AlecStewart1st

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[–] AlecStewart1st 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Ah, okay. So, if I understand correctly, unless I'm trying to have Jellyfin do what YouTube does with offering multiple resolutions and bitrates for video, I don't need to bother with looking for a GPU that's good at video transcoding?

[–] AlecStewart1st 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Great point. I don't know why I didn't think about that.

[–] AlecStewart1st 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. Do you enable the auth-source backend for pass as well?

Funnily enough, it seems Nicholas Petton (creator of the pass.el library) contributed to this. :)

[–] AlecStewart1st 2 points 8 months ago

2060 - The True and Definitive Year of the Linux Desktop (maybe, probably not but hopefully)

[–] AlecStewart1st 3 points 8 months ago

Yes, should've mentioned that in my post.

[–] AlecStewart1st 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know about your second question, but with almost every proton-ge update I've gone into Steam and switched over to the new version with no issues so far.

Maybe that's a no-no for some games but, again, no issues so far.

EDIT: Same goes for wine-ge whenever I have games I bought through GOG and play through Lutris.

[–] AlecStewart1st -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I only sample the finest 10/10 works of art

No? I'll admit that something like Enderal: Forgetten Stories, while very fun and better than Skyrim in a lot of ways, is still like an 8/10 even though I like it a lot. If we're going on the game alone and not how great and generous the developers are to the community, Deep Rock Galactic is a 9/10.

have no time for lowly 7/10 slop that the peasents enjoy.

7/10 for Starfield is incredibly generous. It's a 5/10 if we're all being honest and not circlejerking about Bethesda.

If only they'd accept that I know better what they should be allowed to enjoy

You can like and play whatever you want.

But if you share the opinion that overall quality of games, especially triple A titles, has gone down in the past 10-15 years, and you can sit here and give Starfield: Yet Another Wide as an Ocean but Deep as a Puddle + Boring Experience from Bethesda ™️ is a 7/10; I don't think you really have the right to complain about the declining quality of video games when you're essentially contributing to it by claiming incredibly mediocre games are above average.

If you feel good that you paid $70-100 for what's really feels like a $40 barely out of early-access game, hey, I can't change your mind.

[–] AlecStewart1st 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Todd Howard has even said his favorite mods for Skyrim were UI ones, lol.

[–] AlecStewart1st 6 points 1 year ago

This guy scrapes

[–] AlecStewart1st 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Currently, and I could be wrong, the alternative to a Pi 4 from Pine64 now would be a Pine64's Quartz64 Model B. A Star64 might be interesting, but that's RISC-V so who knows what OS you could boot on it currently and if it would even be stable.

Plus with the Quartz64 Model B, who knows if you'll able to get a good case for it. There's the $28 “Model B” ALUMINUM WATERPROOF ENCLOSURE, but, eh, no thanks. There's the open enclosure, but that's also a no for me. I want a case I can hide the device itself, the cables, put a heatsink and fan on, be able to use an SSD with USB connect and connect a power supply all stuffed in a case. Which you can find plenty of for Raspberry Pi's.

Not to mention the Pi 5 isn't even out yet, and it's entirely possible it'll be better than the Quartz64 Model B, on top of having a ton of accessories. Plus, I can Pi up practically any Pi at the Microcenter or similar store near me as opposed to having to pay for good shipping.

I'm totally for having alternatives to the Pi, heck I might pick up a Quartz64 Model B if I can find a case, but a lot of alternatives don't have the same support and accessories the Pis do.

[–] AlecStewart1st 2 points 1 year ago

I got a RPi 3B as my Pi-Hole that I'll eventually use as my Wireguard VPN, too. Hoping to get another Pi device for hosting Jellyfin on.

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