paris

@paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He wildly misunderstood/misrepresented the initiative two videos in a row (and continues to ten months later), and he continually discredits the entire initiative because of contrived edge cases.

  I think this paragraph from this twitter reply really sums it up:

  My dislike of the initiative stems entirely from the wording to keep all games in a “Functional Playable State” after sunsetting which is not possible for all games and could limit what kinds of games people make in the future.

  The idea that creativity would be hampered because games would have to remain playable when the company shuts down servers one day is ridiculous. Can you imagine if we talked like this about anything else? “We can’t force every phone to use the same USB-C charging port because it would be too technically infeasible to do so and hamper creativity.” “We can’t outlaw CFCs because they’re useful chemicals and it would be technically infeasible for some products to be made without chlorofluorocarbons (the things that fucked up the ozone layer).” “My dislike of the initiative stems entirely from the wording to ‘make all cars limit their emissions’ which is not possible for some cars and could limit what kinds of cars companies make in the future.” Ridiculous.

  It’s absurd that I’m not exaggerating when I say his opposition to Stop Killing Games entirely boils down to “I think companies should be allowed to take games away because it would be really hard for them to leave some games playable when they’re done supporting them 🥺”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To me, “he died” puts an emphasis on what the person actually went through. To die is to experience the process of dying. “He is dead” puts the emphasis on his current state, not on the transition from life to that state. Linguistically, I consider dying to be the process and death to be the result. You die once, but you stay dead forever (medical resuscitation notwithstanding).

  I have no clue how many other people think of the phrases like that, but that’s the rhetorical distinction I draw between the two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I checked the source and I can’t find their full report or even their methodology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wino Mail is the closest drop-in replacement I’ve found for the old Windows 10 Mail app. It feels pretty similar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting Sunday - What's up?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Am I mistaken that docker creates temporary volumes with a nondescript name and you can potentially dig up the volumes that were being used in /var/lib/docker/volumes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine Microsoft has the same problem as Google, which is internally prioritizing flashy new things over maintaining useful old things. That’s why Google comes out with so many new things and kills so many old things.

  If you want a raise/promotion/etc., you have a better shot at it by bragging about the new feature/service you launched than bragging about maintaining the relatively stable project that’s been running for years but could use some improvements.

  It’s a really bad structure imo and I hate that Google and other companies prioritize like that :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When building a home server, could a used/cheap PC do the job?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My server pc is just my old computer parts. Ryzen 3 2200G with with 6Gb of RAM. It gets the job done!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Me when I didn’t read and comprehend the piece of writing I’m commenting on. The author literally talks about this and why essays specifically are an important tool that can’t be replaced with arguing your point in the classroom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is discontinuing its “watch together” feature⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a few metadata issues with Jellyfin until I changed the primary metadata source to be the same as what Radarr/Sonarr use so they all the file names match up and I’ve had no issues since.

  I also don’t have a notable issues with subtitles in Jellyfin, but maybe your requirements have more friction. Have you tried the (iirc included by default) Jellyfin plugin to automatically download subtitles for your stuff? Or the *arr program that handles subtitles (I forget its name)?