Crazy how USA seems unable to keep up, and it appears its best chance of maintaining hegemony is bringing China down, not improving itself. Never expected to see this shift in my lifetime.

They do, and I experimented with both, but wasn’t able to get better performance from Jellyfin compared to Plex. Always running on the same hardware. Still run both though, just in case.

Especially on non-GPU systems, Jellyfin is slower at transcoding than Plex. I don’t know the intervals, but I have both running in the sam machine, and Plex is always noticeably more responsive. Not by a huge margin, but still it is.

XBMBC (later Kodi) gang present!

Its company property, you don’t go putting stickers on company printers or the walls of your office.

And it’s not about resale value, it’s about corporate and professional image. We’re free to destructively mod our personal equipments, but not those of others.

I believe the 3D chatbot will have more emotions.

Recently spent almost four hours waiting for Windows Update on a brand-new PC. It wasn’t even apparent how long it would take, just kept grinding, rebooting, and grinding again.

For a three-decade OS that many bright programmers have worked on, Windows update sucks royally.

That was very, very likely what the parent comment meant. The correction was unnecessary.

Somewhere I read that bread has most of the essential nutrients for humans, except for vitamin C. That would mean that prisoners who were sentenced to bread and water could last many years if they had fruit occasionally.

I guess the kind of bread, and the reduced caloric needs of prisoners, play a huge role here.

Some continuous glucose monitors are MRI-safe, and they keep working after it. Just adding another data point.

It’s not mythology, testing was crucial so you wouldn’t ship a broken cartridge, which was very costly than a patch download. It made financial sense to test throughly, and more than that, develop carefully.

I think the only guys that made a working game in a week were Atari VCS developers, and IMO it wa a combination of the limited hardware, and the skill of a few legendary programmers.

Today we get games that dwarf the entire software stack of computers decades ago, but they’re made loosely, knowing they’ll ship broken and need patch after patch until it doesn’t make financial sense, and then they’re abandoned.

My most recent experience is Fallout 76 on Steam, and by god it is a bag of bugs despite being the bread winner of the franchise. For example, a long-standing bug is that once it starts, and offers to press any button to sign in, you have to wait about a minute before doing that, otherwise it will likely hang. This has existed since launch, and after numerous patches it hasn’t been addressed yet.

It doesn’t mean “never improve”, though.

Seems they’re working on that https://wiki.opennic.org/opennic/tls

– Sir, you need to walk a bit to recover faster.

– Take my signs already and don’t interrupt me!

My own penmanship would give their penmanship tetanus if they fought.

Tepache. It’s a Mexican fermented drink made with pineapple peels, piloncillo, and a few spices. It’s delicious, refreshing, and super cheap… well, until some entrepreneur eventually discovers it and makes it ultra processed and expensive.

Woah there boi, we prefer the name “Reddit Expats”, we no simple refugees or immigrants

“We are under attack, faithful Monerites! Shove more coal into the energy plants! Carbon will set us free!”

“We didn’t want to inflate our valuation with circular investings, the market made us do it! We are the victims here!!”

*Deploys golden parachute*

That’s donations, and I’ve donated to less projects that I’d like, because it would become costly very fast. Mainly things like Wikipedia or Jellyfin.