Craft Computing on YouTube does these videos semi-regularly as well. Makes something from weird and cheap parts and then gives the results of how well it works or doesn’t, as well as what quirks you take as trade. For example; https://youtube.com/watch?v=VTWaRBcOsBE

Counterpoint; it required gigabit internet and still had noticable delay to my eyes. It also had compression artifacts as well as low-medium graphics settings. It also hitched semi-regularly for no apparent reason.

All the above meant that stadia was only good for people with the money to spend on it and located in an area with fast internet and didn’t play any FPSes. It was too many requirements to be a popular thing, kinda like VR is.

It also suffered from the “games get removed straight from my library” problem. They also couldn’t support every game, or even the bare minimum if most popular right now, simply because they had to make sure it’s supported on their backend.

It should have stuck around, but I don’t think it would be a big thing until much later when internet is actually decent in most places, instead of a very select few.

There’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. My parents and older siblings had juno email addresses through our ISP way back in the day. If you check their website they’re still not on https yet.

Maybe I’d want that for email, but frankly I check that often enough that even that isnt needed. I consider phone notification management to be a chore, why would I ever want to add that chore to my desktop?

I’ve found navidrome, tempo, and beets to be a pretty solid combo for that. Jellyfin technically has support for music, but I was not impressed with any of the players or library management that had to go with it.

Oh damn. I thought this was nice meme about how at least IT workers at least have job security still.

Yes, but it still works. So long as you don’t overdo it, like someone who isn’t new to this, it’ll work just fine for a start.

Step 1: download the free ProtonVPN app; https://protonvpn.com/download

Step 2: download the free qbittorrent app; https://www.qbittorrent.org/

Step 3: download vlc media player; https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Step 4: install and connect ProtonVPN to a free server.

Step 5: Pick a public torrent website from the wiki and look for a movie you want to watch.

Step 6: copy the magnet link the website lists and add it to bittorrent. Wait for it to connect and download.

Step 7: enable showing extensions if you use windows; https://www.howtogeek.com/205086/beginner-how-to-make-windows-show-file-extensions/

Step 8: make sure that all your downloaded files only ever play in vlc, and that they arent .exe files.

Step 9: leave qbittorrent running (and seeding!) On your computer after your movies are downloaded.

fstrim.service is disk tool (that’s supposed to only be run once a week, not every time you boot) that automatically cleans up old deleted SSD data. https://opensource.com/article/20/2/trim-solid-state-storage-linux

It looks like it’s running too often, or on the wrong devices, every time you boot your computer. You can actually safely disable it; https://askubuntu.com/questions/1165128/fstrim-is-causing-high-boot-time but it’s worth looking into why it’s taking so long and being run so often.

Running this should show you the log results of fstrim doing it’s thing without actually doing anything; sudo fstrim --fstab --verbose --dry-run

These two will show the status of fstrim and it’s autorun service;

systemctl status fstrim

systemctl status fstrim.timer

I got most of this from a quick google search; https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fstrim.service+systemd+slow You can do the same for the other major time-takers on your boot list. For comparison, here’s the top results of my semi-fresh install of linux mint;

dageek247@mintPC:~$ systemd-analyze blame 2.237s NetworkManager-wait-online.service 2.077s systemd-binfmt.service 2.003s systemd-resolved.service 1.976s systemd-timesyncd.service 1.916s fwupd-refresh.service 1.365s logrotate.service 1.326s NetworkManager.service 933ms fwupd.service 401ms blueman-mechanism.service 334ms udisks2.service 263ms apt-daily-upgrade.service 254ms dpkg-db-backup.service 229ms dev-nvme0n1p3.device 215ms accounts-daemon.service 201ms power-profiles-daemon.service 199ms polkit.service 197ms smartmontools.service 183ms rsyslog.service 173ms ubuntu-system-adjustments.service 169ms systemd-udev-trigger.service 156ms user@1000.service 155ms proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount 146ms ModemManager.service 132ms apparmor.service 123ms avahi-daemon.service 121ms bluetooth.service 114ms grub-common.service 111ms lm-sensors.service 106ms switcheroo-control.service 105ms secureboot-db.service

Ah. You’re likely in the wrong job for it then. They are incredibly popular in any sort of digital paperwork job.

Shame they cannot accept this.

The dudes or the ladies?

That’s androids fault. Their login input detection is spotty, and has been for a while now. https://9to5google.com/2024/10/06/android-autofill-password-manager-problems/

They website advertises mobile support. https://www.teamspeak.com/en/features/overview/

I did a little bit of initial testing, and it looks like there’s a couple issues for my use case. Screensharing is currently restricted to official servers only (so, not available to self-host). The channels are all audio first, and there is no such thing as a text-only channel.

The new teamspeak is neat, but it’s not quite there yet as a discord alternative.

I’m at two as well. Finasteride for hair, and vitamin D because my doctor recommended it.

I had thought the vitamin D pill was actually kinda useless when i first started taking it. I was fine before i started taking the pill, right? Due to me being lazy and prescription address changes lagging behind a move, I ended up skipping out on that pill for two months. Turns out, vitamin D is like, a minor anti depressant or some shit because I was exhausted all the time near the end there before I started retaking the pill.

Honestly, this one. Handbrake was made as a wrapper for ffmpeg anyways.

It’s not the “native” defines how or when you learned to speak a language. It’s that how and when you learned a language that makes it “native”.

As a bonus, since this is English, “native language” also changes definition based on context. If you are filling out a form and they are asking demographical information, your native language is Cantonese. If you are filling out a resume and want to describe how well you speak English, then you can read/write English at the native level.

If you are in a casual conversation and someone asks what your native language is, then your answer will likely include a whole or part of the above story, to avoid confusion and to encourage more discussion. Essentially, both Cantonese and English fit your “native language” definition in that context.

#13 I LIKE BIG BUTTS AND I CANNOT LIE

Fun fact! This abbreviation is so widespread that even government forms use it! They very specifically added the -ez suffix to show that this version is less of a pain in the ass to fill out compared to the old one.

https://www.va.gov/find-forms/about-form-21-526ez/

Probably the latter. Doesn’t matter which it is though; they advertise both on their website.

Because I told them I used torrents. Their FAQ literally has a page with instructions for setting up torrents. Still does. I didn’t think it’d be an issue for them.