>I have over 400 blu-rays specifically because I wanted to guarantee that I don't have to risk seeing ads in my media.

Don't Blu-Rays and DVDs have unskippable ads built in, including the FBI notice?

Not if you rip them :)

With a reverse proxy, I don't see how this would work. The whole way the reverse proxy works is you use a subdomain name ("jellyfin.yourdomain.org") to access Jellyfin, rather than some other service on your server. The reverse proxy sees the subdomain name that was used in the HTTP request, and routes the traffic based on that. Scanning only the IP address and port won't get attackers to Jellyfin; they need to know the subdomain name as well.

The only tricky part here would be to make sure you’re doing a wildcard certificate, so that your subdomain doesn’t appear in Certificate Transparency logs.

true, but I kinda dont want hiding from plain sight to be my only line of defence.

You've freed up 2 hours per dev per week so they can work on something else that might generate profit. Even if they goof off for an hour, that's another hour doing something useful that they weren't doing before.

You've also possibly saved some money by automating a task that was previously manual, reducing or eliminating human errors that could have compounding costs.

And as someone else pointed out, you've made the work environment a little better by not wasting the devs' time on a silly manual task, which might reduce turnover.

>...I see similarities between the common attention failures that humans make. I forgot this one thing and it fucks everything up, or you just told me but I have too much in my mind as context that I forget that piece

Or you're working in a trendy, modern open-plan office and between the noise from the salespeople nearby talking loudly to customers on their speakerphones, some coworkers talking about their medical issues, and the guy right next to you talking loudly to himself in a different language, you're unable to concentrate at all on your programming task.

>if the business decisions were led by workers instead of a group of tyrants it'll most likely be a better decision.

I don't see how. The workers will want to work on things that they enjoy, or that make them look good, regardless of how much they help the company's bottom line. Why would workers not want to build mini-empires of their own? If you're thinking that other workers in the company would vote them down, the problem with this is idea is that other workers in the company won't know about or understand why this time-wasting group is doing what it's doing, because it's not part of their competency. Do you keep track of business decisions and happenings in some other group in your company (assuming you're in a large organization)? Of course not; you don't have time to keep track of everything happening across the organization. So why would workers in your worker-led company do any better?

The entire point of leadership is that individuals don't have the time or expertise to know all this stuff and make smart decisions.

>Google's infrastructure is, IMO, a competitive advantage. The amount of vertical integration and scale is unparalleled.

It's too bad they don't put this kind of thinking into their customer service.

>Microsoft has worked for many years on their glass memory devices, which have much more important advantages, and they are still far from being able to sell such devices, mainly due to the cost of the required lasers, for which there is a chicken-and-egg problem

So what's the deal here? I've tried reading about these devices, but MS's web pages are a little sparse on info and nothing's changed much in years. I guess the lasers used in BluRay burners aren't powerful enough?

This isn't quite right either. It's "they gain less money than they might potentially gain if piracy weren't physically possible". If the piracy avenues didn't exist, how many people would actually pay full price to the legitimate sources, and how many people would simply go without?

That's a good question. When (if) we figure out how to practically travel at FTL speeds with a "warp drive", we might figure out the answer to this question too.

To be honest I think FTL is likelier than magical "sticks you to a fixed point in space relative to a rotating planet"-technology.

Sure you can do that with pushing air and a global positioning system, so if eventually we invent an eventual anti-gravity drive or something that may be used for the same thing. But wether such an entirely fictional device could be then made to (1) fit into a car sized vehicle and (2) be powered by whatever the most powerful mobile energy source is at that time and (3) become affordable to anyone outside of the 0.01% is another question.

>To be honest I think FTL is likelier than magical "sticks you to a fixed point in space relative to a rotating planet"-technology.

I disagree. I'm no physicist, but given how gravity seems to be related to the structure of spacetime according to Einsteinian physics, and a lot of FTL ideas seem to center on the idea of "warping" spacetime, I suspect the two are highly related, and if FTL is possible at all, it'll be also related to artificial gravity.