potustheplant
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- Comment on The Legion Go 2 might ditch Windows for SteamOS - and cost less 1 week ago:
You’re talking as if this wasn’t a device that’s already available…
- Comment on The Legion Go 2 might ditch Windows for SteamOS - and cost less 1 week ago:
The legio go 2 was released in october. Hw comparison s with other options already exist. That’s not the point of this story.
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 2 weeks ago:
So my original point about Stremio itself was correct I guess. Most common users that have no idea what debrid is (like me until 24hs ago xd) will leech torrents and never seed them. That kinda sucks, big time.
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 2 weeks ago:
It’s still bad though and it will still lead to a dying torrent.
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 2 weeks ago:
Wait, so if I get this right, stremio has nothing to do with debrid on its own. So if you just use Stremio, as is, you are leeching a torrent you don’t seed?
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 2 weeks ago:
Caching a torrent requires downloading, no? What guarantee do you have that they’re seeding that leech?
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 2 weeks ago:
Sheesh, this place is turning into reddit faster than I’d like. Relax dude.
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 2 weeks ago:
So you’re telling me that they’re offering a paid service for free. That makes me trust and want to use it even less.
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 2 weeks ago:
Then don’t use torrents. Leeching without seeding is literally how torrents die.
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 2 weeks ago:
Stremio kind of sucks. You’re leeching a torrent you’ll never seed.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Sure, people can use the presets, but on a lower end machine, those aren’t perfect for getting the most out of your specific hardware.
If that’s the case then you could play around with individual settings to find something you’re comfortable with. I’ve been doing that since I was 12…
Sure, he could pay someone to upgrade it for him, but at that point it loses a lot of the benefits that come with being able to upgrade in the first place.
What? No. The main benefit is that you don’t need to throw anything away. You can even sell the comonent you’re replacing. Would it be more expensive than learning how to do it yourself? Yeah but it’s still cheaper than buying a new computer. It’s also not as wasteful considering that a broken cpu would mean throwing away the entire motherboard on a Steam Machine, whereas you would simply replace the cpu on a normal computer.
The Fractal Terra is actually larger than all modern consoles. The Fractal Terra is 11.4 liters. The PS5 is 7.2 liters.
Nope. Fractal Terra is 10.4 liters and the base ps5 is also 10.4 liters. I would even argue that the form factor of the terra is better. The series X is smaller, true but it’s only 6cm smaller in one of the sides of the top and 4cm shorter. I really don’t think that’s that different.
The steam cube is a lot smaller, sure. It’s also, like I already said multiple times, completely custom and impossible to upgrade. Not worth it imo. We also haven’t discussed the hardware. It comes with 8gb of soldered memory for the gpu. You can see here that that was not enough vram (even at 1080p) for some games over a year ago.
Knowing “how to use one” is different from knowing how to build and upgrade one.
Which is precisely why I specifically referred to people knowing how to use it, not build or upgrade it.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I don’t agree that it’s that hars to build a pc. Even if it was, saying that adjusting visual settings is complicates is waaay too much. You’d have to be straight up dumb not even be able to use the low/medium/high/extreme presets every game has.
Also saying that since he can’t build it, he can’t upgrade it, is false. Any “pc technician” can do that for him.
The size part is also kinda moot. A Fractal Terra is smaller than a console and it can fit an itx build with most gpus.
Stop normalizing incompetence. We use computers, people should at the bare minimum know how to use them.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
No, you don’t need to do an introductory year. You also don’t really need to know what’s compatible with what. Tools like pcpartpicker already do that.
Finally, you’re comparing building a pc with buying a prebuilt, which is something people have been able to do since forever. The argument then becomes, why buy a steam machine with custom parts, which will be harder to fix and impossible to upgrade instead of a mini itx prebuilt with standard parts?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
That really doesn’t make much sense. Valve creates steamos, donates time (employee time, i mean) and money to open source projects, they improve proton a lot and what you’re interested in is having steam installed? Ok…
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It’s not repairable in the sense that it doesn’t use standard parts so whether you can get replacements or not depends on where you are, geographically. If it used a standard atx psu for example, you’d be able to buy that anywhere. Same thing for the cpu, if it used a standard cpu+gpu instead of a custom apu, you’d be able to replace just that if it broke, instead of the whole motherboard. Or even upgrade it if you wanted to.
