I used to like this band, then it came out that they’re basically trash humans

I’ve been using the same 10+ year old 128G SSD for transcoding, cache, and metadata storage for like 6 years now across multiple tiny servers (as I’ve upgraded) with limited RAM. My current one has 16G of RAM, which is more than enough for JF, but not enough to store a whole movie transcode, let alone multiple at once. Refycled small old SSDs are a lot cheaper and easier to come by than RAM these days, that’s all I’m saying. No hate of course, your setup makes sense for what you have, I’m just saying my way is cheaper and more than fast enough for people just building their servers now.

tmpfs is overkill. I just use a crappy old 128G SSD and it’s still way faster than needed for all of my transcodes combined.

Anyway just my 2 cents.

Transgressive has one album but it slaps

My main controller is a RetroFighters BattlerGC Pro. At $60 it has hall effect sticks and triggers, a GameCube button layout (my personal favorite of all time for ergonomics) and it comes with both Bluetooth and 2.4GHz support, plus it can be used wired for the lowest possible latency.

I use it for both Switch and PC. On PC you can set it to register as an Xbox controller so you can get full analog trigger support.

Anyhow, the brand has the best controllers for the money IMO, I’d recommend checking out their offerings.

My second favorite controller is my 8bitdo Pro 2, but the clicky d-pad on the Retrofighters controller is so much nicer IMO

It’s probably database performance related. There’s a massive PR undergoing round after round of reviews that, when merged, will be a change to 10.12 and will resolve all of the new database performance issues experienced in certain edge cases (book libraries, large music libraries, large collections, etc)

They are, in fact, purely patent trolling in this case.

On the Nvidia Shield the MPV backend doesn’t really work, it has an issue with stuttering. Works great on my other TV, though. Besides that, just a few crashes early on, nothing recently, though.

I’ve been using it for a couple months. It’s been great, for the most part

They literally built a franchise out of one good game and then let it rot in favor of whale hunting

My logitech wireless mice will run on a single AA for like … 2 years of daily use, I wanna say? At least 18 months.

Glad I use Heroic instead. Time to check what their AI policy is.

Based on some PRs, they’re using github copilot to help with reviews but are generally against vibe coding

I tend to agree. When I built a PC from spare parts for my brother-in-law, I put Bazzite on it. Very clean and relatively foolproof

Nobara is Fedora but pre-configured for gaming. They mention it briefly in the video.

Agreed, but I’ve been seeing people recommending Arch as a first distro lately, so…

Is it an assumption if there’s a complete lack of unit tests?

He claimed farther down the reddit thread that it was just a joke, but like, only after people were saying that nobody who calls themselves that would even be able to recognize the best engineer in the world if they saw them work.

So, y’know, he pulled a dishonest rhetorical device to defend himself. Like he kinda always does when arguing on the internet. He’s been delusionally narcissistic in basically every discussion I’ve seen him get involved in, first engaging in these Shrodinger’s douchebag lines and then moving goalposts and then later, when cornered, redirecting the conversation to be about other peoples’ designs’ flaws instead of his behavior.

I’ve met maybe a dozen people like him IRL. Every single one has thought they were the biggest genius alive and just needed to prove it somehow.

One guy I know with a personality like him is obsessed with using AI to write code, too. Thinks he’s on track to make the greatest video game of all time because he’s building a game engine from scratch, including using c++ to directly program the GPU instead of using Vulkan or DirectX. I pointed out the portability issues and he seems to think that that’s not a big deal because he can use AI to rewrite it for whatever target platform. He doesn’t have a game design in mind yet.

Unclear

I used to run the Liquorix kernel with Mint. Should work fine. It’s based on the latest upstream with some extra tuning for desktop specific performance. Usually only a day or two behind upstream latest.

So happy to hear this. It’s so nasty to me when devs lock essential features like offline playback behind a paywall.