-discovery

Re:Plex laid off the whole player team on Thursday October 22, 2026 @09:20AM (#50194944)
https://pixelbrite.site

I have about 32k tracks and I’m obsessively making this product as fast and beautiful as I can. Email me if you have problems with it and I will resolve them.

Re:Plex laid off the whole player team on Thursday October 22, 2026 @09:19AM (#50194929)
https://pixelbrite.site

web + native; works on about any Apple hardware from the last 15y

Re:Plex laid off the whole player team on Thursday October 22, 2026 @09:15AM (#50194885)
I’m putting a lot of effort into HDR in all its forms at https://pixelbrite.site

If interested in native apps hit [email protected]

yes. But can my users? maybe.

My intention is to make it work with as little friction as possible

My goal is: if you want the best free player, you'll pick pixel brite. if you want the best paid player, you'll pick pixel brite.

There's going to be a very generous free tier and everyone's getting Pixel Brite+ for the foreseeable future.

Free includes all the table stakes features; hardware acceleration, remote access, adaptive bitrates, gapless, lossless, etc.

I may limit superfluous things like the metadata fidelity, make you watch one of those old timey before-the-movie reels "Let's all goto the lobby and get ourselves some snacks!", disable niceties like automatically playing similar music when the queue ends (like Spotify), themes... things like that.

What are your thoughts? Is there anything in particular you're looking out for?

I was on this same line of thinking a few months ago when I made the mistake of switching to T-Mobile Home Internet and discovered I'd been CGNAT'd

Every time I want to share with someone I have to stop and debate if I want to possibly have to drive over to their house etc.

So here's my attempt at solving the problem: https://pixelbrite.site/en/profiles

It's my love letter to owning multimedia. I'm focused on minimizing friction; all comms go over Iroh, and it even works in the browser via webrtc (as of yesterday). No network expertise required.

History- I started it last year the night before my birthday so I guess it's kinda like a midlife crisis. I've been working on it relentlessly since and kind of want a real job at this point just so I can take PTO.

[email protected] if interested

Feeling very validated that I went with Iroh @ https://pixelbrite.site
If you’re running from simple things the expectation is that you’re guilty of something more complicated.

I don’t personally know anyone who has ever ran from the cops to evade a traffic violation.

the tl;dr seems to be simply that it wasn't implemented yet

i've been pretty interested in this as well and got this snippet from chatgpt: `So could Iroh add direct browser-to-native connections without a proxy? Yes, by adding WebRTC support to the native side as well. Iroh’s own browser roadmap describes that approach and identifies the additional native WebRTC stack as a significant dependency cost. It does not describe a fundamental impossibility.`

i may take a stab at adding this functionality soon

Re:Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:54PM (#50097785)
Just the other day someone got modern Nvidia cards running on hackintos!
Re:AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:53PM (#50097780)
Roblox being trash tier is my point though. Obviously trash is selling like crazy AND we can do much better now

I mean to be more clear I have a friend all excited about making really nice games and now realzing he’s one of a bajillion others so no one is gonna pay for it (less you’re awesome at marketing in which case call me )

Re:Do dentists know what they're doing? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @04:21PM (#50094542)
where is that? i stopped having cavities when i started using Act mouthwash -- don't understand how anyone can hate on fluoride.
Re:AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @12:30PM (#50090389)
Kids already grew up playing lofi Roblox so this seems like the obvious future. There’s already so many free games on the App Store and web
Re:Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @12:28PM (#50090350)
Linux + thousands of developers with AI agents is going to show otherwise this next decade. I think. I hope?
Re:New Apple TV 4K on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @10:26AM (#50088253)
Can you elaborate? I just added FEL support to https://pixelbrite.site Email j@pixelbrite. site for a Test Flight

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