Screenshots? Look at Mr. Speedy Pants over here!

In my experience, half the time it’s a bloody YouTube video. Nothing says “fun” like having to seek back around in a video to find the next step without waiting 20 extra seconds because you already had to seek back and pause the video after it breezed past an overcomplicated and poorly explained step.

You think that’s bad? For as much as I love seeing a well-configured Nix system, it’s beginner-unfriendly learning curve is almost as bad as “compile everything yourself” distros.

As a beginner, do you have a question about Nix? RTFM. You did? Well, wrong Nix. You wanted to learn something about Nix the language, but those docs were about Nix the OS and Nix the package manager.

You just read a guide for using the nix command and wanted to install a program with nix-env? That’s an outdated guide. You should be using flakes and nix profile. You tried that, but it said the nix command is experimental so you didn’t do it? No, you were supposed to edit /etc/nix/nix.conf to enable them first.

Don’t get me wrong here though, I like Nix. It just desperately needs an actual beginner-friendly beginner guide for flakes and nix command commands that doesn’t assume everyone is a software developer. 80% of the Nix documentation tutorials aren’t even relevant to regular users, only package maintainers and NixOS users.

Tesla’s stock is an irrational, overinflated hype stock with an absurd price-to-earnings ratio and a large-shareholder CEO who was being investigated by the SEC before he dismantled it.

Considering that the stocks are used as his personal piggybank and his history of totally-not-market-manipulation-because-there-are-no-charges, I would be more surprised if the sales numbers are accurate.

Overwatch should be illegal in there anyway because of the “gay propaganda”

Good luck with that one. As long as Overwatch is free to play, they can just make new accounts with an EU VPN. No way to tie the account owner to their country of origin unless they fork over that info voluntarily, such as by having to make an online purchase.

Source? That would be useful for helping convince friends/family to switch to Linux and LibreOffice.

And then lost the reflog by rm -rfing the project and cloning it again.

Why was the path to my save games hidden in a dotfile-folder?

It isn’t any better on Windows, but oh boy does this one piss me off.

~/.config/mygame — wtf, no it's not config
~/mygame — fuck off, the home folder is mine
~/.local/share/mygame — better, I guess?
~/.cache/mygame — absolutely not here
~/.steam/.../MyGame — still not great, but at least it's self contained

Oh, interesting. I knew something was off about the place when I kept seeing anti-“woke” conservative opinion pieces posted there, but I thought it was just a bunch of MAGA morons voluntarily role-playing as “independent” “journalists”.

I actually jumped ship a while back. I agree that Plex is a business and they do deserve to get paid for development and infrastructure costs, but it’s the blatant enshitification that I have a big issue with.

They chose to lock a previously-free feature behind a paywall for everybody and asked for even more money to get it back. The less shitty alternative would have been to ask only the users who needed to use the relays to purchase a Plex Pass. Or, if they wanted to make it seem like a positive thing, they could have made the new subscription into an “enhanced quality” remote streaming experience that enabled higher bitrates over relays.

They gave their users the middle finger by picking the most transparently greedy option that they could get away with justifying.

Fair enough, although that actually has worse optics IMO. It goes from “this costs us money, so pay us” to “we need money, so we’re creating an artificial reason for you to pay us”

The self-hosted servers use UPnP and NAT-PMP to automatically forward the port used for media streaming.

Very, apparently.

They use UPnP and NAT-PMP1 to have clients directly stream the media from users’ own self-hosted servers. It costs them almost nothing in bandwidth to do that.

Software costs money how would they continue to developed it if not getting paid?

Apparently a hot take as evidenced the downvotes on my other comments here, but by adding things people want instead of taking away things people already have and charging more for it.

They don’t even have the excuse that they need to pay for the bandwidth costs of relaying video from servers to clients. Video is streamed directly from the user’s self-hosted server, using UPnP or NAT-PMP to make the server accessible from outside the local network.

And this isn’t a new feature they’re adding. Remote streaming was already implemented and generally available to users.

I don’t discount there being a cost in maintaining code over time, but it’s not as though they have to spend any significant employee time on improving it. They already support UPnP and NAT-PMP to have the clients connect directly to the self-hosted servers.

It would be nice if they added NAT hole punching on top of that, but it’s evidently good enough to work as-is in its current form. If they’re not even running relays to support more tricky networks (which the linked support article has no mention of), keeping this feature free costs them literally nothing extra.

No, it’s still wrong.

We have ways to do NAT traversal and hole punching on consumer routers. Failing that, UPnP and port forwarding exist. Or, god forbid, IPv6.

In the rare case that literally none of those are an option, they would have to use TURN to relay between an intermediary. That is a reasonable case to ask the user to pay for their bandwidth usage, but they don’t have to be greedy fuckers by making everyone pay for it.

This is enshittification and corporate greed. Nothing more, nothing less.

Regex is great, but PCRE deserves a special place in hell. You don’t know unreadable until you’ve encountered regex that uses recursive matching, backrefererences, and subroutine calls.

Comparatively speaking, politicians here are pretty inexpensive. It only took one twat a couple hundred million to own the president.

The audio being processed faster can and will influence how fast each cycle runs. That will then mean extra FPS in at least some cases.

It won’t. The main game loop is driven by waiting for VBLANK, which is in simplified terms the analog equivalent to vsync.

The speed of the main CPU in the SNES also isn’t affected by the speed of the audio coprocessor. They operate independently from each other, with the CPU providing commands to control the program running on the SPC700.

What it might do, however, is affect gameplay. The SPC700 clock variance is one of the major reasons why Super Metroid tool assisted speedruns had so much trouble being verified on real consoles. IIRC, Super Metroid waits for some sound effect to finish before performing certain actions, and that can cause the game state to differ from the state expected by the prerecorded inputs for that moment in time.

Whatever the hell you’re smoking, it must be something good. I’m criticizing the Republican Party, not defending them.

Or, if I’m misunderstanding and you’re actually calling me a Nazi for thinking trans people should not be subjected to gential inspection, then you’re in desperate need of a mirror.

Uh, what? That sentence is borderline unreadable.

I’m being hyperbolic when I say that the Republican Party wants to personally check what’s in women’s pants, but the reality is that they’re disturbingly fucking focused on ensuring trans women can’t be in women’s bathrooms or women’s sports. Nobody with a modicum of decency would try to predicate bathroom usage based on the absence or presence of a penis, yet they’re constantly trying to present and push through legislation to do just that.