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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with "Plex Servers"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  I do have Infuse and the pro subscription!

  It’s not really a “first party” (for lack of a better term) solution so the UI is not consistent with the other apps.

  Personally, I don’t really like Infuse’s UI arrangement and use it exclusively for content that has Dolby Atmos.

  Many of my friends / family aren’t all that techy, usability is key and having access to that content through a single app / single name is pretty important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with "Plex Servers"?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  friends dont let friends use plex

  Emby and Jellyfin still don’t have Apple TV Apps. Many of us bought a Lifetime Plex Pass ages ago and it still does what it’s supposed to. Migrating / starting over with something else is quite an undertaking when what you already have is working fine.

  storage is very cheap now

  In what universe? I bought two refurbished 12TB enterprise HDDs for $80 USD each back in 2024. The same type of disks are now $250+ each.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  John Woo’s Max Payne

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Using MMOD doesn’t track playtime for the man game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  $20 was the cost of a whole CD Album, I don’t remember singles selling for that much. Or maybe you’re referring to the phenomenon of having to buy a full Album just for the one song you like?

  I prefer to buy Albums, and these days new Vinyl usually comes with a lossless digital download redemption code.

  At the same time, I still subscribe to music streaming services. I’ve got some ambient / background music playlists that are days and even weeks long - I’m not going to allocate make local storage space to them, let alone pay $9,000

  These services are amazing for music discovery. I live having an album or playlist finish and then getting “radio” of similar music to hear and discover.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What the hell? Premise they’re going with just makes it any other gameshow. Missed opportunity to have each “Vault” have some kind of unique experiment or twist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Micron addresses Crucial exit backlash: 'We are trying to help consumers around the world' — company warns that DRAM drought could last until at least 2028⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Micron used to be our default go-to for SSDs and memory (independent repair shop)

  They are now blacklisted for purchase, even their SSDs, even if the competitor’s price is substantially higher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just want to play a game...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s plenty of media with the same level of restrictions. The difference is that Steam is putting those restrictions in a convenient bulleted list right at the point of purchase - everywhere else, you’re expected to play ball and find out as you go along.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses a GOTY award over use of gen AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, without giving away too much, you have a world where, every year, everybody of a certain age is erased. Every year, those with one year left to live set out to try and stop that from happening - and for ~77 years, none of them have returned.

  This sets the stage for exploration of grief, loss, and associated trauma. In most games, there’s death everywhere but the emotional side is relegated to a 3 minute scene with sad piano music before the characters get back to the action. In this game, they drill a lot deeper and it really makes the characters come alive.

  They’ve nailed the blend of sadness, joy, and even comedy.

  This is all then set in a backdrop of some of the most visually interesting environments ever presented in a videogame with a completely insane musical score that brings all of those moments to life, the game is effectively a frisson machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battle Bun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lugaru

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just what community do you think this is?! I don’t come here for interesting, quality content and the wikipedia article doesn’t even mention anything about him shitting on a post!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  disingenuous for the developer to pretend this was a surprise

  Given that the game is going to release on Epic Games Store, GOG, and Humble Store, I actually do find it surprising.

  Steam / Valve seems to be the outlier here.

  The description of the scene that got the game banned is not even remotely sexual, just a bit weird / uncomfortable which is the entire point they’re trying to make. And that scene is not even in the game anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PetSmart won't let you leave a review if you have adblockers on⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it possible that their review form functions on some kind of script language that is commonly filtered by ad blockers?

  Browsing the site on mobile / without an Ad Blocker, I’m not seeing any ads. Might just need to reduce the filtering level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  👋 Repair shop owner

  Between the three issues you mentioned, charge port are the most common I see with Acer whereas hinge issues are actually on the rarer side compared to other manufacturers.

  With Acer, charge ports are pretty memorable since they’re soldered to the mainboard rather than being on an easy to replace daughterboard or cable.

  Ultimately, charge ports issues are usually a user problem rather than a quality issue. There should always be extra slack on the cable when charging, the systems should be on a flat level surface, and the device should never be transported with the charger connected to the port.

  Someone who has had repeat problems related to their laptop’s charge port is going to have a real bad time if they switch to a system that uses Type C ports.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alberto Mielgo defends the Marathon cinematic as "not AI," denies his team touched Bungie’s plagiarized material and calls the art theft incident a genuine mistake that was "blown out of proportion"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I stand corrected, I hadn’t been in the loop as to how deep this really ran.

  They probably would have saved a ton of money and bad PR by just paying ANTIREAL for this work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alberto Mielgo defends the Marathon cinematic as "not AI," denies his team touched Bungie’s plagiarized material and calls the art theft incident a genuine mistake that was "blown out of proportion"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How does one […]

  This is the key element. I don’t think this is a case where a team collectively chose to steal someone’s art.

  If the theft was deliberate, it was probably an individual, with how big these projects are it’s not hard to consider how that may have flown under the radar.

  I could also see one team member collecting assets to serve as inspiration and another implementing them without realizing they weren’t created in house.

  With how exhausting the current state of the world is, I could even see a burnt out employee tossing something together without remembering where the asset came from.

