Both of these read like the author is simultaneously looking down on both groups of developers in disgust and trying to represent them as some kind of idealized stereotype of a specific group of developers.

The cinematic trailers for OG Guild Wars.

1. Bezos is the example they were using to illustrate their point. Which isn’t a strawman argument by any definition of the term.

2. That’s a statistic that can, in fact, be proven. They should probably cite a source for it, but given how you set the level of the discussion, I can see why they’d think that level of effort is unnecessary.

3. Posing a question can be a way to make a point. It’s called a rhetorical question. It helps the argument if you follow up with an answer to the question, but the question on its own is enough to make a point.

Ah, it’s one of those. I was thinking it was the TV’s OS.

I don’t have a lot of experience with those smaller dongles, but as I understand it they’re fairly low power devices that are more meant for streaming relatively low bitrate media from the internet or from a phone. It may not have the horsepower for playing back high bitrate media from Jellyfin or Plex.

Others may have a solution that’ll work for that device, but my gut response is to say you should consider replacing it with something more powerful.

Unless you have a commitment to only using open source software, I’d recommend Plex over Jellyfin. Mostly because I’ve found the client software for Jellyfin to be lacking, especially on AppleTV.

For the issues with the GoogleTV, you mention that it’s on WiFi, would it be possible to use a wired connection or get another set top box for it? Some TVs have the WiFi antenna behind the screen causing interference, so even though other devices get a strong signal the TV doesn’t.

Also, how’s the hardware on your server? Is the CPU powerful enough or do you have a GPU for transcoding? Also, is the server on WiFi or wired?

It’s worth noting that a lot of settop boxes have limited codec support, which might be forcing transcoding even if everything should otherwise support direct play.

Yes, precious.

Not if you’re using your card. The card can still be cloned with a few seconds of physical access. Also, with a card, there’s no PIN verification with tap to pay and no signature requirements. Because of that most countries have transaction size limits for tap to pay. Usually in the $50-$100 USD range. The US, notably has no such limits. So, if someone steals your card they can use it up to your balance/credit limit, or up to the transaction limit your bank sets, typically about $10,000 USD.

Tap to pay using a phone, apple watch, or similar device is more secure because they have actual 2FA and generate unique payment information for each transaction on top of the already existing encryption of the transaction data. Additionally, cloning the underlying payment info would require being able to access the secure enclave on the phone.

First, look at my username, then reread what I said.

Also, technically the parts weren’t truly bait-and-switched. You do see what you’re going to actually get prior to agreeing to anything. The FPS numbers being the same despite different specs, could conceivably still be correct since they don’t go into any details about their benchmarking and they could be manipulating settings to hit a target FPS. Which would still be manipulative and would probably qualify as false advertising.

The whole rent-to-own thing is only implied by some of their influencer advertisers, where it’s at the very least plausible that those influencers were not directed to say those things. And it hasn’t been proven that it was actually part of the ad read that NZXT directed. It’s just assumed that it is. The assumption is reasonable, but it’s still an assumption.

You have to infer facts that do not exist or have other plausible explanations to construe any of this as an out and out scam. What it is is shady, suspicious, and more than enough reason for me to take my money elsewhere.

But to call it a scam is to assert facts that at this time do not exist.

Also, the chips aren’t that much better than the stripe. It’s harder to clone the chip and much harder to do en masse, but far from impossible. On top of that, the measure that is supposed to prevent cloning from being viable is almost never actually required, that being the PIN.

It’s called “Chip and PIN” for a reason. It’s a 2FA system where one of the factors just isn’t required and the other can be readily compromised. It’s baffling how we have a functioning system for digital payments when seemingly no one is willing to properly implement and then use a secure standard.

Not a scam per se, just tricksy and false.

Was Weird Al on Breaking Bad?

Sounds like something The Onion would write.

I have yet to encounter a US ISP that doesn’t have laughably bad customer service.

The reason I don’t switch is because there are no other options.

The fuck are they smoking? I’d really like to try it because there isn’t a substance in known reality that would make that statement not sound hilariously, institutionalizably insane.

I also haven’t worked food service myself, but I’ve had a number of friends, family members, and acquaintances who have. Out of those people the only ones who have said it was easy money are the friends who worked it in High School and College while living with their parents and being of an age where they were still covered by their parents health insurance and the people who were much older, already retired, and had a sizable nest egg set aside.

Everyone I’ve known who worked food service after college and/or prior to retirement has said it was some of the most financially stressful work they’ve ever done. In large part, because they were universally considered part time employees, meaning no health insurance; they were forced to treat even the most unruly of customers with respect and courtesy, which because of the finances attached to customer satisfaction was almost dehumanizing; and even factoring in tips they were paid very little, which wasn’t a problem when living with their parents or having most of their living expenses covered by a student loan, scholarship, or grant, but once they had to live on their own and pay their own way through life was barely enough to get by much less live comfortably.

For the few people I’ve known who worked food service in retirement, it was more for something to do and a way to get some kind of human interaction. The money was a nice side benefit, but far from enough to pay for their living expenses.

Personally, I felt like Win8 was an over correction in favor of touch screens vs Win7. Win8.1 was kind of the sweet spot for getting touch screen functionality into Windows while maintaining a consistent UI between tablets, laptops, and desktops. So much so that I would consider it to be separate point on the chart between 8 and 10.

Win10 did improve the UI a bit over that, but was so much of a step backwards in basically every other regard that I do consider that the point at which Windows started trending consistently downwards. As in, Win10 should be lower then Win7 on that curve, with Win11 lower than that, and no real hope that any future updates or versions will ever improve anything.

It’s been that long? My sister has a 5yr old and a 4yr old that I babysit on the weekends and I made the mistake of showing them The Nightmare Before Christmas last year. For my sister and I it was our Christmas movie and I wanted to continue the tradition.

I only see my nieces for two days out of every week, but over the last year I’ve seen that movie so many times that I frequently wake up with “This is Halloween” stuck in my head or catch myself humming “Oogie Boogie’s song.”

I keep trying to show them other movies but it’s seemingly the only thing they want to watch, and they’re so polite about it that it’s basically impossible to say no. I keep hoping they’ll grow out of it or find something else, but it seems like I’m stuck watching this one movie forever.

I was birthed to that album.

That song goes hard though. Felt bad ending it.

That is generally what I use in my homelab. Though I’ve found that Fedora works a bit better for a general purpose daily workstation OS.

Did you even read the wiki? It’s so easy! Totally beginner friendly provided a basic level of literacy.

/s, hopefully obviously. Arch is a fragile house of cards.

I think you mean here.