I keep wondering what happened to Emby as well. Back when I started this it was only Plex and Emby and I picked Emby and brought the lifetime pass for like $100. Still use it today and works great. I tried using jellyfin a year ago just to see what the fuss was about and to also create another service to handle my 4k content locally and I wasn’t a fan of the UI as much as Emby (Emby isn’t the best either). I also had weird issues playing some stuff and gave up on it. I’ll stick with my Emby and Navidrome setup, they don’t track me or need more money outside the occasional donations I will throw them since I’m sure they don’t make much.

When the lockdown happened and we got our first taste of WFH ever it was interesting. Then they tried bringing us back a few years ago with the start of 2 days and wanted to go to 3. By this point people were pissed to be there. What didnt help was we got so used to just doing teams meetings from our desks that even though we were now all in the same building we still just did those meetings at our desk. We screamed to ourselves why are we even here! Thankfully our company downsized and let a building go and consolidated and realized there wasnt enough room for everyone so a lot of the non essential on site departments like mine got sent back home and now I have only been to work like twice in over a year.

If you got the time im sure waiting a year to use it would also help.

Ill fix it for 5 million.

Whats the purpose or point to prove on that one? I can get not eating something thats slaughtered, i can even get milk since the practice its self can be done in cruel and bad conditions, but using sheep for a renewable resource sounds a bit much. From my understanding we also messed them up by selective breeding and they have tp be sheared otherwise they will overheat if left alone sadly. Again its an issue we created, but they exist now so not taking care of them sounds awfully cruel as well.

Change business models scares me. It sounds like the first steps towards exactly what the entire industry wants to become. No more hardware, just streaming devices where they own everything with the excuse of shortage manipulation. Good luck if it comes to that, it’s the first time I will say goodbye Sony since growing up with them from the beginning PS1 era.

Early 2000s i had everything, xbox, gamecube, ps2 and everything prior. Since then i only went with Sony getting a PS3, and PS4. No wii or wiiu or any xbox since the original. I did get a switch a few years after release, which was great as well, but idk about the switch 2 either. At this point its been PS5 and a gaming PC which I was lucky enough to build only a few years ago when prices came down for a short time and hope it lasts about 10 years. This will have to get me buy for the foreseeable future, and just hope the hardware doesnt fail first.

Probably fell asleep to that 10 min after it started which was the plan.

Gene Hackman did not die from it, only his wife did. He was not able to care for himself or know what happened due to advanced alzheimers disease and ended up dying due to sever heart disease within a week of her death. The variant on the cruise ship most likely wasnt the same since only 1 version of it is transferrable human to human and is even rarer. The cruise ship wasnt even the problem, they believe the couple who originally had it got it before the cruise and then showed symptoms only after the cruise began. It seems like they are taking it very seriously so I don’t really think theres a reason to worry about it, unless your actually one of the people on that ship.

The scariest part to me is the 30% mortality rate.

With maple syrup

Yeah, that will fix things.

Looks like the best thing sega has done in years. Looks solid and will definitely check it out when it releases, which looks to be this winter.

Wow, i have definitely seen those over the years and never really thought about what it is at all. Crazy to see its a ladybug. Never would have thought that.

Probably because they realize there is no demand or use for it, hopefully. Maybe, just maybe, we reached the point where it needs to justify its value and that the time spent integrating it is just not worth it. And last of all xbox is on its final leg, i think its detrimental that whatever the next step they take will have to be a win.

Idk why, but honestly I feel like 20 years ago I remember getting robbed of 1 every now and then and being really pissed when it happened. I can’t pinpoint when, but I definitely feel like that doesnt happen anymore. Idk if its a coincidence or if they did something to improve accuracy. As for getting extra, i feel like thats only happened like twice in my life lol.

I was at one a few years ago with my kids and it was not.

Somehow I feel like you would be thrown in jail if you did this.

As huge of a gamer as I am (or was?) I am sad to say I never expected this in a million years, but its by far Fall Guys… been playing it since its 2020 release basically every day or every other day since with maybe only a few weeks missed when times were busy. The appeal? It’s super simple, fun, and a great game to play with friends. At the beginning we had like 12 people playing this for a solid year. Fell to about 8 people on and off for the next few years, and the last few years I still got about 5 people who play. On average we will have 3 of us per night playing for an hour to 2 hours. It’s not even fully about the game, it’s an excuse to relax and talk to friends which is easier to do with a game that doesnt require strategy or communication. Either way my end of year highlights show its been my #1 played game every year with about 400 to 500 hours a year just in that game. We have tried to find something new, but it’s just never the same.

I also never assumed it was fully secure either. Like sure it could be secure to hackers since they would still need the keys, but if anyone ever thought Meta was somehow not going to allow themselves access is just crazy and I am shocked anyone thought differently. On top of this they absolutely share all data with the government, im just not sure if it’s by request or full access anytime.

Sadly, everyone i know still uses it so im kind of forced to but at the same time the chats are all dumb anyway so whatever and enjoy reading them Meta employees.

When I read the article about cloudflare using lava lamps (and other things at other locations) to create randomness I had no idea it had to be that crazy to be random.

https://youtu.be/1cUUfMeOijg

I read a comment somewhere that said don’t give the middle finger back, instead give a thumbs down because somehow it feels more offensive. I dont know why, but i completely agree. Sadly I have yet to use this despite having a few opportunities but completely forgot about it in the heat of the moment.