  Not trying to excuse what happened, the original artist is definitely owed for this, but there are other potential explanations for this beyond intentional malice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Microsoft ended Windows 10 support, why is it still getting updates like every other day?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you opted into ESU, those would be the security updates that you opted to receive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Way I see it, there’s two ways to address the “cheating” issue in multiplayer online games.

  First, let’s establish that game cheats typically involve using another application to modify the game’s running code while it is loaded in memory.

  Historically, anti-cheat has largely taken a “reactive” approach. Try to detect the hook / modification taking place, ban the player if it is detected. These systems and bans were often circumvented. There are entire games that I stopped playing because the experience was ruined for me - GTA Online and the late stages of Titanfall 2 are standouts in my mind.

  With how the Windows device security landscape has changed In the 2020s (MacOS has had something similar for ages), there’s now the option of taking a “proactive” approach by preventing application memory from being tapped in the first place. These technologies, notably Secure Boot and TPM, help mitigate rootkits and malware that might steal sensitive information from application memory, as well as paving the way for other protection measures like disk encryption.

  And that’s the main part they’re interested in - by ensuring the entire process up through the kernel cannot be tampered with, the anti-cheat is going to be highly effective at pre-empting anyone from attempting the cheat to begin with.

  It really sucks that, in the curent landscape, that means there are a handful of games that I can’t play on my Linux devices. But it also makes sense - Proton runs with many layers beneath it, which would make it trivial to tamper with memory and engage in cheating.

  I’m hopeful that we’ll someday see a solution that opens up the opportunity for the same degree of integrity protection in Linux so that anyone can enjoy any game on the operating system of their choosing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed you can!

  If you enable the core isolation and memory integrity features, which rely on the TPM, the system will slog down to less than potato speed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  secure boot is being used to lock your control out of your own system

  Care to elaborate?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are.

  Kernel level drivers with known security vulnerabilities are blocked from loading in Windows 11.

  This is functionality of the core isolation / memory integrity protection, which rely on Secure Boot and TPM to function.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve released a new VR helmet?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Simmers of the world would like a word with you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Try the Final Sentence demo (competitive typing game... and psychological torment)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Game is pretty fun, it had me typing out some pretty silly stuff that had me chuckling

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  replacing the single most universal function

  For quite some time now, Apple and Samsung have had the shutdown menu behind a multi-button press (Lock + Vol +/-). In Apple’s case, it’s always required more than just the lock button.

  If anything, this is Google shifting to the ‘norm’, having multiple button presses be the default is ideal in preventing accidentally invoking the menu and shutting down the device.

  Far as “anti consumer” is concerned:

  ad delivering spyware

  Relative to most consumers, this perspective has you in the minority. Your average consumer is going to engage with this feature, this change makes the feature as accessible as possible so that you can do something like send a text with a single hand / button press.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to minimise the space taken up by windows partition? (dual-boot)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No additional software necessary

  sudo dd status=progress if=Windows.iso of=/dev/sdX
  

  X is the letter assigned to your USB device, visible in lsblk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to minimise the space taken up by windows partition? (dual-boot)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows’ installation assistant only runs on Windows

  Well, yes, but all that is a GUI to simplify downloading and writing the Windows installation ISO to USB media. You can download the ISO image to Linux and write it to USB yourself. The option to download the ISO is on the same page you’ve been getting Media Creation Tool.

  You could get Bedrock edition from the Google Play store and run it via an Android emulator.

  Otherwise, based on your other comments, it seems like you’re trying to trudge through manually trimming down a preexisting OEM install of Windows. For such a minimal use case, you would probably benefit from a clean reinstall and should consider exploring something like Tiny11, ReviOS, or AtlasOS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do video game leaks (such as the huge GTA VI videos leak) cause "low morale" for the staff working on it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ever had someone looking over your shoulder providing feedback to something that you’re in the middle of writing the first draft of?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cry Havoc for this open world cyberpunk dog-fighter inspired by G-Police⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Article doesn’t make this clear, but there’s a next fest demo you can check out right now if you want

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 hits EA’s highest ever concurrent player count on Steam, beating Apex Legends | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The game is really quite fun, this is one of the first Battlefield launches to be devoid of any major technical issues or controversies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Masters of timing, Microsoft: Just one day from Windows 10 EOL and apparently the official Media Creation Tool isn't working⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s plenty wrong with Microsoft and their messaging around this transition, but IMO Windows 11 really is more of the same, it just has some cosmetic changes and under the hood security features (related to TPM 2.0) that bring it up to speed with MacOS.

  ads being introduced to the OS

  “Ads” for first party Microsoft products (365, Game Pass) were present in 10 as well. Not aware of any ads for third party stuff, other than maybe the placeholder app icons for stuff like TikTok and Facebook on a fresh install - in both 10 and 11.

  shedloads of telemetry

  Also in 10

  constant UI changes (Start menu, Settings app)

  Not sure what you mean here, these things have remained pretty consistent since Windows 11’s launch in 2021

  nags for OneDrive

  Trivial to disable, and I’ll never be against reminding users to have some kind of backup. Ultimately, Windows 10 was also like this.

  I do wish the article mentioned Linux as an alternative to upgrading / buying new hardware. Equally irresponsible is the omission of Windows 10’s ESU enrollment option, which currently delays this whole ordeal by another year.