RxBrad
@RxBrad@infosec.pub
The Internet is bad.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 6 days ago:
Also the Android TV app is AWESOME!
I dunno…
There’s a transcoding bug in the Android TV version of the Jellyfin client where transcoding a video with 7.1 audio breaks playback. Even with a Pull Request out there that fixes it (by matching the behavior of other Jellyfin clients), the issue got closed as “not planned”. The continued suggestion continues to be “just force everything to play in stereo”.
I don’t have unlimited bandwidth, so plenty of my stuff gets transcoded in Plex. I can’t, in good, conscience, switch my friends & family (most of who use Android TV) over to Jellyfin.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 2 weeks ago:
I legitimately don’t understand why the U.S. isn’t the only locality where it shows up as “Gulf of America”.
Set the en-US string to “Gulf of America”. Leave literally every other region’s text string untouched from what it was 6 months ago.
When the next Democrat U.S. President gets sworn in and immediately Executive Orders it back to “Gulf of Mexico”, change the en-US string back to that.
This is all so stupid and melodramatic.
- Comment on Teenagers turning to AI companions are redefining love as easy, unconditional and always there. 2 weeks ago:
It was all about “fun” in the days of MySpace and Digg and early-Reddit. That damn cat wanted a damn cheeseburger and we all laughed about it.
Then it became all about politics. And people would go to any lengths to ensure that “their” politics “won” on social media. We went from people having fleets of alt accounts, to fleets of bots, to just having AI spread and upvote propaganda.
So, it’s all just gross now. I want my goddamn Geocities & Yahoo! Towers back.
- Comment on In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico 2 weeks ago:
Such a weird thing for everyone to fixate on and lose their shit. Let our dumbass en-US selves do whatever “official” dumbass thing we have to with the name.
Everyone else can leave it what it always was.
Next time there’s a Democrat U.S. President, the “en-US” term will be changed back to Gulf of Mexico.
This is stupid.
- Comment on How Nissan and Honda's $60 billion merger talks collapsed. 2 weeks ago:
I do worry about Nissan’s future when they seem to be about this close to operating with zero profits.
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 2 weeks ago:
Genuinely curious… How does Google handle other oceanic naming that isn’t agreed upon Worldwide?
- Comment on Handful of users claim new Nvidia GPUs are melting power cables again 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on GTA 6 publishers think PC is of "increasing" importance in 2025, but still won't announce the magic date 2 weeks ago:
A year after consoles.
Rockstar knows how to get that double dip more than anyone else.
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 3 weeks ago:
I love Mastodon. It’s easily my favorite & most-used social media platform right now.
But I’m also a huge damn nerd.
I honestly can’t say I’d recommend it to anyone that isn’t also a huge damn nerd, because they just won’t find stuff they want.
“You want sports? We don’t have much of that, but check out the Proxmox server in this guy’s basement!”
- Comment on Luigi Mangione Played 'Among Us,' Breathes Air 2 months ago:
Got a chuckle at this response, though…
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows to Feature Denuvo & Mandatory Ubisoft Account Linking 2 months ago:
Good thing Sony doesn’t even have launcher. But hey, we’re still all mad. Because internet.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows to Feature Denuvo & Mandatory Ubisoft Account Linking 2 months ago:
PC gamers only care about account linking when it’s Sony.
- Comment on Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers. 3 months ago:
The fact that Russian came out this fast and said they need a version with their own commits is, perhaps, telling.
- Comment on Jellyfin 10.10.0 | Jellyfin 3 months ago:
My daily trickplay task finished in 1 minute after the update. So apparently not.
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 4 months ago:
It’s still active – save the communities that got kneecapped by mods during the revolt (and sadly, most of those are now Discord-based rather than having any appreciable activity here).
The activity there now is a lot… dumber. Like much of the internet, the ratio of real people to braindead bots on Reddit is a lot different than a few years ago.
