Depends if it’s sold by Amazon who stuffed 90000 units in their own warehouse or if it’s just sold through amazon by the same vendor. I’ve seen all three prices on the same item all still on amazon.

I dunno’, quite a few people are aware that they’re dying before they die.

Yea, symlink all the files to the same master log file. … /s

EA, Blizzard, Ubisoft, The New York Times, Fox “News”, Walmart, Amazon, Google…

The list is very, very big. They must just be blind as all fuck.

Survivorship bias gonna’ bite him in the ass HARD.

Yea, that’s why I added the, “not that they’re wrong…” part. Interesting how no one actually understands what those simple words mean.

Compared to a pure install that can run on an electric toothbrush it’s a massive pill to swallow for some.

I mean, they added “bash scripts you find online”, which are only a problem if you don’t look them over or cannot understand them first… Their post is very much cemented in the paranoid camp of security.

Not that they’re wrong. That’s the big thing about security once you go deep enough: the computer has to work for someone, and being able to execute much at all opens up some avenues of abuse. Like securing a web based service. It has to work for someone, so of course everything is still vulnerable at some point. Usually when private keys or passwords are compromised if they’re doing things remotely correctly, but they’re still technically vulnerable at some point.

No, YOUR anus!

Because most devs are just codemonkeys implementing what they’re told to. This is pure manipulative propaganda from the suits who are already robbing wages from good devs.

The original intent of patents was almost exactly that. You’re protected for a handful of years, after that anyone can just use the patent as instructions for recreating it.

… then Disney and other fucking greedy ghouls of corporations got involved and greased the right palms…

It was obvious hyperbole to point at how you are still hilariously wrong. Congratulations on being too stupid to understand how speech works. No wonder you let your kids engage with addictive games… You’re too simple to understand how it’s still bad.

Because they all come with microtransaction stores, including several of the ones you’re specifically lauding, ya numpty.

Just because YOU haven’t wasted money on microtransactions does not magically make them unsuccessful in getting many children to blow loads of their parents’ money.

There are over 700,000 games on the play store. … and 699,900 of them are basic, traditional mobile games that are basically a gamified e-store for imaginary goods…

They gave references, you ninny. It doesn’t matter if you have references if everyone is bringing a lot more of rhem in to it, which they have.

Again, obstinance should not be confused with being correct. That’s just being in denial… You are in denial.

Being “left of center” is a comment about the Overton Window. People are trying to express to you about how outside of the extremely slanted window, liberals are all conservative, which is wholly and demonstrably correct.

When you’re the only one trying to use rose colored glasses, it behooves you to understand that most others will have a different perspective.

Jellyfin and others transcode some videos to a more streamable format. Not important if it’s already a good streamable format, but if it’s some older file, it might not even be streamable (like AVI, and WMV). Those situations are where transcoding is necessary. It also comes in to play when the bitrate needs to change, like trying to watch a high bitrate video on old hardware that cannot handle it (like an old chromecast). It’s nice when the server can just transcode the video and send a less heavy or more compatible stream.

Hardware acceleration for the transcoding is simply more efficient these days. Most CPUs for the last decade can do software transcoding of 1080p without much issue (if that’s all it’s doing), but get multiple people watching older videos or some really high bitrate ones and hardware acceleration will become a tangible benefit, too.

Your situation only works for video formats that are streaming-friendly, meaning all the browser has to do is feed the stream of data to a video player, and it Just Works. The media player doesn’t need significant chunks of the file to start playing it, so as long as the connection is fast enough, it’s fine.

No. We’re right. You’ve been given references. Just because you obstinantly ignore those references does not make you correct or smart.

Yea but neoliberals are not left. The fuck do you think US democrats are classic liberals? Also classic liberals are still capitalist supporting fuckwits, so the distinction is irrelevant when discussing the modern left.

It was to attract all the kids for the diddling. …

/s … god I hope /s