Even motherboards themselves have different features. You might need 2.5g ethernet whereas someone else is fine with gigabit but wants better wifi. In my case, I always buy boards with spdi/f to use them with a dac. You lose that flexibility with a device like this.
Regarding the OS in prebuilts, it’s very common to have the option to order them without Windows. If you don’t know how to install Bazzite, just pay a technician to do it. It will still be cheaper than Windows. That’s not an excuse or impediment.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Not a fan of prebuilts tbh. As far as linux goes, Bazzite is free so create a bootable thumbdrive with rufus and literally just follow the installation prompts. If you can’t even do that, then maybe you ahould learn how to.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
That’s wishful thinking. Valve hasn’t even announced a price range.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It has a custom soc that is most likely soldered and most of the components (except maybe storage and ram) are custom as well. If you need to repair it, you depend on steam still providing the parts. I doubt the parts will be available in retail stores, so that’s another inconvenience. Upgrading (the cpu/gpu, etc) will also probably be impossible.
Also, building a pc is a lot simpler than you make it out to be. Not sure what you mean about that “support” bit either. People have always been fixing their computers getting help online. Either from forums or manufacturers.
To top it off, the “benefits” you’re mentioning are literally the same as if you bought a prebuilt pc.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
In my case I just can’t see the appeal. If you want a small desktop computer, just build an itx machine that can be fixed and upgraded.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 4 months ago:
Did you actually read my comment? That’s an issue casual users have. If you want to see deleted comments, there’s a way to do that.
The only thing that actually hurts reddit is if people stop using it an generating new content.
- Comment on Universal Adds 'No AI Training' Warning to Movies 4 months ago:
*they’re
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 4 months ago:
The sad part of it is that they (reddit) can still access that deleleted information and sell it for AI training. Even as a “power” user you can use websites that “undelete” that content. The only ones truly affected by this are people randomly browsing reddit.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 4 months ago:
Read it then. It’s literally a single script with 140 lines.
- Comment on Grandma is on her own 5 months ago:
The point is that everyone wants to fuck everyone, but they are the victim because everyone else wants to fuck them. It’s greed from all angles, plain and simple.
Not really, no. If you’re buying a house for yourself and after that you want to buy a bigger or smaller house, it’d be very dumb to sell waaaay under market when no one else will do that for you in return. You’d be either unable to find a home you can afford or you’d have to spend all of the money from a big house to buy a small apartment.
I think you have a lot of resentment built up and that’s bad for both objectivity and your own health.
It’s not my fault that granny was banking on screwing over the millenials to trade up to a beachfront property in the keys
You’re getting worked up over a fictional person that owns a fictional house and wants to sell it for a fictional price. On top of that, you’re making up a lot of details to get even more upset. Relax dude.
- Comment on Grandma is on her own 5 months ago:
Inflation is a thing that exists. Saying that someone is bad simply because they want to update the value of their property is dumb. Also, let’s say granny wants to downisze. Should she sell her home for a value way below market and then be unable to buy a smaller home for herself?
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 6 months ago:
I just looked it up on ebay and found quite a few sellers that had touchpad replacements so I’m not sure what you’re talking about…
- Comment on Owned (stocks) 6 months ago:
You’re missing the forest for the trees, but ok.
- Comment on Owned (stocks) 6 months ago:
Except that something profitable doesn’t make it any more or less embarrasing. e.g. Landlords make lots of money yet we all hate them.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 8 months ago:
I’ve also had to replace phones for broken USB ports which in the grand scale is probably more wasteful than the extra power use.
On one hand, yes, your port can break at some point. On the other, why would you throw away the whole phone if the usb port can be replaced? Going even further, you could always use your usb port for charging until it breaks and after that you could start using wireless charging. For data transfer there are plenty of apps and ways to wirelessly transfer data so that wouldn’t be a problem either. At the end of the day, you’re barely using your usb port and you’re also wasting twice as much (or more) energy that you would if you used a wired charger.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 8 months ago:
Wired turbo chargers are bad as well. However, although I don’t know about iOS, Android lets you plan your charge cycle. That makes my phone take about 8 hours to charge while I’m asleep.
Or you could just not use a fast charger and not worry about that. Either way, you’re moving the goalpost. Not all phones support fast charging and not everyone has a fast charger. I’d wager most people charge their phones with lower power (15/20w more or less).