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Replying to an earlier post

I haven’t tried for a long time but here are my scientific results:

  • /me Mullvad VPN in Sweden, fiber, 160 Mbps
  • 5 seconds to load a movie (from clicking on the Play button to the movie starting)
  • 1 or 2 seconds to seek in the middle of the movie, I like that

There is a small glitch when I tried to turn on the subtitles of the “Community” TV show, but otherwise it seems to be fine. Should we look for specific issues?

Replying to @⁨swizzlestick@lemmy.zip⁩

You’re of course correct on that, but Mullvad the company gave (somewhat) clear news release that their company is against far right (or left or any ‘far’ direction) politics. I’m not a customer and I couldn’t care less about Mullvad, but I think it’s worthwhile to keep in mind that company isn’t the same than one of it’s founders.

Of course if that is a breaking point to you, feel free to vote with your wallet and I can very much understand the decision, but there’s very few fully reputable companies around so I can also understand if that’s not a hill to die on.

Replying to @⁨IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz⁩

Despite what comes from the mouth of the company, it is made from and run by the people behind it. Funding Mullvad funds him, and in turn that funds something intolerable to me. As long as that link is there, I won’t be.

Separating the people from the company is viable when it’s an inconsequential staffer in question. Not so for a co-founder and co-owner.

There aren’t many things left in life where it’s easy to have scruples, but this absolutely a hill that can be died upon without much inconvenience.

Replying to @⁨LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world⁩

@LifeInMultipleChoice I tested a couple different things:

1) General responsiveness: Not snappy, but fine. I am guessing this server is run on HDDs rather than SSDs. I always assume media on HDDs, but the platform itself had some notable delays.

2) Transcoding: Failed. I tested the newest Avatar movie (16Mbps to 10Mbps) and the server was unable to maintain live streaming. The video would stop to buffer regularly.

3) HDR: Couldn’t find any HDR content to test.

4) Intro skip accuracy: Seemed fine for the shows tested. I didn’t see my stress tester, Grimm.

5) Library organization: I know you asked for testing not reviewing, but I noticed a lot of content out of place. Season folders in the TV root directory, Jujutsu Kaisen’s season 1 is off the rails, etc.

Within reasonable circumstances and expectations, everything was working. Was there anything specific that you wanted to check?