Do you have a source for that downward pressure? I’d like a little good news if it’s real lol

Hetzner just raised their VPS prices for the second time in two months, 300-400%. Not sure how much more of this I can bear lol

All physical objects degrade with time. Factory-pressed commercial discs like movies have an expected lifespan of 10-20 years assuming they’re stored properly at all times.

They would not end up with more money, they’d lose a whole heck of a lot just to make a point

730 million dollars and 9 years of prison time between 16 executives

You think they’d destroy their own companies as a threat?

Everything old is new again

You are spiraling further and further into abject insanity. Whatever meds are on you need to take them

Are you some kind of schizophrenic? I need to know before I engage with you any further

Native OIDC/SSO support, allowing users to offload the authentication to a purpose built software.

It’s not semantics, the context of this entire thread is about the difference in ecological impact of two entirely different and unrelated technologies. This isn’t a philosophical debate. Life must be so difficult for you if you can’t ever see the forest for the trees because you can’t see things as they are.

Incorrect. Let me help you out here:

Human transportation in the abstract is computer networking in the abstract.

The highway is the internet, the current physical implementation of the computer networking transportation system we call The Internet.

You can go into minute detail on what the cars and trucks are, horse drawn carriages, people etc, but ultimately, the internet is the highway. It is separate from and fundamentally not responsible for what you choose to put on it.

Because it’s already a proposed feature on their feature voting website. In fact It’s been one of the top voted features for the last 7 years straight. It’s at this point the most often talked about drawback of Jellyfin and biggest stated reason why people won’t switch away from Plex. It’s been so long that the SSO plugin has been archived because the maintainer only made it on a temporary basis and he was tired of maintaining it, likely because it’s only taken the pressure off of the Jellyfin team to implement native SSO because folks like you like to point to it as a solution to the problem.

No they are still two very different things.

You’ve misunderstood. AI datacenters are not the highway. Prompts and Outputs are the cars and trucks, the AI data centers are the factories making the cars. The highway is datacenters and transmission media that do not house AI and do not require the immense cooling or power that the AI datacenters use. The highway and the things on the highway are two entirely decoupled things.

Internet traffic is not the internet. Thats like saying cars and trucks are the highway. I can’t believe I have to dumb this down for you, but here goes: T highway is that asphalt thing that sits on the ground between two places, right? And cars and trucks are the things you drive on the highway. So like, in terms of emissions, the highway isn’t producing all those nasty emissions, the cars and trucks are. So if you don’t like those nasty emissions, you can regular the cars and trucks, but the highway isn’t at fault. You could reduce the emissions of the vehicles, replace the cars with more efficient busses, you could even just ride bikes on the highway if you really wanted to. But all these things are separate from the highway itself, see?

Just because you don’t understand how any of this works doesn’t change the fact of the matter which is that the internet is not taking your drinking water.

Plugins for SSO and OIDC are not a solution as they will only work with the web clients, so that’s a non-starter.

Jellyfin can blame it on the tech debt all they want but implementing it really wouldn’t be that hard, they just haven’t prioritized it, simple as.

The things using the internet is irrelevant. The fact remains that the internet itself is not taking your drinking water

A security focused authentication service would be the most successful, straightforward, and simple to implement solution.

Unfortunately Jellyfin, nearly alone amongst its FOSS peers has not implemented support for these services. It’s the only one of my many dozens of selfhosted services that I can’t properly secure.

The internet and AI are two different things.

The internet wasn’t taking your drinking water 5 years ago and it’s not taking it today.