djdarren
@djdarren@piefed.social
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 13 hours ago:
That’s not Microsoft’s problem.
(I agree with you)
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 23 hours ago:
I saw a thread the other day, something like “What low-level conspiracies do you genuinely believe”; to which someone replied that they believe that OpenAI is being speedrun to bankruptcy in order for Microsoft to buy their data centres for pennies on the dollar.
And yeah, it all kinda seems that could be a credible outcome, at which point MS will have a huge amount of equipment all ready to serve game streaming to people who can no longer afford to buy a home computer to do the same.
Is it going to happen? shrug
Could it? Absolutely.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Huh, hadn’t thought of that.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Pretty much.
It reads the clipboard, adds the URL to a yt-dlp script, downloads the video, then switches to my YouTube Jellyfin folder and copies the download across. But instead of opening a terminal in that folder and copy/pasting the script from a .txt file I used to use, it’s just one click. Three if you count clicking the share button in Freetube and then clicking the ‘copy link’ button.
- Comment on South of Midnight won Best Character Animation at the 53rd Annie Awards 3 days ago:
I enjoyed it enormously.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
My approach is a python app that’s literally just a button I press after I copy a YT URL from FreeTube. I click the button and it gets yt-dlp to download the video in the highest quality into my Jellyfin folder so I can watch it on my Apple TV.
I did start looking into TubeSync, but I wasn’t all that familiar with Docker at the time, so got quite lost with it. In the end I quite like browsing FreeTube, and only downloading the stuff that catches my interest. Means I don’t spend ages idly scrolling a feed.
- Comment on this post would have singlehandedly won him the 2024 election 4 days ago:
Can anyone post a link to the material being referenced here, so I can decide whether to warn my church group about it?
- Comment on Lesbian group seeks legal exemption to exclude trans women from events 5 days ago:
TERFs in action, folks.
- Comment on Yes, that's the plural 5 days ago:
And I’m glad I attended this Breaking Bad convention.
- Comment on Just getting into a little bit of Troubles 6 days ago:
I prefer it when it’s sung by an Alan Partridge impersonator on the BBC.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 1 week ago:
Those things have held their value well, largely because of the RAM. Idly pondered grabbing one when the M1 came along, but the price was still strong. Dunno what they’re like now, mind. I’d be tempted as a replacement for my 2014, but honestly, it still works just fine considering it’s only got 8GB RAM.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 1 week ago:
I find myself at a point where I don’t actually want any new computing devices, partly because of this, and partly because, well, what I have works fine for me.
I have an M2 MacBook Air that is still as solid as the day I got it (Sequoia for life) for the majority of my personal needs, plus a 2014 Mac mini running Mint as my home server, an M1 Mac Mini my dad gave me that runs my Home Assistant, and an old(er) PC that has a GTX 1060 GPU that’s capable of playing most of the games I care to play. My phone is a Pixel 9 running Graphene which is a year old and nowhere needing a replacement, and I have an iPad mini that I barely use these days anyway.
I guess I’m lucky enough that my shit is new enough that it’s still usable, and my use-case is light enough on resources that the older gear still works perfectly well for what I need.
My wife, however, needs a new PC…
- Comment on Why didn't the mother just use her private doctor on her yacht? 2 weeks ago:
Hol’ up: You guys even have to pay for medical treatment for your kids? What kind of fucky shit have you got going on over there. Stop that.
- Comment on The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance 2 weeks ago:
There’s a cricket ground near me called the Hampshire Rosebowl. At least, that’s what it was called when it was built.
Since then it’s been sponsored by a series of insurance or finance firms, so has officially been known as The <FIRM_NAME> Bowl.
But not to me. Nope. It’ll always be the Rosebowl.
- Comment on Send HOAs To the Stone Age 2 weeks ago:
It always amuses me that the US - the land of the free, the home of the brave - has a fair proportion of its people living in homes over which they have significantly less control than basically everyone else in the world has over theirs.
- Comment on Lung identification course 2 weeks ago:
the true lungs are the lungs we made along the way
- Comment on Lung identification course 3 weeks ago:
thank you 🙏🏿
- Comment on Why PlayStation Graphics Wobble, Flicker And Twitch 3 weeks ago:
This Noodle video on how old games were developed with CRT in mind was absolutely mind-blowing to me.
- Comment on Lung identification course 3 weeks ago:
Is he limited to just those three types of lung, or are they just opening examples to prove his credentials?
- Comment on I used an original iPod Nano in 2026, and it worked surprisingly well 3 weeks ago:
To give a serious answer to this; I love using an iPod because it’s not a multipurpose device. I can put music on and not get distracted by notifications, or tempted to open any socials apps. It’s a far more zen experience.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 3 weeks ago:
Not the current gen. Well, it can act as a trackpad, but that’s not the primary input method. The previous gen, however, did have a trackpad. Again, it could be clicked, but it was generally shittier. The current remote is actually pretty nice.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 3 weeks ago:
We bought a 60” LG LCD first. It was too big for our living room, so when the backlight went faulty and we were offered a refund we chopped it in for the 55” OLED, which is basically perfect for our room.
Turns out 5” really can make a difference.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s not great.
Luckily, we do 99% of our viewing through an Apple TV, and we have a soundbar, so the ATV remote covers basically everything we need.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 3 weeks ago:
My 55” 4K OLED LG is the single greatest TV panel I’ve ever looked at. I can’t determine any individual pixels, the blacks are black. I have no issues with it in the slightest. And I see absolutely no reason why any TV of that size should need 4x more pixel density (or whatever it is).
- Comment on I used an original iPod Nano in 2026, and it worked surprisingly well 3 weeks ago:
The clickwheel ribbon cable on my iPod mini broke a couple of weeks ago, so at the weekend a friend of me very kindly donated his own mini to me, so I’m back on my iPod bullshit.
iPod gang rise up.
Oh, and if you’re using Linux, or don’t want the hassle of installing iTunes, TunesReloaded seems to be a genuinely great tool.
I really should get around to refurbing the 5th and 7th gen Classics I have too. They’re more versatile than the mini. But the mini is by far and away the easiest to flashmod.
- Comment on A new quest appears... 3 weeks ago:
Meanwhile, I just have a big button on my Home Assistant home screen on my phone that turns off all my lights. It’s great.
- Comment on A new quest appears... 3 weeks ago:
My bedside wireless charger has a piercing bright blue light on the front. That was covered by a small bit of black electrical tape on the first night.
Which sadist designs this shit?
- Comment on A new quest appears... 3 weeks ago:
I have a Zigbee controller coming at some point this week, so I can set up a bunch of Zigbee sensors and products that a friend of mine no longer needs. Proper looking forward to seeing what I can do with it all in Home Assistant.
- Comment on A new quest appears... 3 weeks ago:
There are people who walk among us, people who can vote, and procreate, who will willingly sit in a room with just The Big Light on. It chills my blood to think about.
- Comment on Is there a word or phrase in your language to describe the situation when you wanted to fart but shit yourself? 3 weeks ago:
“A man of the cloth”, or “touching socks”
One is more disastrous than the other.