Jellyfin has a BDFL and is an organisation with assets, so it’s not impossible. However, considering it was forked from Emby by GPL nerds in response to licensing issues, I think it’s very unlikely.

They took VC funding (which is also bad), selling to private equity is very different (they strip mine businesses).

I’m in the same situation. I wouldn’t call Jellyfin better, but I far prefer using something that’s not becoming progressively hostile to my use-case of self-hosted media.

I don’t know why you’d equate might-enshittify to already-enshittifying. Especially when Jellyfin isn’t VC-funded, the leading indicator for enshittification.

ChatGPT energy costs are highly variable depending on context length and model used. How have you factored that in?

For me there’s a big difference between funding someone anonymous (to me) who might be an asshole vs someone known to me who definitely is. I can tolerate the former, but not the latter.

Do people really have so little self-control that they can’t just not use a network connection if it exists?

Have you ever met any people?

You’re not wrong but culturally and historically, Sony Music is American.

Florida in particular.

Everyone knows that ultrasonic cleaners are great

Mate, wtf is an ultrasonic cleaner?

Edit: this is a rhetorical question, I’ll read the article.