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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep recommending BazziteOS but Jorge Castro over at the universal Blue project has a really good point “Most people don’t install their operating systems” and that plain fact is what stops people from moving to Linux.

  Valve has momentum because they are selling you a system with the OS already on it. Sell more gaming PCs with pre installed Linux on it and the support will follow. Valve’s first attempt at getting Linux based gaming hardware out there failed but that didn’t stop them and the real push is coming this time.

  If you do install your OS (most people here have once or twice), try Bazzite out. I’m running it on the minisforum Bd790i with a radeon 7800xt and it works great!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just want to make sure I read this correctly. It says that if your a Plex plass holder already that remote streaming changes won’t affect your service. This means that if I have the lifetime subscription and host my own server than users whom have not payed for Plex pass can continue to access this server without issue correct?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft pushes full-screen ads for Copilot+ PCs on Windows 10 users⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not yet. I’m just using RDP ATM. I’m thinking about trying out a small Intel arc GPU and moving over to looking glass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft pushes full-screen ads for Copilot+ PCs on Windows 10 users⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I virtualize windows for certain apps like Wendell does at level1techs. You can use Chris Titus windows utility to make a microwin11 image for your VM and install Adobe into there. This is a power user solution.

  Imo the Mac is technically cheaper than it’s ever been and a great alternative for a second PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft pushes full-screen ads for Copilot+ PCs on Windows 10 users⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  F this noise dudes. Leave windows while you can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube devs be like⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These platforms seem more vulnerable to alternatives than they ever have been before but it turns out the opposite is true. The hosting infrastructure is so expensive that it prevents competitors from even starting. Datacenters are basically a cartel and getting your foot in the door is near impossible without bouncing in on the heels of someone who’s in. Making compute storage cheaper is not the name of the game when it’s easier to profit by simply limiting access and driving the price up.

  On the other hand, YouTube has never been profitable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Team Disbanded After Critically Lauded Platformer Fails to Meet Expectations - Report⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I passed on this one because I always feel like there’s a real chance I’ll get screwed one way or another by Ubisoft so I just avoid them outright.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ryujinx emulator GitHub repository currently down⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t wait 'till they go to sue Valve for enabling people to perform piracy of their software on their platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Storefront Law Tells Us What We All Should Know: We Don't Own Digital Games | Time Extension⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … Then piracy isn’t theft. Let the whole digital content industry burn at this point. I don’t care anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus Z890 motherboards emerge at a U.S. retailer — pricing starts at $280 and goes over $1,000⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rant:

  I built a PC for a friend of mine recently and got a bundle CPU motherboard and GPU (5600x3D microcenter exclusive at the time). I had so many problems with the Phantom Gaming 6600xt at the time. The machine would boot inconsistently. I went back to microcenter and returned the card after reading that the sapphire 6750xt didn’t have the same problems and swapped up to a sapphire.

  This week I just bought a Radeon 7800 XT steel legend for 480$ USD. It was smaller and cheaper than comparable products. The card has the worst coil whine I ever heard and performed poorly. I assume I paid the price for not going for something like the sapphire nitro+. I went and swapped it out (at microcenter). 7800xt nitro+ is a much better card, does not whine and works as expected.

  This may be related to the AMD/Radeon products…

  I have a 3080ti from MSI that is a huge RGB glowing monstrosity in one rig and a dell 3090 24G in another. I got them used for 350$ and $600 respectively. I’m running the 3080 with a 12600k and the 3090 with a 7900x with higher end motherboards (Asus Maximus and ASRock Tai chi) and have no issues. I paid extra for these motherboards to ensure that I didn’t run into any weird compatibility issues.

  I just keep getting burned on ASrock, MSI, gigabyte models of things in the lower tier price category. It makes me feel like “the medium soda 40 cents cheaper than the large because it exists only to make the large seem like a better deal.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus Z890 motherboards emerge at a U.S. retailer — pricing starts at $280 and goes over $1,000⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It feels like the bottom felt out of the market and now if you want a computer that works as expected you need to get these ultra high end luxury RGB brainrot products.

  Anytime I try to buy something in the mid range now it basically comes broken or falls apart in the first month of ownership.

  You may as well buy Chinese ewaste from Ali express at that point.