Conclusive proof that D is faster than C, 2025

He has a fancy current gen MacBook Pro that he uses for his stuff. Then when it’s lesson time he whips out a windows 95 netbook and a daisy chain of adapters from VGA to thunderbolt.

I mean at that point you gotta admire the tenacity

1,028 movies

517 shows (20,702 episodes)

Shows are all 1080p or lower except a couple seasons of select shows in 4k. Movies are 4k HDR when it’s available, otherwise best quality I can find.

I use Jellyfin because of the client apps and FOSS nature.

I tend to prefer HEVC/h.265 encodings for the strong trade off between player compatibility and smaller size for the quality level, but h264 and AV1 are also both in my library. I don’t reencode anything except through the Jellyfin server transcoding.

It’s from Tyr, the Norse god. Originally closer to Tyr’s day, hence the odd spelling relative to the pronunciation.

Likewise we have (W)Odin’s Day, Thor’s Day, Frigg’s Day, and Saturn-Day. Of course there’s also the Sun’s day and the Moon’s day.

The issue with the line of thinking you’re espousing is that without evidence, you’re suggesting a more complicated cause than simple chance.

Like yes, it is possible that somebody or some group lined all of these things up in advance, but it’s also entirely possible that there’s a ton of noise out there on the internet and that those with nefarious interests just signal boost the noise that benefits them.

Think of all the millions of random schizo-posters out there. You just pick whichever makes the right sounds and boost them. No need to invent the crazy when there’s crazy on tap.

This. I use symfonium for my audiobooks. Great app.

Right, that’s their point. Chocolate chip cookies can be made to be chewy when cold instead of crunchy, in which case they’re still much better than crunchy chocolate chip cookies.

But also just, in general, companies are not gonna be chill with people demanding they give them a copy of their backend software. It’s just not gonna happen, and the EU is definitely the weaker of the 3 major markets. Companies are just gonna go “lol, now you don’t get to play online I guess” instead.

Good thing they can just put an expiration date after which the game isn’t guaranteed to be supported instead, then.

It fixes issues with games. If the game has no issues with regular Proton then the answer is generally “no”.

In fact, with regular Proton you’re much more likely to have pre-compiled shaders available for your system through Steam, which should improve performance by reducing stuttering.

I’m a software developer too, funny that.

I have also read the proposal. They ask that if it is not feasible, that publishers put an expiration date on their products, to clarify that the “game purchase” is actually the purchase of a limited-time license that is not guaranteed to continue working. The current practices are deceptive.

So firstly, that’s extremely easy to achieve, no more onerous than a decent warranty (or even a disclaimer that there is no warranty and it’s never guaranteed to work), but also, there are third party hosting companies that game publishers could hand off hosting duties to without open-sourcing, creating a final “single player only” patch, or otherwise creating a gentler off-ramp to allow the community to continue to maintain games on their own dime.

Only naive, entitled gamers would demand such a wild thing. It’s not going to get past any courts

Which is why the SKG campaign is specifically not demanding that. Pirate Software has misrepresented the stance of the SKG campaign consistently in his videos. Seriously.

I tried out the Deep Research feature for it today using my work account. It worked pretty well, not perfectly, but well enough. I chatted with it after it completed its report and it was able to hold the research and the report itself in context to answer my follow-up questions quite comprehensively.

Books at book stores don’t generally have graphic violence and gore.

…seriously? Go read The Boys or Chainsaw Man or Gantz

Yeah, for real. This is only wholesome if you ignore the dystopian context

You can copy Spotify playlists to other services

I’ve seen some folks complain about its size, but it’s like 8 or 9gb. Small price to pay if you ask me for how turnkey it is. Besides storage is cheap now.

Especially when you consider Windows is like 20-30GB

Meh, I’ve found that Heroic works just fine for most offline installers. YMMV of course.

I have the Retrofighters BattlerGC Pro, this is the Playstation layout equivalent:

https://retrofighters.com/our-collection/defender-pro-wireless-gamepad/

Hall effect sticks, Bluetooth support, 2.4ghz dongle, excellent buttons. The BattlerGC Pro is the best controller I’ve ever owned. If this Playstation style controller is even close to as good you won’t be disappointed.

Edit: they also have this mini controller, and this one is currently available, whereas that more deluxe one is a pre-order shipping in January.

Come see the violence inherent in the system!

You spelled it wrong but pronounced it right FWIW. I watched the show and read more than a dozen of the books growing up.