Considering Cyberpunk looks great and runs at 40fps on Switch 2, that’s pretty atrocious performance. For all From Soft’s brilliance, they can’t handle game engines well at all.

I think you're underestimating how easy it is to produce data to show basically whatever you want when you have access to all the data . We know the Republican party and its voters really don't like that the Epstein files haven't been released. I daresay there's a way to show Gabbard is against rele...

You can't be investigated for corruption and treason if there's nobody to investigate you. True, but is an investigation even necessary if an ex-agent you've fired decides to send the dirtiest matieral they have on you to every major news outlet in the country? It's not like Tulsi Gabbard (or anyon...

Faster than a speeding tortoise! He can leap over tasered detainees in a single bound!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78mj2m85pno If you're in a government that has pissed off everybody except for their most deluded fanatics, how do you think firing half of a three-letter intelligence agency is going to play out? Do you think perhaps they may have the knowledge, the connections,...

I do like Gangs of New York, but it is a structural mess. The first half is a lot better than the second half, too. And some of the accents (Cameron Diaz) are laughable.

More AI nonsense. I’ve filled a 5tb HD with DVD rips so for the time being I’m ripping to the system SSD in my streaming server - about 200GB of files so far. When I tried to add the new folder path to Jellyfin it said it couldn’t find it, and being new to Linux I went to Gemini for help. It had me ...

https://www.ign.com/articles/gandalf-and-frodo-somehow-return-in-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-hunt-for-gollum-ian-mckellen-confirms The very definition of a film that doesn't need making. There are so many rich stories in Middle-Earth that deserve to be shown on screen. The Hunt for Gollum is a barrel-...

Yeah, the only music I’ve used with Jellyfin is a handful of live concert DVDs and there’s no great category for them to pull the correct metadata, so if you’ve got a load of music then it’s not ideal for that. Where it excels is TV series, especially if you use the TVDB plugin for metadata.

If aliens are coming to kill us, it's hard to argue against them at this point.

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Thu Aug 14, 2025 3:27 pm

Linux is looking better and better.

I've loved using Mint so far. Not tried any games so far - not sure if SteamOS is the better option overall.

It's completely mental from a security perspective. Even if Microsoft say they don't collect data that their AI uses, they probably do, and it opens the possiblity that somebody could. Combine that with an AI that is aware of everything on screen and you may as well say farewell to data privacy. Any...

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Thu Aug 14, 2025 12:45 pm

What does "Ambient" mean in this context?

All-pervading, I suspect. Clippy has achieved apotheosis.

It's increasingly tempting to make a permanent switch to Linux.

Tower fan blowing hot air out the window. It's still hot, but this is the most effective cooling method I've achieved in my house.

Also, cold water on the wrists, face and neck right before bed.

I'm not too bothered about fixing it as I'm building a new PC over the next couple of months and will be using the old one to stream everything from a Plex server going forwards. Having spent the last month building a streaming server, I'd have a look at Jellyfin rather than Plex. Free, open source...