I kind of miss nosleep.

Or better yet, giant tardigrades that are roughly the size of a large dog/small wolf for the purpose of having an effectively immortal sled team.

Also, mice used to be a novel way to interact with a computer that nobody was comfortable with.

There aren’t a lot of people left who are comfortable in a pure keyboard environment. Much less the flip switches on early PDPs.

Computer interfaces change. Being uncomfortable using an interface that’s new to you is indicative of nothing.

Both of these read like the author is simultaneously looking down on both groups of developers in disgust and trying to represent them as some kind of idealized stereotype of a specific group of developers.

1. Bezos is the example they were using to illustrate their point. Which isn’t a strawman argument by any definition of the term.

2. That’s a statistic that can, in fact, be proven. They should probably cite a source for it, but given how you set the level of the discussion, I can see why they’d think that level of effort is unnecessary.

3. Posing a question can be a way to make a point. It’s called a rhetorical question. It helps the argument if you follow up with an answer to the question, but the question on its own is enough to make a point.

Ah, it’s one of those. I was thinking it was the TV’s OS.

I don’t have a lot of experience with those smaller dongles, but as I understand it they’re fairly low power devices that are more meant for streaming relatively low bitrate media from the internet or from a phone. It may not have the horsepower for playing back high bitrate media from Jellyfin or Plex.

Others may have a solution that’ll work for that device, but my gut response is to say you should consider replacing it with something more powerful.

Unless you have a commitment to only using open source software, I’d recommend Plex over Jellyfin. Mostly because I’ve found the client software for Jellyfin to be lacking, especially on AppleTV.

For the issues with the GoogleTV, you mention that it’s on WiFi, would it be possible to use a wired connection or get another set top box for it? Some TVs have the WiFi antenna behind the screen causing interference, so even though other devices get a strong signal the TV doesn’t.

Also, how’s the hardware on your server? Is the CPU powerful enough or do you have a GPU for transcoding? Also, is the server on WiFi or wired?

It’s worth noting that a lot of settop boxes have limited codec support, which might be forcing transcoding even if everything should otherwise support direct play.

Yes, precious.

Not if you’re using your card. The card can still be cloned with a few seconds of physical access. Also, with a card, there’s no PIN verification with tap to pay and no signature requirements. Because of that most countries have transaction size limits for tap to pay. Usually in the $50-$100 USD range. The US, notably has no such limits. So, if someone steals your card they can use it up to your balance/credit limit, or up to the transaction limit your bank sets, typically about $10,000 USD.

Tap to pay using a phone, apple watch, or similar device is more secure because they have actual 2FA and generate unique payment information for each transaction on top of the already existing encryption of the transaction data. Additionally, cloning the underlying payment info would require being able to access the secure enclave on the phone.

First, look at my username, then reread what I said.

Also, technically the parts weren’t truly bait-and-switched. You do see what you’re going to actually get prior to agreeing to anything. The FPS numbers being the same despite different specs, could conceivably still be correct since they don’t go into any details about their benchmarking and they could be manipulating settings to hit a target FPS. Which would still be manipulative and would probably qualify as false advertising.

The whole rent-to-own thing is only implied by some of their influencer advertisers, where it’s at the very least plausible that those influencers were not directed to say those things. And it hasn’t been proven that it was actually part of the ad read that NZXT directed. It’s just assumed that it is. The assumption is reasonable, but it’s still an assumption.

You have to infer facts that do not exist or have other plausible explanations to construe any of this as an out and out scam. What it is is shady, suspicious, and more than enough reason for me to take my money elsewhere.

But to call it a scam is to assert facts that at this time do not exist.

Also, the chips aren’t that much better than the stripe. It’s harder to clone the chip and much harder to do en masse, but far from impossible. On top of that, the measure that is supposed to prevent cloning from being viable is almost never actually required, that being the PIN.

It’s called “Chip and PIN” for a reason. It’s a 2FA system where one of the factors just isn’t required and the other can be readily compromised. It’s baffling how we have a functioning system for digital payments when seemingly no one is willing to properly implement and then use a secure standard.

The typo kind of makes sense though. The Gods are etymologists who study the language of the bugs. It’s why they understand prayer. Entomological etymologists.

Not a scam per se, just tricksy and false.

But I’ll get cat hair on my programmer socks!

Just include a glossary of formulas for figuring out stats/chances/whatever in your game. With clearly labeled variables. Then throw a reference to that glossary in your tooltips/helpful popups.

*Fred Durst and Chris Cornell bumping into each other at a random bar in the year 2000.

Personally, I felt like Win8 was an over correction in favor of touch screens vs Win7. Win8.1 was kind of the sweet spot for getting touch screen functionality into Windows while maintaining a consistent UI between tablets, laptops, and desktops. So much so that I would consider it to be separate point on the chart between 8 and 10.

Win10 did improve the UI a bit over that, but was so much of a step backwards in basically every other regard that I do consider that the point at which Windows started trending consistently downwards. As in, Win10 should be lower then Win7 on that curve, with Win11 lower than that, and no real hope that any future updates or versions will ever improve anything.

It’s been that long? My sister has a 5yr old and a 4yr old that I babysit on the weekends and I made the mistake of showing them The Nightmare Before Christmas last year. For my sister and I it was our Christmas movie and I wanted to continue the tradition.

I only see my nieces for two days out of every week, but over the last year I’ve seen that movie so many times that I frequently wake up with “This is Halloween” stuck in my head or catch myself humming “Oogie Boogie’s song.”

I keep trying to show them other movies but it’s seemingly the only thing they want to watch, and they’re so polite about it that it’s basically impossible to say no. I keep hoping they’ll grow out of it or find something else, but it seems like I’m stuck watching this one movie forever.

That just sounds like the gut biome version of a spworm.

That is generally what I use in my homelab. Though I’ve found that Fedora works a bit better for a general purpose daily workstation OS.