Yes, precious.
CrazyLikeGollum
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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.
It's also not that obscure. Lonely Island is up there with Weird Al as one of the most famous comedy bands.
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.
The typo kind of makes sense though. The Gods are etymologists who study the language of the bugs. It's why they understand prayer. Entomological etymologists.
Not a scam per se, just tricksy and false.
But I'll get cat hair on my programmer socks!
Just include a glossary of formulas for figuring out stats/chances/whatever in your game. With clearly labeled variables. Then throw a reference to that glossary in your tooltips/helpful popups.
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.
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.