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Album, 1 year ago

Yup don’t let them gaslight you buddy. This is how they do it.

Album, 1 year ago

Gambling is designed to be addictive.

It’s similar to how tobacco ads are not allowed.

Album, 1 year ago

T42 was instructable

Album, 1 year ago

It’s bad at mpeg-ts/HLS but it you don’t use that then it’s good

Album, 1 year ago

Stop depending on Lemmy for news.

Album, 1 year ago

Or don’t buy it and don’t pirate it either. Fuck em. This shit isn’t even worth pirating.

Album, 1 year ago

As if Disney rule34 wasn’t around in 1999. We just didn’t call it rule34 back then.

Album, 1 year ago

Lol the entire enterprise crew needs some deep therapy after all the traumatic shit they deal with on the daily. The most unrealistic part of that show was how none of them became became grizzled after 10 years of life altering experiences and losses though they often showed others who did. I want to assume they had access to more than troi and just didn’t show it because an entire crew probably couldn’t be supported by one therapist similarly to how whichever physical health doctor on board had lots of help and even other doctors.

Album, 1 year ago

I used to be like this. Once you learn to let go the anxiety won’t keep you up. It’s counter intuitive in a cruel way. But that’s life the more enraged you are at the lack of control you inevitably have the farther you are from achieving your desired goals.

Album, 1 year ago

Literally can’t sing it myself without crying

Album, 1 year ago

Netplan makes more sense for the desktop then it does for a server because yaml is UI friendly. For the server it just adds an unnecessary level of complexity.

Album, 1 year ago

It’s ok. Lots of very young people talking a lot about things they don’t understand like its a fact.

Album, 1 year ago

Hole Survivor

Album, 1 year ago

thanks, now i get it…

Album, 1 year ago

DS9 dabbled into politics in ways the other series never did, to the point of a culture conflict, war, genocide, oppression, occupancy, etc.

Album, 1 year ago

The only people who need to know who the originating sources are are the wholesalers, and I’m pretty sure at that level they have a good sense of who is originating or not. Or maybe they also don’t care as long as it works and the price is right.

At the individual level, you have to assume that your provider is not the originating source - that’s just how it works. Discovering whether or not you are using a reseller or a wholesaler though? It should be fairly easy to tell from the services and support they offer.

Album, 1 year ago

It’s one of those things where paying in advance is not a good idea because of how sketch it can be. And you should not use identifiable information when creating an account or paying. E.g. a good provider only accepts crypto.

The only wholesaler I’m currently aware of has been operating for 5+ years the length I’ve been aware of their existence. So there’s definitely trustworthy providers out there. I have no idea how to research good providers since IPTV talk gets shut down every where.

Album, 1 year ago (edited 7 months ago)

It’s a chain of providers.

Generally speaking, you have your wholesaler who sells to individuals or to other iptv resellers (eg. bulk discount of monthly subs).

A wholesaler will generally pay monthly to other source stream providers from a variety of sources to create a full catalogue of channels to provide to individuals and resellers. The wholesaler usually does the EPG management also - basically sources EPG from a variety of data sources.

So UK channels might come from one source, Canadian channels from other, some channels are on this cable provider, others on another - could be different sources. These sources are people who buy cable/satelite set top boxes and subscriptions to then stream them to the wholesalers.

A source might sell to 100+ wholesalers, and then those wholesalers will have 1000+ of subscribers each.

Generally, don’t subscribe with a re-seller…it’s your best chance that you’ll have to find a new subscription. You’ll get the best support at wholesale and they hang around longer, although being bigger makes them targets for raids or even to close up shop and take all future subscription money.

Album, 1 year ago

Linux loads the gtk libs when your desktop starts because it’s a major component of gnu/gnome. Windows doesn’t until you launch an app that would use it. It’s not a small library.