i just reread your post. i think people are giving you US help. which country are you in?

what told you to push +?

there is no + symbol on a phone. there is no tone for it. as someone said use 00

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/generic-telephone-keypad-19583670.jpg

i am so tired of california. it gets this misnomer for being liberal but its such a fucking facist state. passing metas id bill, passing a law on controlling 3d printers, using flock dtones. fick it all.

the nas just has a button like ibterface. its like installing a game from steam

The true plug-and-play user friendly way is to buy a NAS device and install all apps there.

i think this space will actually get bigger because of everything going on. these nas devices will ve the way to go for your average user.

------- what i did, if you are curious ------

i have everything running on proxmox. mostly as lxcs. there are proxmox helper scripts so it installs nice. i use proxmox for a lot of services so ut all wotks. also, for hardware rendering , intel cpus work better because of intel qsv.

i bought a ugreen nas device. bought an nvme. installed truenas on the nvme, because i like it and its open source. tge ugreen device has a built in boot drive with ugreen os which you can not download so i did not want to overwrite it.

now i have 27 years professionally as a software dev, so i had a foundation to learn this stuff. i want to give a heads up if you use an llm for learning. always ask it to explain and question things. look up any new terms. because of my experience, i understood most of the answers it gave and questioned when i didnt. i remember one time it said to do one thing (i dont remember) and i asked for more info. when i understood i knew it was missing something. i said “but i have x, y, and z” which in alm fairness i never mentioned and it did change the answer. my long-windwd point? dont run anything, unless you fully understand why. this advice goes for anyone not just using ai. people will be wrong too. know what you are doing

ok. here is the US we got a fucked up president. honestly i looked into what ot would take to move in case things got really really bad. but both canada and uk (maybe france) passed Meta’s kid ID law. now the EU is passing this. our government may be disfinction due to insane infighting but this stuff doesnt get passed. now some states have but that can be overriden. and its a lot easier to relocate states.

i do want people to know that i am complaining because i wanted europe to be the goos guys. i was on a big europe software and services mission but this stuff is crazy.

um… what?

Removed by mod

i would like to see more cutting edge attempts. this is more of a linux ecosystem thing but try new things even if they dont work out. until very recently, parental controls have been non existing or barely functioning.

for the linux ecosystem to be mainstream it needs to cover more people.

roger wilco

EDIT: i took the time to look and its not realky a gui for ffmpeg. it uses the same libraries but doesnt have the exact functionality as the ffmpeg program.

i feel very silly. i always thought handbrake was an alternative. i never took the time to find out more but never knew it was a frontend for ffmpeg.

in my life, i have never seen a company release a company they own and give the IP back to those people. you should be happy or at least respect it. i cant think of a better outcome.

the fact that you list .net shows you dont have the knowledge to make this claim

i think its time to sell off xbox

i realze now the guy was talking about backup. i thought it was for display. i knew dvds were bad foe navkup but didnt realize commercial dvds were so much better.

EDIT: i just checked they do seel commercial frade “archive quality” on amazon. they arent that mich more.

burn it yourself

why? bevause they gave people an option that dorsnt affect anyone else?

i have an issue with government surveillance. my kids have never been on social media. wedidnt need to government to step in. hell, android’s parental controls are really good

it costs a lot of money. digital is what help indies flourish. you no longer need a publisher.