magic_smoke
@magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 5 days ago:
Bullahut you did it to impress the other nosepickers, same reason these kids are doing it.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 week ago:
HD/4K video streams eat bandwidth like a motherfucker. Gonna have to find some rich hobbiests for that.
I guess someone could start a nonprofit but you’re more likely to do that for the developers themselves first.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t that count as a VPN, albeit one run on someone else’s machine?
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 week ago:
No I understand the benefits of open source software but this isn’t just a feature you can code in. Without portfords to the server, a VPN, or a reverse proxy, jellyfin would have to start hosting a service.
Is it technically feasible? I guess but seems like its both out of scope and not in the interest of the developers since the last thing they want probably want to get caught in is hosting streaming relays for everyone free of charge.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 week ago:
I prefer a VPN for this sorta thing because its a bit more hardened.
Nginx is a good reverse proxy for my publicly available hosts.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 week ago:
Oh yeah no you can rent out a vps and use it as a VPN/router appliance. I’ve done that before for other project, just figured it seemed a lil overkill here.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 week ago:
People are saying switch to jellyfin, which I’m all for. But you’re expecting a service which will make remote access easy like Plex ur kinda fucked.
I mean if have to set up wireguard or whatever for Jellyfin you could just do the same for Plex?
Again go to jellyfin either way, proprietary software can suck my gurl cawk, but either way you need a VPN or open ports.
- Comment on EA cancels multiple projects from Apex and Titanfall developer Respawn with more layoffs 2 weeks ago:
God I’m kinda jealous of the guys who’re like 10-15 years older. Like at least Westwood got out a good amount of CnC games before they caught the knife.
Respawn was killed just as it was really finding its place in the world…
- Comment on Wii Homebrew Community "Built On Lies And Copyright Infringement" 2 weeks ago:
Shame, probably the most widespread platform you can port ppc distros to.
If I and more time and energy it’d be neat to try and port something over.
- Comment on Wii Homebrew Community "Built On Lies And Copyright Infringement" 2 weeks ago:
Its wild to hear it called miniscule considering Wii homebrew at its peak was as big as Xbox or PSP modding.
- Comment on Wii Homebrew Community "Built On Lies And Copyright Infringement" 2 weeks ago:
Any pirate with a decent bon in their body will respect FLOSS license requirements, as they’re mostly their to weaponize the copyright system against proprietary software devs.
That’s fundamentally different to how corporations use copyright law. When you fuck over free software you’re fucking over the people who’re fighting fire with fire.
Lastly, many emulator/homebrew devs specifically rip their own ROMs and dont get involved in illegal distribution of ROMs to keep their projects legal. Lot easier to stick on a resume that way.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 2 weeks ago:
I’d say no but I also know what a hunt group is so I’m probably the wrong whipper snapper to ask.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 2 weeks ago:
Yea, let me throw this fuckin’ thing in there too:
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 2 weeks ago:
Yeah okay, carry that amount of information in your go bag via physical books.
- Comment on A New Form of Verification on Bluesky 3 weeks ago:
So they’re centralizing their ‘federated’ social media even more.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 3 weeks ago:
If you want your site reachable that’s fine, but if you want to operate as a legal business with a local operation and all that entails, you need to follow local laws.
- Comment on Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’ 4 weeks ago:
I think the takeaway is “The Nintendo Switch 2 isn’t the thing you should be pissed about when these tariffs are going to cause a lot more problems for way more people.”
- Comment on I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened 4 weeks ago:
Oh no I’m aware of the resolution limitations as a first gen vive owner. That being said from what I’ve heard some of the newer high DPI devices handle this a lot better.
It’ll be a while but I think it will eventually have a practical use case as a portable workstation monitor.
- Comment on I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened 4 weeks ago:
I mean if it did multiple virtual monitors the way vr headsets can I could see this being worth it…
Yeah they make laptop monitors but no ones gonna carry two 24" panels and a 30" ultrawide in their pocket.
- Comment on I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened 4 weeks ago:
Depends the type. Some are essentially just a monitor.
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation exec argues 'only the dog can hear' differences between consoles and gaming PCs: 'They're all quite similar' 4 weeks ago:
My PC is so backwards compatible it can run games meant for OS’s my OS’s main competitor, and their ancestors as well.
Better yet it can literally run those OS’s over things like KVM/Qemu and DOSBox.
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 5 weeks ago:
Yes but that group by in large won’t be buying a switch 2 for at least a couple of years. $450 per console plus $80 a game is brutal, especially if you’re buying for more than one kid.
On the other hand a switch lite can be had for like $100 and used games aren’t too expensive either.
The sort of people who bought a switch at launch, after drinking Nintendo NX leaks like kool-aid, aren’t as impressed this time around.
Lifetime sales won’t be affected nearly as hard, but I don’t know that the first year will be as big as the OG switch’s.
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 5 weeks ago:
The steam deck can play literally any Mario Kart except for MK World…
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 5 weeks ago:
What’s the difference?
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 5 weeks ago:
I think to the “early adopter” crowd, the people like me who where huffing Nintendo “NX” leaks back in 2016, the more “core” audience of people from the ages of late teens to however old James Rolfe is now.
Those people will probably buy a steam deck before a switch 2. There are a lot of them.
Though not as many people as there are like my ex-sister-in-law and her new bf who put together have 4 kids including my niece. The Linux PC I built them to make sure their kids had a good puter is enough trouble. I don’t see them even considering them for their kids.
- Comment on Europe proposes backdoors in encrypted platforms under new security strategy 5 weeks ago:
Don’t host it on clearnet :p
- Comment on Europe proposes backdoors in encrypted platforms under new security strategy 5 weeks ago:
Normal people can too, you can run an xmpp server on a fucking potato.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 5 weeks ago:
For transfers between systems you own yes, but when grabbing a Linux iso from a public server FTP works fine.
For years Firefox allowed you to crawl FTP sites natively.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 5 weeks ago:
I hope to god one day the developers at Mozilla finally get tired of this shit and fork everything under a new org.
Fuck off with more services and give me my integrated FTP client back.
- Comment on Are Dairy Robots the Secret to Happier Cows and More Efficient Farms? 1 month ago:
Wtf why do all the good jobs keep getting take by fucking robots.
I don’t want to dick with excel sheets, pay me to hug cows.
