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If you have ever used Plex, you already know the drill. You set up a nice little media server for yourself, enjoy it for a while, and then slowly watch the company bolt on more paid features, more accounts, more restrictions, and more surprise decisions that somehow require you to log in five times just to watch your own movie collection. It is like building a garden in your backyard only for someone else to suddenly install a ticket booth at the gate. Enter Jellyfin. A media server with a very different attitude. One that says something along the lines of: “Here. Have your movies. Do whatever you want. We are not going to chase you with subscription plans.” Let us take a balanced...

Alright, so here is something I did not expect to wake up to. HughesNet, the satellite internet provider that so many rural folks depend on, is now getting ready to refer its own customers to Starlink. Not joking. This is actually happening. I dug through Reuters, AP News, The Verge, and a few other sources. Here is the simple version, explained like someone who is just passing along what they found and not pretending to be a journalist. EchoStar, the parent company of HughesNet, sold a massive amount of spectrum to SpaceX They agreed to sell billions of dollars worth of wireless spectrum. Reuters reports that the main deal is worth up to 17 billion dollars, and AP News and The Verge...

Skype used to mean online calling. It was quick, simple, and didn’t need a corporate badge to use it. Then Microsoft decided it knew better and slowly replaced it with Teams — a product that feels like someone tried to turn a meeting into a lifestyle. Officially, Skype was “retired” in 2025. Unofficially, it was suffocated by the company that bought it. Let’s be honest about what actually happened here. 1. Skype Worked Too Well for Regular People Skype did what people needed: you clicked a name, you called, you talked. No onboarding checklist, no “channel permissions,” no “collaboration hub.” When Microsoft bought it, they saw something too normal for their new...