Yeah, they really had some good old days back in the good ould days, not the watered down consumerist crap that passes for nostalgia now.

Did this “joke” come by fax?

We prefer “lifestyle accessory”

I will hand my credit card number over to the charity that gives 5 new copies of a book to any library that has one stolen.

Or even more basically:

• what’s good for business is generally not what’s good for society.

Nothing in the US will ever return to “status quo”. Their democracy is broken, 30% of them believe that Trump was chosen by god. They will either continue on their path to becoming a white Christian nationalist authoritarian state, or the people will rise and create an actual democracy based on humanity instead of wealth.

My bet is on the former.

Get infuse. Not open source, but the subscription is cheap, and it just works. Library features aren’t as nice as Plex, but can share the same library, so you can still use plex for metadata etc.