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 4 months ago:
A lot of stuff ONLY has viable Q&A discussion there…
As much as I love the idea of Lemmy, try finding active communities here for: MAME or any other videogame emulation… Plex… The breed of your family dog/cat… Most any sort of non-Fedi-focused brand/podcast/personality…
Yes, I can create a new community. Then I just sit in it by myself, and occasionally deal with spam.
- Comment on Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens 4 months ago:
The majority of Reddit discourse on this is wild. The crowd there is going HARD to try and paint IA in the most negative light possible.
I know we don’t like Reddit here, but for example: reddit.com/…/internet_archive_issues_continue_thi…
It’s almost as if the “hackers” and/or copyright holders are running that conversation.
- Comment on Musk’s X blocks links to JD Vance dossier and suspends journalist who posted it 5 months ago:
So, uh… Why does Elon even care about this?
Is this from that Iranian hack of the Trump organization or something?
- Comment on Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc. 5 months ago:
Wait until they make all the money that was to be made on their game.
Then yoink all of that money.
- Comment on Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling 5 months ago:
That optimization part is what worries me. I still remember games like Control & Cyberpunk being basically unplayable unless you had a PS4 Pro.
- Comment on Fake Pokémon Cartridge Spotted At GameStop Raises Concerns Among Retro Gamers 5 months ago:
I’m surprised that they don’t take even a minimal amount of effort to clean those things up before selling it. A little dab of isopropryl alcohol does wonders.
That cartridge looks like it spent the last 20 years in a butt.
- Comment on Fake Pokémon Cartridge Spotted At GameStop Raises Concerns Among Retro Gamers 5 months ago:
Someone buys fake on eBay. Plays it. Sells it to Gamestop. Minimum wage employee does not spot that it’s fake and it ends up on the used game shelf.
None of this is new.
- Comment on Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms 6 months ago:
Consoles are $500 gaming machines, generally capable of about 30fps in games. It’s no different for Microsoft or Sony.
And Nintendo… Well, Nintendo is Nintendo.
The bean counters have decided that people don’t want to spend more than that on videogame consoles. If you want more fps, luckily everything gets a PC port nowadays; and your almost-certainly-more-than-$500 rig can handle that.
It is what it is.
- Comment on Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms 6 months ago:
That was an option on console for most of the generation so far: Performance Mode vs. Quality Mode. But that’s mostly because nearly every game released so far has been a hastily ported last-gen title. It feels like this gen has really just barely started.
Single-player console games being 30fps is not new by any stretch. That’s basically what consoles do. And they’ve managed pretty well with it so far. If you want to spend 2-3x more on a beefy PC, you can get all the frames you want. More power to you.
20 years ago… Skyrim, Fallout, The Last of Us 1, GTA4 on PS3/360 gen. 30fps.
10 years ago… God of War, Gears of War single-player, Fallout 4, The Last of Us 2 on PS4/XBoxOne gen. Also 30fps.
- Comment on Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms 6 months ago:
Luckily, this is about as much of a FPS as Skyrim.
Skyrim, too, was 30fps when it first released on PS3/360 back in 2011. None of this is new.
- Comment on Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms 6 months ago:
Both can be true.
I mean… 30fps has been the single-player console experience for as long as I can remember. (Except for the PS4/XboxOne-native games – seemingly this entire generation – which get 60fps on current gen.)
Yes, PC can do 60fps+ if your rig is beefy enough. Yay.
Console wars bullshit is insufferable. Even when PC is one of the consoles.
- Comment on Aftermath: Valve’s Baffling Deadlock Decisions Don’t Need Defending 6 months ago:
“But I must defend everything Daddy GabeN does!” ~ half of internet commenters, apparently
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 6 months ago:
Congratulations. Your new position is…
Boardroom Table.
- Comment on Lemmy's what are your favorite gaming podcasts? 6 months ago:
They’re still around. It’s just very different since COVID happened. And I’m old.
- Comment on Lemmy's what are your favorite gaming podcasts? 6 months ago:
- Nextlander
- Fire Escape
- Jeff Gerstmann
(Yes, I’m a Giant Bomb refugee.)
