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foggenbooty

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  • 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 minimum — AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building

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  • Yes and no. There has been a HUGE jump in integrated graphics over the last five years. I'm guessing your Intel CPU is older and not one of the newer ones with Arc cores.

    Integrated will never compete with a discrete GPU, but for indy and midrange titles you can now do without most of the time if your target is casual gaming (1080p and below, 60fps and under). The biggest issue is AMD and Intel don't do a very good job of showing which CPU models actually come with good GPU architectures as they often package older ones on budget models.

  • Microsoft's GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits because company 'ruined their life' — expert claims action is vindictive and promises further retaliation

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  • Snapshots and the contextual information derived from them are saved and encrypted to your local hard drive. Recall does not share snapshots or associated data with Microsoft or third parties, nor is it shared between different Windows users on the same device. Windows will ask for your permission before saving snapshots. You are always in control of what apps and websites get saved in snapshots, and you can delete snapshots, pause or turn them off at any time. Any future options for the user to share data will require fully informed explicit action by the user.

    Considering the thread we're talking in, it's up to you if you trust MS to implement this well, but they are not uploading the screenshots to the cloud.

    Personally I think the idea of Recall is great if it works to help you and only you. The problem isn't the idea, it's the trust. If a reputable open source project or Linux distro made a feature like this I think it would be cool, because I know my privacy is going to be respected and the feature is designed solely to help me and nothing more. However, when MS suggests this I'm immediately cautious, skeptical, and concerned about how it could be used against me.

  • People who are staying on Plex, have you tried Jellyfin? What about it do you not prefer? (real question)

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  • I'm still not seeing how this solves the issue. You either use Cloudflare or your reverse proxy as the auth, which is secure but then people can only use your Jellyfin server through a web browser, or you publish actual Jellyfin and use its auth, but now you rely on its poor security.

    Are you saying you integrate fail to ban with Jellyfin's auth? If so that's alright, but won't stop anyone from using an exploit, just brute force attacks. I'm still also not sure why the VPS is required at all.

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  • I got really into ED for half a year or so when I got my VR headset. It made everything feel so immersive, and the fact there was no space legs at the time actually worked out well. I still have fond memories of the time I found a group of old timers doing a mining event and they all brought their huge ships, showed us the ropes, and shared the wealth.

    After the engineering grind though I sort of lost interest. I remember doing an in game event, which was essentially "shuttle supplies from X to Y, N times. I took my headset off to be able to use my other monitor and decided to just leave it off because nothing complex was happening. That's when I realized that I wasn't in my ship moving cargo, I was sitting at a computer playing a "game" that is just mindlessly moving cargo. The VR immersion meant SO much to the thrill of it.

    I was never a good enough pilot for full flight assist off combat, and the devs seemed hellbent on just making all gameplay based on endless loops with only the tiniest bit of lore to hold it together. I stopped when the space legs came out since it wasn't VR compatible and left it there.

    It's really good to hear people like you are making the effort to onboard new players. I'm glad it still has a following because honestly, the bones of it were great and I had a lot of fun. If you don't mind my asking, what keeps you engaged and playing it today?

  • Plex Announces Massive Price Hike on Lifetime Subscription Plans

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  • Wait, Jellyfin doesn't have per user watch lists? Forget making it externally available to other people, this is something I need within my own household. I haven't installed Jellyfin yet, but I had not anticipated this feature being absent. How do you work around it?

  • Plex Announces Massive Price Hike on Lifetime Subscription Plans

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  • It does. People often throw this out there as if it fits all situations, but it doesn't. Plex is handling the proxying for you which is what makes it so easy.

    A better comparison, if running your own reverse proxy was too complicated, would be to use something like Cloudflare Tunnels. However that's still extra steps, they dont want you media streaming on their free plan, and you still have the issue of Jellyfin not being the most secure code that you really want to open up to the whole internet. That's why a one size fits all answer is difficult.

  • What are you up to today?

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  • I'd love to hear it when it's ready!

  • GrapheneOS patches an Android VPN bypass that Google decided to leave alone

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  • Ah, understood. I thought you were talking about the hardware.

  • GrapheneOS patches an Android VPN bypass that Google decided to leave alone

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  • Sorry, what about it isn't the same? Is the pixel not using DPAlt mode do handle external montors/docks?

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    The First Modern Car Without Hydraulic Brakes Is Headed to Production

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  • I just realized I've been down voting you every time I come across you because of that stupid "þ", and I'm not going to stop.

    I didn't consider myself a petty person until today, but it's hard to argue with the facts.

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    Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.

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  • Used to be. Have you seen SSD prices recently? 1TB is now ~$250 CAD.

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  • Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft are ignoring data controls mandated under California privacy law at ‘industrial scale’

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  • I get where you're coming from, but we as a society haven't even TRIED to hold billionaires accountable. Do they make it difficult? Of course they do, but a huge percentage of the population still look up to the ultra rich and think they're geniuses who deserve it.

    If society ACTUALLY got fed up and demanded they be held accountable, and jail and seizing their assets wasn't enough, then you consider more severe forms of punishment. As it stands right now we're barely handing out the equivalent of an occasional speeding ticket to these people and wondering why it isn't effective.

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  • Wow! This one wasn't on my radar. I had been using Action Launcher as it seemed to be the only other one that could do the swipe folders, but it seems to have been abandoned. I'll give this a go.

  • Mozilla accuses Microsoft of sabotaging Firefox with Windows and Copilot tactics

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  • I'll agree that their mobile experience is not great, they don't support tablet layouts for example, but it still has the best support for ad blocking. I consider that essential for the modern internet.

    My big concern is that we're repeating the Internet Explorer issue all over again, where the web is coded for it instead of standards. Now Google has the ability to strong arm the Internet by not adopting standards, pushing their preferences, etc. Web sites are being coded coded to run on better on Blink than Gecko so it gets worse all the time. If we give up on Mozilla the Internet will fall even further into the hands of big tech.

  • Mozilla accuses Microsoft of sabotaging Firefox with Windows and Copilot tactics

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  • I don't get this argument. Mozilla and Firefox is the best we have. Are they perfect, no, but don't let perfect be the enemy of good. They are still a lot better than the alternatives.

    It's obviously important to hold Mozilla accountable, but I worry that all the negativity makes people just stick with Chrome or Edge because they think it's all the same.

  • Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increa

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  • Sure, but most people don't need encode. The start of this thread talks about encoding, but the person you replied to didn't specify. My guess is they're just talking about playback.

  • Denuvo has been broken, company promises countermeasures against new DRM bypasses — zero-day game releases become norm as security concerns mount over hypervisor-based bypass

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  • Cryptography.

  • Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increa

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  • You don't need HW acceleration to playback AV1. Maybe they watch most of their content at 720p and are software decoding and it's been good enough.