Personally, my ISP (T-Mobile 5G) has CGNAT and blocks all incoming traffic. I can’t simply Wireguard into my network. Tailscale has been my intermediary to get remote access.

I guess it’s time to figure how how to host an alternative on a VPS (I see Headscale mentioned in these comments).

[insert “you haven’t thought of the smell!” Always Sunny meme]

People raging about videogames being woke

VERSUS

People raging about people raging about videogames being woke.

…FIGHT!!!

You see the screenshot.

Now assume your Angry Internet Gamer position…

Get in the comments, and FIGHT!

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.

My concern is basically the usual “Nvidia hates Linux”.

Also:

https://docs.bazzite.gg/Gaming/Hardware_compatibility_for_gaming/

Nvidia GPUs are currently in beta with major caveats

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.

I legitimately don’t understand why the U.S. isn’t the only locality where it shows up as “Gulf of America”.

Set the en-US string to “Gulf of America”. Leave literally every other region’s text string untouched from what it was 6 months ago.

When the next Democrat U.S. President gets sworn in and immediately Executive Orders it back to “Gulf of Mexico”, change the en-US string back to that.

This is all so stupid and melodramatic.

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?

c13 plug

Who would’ve thought… 3DFX was apparently ahead of its time…

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!”