TrickDacy
@TrickDacy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Linux user share hits a multi-year high on Steam for May 2025 19 hours ago:
I can confirm this helps so much. Haven’t really had trouble with games (besides very old or anti cheat games) since switching to AMD. I was able to sell my Nvidia for more than I thought it was worth and it covered most of my AMD upgrade.
- Comment on As you are doing it you never realize 20 hours ago:
Same. I plan to burn some backup blu rays to free up space in the next year or so
- Comment on As you are doing it you never realize 20 hours ago:
I haven’t burned my last one yet
- Comment on MEN. 1 day ago:
And then once you have the means, finding the right one…? This post seems tone deaf
- Comment on Owned (stocks) 2 days ago:
Lemmy often HATES when people make a correct statement that they’d rather ignore
- Comment on Owned (stocks) 3 days ago:
Thank you, Captain obvious
- Comment on Owned (stocks) 3 days ago:
People who brag about money never really coming out looking the best…
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 days ago:
You seem a little out of touch with how people think.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 days ago:
Gotcha. I read the tone differently, but all good.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 days ago:
Yeah, you have two options, as the server owner:
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You can enter a user’s email from the Plex UI to invite a user to your library. The user then gets an email asking them to sign up if they don’t already have an account.
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You can generate/send a link to join, any way you choose.
Once signed up, the user can accept the library invitation, then they login to the TV or other device. The code is used for the TV login process, like on other streaming platforms. But yeah, you could do an account-less version of this for Jellyfin, which I think laypeople would like.
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- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 days ago:
As I said, most people don’t have that nor do they want to set it up.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 days ago:
No, Plex lets you invite friends to your server with a link they can click and sign up. Then they can type a code into their TV app or login to a browser and watch basically like a standard streaming setup they already probably have used.
Jellyfin is less familiar. Arguably not much more difficult but people aren’t always rational. The unfamiliar is often intimidating.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 days ago:
Well yeah maybe that too, but a server no one connects to is a paperweight. The connection part confuses laypeople
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 days ago:
They prominently point this change out and kind of force you to choose whether you opt in or out. There is a single checkbox to opt out of all. But yes, it’s a bad direction. Just maybe not the apocalypse implied by some.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 days ago:
Apparently all your friends and family are comfortable with hostnames ip addresses. Not everyone’s are. Also, not everyone wants to buy a static ip or setup a dynamic dns service or similar. Plex is definitely simpler. I have used both.
- Comment on Fediverse Social Media Guide 5 days ago:
Yeah. Definitely might be a false cognate (if even that). Always look up etymologies if they interest you! Because so many that people repeat aren’t true. I was just speculating and hoped that was obvious, but maybe it wasn’t to everyone.
- Comment on Fediverse Social Media Guide 5 days ago:
Commenters be mad
- Comment on WMD 5 days ago:
How is this a shitpost exactly?
- Comment on Fediverse Social Media Guide 5 days ago:
Interesting at least two people thought you’re wrong and downvoted this …
- Comment on Fediverse Social Media Guide 5 days ago:
My understanding is french is the most Germanic of the romance languages, so I’d guess it came to them both from an older Germanic language
- Comment on faen 6 days ago:
Kind of. I’m just saying they posted a screenshot of a translation not currently happening and I could easily see it be edited in browser with dev tools or Photoshop for Internet points
- Comment on faen 6 days ago:
I would never translate slutt that literally means end or stop as graduate or the other way round.
Turns out, neither would Google translate
- Comment on faen 6 days ago:
The first one is real but not the second.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 1 week ago:
Right. The right wingers are arguing (usually without knowing it because they don’t understand words) for people to stay asleep and not think or question
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 1 week ago:
You’re trying to tell me windows “just works”?
Between updates taking time and breaking shit, drivers constantly demanding updates, auto start programs that slow your machine down and pop up prompts, new “features” in windows asking your time, literal ads in the OS, and I’m sure I could list more examples if I took time, windows hasn’t “just worked” for me in a long time. I was a daily power user of it from about 1997-2014. Which is why I hate it. On Linux, out of that list I experience an update breaking something once or twice a year, and sometimes having to copy paste some config vars on a game. Sometimes (like one in ten).
When I had an Nvidia card it was admittedly different. Not very stable because Nvidia chooses to be assholes. On an AMD card things are solid. Not much configuration when I do game
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 2 weeks ago:
I get that. I do think some people are pretty closed minded on the topic but you don’t seem to fit that bill. MS is not playing the long game though. Even my brother who has been against the idea of Linux forever is coming around. He’s installed it and playing around with it lately. He might just convert one day…
- Comment on How do you document your Homelab? 2 weeks ago:
I’m gonna try this neat trick at work
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 2 weeks ago:
I despise the term “circlejerk” and was only using it sarcastically. But in any case, I do grow tired of people shitting on linux. The reasons? I have explained a million times.
I mean, either deal with windows and its 1000 flaws or the same with linux. Some of us would just rather deal with flaws that are honest. I’d rather deal with a bug that 100 people around the globe work together to fix in a timely matter than deal with shit-ass “features” that actively ruin my experience because some disgusting executives want to buy more Porsches this summer. While pretending to care about me as a customer.
Cue “I just want to play games”. Well yeah me too sometimes. Now that I have an AMD card, I never have a problem with it. I spent a lot of time testing my games and 86% worked fine. This included a lot of sketchy/old games (Jedi Knight 1 and 2 for example – those barely can work on anything newer than win 98) that I didn’t expect to work actually… If we’re only talking new games, it’s probably like 95%. I don’t play games enough to care about an occasional poorly-written game not working.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 2 weeks ago:
Weirdly defensive about something that you yourself admitted that no one accused you of being
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 2 weeks ago:
And the windows circlejerk says private, secure, performant OSes that also play most games are trash not worth trying. Hm.
