quirzle

vSphere was never available in the free tier.

The reality is that nobody’s learning much useful from Free ESXi, as you need vCenter for any of the good stuff. They want you using the eval license for that, which gives you the full experience but only for 60 days.

Still, there’s a lot of folks running free ESXi in labs (home and otherwise) and other small environments that may need to expand at some point. They’re killing a lot of good will and entry-level market saturation for what appears (to me at least) literally zero benefit. The paid software is the same, so they’re not developing any less. And they weren’t offering support with the free license anyway, so they’re not saving anything there.

Services running in GCP aren’t built into the phone, which is kinda the main point of the statement you took issue with.

What about autocomplete? Face detection? Virtual assistants

How much of that is really built-in vs. offloaded to their cloud then cached locally (or just not usable offline, like Assistant)?

Wallet is just NFT and the screen.

NFC? Pretty sure if they incorporate NFTs as a form of payment, it’ll be a whole thing.

The worst part of the 6P battery stuff was how shitty Google/Fi support handled it. There was a class action lawsuit, and I just needed to show records of my replacement (and then replacement of my replacement) for that issue. They straight up lied to me in chat about having never contacted support about the issue. I had an interaction that was literally:

You can confirm this is my third Nexus 6P, yes?

Yes.

You can confirm they all came directly from you?

Yes.

You can confirm I only purchased the first one?

Yes.

Why did you send me a second and third phone?

We do not have record of this.

Fortunately, I still had the phone and recorded a video of the phone powering itself off at 65% and was able to provide that as evidence…but I’m still salty about it all. It’s why I have not and will not own a Pixel or use Fi ever again.

Lucky.

I had a Nexus 6P that’d power down at 70% battery remaining, a Note 4 that stopped accepting input from the (undamaged as far as I could tell) screen, two other Samsungs with unreliable fingerprint readers, one of those also had a camera that stopped autofocusing and basically became useless. The Samsungs also had a myriad of charger issues from the phantom water detection to one that started getting super hot and melted a USB cable and nearly caught fire while mounted in my car.

Interesting. I’ve got a 1 III that I pre-ordered from the first batch. The only issue I’ve had is that the fingerprint scanner totally stopped working at this point, but I haven’t found any indication it’s software over the thing physically failing. Was damn near perfect before that, in my experience anyway.

That’s just what they’ve added this year. Total drive count is over 3k.

I had mine remapped as far back as the Note 4.

The 256GB storage is expandable via microSD cards up to 1TB. Both phones have 3.5mm headphone jacks.

Different guy, but I jumped from GPM to Plex/Tidal back when GPM died. While I mostly listen to my own files via Plex, the Tidal integration and it’s playlists are most of what I use for discovery now, and my only complaint is that it doesn’t integrate into the Plex/Plexamp apps like the bulk of the library does.

There’s a “Daily Discovery” playlist that mixes new (to you) artists + new (to you) tracks from artists already in the library, a “New Arrivals” list for new (to exist) releases from artists you listen to, and ~5 rotating mixes based on artists you’ve listened to lately. I find the latter to be the closest to GPM’s “I’m feeling lucky” though. They’re a bit more narrow in scope, but there’s 5 of them so there’s usually one that goes into the direction I want at the moment.

Having a Plex library, Tidal also opens up options for on-the-fly “radio” stations built into Plex. It has things such as “artist radio” which will play similar artists, which is also an option depending on how much music discovery you’re looking to have available.

(Sorry for the long-winded reply, but you’ve got good opinions elsewhere in this thread and were asking a question I’ve put entirely too much thought into over the years, so figured I’d aim for thorough).

Looks like you comment more than you boost though.

Just upvote or boost? Aren’t you having to go to your profile to find it either way?

Did you try a warranty claim? Nvidia is pretty well-reputed for being flexible about that sort of thing. The warranty is 2 years in some countries, so it’s not like a huge leap that they’d honor it for one bought last year.

I think it incredibly damaging in the long run to have 50% of active users on this platform to be centralized on one domain.

I agree, but 50% is still better than 100%. I definitely appreciate that I’m reading about this while being totally unaffected personally rather than just disappearing entirely like what happens with a banned subreddit.

Quick Sync transcoding is locked behind the paywall.

https://support.plex.tv/articles/115002178853-using-hardware-accelerated-streaming/

They download the file (which you can usually do with a little Inspect Element action + yt-dlp), but then also decrypt the file.

Most of the big streaming services use Widevine DRM (or at least did at one point, I might be outdated by now), so just downloading the file gives you appropriately-sized gibberish. These apps tend to be expensive because getting around the DRM is usually non-trivial.

My use case for streamfab was a single season of a show that’s free to stream anyway, just wanted a local copy. I wasn’t a huge fan though…entirely too clunky and error prone for the price.

I know from experience some of these apps use mac address to enforce the free trial period (e.g., download 3 things for free then be forced to pay). If you have a means to install it in a vm and change the mac…