TIL, the threadiverse has a lot of .zip communities.

I wonder if they’ll be larger after I unpack them?

Bam! Fucking mic drop!

Do I have to start playing games with loot boxes before I can start boycotting them?

The only one I’ve ever played was overwatch, but overwatch 2 is garbage, so…

Well, I have the ultimate defense against ransomware, full disk backups. Honestly, with automated backups, the whole world is a little less scary.

I don’t really use the browser on that machine. It still has basic virus protection, and such.

End of security support is no joke.

Well really… that all depends on if you’re laughing.

Nope

I still use steam on Windows 7. I don’t see the problem.

That’s what you have to do for sharing!?

Someone definitely told me that there was library sharing for jellyfin… Is this the only option?

There’s a simple answer to that. When many people first got started with Plex, it was awesome! Way better than xbmc! Also, jellyfin didn’t exist.

Once you’ve had things up and running smoothly for years, changing everything is a hard sell. You could spend hours setting it up, fixing little inconsistencies, manually matching titles that had weird names, etc. or you could just… not.

I hope I’ve cleared things up for you! The answer is laziness!

They do more Linux and Mac porting than any other company I know. Back in the day I believe they were actually game developer, but they seem to have become specialized in porting games specifically.

Well my users are my family and close friends, so I just do care about them… Some of them use a smart TV app to access Plex, which is pretty convenient as it doesn’t even require additional devices or remote controls.

The fact is, as the family tech guy I spend a lot of my effort trying to make tech as easy to use for everyone as possible. And more than anything else, making things intuitive and simple is what eliminates the most amount of hassle for me.

I gotta be honest, when I look at the problem pragmatically, it’ll be a lot easier to pay $20 a year than to switch to jellyfin and get all my users to figure out how to install clients and make it work for them.

I’m already at the point in my life where my primary concern is making things work smoothly, and if I need to throw money at something to make it work smoothly, the choice is a no brainer. (At least for some values of “money”)

Does anyone know what other nations fall into this “sensitive” classification?

Edit: I did some googling myself and here’s the list below. (The short version is: Russia and their allies, China and their allies, and broadly the middle east. Weirdly, also Taiwan)

• Algeria
  

• Armenia
  

• Azerbajan
  

• Belarus
  

• China (PRC)
  

• Cuba
  

• Georgia
  

• Hong Kong
  

• India
  

• Iran
  

• Iraq
  

• Israel
  

• Kazakhstan
  

• Korea (North)
  

• Kyrgyzstan
  

• Libya
  

• Macau
  

• Moldova
  

• Pakistan
  

• Russia
  

• Sudan
  

• Syria
  

• Taiwan
  

• Tajikistan
  

• Turkmenistan
  

• Ukraine
  

• Uzbekistan
  

I realize that’s a long list, I don’t know, should I put that in a or code block or spoiler tag?

I’ve been playing a lot of terraria with my son recently, it’s been a lot of fun going back to it. Coincidentally, I just saw the trailer for Noita for the first time last night, and thought “woah, that looks cool as hell…”

I’m going to develop a new AI designed to remove watermarks from AI generated content. I’m still looking for investors if you’re interested! You could get in on the ground floor!

You could use it as the logic board for a micro drone, something the size of a dime perhaps. Or other applications where weight or space are extremely limited. Another example might be a medical implant of some sort, this is small enough that it could be a part of a device that is meant to be placed inside an artery, or an eyeball, or an ear canal.

To be fair, it is really hot…

Well that’s been my policy so far. Since there are literally no controls whatsoever over the content in Roblox, it looks like my kid will be old enough to play Halo before he’s old enough to play Roblox.

I have no problem with this, there are a lot of games out there.

Thanks, heh, I just came back to look at what I’d written again, as it was 6am when I posted that, and sometimes I say some stupid shit when I’m still sleepy. Nice to know that I wasn’t spouting nonsense.

That sounds like a you problem.

“Our business is so bad and barely viable that it can only survive if you allow us to be overtly unethical”, great pitch guys.

I mean that’s like arguing “our economy is based on slave plantations! If you abolish the practice, you’ll destroy our nation!”