You can use sites like these to randomize your playlist. You can have it randomize the playlist or create a randomized copy if you want to keep the original.
I usually start the playlist, turn on their crappy shuffle to get me to a random position in the randomized playlist, then disable their ~~profitability maximizer~~ shuffle.
Very much agree. BoTW is a good game and definitely worth playing but it isn't a great game. My biggest gripe with it is that there is clearly a RPG leveling/XP system that they desperately try to hide. They don't want to be an RPG but it is difficult for an open world game to not use those mechanics.
So once you realize this you ask yourself why am I breaking all of these weapons just to get more weapons when the only outcome is that the enemies get harder. Blood moons are probably just world resets when you go up a level, which also makes higher level enemies appear.
They also very apparently apply this to the rain patterns as well. Right away I went all in on exploring and getting shrines to increase stamina because it sure is handy to be able to climb large cliffs to explore the map. But I didn't actually do much fighting during that time. Once I had stamina maxed and started just playing and clearly as I leveled up the chances of rain as soon as you approached a cliff side went up considerably making all of that work feel worthless.
The end result was that playing more just meant things got worse, instead of a normal RPG where leveling up meant you gained abilities/stats instead the world just got harder. Sure the weapons got better but once you have the master sword you are always using that first and the harder the enemies get the less effective it is since its stats don't change.
The game also has some serious balancing issues with those levels. Until you get protective clothing it see a like nearly every enemy does exactly your health minus one heart in damage. Have 8 hearts? Ehh 7 of those don't matter if you weren't at 100% health you are dead anyways. Go through shrines to increase those hearts? Doesn't matter enemies still nearly one shot you every time. Easily rectified if you buy/upgrade armor but if you are a cheap bastard like me and don't want to spend money on items that might not be useful you end up playing quite a while before you understand that the deck is stacked against you.
Also in general the map is very lifeless, and there is so little variation in enemies. They certainly are limited by the WiiU/Switch so can't fault them too much on that front.
ToTK fixes a lot of problems compared to BoTW but using the same map feels like it should have been DLC. Everything above/below the map feels like they just told an intern here is your spot go make a change in this area without having to make a change to the old map. And the story line feels very copy+paste from BoTW (go fight the four things in the four corners then go kill the big bad).
Obviously the devices you can make and the increased variation in enemies fixes a lot of the complaints with BoTW, and helps keep you engaged with the game.
ZD has a top tier storyline, but you need to be the type that cares about that to get the most out of it. I suspect most of the folks that don't like Horizon are the type that don't bother to listen to the audio files/read the text messages which really fills out the story. Gameplay is good but gets a little repetitive towards the end (once you are grinding thunderjaws for fun on very hard everything else is just too easy). Some enemies are just variations but the variations change how you approach fighting them.
HFW the story isn't nearly as good (still good but HZ is a high bar), but the variations in enemies and how you have to fight them is much better. If you are trying to get end game weapons the grind is a bit too much. Do yourself a favor and just change to story mode difficulty so you don't have to waste hours of your time fighting the same enemies. If you just want to explore/fight across a huge beautiful map HFW is great for that.
Are Lemmy.world servers located in Australia? Google says Europe so it seems like this is a non-issue.
Most social media have corporate entities in many of the countries they serve because they want sales people to sell that ad space and bank accounts to receive that ad revenue through, so usually the means of enforcing this would be to fine those entities/bank accounts. But I doubt lemmy.world would have much connection to Australia.
Or are there provisions in the law that would let them block the servers?
Closest to this I've worked was a convenience store which included a deli.
In that context the way I would have seen it was that he probably would have come in and bought them anyways, so the only difference to me would be sticking them in three bags vs one. No different than anyone else asking to cut their pizza a different way or whatever other minor out of the ordinary changes customers wanted.
If we were swamped with orders then yeah I wouldn't be happy about it, but you get over it and move on that is part of working retail.
Is there anything that really makes their job shittier about this though? Than than dealing with three orders instead of one?
If anything with the focus these days on metrics around how fast they can serve customers these three simple orders probably made their metrics look better so they could slack off on the next few orders.
