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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefly, the shinest damn show in the 'Verse⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Opening scene is the battle of Serenity Valley, it cuts away to the crew collecting illegal salvage and having a close call with the Alliance, they pick up Shephard and Simon as passengers / commuters on Persephone which I think is the scene you’re referring to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefly, the shinest damn show in the 'Verse⁩ ⁨⁨28⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  The original pilot / first episode, Serenity (not to be confused as the movie of the same name), is an hour and a half long and sets up a ton of context for the rest of the show.

  Instead, Fox aired the second episode, The Train Job, as a pilot.

  Serenity was ultimately aired as a series finale / 11th episode, the show was cancelled before he three remaining episodes were aired.

  If you haven’t seen Firefly, I strongly recommend that you start with the Serenity Episode. You’ll know by the end whether or not this show is for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Wins $2 Million Lawsuit Against 'MiG Switch' Distributor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At launch, the original Switch was incredibly difficult to get. I had to use BrickSeek and out in a fair amount of effort to get one, calling in late to work and going out if my way to pick one up.

  In the first two weeks after Switch 2 launched, I had multiple opportunities to buy one off the shelf and I wasn’t even looking for them.

  The strong launch supply is the key contributing factor to the sales figures here, I’ll be curious to see how the sales compared after a longer period like one year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good news. :)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite a few of the folks I know consider BC just as big / important a part of the PNW as Bellingham, Seattle, Olympia, Portland, Salem, Eugene, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 dev apologizes for requiring Secure Boot to power anti-cheat tools⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not enroll a key for your second OS?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 dev apologizes for requiring Secure Boot to power anti-cheat tools⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There a particular reason you wanted Legacy / BIOS mode?

  MBR2GPT makes the conversion easy and can even be run from the OS while it’s running. We get an image backup first, but we’ve never had to use it. There are occasionally complications getting it to actually run, but those are usually when the disk is full when folks have a really weird nonstandard partition arrangement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 dev apologizes for requiring Secure Boot to power anti-cheat tools⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really don’t understand the aversion to Secure Boot, can somebody share some perspective?

  It’s a setting that you toggle in BIOS and is found on virtually every motherboard from the last 12 years. Some platforms are slightly counterintuitive, requiring you the manually switch to custom keys and then back to factory key in order for it to install/activate. For booting alternative OSes, enrolling a custom key takes 5 seconds.

  It hardens security of the boot process, and It’s already a requirement for Windows 11, the primary OS that most PC Gamers are already going to be choosing.

  I feel like there’s a ton of bitching going on over the most minor of inconveniences that will actually prove to be a net benefit overall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Gamers Nexus] How Razer Screws Customers | Hardware, Software, & Support Failures⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Been using a Blackwidow keyboard since 2017

  Had a Mamba mouse purchased in 2019 start to have issues registering clicks in 2023, but I see that as a failure of the ALPS micro switch. Bought the same mouse because nothing else fills out my hand quite the same way.

  Partner’s using a Deathadder mouse I originally bought in 2015.

  I still have an Orochi laptop mouse I bought way back in 2008, heavily used for a decade without issue.

  One of their headsets has made it as a hand-me-down through two friends.

  Their laptops are another story. Challenging to find parts for, and they’ve tried to copy Apple down to the flaws - “flexgate” is just as much an issue on Razer laptops as it is on MacBooks, except that the screens are harder to come by so they cost way more.

  Finding and downloading drivers is an awkward and confusing process, and the they’re all years out of date anyways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parallel Empires⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  who needed only 1 USB-A and two lightning cable ports?

  That MacBook has an additional USB-A port and an HDMI port on the other side

  When was Mini-DVI relevant?

  In the mid 2000s. DVI offered the advantage of digital signal and support for higher resolutions at a time when most other laptops still had a VGA port. Part of Apple’s option of “premium” technologies. HDMI didn’t really start to take hold until the late 2000s, and Apple eventually switched.

  Apple have generally been willing to adopt the more novel / premium connections in their products. Consider the 2016 MacBook Pro - Apple went all-in on Thunderbolt / USB Type C at a time where that was a rather uncommon connection, but in the years that followed we got an awesome array of aftermarket hubs and adapters that also benefited ultrabook users as the rest of tech started to follow suit.

  Don’t get me started on the iPhone USB-C port being limited to 500Mbps though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chex Quest⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was so disappointed by it. It’s not really an HD remake of the original, it’s a separate game that felt kind if bland by comparison

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This 81-year-old still works at Home Depot to support herself and her 90-year-old husband⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Were they supposed to use their crystal ball to predict the 2008 grift and subsequent rebound?

