I knew WB’s HD-DVDs (remember those?) were a timebomb. I didn’t realize regular DVDs were, too.

I’ve always used Transmission, since there’s a Docker container I use that bakes in your VPN-of-choice & a killswitch.

https://haugene.github.io/docker-transmission-openvpn/

That said, it looks like it hasn’t been updated in over a year… I wonder if there’s anything else out there that does the same thing as this. (EDIT: Yes. Google brings up plenty of choices.)

This is an EVEN BIGGER opportunity than AMD had with Intel to have a “Ryzen moment”.

With trash uplifts (5070 may not even beat the 4070Super) and blatantly swapping of the names of their GPUs (the 5080 is XX70-level hardware – at best)… Nvidia has effectively doubled the price of GPUs in a few short years.

If AMD decided to finally not just-follow-Nvidia, I would RUN to buy a $550-600 RX9070XT with RTX5080 performance.

“$550-600? That’s unrealistic, Brad, you fuckin’ idiot!”

Fuck off. $1,000 RTX5080 performance is twice what the $500 two-gens-old RTX3070 had. And also…

• The $599 RTX4070 Super had twice the performance of the two-gens-old $499 RTX2070 Super
• The $499 RTX3070 had twice the performance of the two-gens-old $379 GTX1070
• The $499 RTX2070 Super had twice the performance of the two-gens-old $329 GTX970
• The $379 GTX1070 had twice the performance of the two-gens-old $399 GTX770

Saying nginx with a “hard g” can get you into some real trouble…

The sad truth is that the vast majority of people WANT an algorithm to tell them what they like.

Mastodon requires you to actually have your own opinions going in, and follow material based on that.

Seriously considering a switch to Bazzite on my actual gaming PC.

Me having a RTX3070 is holding me back, though. Maybe AMD will have a decent, not-too-stupidly-expensive card in the 9070XT. Really don’t want to spend more than $500-600 on a GPU. And I really don’t want to replace it until I can get something with at least twice the performance.

Also the Android TV app is AWESOME!

I dunno…

There’s a transcoding bug in the Android TV version of the Jellyfin client where transcoding a video with 7.1 audio breaks playback. Even with a Pull Request out there that fixes it (by matching the behavior of other Jellyfin clients), the issue got closed as “not planned”. The continued suggestion continues to be “just force everything to play in stereo”.

I don’t have unlimited bandwidth, so plenty of my stuff gets transcoded in Plex. I can’t, in good, conscience, switch my friends & family (most of who use Android TV) over to Jellyfin.

It was all about “fun” in the days of MySpace and Digg and early-Reddit. That damn cat wanted a damn cheeseburger and we all laughed about it.

Then it became all about politics. And people would go to any lengths to ensure that “their” politics “won” on social media. We went from people having fleets of alt accounts, to fleets of bots, to just having AI spread and upvote propaganda.

So, it’s all just gross now. I want my goddamn Geocities & Yahoo! Towers back.

Such a weird thing for everyone to fixate on and lose their shit. Let our dumbass en-US selves do whatever “official” dumbass thing we have to with the name.

Everyone else can leave it what it always was.

Next time there’s a Democrat U.S. President, the “en-US” term will be changed back to Gulf of Mexico.

This is stupid.

I do worry about Nissan’s future when they seem to be about this close to operating with zero profits.

Genuinely curious… How does Google handle other oceanic naming that isn’t agreed upon Worldwide?

A year after consoles.

Rockstar knows how to get that double dip more than anyone else.

I love Mastodon. It’s easily my favorite & most-used social media platform right now.

But I’m also a huge damn nerd.

I honestly can’t say I’d recommend it to anyone that isn’t also a huge damn nerd, because they just won’t find stuff they want.

“You want sports? We don’t have much of that, but check out the Proxmox server in this guy’s basement!”

Okay, cool…

So, how much longer before Nvidia stops slapping a “$500-600 RTX XX70” label on a $300 RTX XX60 product with each new generation?

The thinly-veiled 75-100% price increases aren’t fun for those of us not constantly-touching-themselves over AI.

Kid-Me could somehow navigate that final Zelda II dungeon based on nothing but dumb luck.

Now I can barely get past World 1-1 in SMB.

(I played the shit out of Zelda II… and I liked it.)

Probably true.

But until a court actually steps up to say it, it’s the Wild West out there. And as soon as this gets shot down, another executive order will get wedged back in there to keep the rigs drilling.

EDIT: Apparently the naming had nothing to do with drilling. The drilling ban was already specifically reversed in a different executive order that reversed several Biden EOs

I don’t disagree.

But recent interpretation of the use of executive order is hurtling toward the president having near-monarch authority

So, until the reach of executive orders gets reigned in… here we are.

The IHO proposes names which world nations may or may not use.

Such is the case with the “Southern Ocean” around Antarctica since the early 2000s, which is randomly recognized & not recognized by world nations.

Obama renamed Mt. McKinley to Denali by executive order. Trump is using executive order to rename it back.

Biden outlawed oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. Trump used executive order to rename it so the Gulf of Mexico “doesn’t exist”. (EDIT: Actually the naming appears to be unrelated to this. The drilling ban was specifically reversed in a different executive order that reversed several Biden EOs)

It’s all questionable use of executive order. But which party is going to step up and say “the last guy did it, but our guy shouldn’t be able to ignore checks & balances anymore”?