Lianodel

@Lianodel@ttrpg.network

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m suffering for that right now. Sony Bravia.

  Firstly, I didn’t want to buy a smart TV, but that’s pretty much all that’s sold anymore. I also didn’t intend to connect it to the internet, but a well-meaning guest wanted to watch TV at night, and thought he was troubleshooting, not realizing he was in the TV menu and not the streaming box.

  The TV updated, and IMMEDIATELY got worse. Formerly, if I turned it on, it would go straight to the streaming box. Great! As shitty updates do, it changed the settings, and would instead open to the TV’s menu, so it could advertise streaming services. It also forgot that the TV input is HDMI 1. It became strictly worse, in the rare edge case of every fucking time you turn it on.

  I don’t trust it to not automatically connect, or to forget my login credentials, so I go to do a factory reset. It’s literally an option in a menu. The TV gets stuck in a boot loop. Talking to support, they think it broke the mainboard. A factory reset bricked the TV.

  It’s under warranty, but this is fucking crazy. NEVER connect your TV directly to the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is time to dispel all of the disinformation surrounding the life & death of Charlie Kirk.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He died as he lived: blaming systemic issues and right-wing violence on minorities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, I remember hitting that snag in an earlier attempt. I managed to do it, but it was definitely a point where Windows worked more easily than Linux. Glad to hear it’s gotten easier!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just made the switch and probably for good this time, and Steam just working was a HUGE moment for me. I opened up a guide thinking I’d need it, but I just downloaded Steam, didn’t change any settings, and could start playing.

  At this point, Linux is more of a “just works” experience than Windows 11 was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That sucks, I’m sorry. I’ve been frustrated by OneDrive, but thankfully not to nearly the same extent.

  Firstly, I did discover that it’s not a setting you can just turn off, because that will suddenly remove all the personal files and folders that were backed up, until you turn it back on. I knew I could work around it, but dragged my feet. Still, it was the first big push that eventually convinced me to use Linux.

  Secondly… it’ll also do the inverse. I play Tabletop Simulator with my friends, and it backs up files to a OneDrive-covered folder. It quickly took up too much space, and to avoid all the warning signs designed to irritate me into subscribing for more storage, I tried to delete it. Turns out, that doesn’t work, because OneDrive will assume it was an error and put those files back, and maintaining all those super helpful warnings about storage space.

  So, whether you want to keep a file or get rid of it, don’t worry, OneDrive can and will find a way to fuck it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a bit off topic, but it made me nostalgic. My first argument on reddit over a decade ago was with someone, either a scalper or a contrarian, trying to argue that scalpers provided a useful service that made things more fair, rather than assholes creating scarcity so they could profit selling a solution to a problem they themselves create.

  So yeah, I hope they all get fucked on this one, too.