Joelk111 @ Joelk111 @lemmy.world

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That's good for sure. I still enjoy browsing those many nice communities unfortunately... I definitely search for stuff like that when I need to find specific things.

I still surf both. Unpopular, I know, but Lemmy does not yet have the super niche communities that barely exist on reddit.

Imo, it's about the same. Some subs have gotten worse, some have gotten better, but that's how it's always been.

It has. It's been two or three years. In that time the SteamDeck has launched, bringing huge attention to Linux.

The question is whether the things that I want to play have improved.

Yeah, I switch browsers like I change my clothes, and Firefox has been awesome compared to Brave, Edge, and other chromium browsers.

That'd be wild if it works. Might have to try Linux just for that.

The DRM and Anticheat (that I forgot to mention) games are online, so piracy isn't really an option so that's still an issue :/

I'll have to look into ALVR. I've got an Index.

I also remembered that I wouldn't be able to play The Crew 2 due to shitty DRM, as well as Forza Horizon, unless I re-purchase it on Steam, as the windows store edition doesn't work on Linux (from what I understand). I really don't want to dual-boot again. I'll wait just a bit longer for Linux to get better and windows to get more enshitified.

Had me in the first half.

I stick around with Windows due to shitty DRM and VR compatibility. It's been a couple years since I last tried Linux, so maybe it's gotten better. I should probably try it again.

Congratulations?

As someone who subscribes to many channels, likely over 100, that post anywhere from daily to a few times per year, fuck that.

You should also consider using Grayjay or something instead to avoid that tedium.

Yeah, for sure, I look for my larger files when I'm legally obtaining my movies.

I'd definitely have a place for them in my NAS, if they were much cheaper than HDDs. It'd be like an SSD cache to go with your HDDs, but a third slower tier for rarely accessed files.

1.6 Petabits or 200TB

The article says "What is that in terms humans understand," then does some math, and produces the figure of 14000 4k movies.

I'm a human and 200TB makes a lot more sense to me than 14000 4k movies. That isn't a standard unit. 14000 4k movies means nothing. You can have a 4k movie that's 200GB (that'd be 2.8PB) or 2GB (that'd be 28TB). What's the bit rate? In the article they mentioned that they just assumed that a 4k 2 hour long movie is 14GB.

What I'm way more concerned about is how expensive the disks and readers/writers are. According to the article, the disks are manufactured similarly to the CD, but what about the readers/writers? Could we see these as competitors to HDDs? 200TB is friggin insane, at a good price you'd be spending 2 grand on that much HDD storage.

I haven't heard drifting referred to as limited slip differential trips before, but that's good that you aren't texting and drifting.

That's why I said cycling infrastructure

My doubt is based on the fact that public transportation and bicycle infrastructure is the obvious better and more environmentally economical solution for the majority of the population that lives in cities.

I say this as a gear head, do we really want people on the roads that don't want to be driving? It should be a choice, not a requirement. Plus, driving in cities sucks.

I rarely find a situation where I need a feature that doesn't exist that's important enough to me to implement it myself. It's a heck of a lot easier to just, for example, purchase things that already work with an existing home assistant integration.

I suppose I could contribute with bug fixes and such, but I have a lot of hobbies that I'm already busy with, and I do development work as my main job.

That's a gatekeeper-y take. I tried Linux a few years back, so I guess I became a "real" tech geek a few years ago. Never mind the fact that I was 3/4 the way through a CS degree, I'd built my own computer, and was the go-to tech guy in my family. But nope, not yet a tech geek.

Yeah, I'm not sure what OP is on about or how they get away with it. I'd get phone calls for how to use outlook and MS word. I'm fortunate to have a fairly tech literate grandma, but she is old, which means set in her ways. She probably could use Linux, but she would not see the point in putting in the effort to switch habits.

Very helpful link, appreciate it.

If I did this they wouldn't be my loved ones for long...