I doubt they’ll call it a failure regardless of how it does.

If anything it’s a great money maker for WWE. How’s it a failure for them by any means? They’re making more for giving less. They can sell the library elsewhere to make more. Unless you’re speculating it’s a failure for ESPN in which case it remains to be seen.

WWE could care less if people buy the PLEs since they have a guaranteed payment from the deal.

They’re also towards the (seemingly) tail end of a hot period that lasted around the same, if not, longer than the attitude era. It was also even more profitable even accounting for inflation.

WWE has no reason to worry until the last year or so of the new deal. Nothing matters until then. They will make a ton of money and be immensely profitable.

Edit: Content and the cost being worth it is continually debated and yet sports continually pay more in rights fees while everything else seemingly gets less. This falls close enough to sports to fall in the loss-leader category of wanting to have the programming for prestige to build the brand as opposed to directly making money.

Think about sports rights and events like that. Millions of dollars in rights fees that don’t get made back even in advertising, etc. It means a lot for station X to have something like the NBA, how much it means to have WWE PLEs remain to be seen for ESPN.

There used to be a scary logo animation for National Amusements that used to scare me as a child. It gives me the creeps now still.

It was all neon and then there would be a creepy screen to show you where the exits were.

https://youtu.be/xkuWSpljM5g And https://youtu.be/TK3rSOrE6L0

(Not directly related but this reminded me of it.)

Another option if you need public access without something like tailscale would be to use ddns and a AAAA record. Something like https://github.com/ddclient/ddclient would help do that.

That way if the IP changes, you’d pick up on the change for your vanity url within a few minutes… and can get https certs for that url as well.

Edit: I reread the OP. This doesn’t help if clients need direct ipv4. Sorry about that.

The UI goes in circles. I wish we stopped changing things when they aren’t broken.

Bad eh security advice: use an alternative ssh port. Lots of actors try port 22 and other common alternatives. Much fewer will do a full port scan looking for an ssh server then try brute forcing.

For some reason a collective of cats sounds like some sort of organized crime group that wears suits.

My cat doesn’t wear a suit, though probably partakes in organized crime. 🤔

I have both but just use pihole as a local DNS server/forwarder. I bump into too many random times where sites or redirects don’t work properly since they get blocked.

Consider using containers. I used to think this way, though now my goal is to get down to almost all containers since it’s nice to be able to spin up and down just what the one ‘thing’ needs.

I figure maybe towards the end of my lifetime laws will catch up to allow some form of real digital ownership. Until then: you lose it when they go out.

99/100 people will not care. I’m one of them.

For that 1/100: sure it’s infuriating but probably more than mildly.

I’ve never had a case where running that fixed anything. I get it makes sense to verify system integrity but I’m guessing the OS already does that on its own once in a while.

If this is your fear, why not just have a will or something that specifically describes what to do and where to go?

My cat is good and eats only what she needs. She always has a bowl full of her regular food. We’ve been like this for almost 10 years now.

It all kind of depends on the cat and how they handle the buffet always being open.

La Fiesta

If I ever watch one Mr. Bean YouTube video, all my suggestions become Mr. Bean. I mean he’s ok but they literally have the same video uploaded to multiple channels with slightly different names.

Give me more different Mr. Bean. Stop repeating the Bean.

I think the same about basically every new smartphone at this point. Since when have we had real innovation there?

How is signal considered part of the fediverse?

It’s one of those things that are pretty annoying. Especially because you often need to login before starting the chat. The login should have authenticated me already.

Also in case anyone wonders they didn’t reply after 20 minutes so I gave up.

Some people are hard of hearing. It annoys me but I know people who turn on speakerphone immediately since they say they can’t otherwise hear.

I’ll give a sort of recommendation to using a safety razor and cheap blades instead. However I’ve been doing it for years and still cut myself.

I yearn for a razor that can use safety razor blades and wouldn’t cut me up.

I already have these razors that use those blades already: Leaf, OneBlade, Maxwell June, and Proof razors… and yet they all cut me up about the same as my regular safety razor.

Anyways razors are kind of cool. Wonder if there is a Lemmy community for shaving.