phx

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[–] phx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The 9th Gate.

I mean, other than it being kinda a crappy movie the whole "I ascend to power by literally banging the devil" just seemed ... wow.

[–] phx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Ah yes. Getting a PC that breaks into the game market has always been a bit more pricey - though the Deck helped that - but these days the component cost is just insane.

[–] phx@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Linux desktop marketshare is going up, though it's definitely not huge. Windows 11 is not particularly popular, and very resource-heavy in a time where those same resources are exploding in price. I'd imagine that hardware companies want to hedge their bets a bit and supporting Linux is this manner is pretty safe.

It's worth noting that HP is also one of the bigger hardware vendors and a lot of servers run Linux, so again firmware updates are probably a good thing you support.

[–] phx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Depends on what you play on PC. A lot of AAA decent releases are, but there's stuff regularly on sale and it's pretty easy to accumulate a backlog just from sales of good games.

There's also reasonably priced releases like Silksong but that's more rare

[–] phx@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Amazon should not be able lock authors into exclusivity contracts with Kindle Unlimited either, but who's gonna stop them?

[–] phx@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well, taking anyone who is willing to accept this entirely based on "faith" and often contrary to science, facts, or their own two eyes... yeah that's pretty much exactly the type of follower a serial scam-artist would want.

[–] phx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah it's not about not paying for me, it's about being able to host my own with my protections and controls

[–] phx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

And yet even DVDs have a bullshit screen about "license to the content blah blah" and bullshit like region codes

[–] phx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Propaganda for what though?

"Hey, look at this guy with the screaming controller, he's so awesome for that" ?

More that it's funny to imagine that this feature was a deliberate pick from the CEO.

[–] phx@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean, the choice to have the controller scream when dropped might have been something Gabe cooked up

[–] phx@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's because they follow the Capitalist Bible

[–] phx@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Also, Plex controls the login/authentication through their portal, and can also receive data back from your host regarding the content being shared/watched.

Jellyfin is 100% locally configured accounts

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