  In your list, nearly everything that comes after that is a symptom of trying to navigate financial hardship.l and being old enough to face age discrimination in the job market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homophobia implies the existence of jumpscare Yaoi/Yuri⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Five nights at Kazuki-kun’s and Touko-chan playtime

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨datacenter liquid cooling solution⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have a direct answer to your question, but expensive premixes aren’t really necessary outside of achieving a certain aesthetic.

  Distilled water, biocide and corrosion inhibitors. Make sure your metals are all compatible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alaska Airlines requests grounding of fleet citing 'IT outage'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “This is brutal. We’ve been sitting at the airport for two hours,”

  … lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Password manager by Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For the majority of my clients who use this kind of system, it is totally dysfunctional.

  Most of the records are incorrect, my guess is that they occasionally reset the password on mobile while the book is inaccessible and then don’t remember to update it in the book later.

  Effective use relies on the user’s understanding of umbrella accounts. I’ve had users have separate written entries for “Office”, “Skype”, “Hotmail”, and “Windows” because they don’t understand those things are all one Microsoft Account.

  As passwords get updated, it can become a mess of crossed out records with new ones squished into the margins. When a someone dies, anything written illegibly can be difficult for surviving family to discern. As the book gets filled out, it can get tricky to keep things alphabetized unless the user provisioned additional empty space between records.

  This system can work great for someone who is meticulous, neat, and organized.

  For your average person, I’ve had better luck solving the problem with a password manager synced to an online account that is protected by MFA and has recovery options that are also protected by MFA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Password manager by Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
  • for the tech inclined

  Managing sync between mobile and desktop is a bit more complicated than average consumers have the patience for (it’s really not very complicated, average consumers are just impatient)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are all going to traumatize whoever finds you, and are otherwise uncomfortable ways to go.

  Dignitas uses nitrous in their pods. Pretty chill way to drift off forever, so long as you ensure a means to get rid of the CO2 to prevent that ‘suffocating’ feeling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teamviewer Terminates Perpetual Licenses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Teamviewer is such a scummy company.

  • If you sign up for a TeamViewer license, you have 7 days to cancel and get a refund. This does not apply to renewals.
  • Licenses are only available in annual installments.
  • TeamViewer’s license recommendation tool may suggest a license that is greater than your actual need. In my case, the cheaper license that best fit my business use case (one session at a time) was not presented during onboarding.
  • TeamViewer does not offer mid-term downgrades, but does allow mid-term upgrades.
  • You will get a renewal notice 30 days before renewal. TeamViewer requires written notice of cancellation 28 or more days before renewal.
  • TeamViewer does not offer the option for mid-term cancellations and will not grant a prorated refund for the remainder of your unused license time. When you cancel, you are only cancelling the next renewal.

  We got totally boned when our renewal notice went out just before a three day weekend. PayPal and our bank sided with TeamViewer. Apparently, someone tried to sue over this shady practice in California and the court also sided with TeamViewer. Probably would have dodged this bullet if I had thought to scroll through the TeamViewer subreddit, I went with them because I had positive experiences using the free version for personal use.

  Been using RustDesk for years with great success. I especially appreciate the responsible disclosure banners on the main site and GitHub warning users that they might be on the phone with a scam artist.

  IMO, all the proprietary remote access software (Teamviewer, Ultraviewer, Anydesk, Etc) companies are profiting from and therefore complicit in the use of their software to scam people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old laptop died 🥲⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What beep?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old laptop died 🥲⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s normal Inside of the inductor looks like this: Image

  You can also use a multimeter to test across the inductor. It should have no resistance / will beep in continuity mode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is my GPU's "3D" usage spiking so wildly when I'm not even playing a game? It keeps throttling up and throttling down and the noise is extremely annoying⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The “3D” graph is really just GPU utilization. There are other aspects of the system that will utilize the GPU, like the Desktop Window Manager or Hardware Acceleration in your web browsers.

  You’re going to want to make sure the noise is indeed coming from the graphics card. CPU will also fluctuate in load / frequency and most fans’ speed logic is bound to that.

  I’ve found that, a lot of the time, this repeated “revving” is the result of something crossing a threshold in the fan curve. Adjusting the fan curve can help avoid that crossing that “cusp” back and forth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BattleBit - Operation Overhaul: Teaser Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Very excited for this! Honestly, I don’t understand all the negativity surrounding the devs going dark. I thought the game was fine the way it was shortly after launch. I don’t really get the need for an unending flow of content and updates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gets attacked by an organism

  Exacts revenge on an entirely different organism that had nothing to do with the first situation

  Just stay away from their nests dude