But yeah just says "I'm a cheapskate."
Yeah not saying any of this would be likely, just that the options are there.
Not sure that I agree that it would fall under free speech if it can clearly be shown to be false advertising. Current courts certainly wouldn't let that happen but we can dream.
A truth in marketing law could probably help a little and be easy enough to pass.
Make them show the real product in the advertisements not a fake version meant to entice you.
Along those same lines it would probably be possible to limit those ads in the first place. The human brain is quite susceptible to propaganda and ads are just one of capitalism's versions of that. Cut the ads and suddenly you have a lot less people being reminded constantly and programmed to consume.
Or classify those foods like alcohol/tobacco and put sin taxes on them.
It is very unlikely this has anything to do with tracking pixels. Even most graphical email clients don't load pictures by default these days, and they probably have plenty of customers that just never check their email anyways so I doubt that would be enough to shutdown an account.
This is more likely about them trying to confirm contact information to make sure your phone/physical/email address hasn't changed, and since you haven't confirmed that they are restricting your usage to prevent someone from stealing your account until they can confirm it is still you.
I would say this isn't them trying to make you dance, this is much more likely to be them trying to keep your account safe.
If you are just looking to repurpose an old device for around the house use and it won't ever be leaving your home network, then the simplest method is to set a static IP address on the device and leave the default gateway empty. That will prevent it from reaching anything other than the local subnet.
If you have multiple subnets that the device needs to access you will need a proper firewall. Make sure that the device has a DHCP reservation or a static IP and then block outgoing traffic to the WAN from that IP while still allowing traffic to your local subnets.
If it is a phone who knows what that modem might be doing if there isn't a hardware switch for it. You can't expect much privacy when that modem is active. But like the other poster mentiond a private DNS server that only has records from your local services would at least prevent apps from reaching out as long as they aren't smart enough to fall back to an IP address if DNS fails.
A VPN for your phone with firewall rules on your router that prevent your VPN clients from reaching the WAN would hopefully prevent any sort of fallback like that.
If you are accessing your files through dolphin on your Linux device this change has no effect on you. In that case Synology is just sharing files and it doesn't know or care what kind of files they are.
This change is mostly for people who were using the Synology videos app to stream videos. I assume Plex is much more common on Synology and I don't believe anything changed with Plex's h265 support.
If you were using the built in Synology videos app and have objections to Plex give Jellyfin a try. It should handle h265 and doesn't require a purchase like Plex does to unlock features like mobile apps.
Linux isn't dropping any codecs and should be able to handle almost any media you throw at it. Codec support depends on what app you are using, and most Linux apps use ffmpeg to do that decoding. As far as I know Debian hasn't dropped support for h265, but even if they did you could always compile your own ffmpeg libraries with it re-enabled.
How can I most easily search my NAS for files needing the removed codecs
The mediainfo command is one of the easiest ways to do this on the command line. It can tell you what video/audio codecs are used in a file.
With Linux and Synology DSM both dropping codecs, I am considering just taking the storage hit to convert to h.264 or another format. What would you recommend?
To answer this you need to know the least common denominator of supported codecs on everything you want to play back on. If you are only worried about playing this back on your Linux machine with your 1080s then you fully support h265 already and you should not convert anything. Any conversion between codecs is lossy so it is best to leave them as they are or else you will lose quality.
If you have other hardware that can't support h265, h264 is probably the next best. Almost any hardware in the last 15 years should easily handle h264.
When it comes to thumbnails for a remote filesystem like this are they generated and stored on my PC or will the PC save them to the folder on the NAS where other programs could use them.
Yes they are generated locally, and Dolphin stores them in ~/.cache/thumbnails on your local system.
Add a -f to your umount and you can clear up those blocked processes. Sometimes you need to do it multiple times (seems like it maybe only unblocks one stuck process at a time).
When you mount your NFS share you can add the "soft" option which will let those stuck calls timeout on their own.
Credit unions use the NCUA instead of FDIC. So if they don't go after that as well there are still some options.