surely there will have to be “no smart glasses” rules

They have this rule for ebikes at the lake I love to walk and the kids are zooming by anyway. I think we’ll struggle to enforce it and that really sucks. I hope this fails. It’s hard not to be pessimistic about it, as much as I can see some legitimate use cases. I just don’t trust big tech with it, least of all Meta.

Heh…these days I kinda long for devices for for specific purposes again 😅 and I’m a software engineer.

Buy refurb then, it’s what I did and it’s super fast. Returns are diminishing these days and your money will go further.

Have fun: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415#event-17377530652

By your logic the *arr suite isn’t self hosted either since they rely on metadata cache servers.

In fact Jellyfin relies on external services for their metadata too!

Bit weird to pin it on an age generation

Hate to say it but it honestly doesn’t sound crazy hard to just block any instance that pops up. Yes it’s whack a mole but if it’s an automated script, it can just crawl through a backdoor instance and ban any domain it sees.