Use Infuse instead of the Jellyfin client that way you avoid having to transcode media. I'm running jellyfin on a raspberry pi and I have no problems whatsoever.
On iPhone, the edits to pictures and videos are just metadata and the original file is kept. I just tested recording a video, cutting it in half and downloading the file from iCloud. The cut file it's smaller than the iCloud reported size however if I choose to download the unmodified original the size matches the iCloud reported size.
Same thing happened in my country. Fortunately someone decided to create a cooperative and now I can avoid contributing to the profit margin of some private company
I once worked for a co-operative, and it was by far the most poorly run company I have ever worked for or with. The control of the company was so far removed from shareholder control that the management was basically only accountable to their creditors (i.e. banks). The company had every corporate pathology you could imagine and then some. It was orders of magnitude worse than a Fortune 500 dinosaur I also worked for.
The cooperative was performing poor profit-wise while middle management lined their pockets. If it was not a cooperative, their share price would have been in the gutter, and someone would have bought up enough shares for cheap to fire the leadership and replace it with people who are competent, and then benefited from the increasing share price of having the company ran competently.
I definitely don't think they are inherently better. I'm sure some of them are good, but the real problem I see, as I already pointed out, is that shareholders have less ability to hold management to account than in more traditional business structures.
How do I hold the the CEO of Cable One to account, let alone better than I can hold my electric co-op to account? On my co-op I have a voting share, can run for office, directly lobby other co-op members directly, etc etc.
> On my co-op I have a voting share, can run for office, directly lobby other co-op members directly, etc etc.
If you are a member of the co-op, sure. Not everyone who trades with a co-op is a member. If you are a shareholder, in a company, most likely you have votes, as I think less than 10% of companies have different share classes with unequal voting rights, and of those most still have some voting rights. So in both cases (with limited exception), shareholders have voting rights. So there is no difference here, in fact all of the things you listed is valid for more traditional businesses.
The main difference, at least for the cooperative I worked for, was that no individual can have more than 1 share, where as in other incorporation models individuals can have more than 1 share. This is advantageous as one individual can expend resources to buy shares, then use the control granted by those shares to improve efficiency and the value of the shares they acquired, and everyone who is a shareholder benefits from this. No similar mechanism exists in a co-operative.
Maybe, with a cooperative, on a small scale, you can lobby enough people to effect change, but it takes a lot of time, and usually the people with time to fiddle with the politics of a co-operative probably should have as little as possible say in how it is run as they likely have nothing more productive to do.
I do vote in some co-operatives, I even vote in the co-operative I worked for, I look at the candidates, and I can clearly tell that there is no way they will change anything, never mind do something as drastic as replace the inept leadership. I could of course expend lots of time to try and convince them, but this is a massive gamble.
If I see a company is ran poorly, and I have money to buy enough shares to change it, the gamble is a lot smaller. I know it takes X resources to aquire Y% of control.
There were quite a few small energy co-operatives in the UK, mainly set up by municipalities.
When wholesale energy prices spiked last year, followed by a cap being applied to the prices that they could charge, they weren't hedged and several ended up going bankrupt.
