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Even if it was good, the formula you mentioned has been done to death. Every game they make is that. Then they say how can we possibly make an RDR2 level game, and I think to that and there was a game where honestly the gameplay was pretty repetitive - but you don't notice because the story is so good that of course you want to keep going.

But they make these bland corporate characters with boring stories and take absolutely zero risks because what if we offend one person in Ohio - and then it sells like crap. You try to make it for everyone, you made it for no one

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why would we be excited or happy about this? They can still cancel it at any moment. It's not real until it's released.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

DUFF BEER FOR ME, DUFF BEER FOR YOU

The sad bit is that they think we're all too stupid to put the two things together.

The sadder bit is that most of the country is too stupid to put the two things together

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Wait wait to cut costs? What about all the corpo propaganda saying it was to help people make their lives easier?

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nope, it's a universal standard across all systems, port 53 is always DNS

It should have been his decision though, but yes if he's free ( and Jon Stewart) we could have some amazing content

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

53 is reserved for DNS, run it on that port instead

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 points 3 days ago (5 children)

You cannot use a domain name to resolve DNS. Quite literally it's the Domain Name Service, it's the only thing you can't use a domain for. Just set a static IP on your pihole to something memorable like 193.168.1.2 or 10.10.10.10 or something.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Okay that's true I admit, I'm well educated, and I want others to be too. Just like Idiocracy told us though people who don't see how bad it is won't be bothered and will have children anyway. 200 bucks ho boy let's get busy!

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 105 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Very good article. I wish it would have connected the dots just a bit more though. You know what stops me from having children?

  • That daycare is unaffordable so one of us would have to work fulltime just to pay for childcare.
  • The public school system is constantly being underfunded or worse, defunded, and if I had a child they would deserve an education.
  • That PBS is being defunded so the few actually educational programs (the ones I even grew up with) are at risk
  • College is completely unaffordable without massive parental help
  • The job market is at best, iffy over the next few decades
  • Housing is so unaffordable that it would take too much away from my child to pay for mine, let alone if they want to have a home
  • The giant huge fucking elephant in the room of the climate disaster - sitting here in a heatwave that is somehow again "Once in a century" for the umpteenth time while we do absolutely nothing to curb it. I'm not bringing a child into a dying world for their profit.
  • I want us to be able to get an abortion if it comes to that, I don't want to see my spouse die just because she's pregnant and some politician says that the unborn child's life is worth more than hers.

Seriously, all of these are fixable problems and they've been doing the exact opposite! If they implemented even half of these it would completely change my mind about having kids, but no I guess having a 200 dollar annual tax credit bump is enough in their minds after defunding everything else I would depend on.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wow this might be the first time I disagree with the anti-AI folks here. The big two arguments I see about using AI is 1) It was generated from stolen art and 2) It takes money out of the hands of real artists.

For 1, Pandora's box is open. It's done. It doesn't make it right, and I'm all for backing lawsuits against companies who did it, but I'm not going to pile onto a person who just had a joke idea and wanted to get it out there. "But he shouldn't use it at all" - yeah, except that gets into 2.

For 2, This was a silly thing that they wanted to make quick. Let's be very real, there was no way they were going to commission an artist to do this for them. In this way I think AI has democratized art a bit more in this sense. No, it's not winning any awards, but I'll admit I've had a lot of ideas to make a joke or meme, and I've felt left out because all I want to do is post it quick but I don't have the ability to draw. I have a lot of other skills, but I can't draw. So yeah, I don't get why this is such a big deal here, no creators lost out on a commission because of this.

Those who went to Art School, I fully believe in your craft and I value it, and I gladly pay for art around my house. This isn't that though, it's a silly comic strip I got a quick 3 second chuckle out of and then could have moved on if it wasn't for the endless comments below that made me want to post this comment. To me, this is a perfectly valid use of AI. Person had a silly joke idea, made a visual for silly joke, put it online.

 

Not sure if I'm happy or worried about this

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29984268

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cross-posted from: https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/2333639

I was just forwarded this someone in my household who watches our server. That's it folks. I've been a hold out for a long time, but this is honestly it.

They want me to pay to stream content that I bought from my hardware transcoded also on my hardware.

I'll say it. As of today, I say Plex is dead. Luckily I've been setting up Jellyfin, I guess it's time to make it production ready.

Edit: I have a Plex Pass. More comments saying “Just buy a plex pass” are seriously not getting it. I have a Plex Pass and my users are still getting this.

And for the thousandth person who wants to say the same things to me:

  • YES I know I'm unaffected as a Plex Pass owner.
  • My users were immediately angry at it, which made me angry. Our users don't understand what plex pass is, and they shouldn't have to, that's why I had it. The fact that they were pinged even though it should have kept working is horribly sloppy
  • Plex is still removing functionality. I don't care that "People should pay their fair share". If Plex wants to put every new feature behind a paywall, that's completely okay. They are removing functionality.
    • "But they have cloud costs". Remote streaming is negligible to them. It's a dynamic DNS service. Plex client logs in, asks where server is, plex cloud responds with the IP and port of where server is located. That's it.
    • "Good luck finding another remote streaming" - Again, Plex just opens up an IP and port. Jellyfin also just opens up an IP and port (Hold on jellyfin folks I know, security, that's a separate conversation). All "remote streaming" is is their dynamic dns. Literal pennies to them. Know what actually is costing them money? Hosting all of that ad-supported "free" content that they're probably losing money on.

In short, I don't care how you justify it. Plex is doing something shitty. They're removing functionality that has been free for years. I'm not responding to any more of your comments repeating the same arguments over and over.

 

I was just forwarded this someone in my household who watches our server. That's it folks. I've been a hold out for a long time, but this is honestly it.

They want me to pay to stream content that I bought from my hardware transcoded also on my hardware.

I'll say it. As of today, I say Plex is dead. Luckily I've been setting up Jellyfin, I guess it's time to make it production ready.

Edit I have a Plex Pass. More comments saying "Just buy a plex pass" are seriously not getting it. I have a Plex Pass and my users are still getting this.

 

Hi folks. So, I know due to a myriad of reasons I should not allow Jellyfin access to the open internet. However, in trying to switch family over from Plex, I'll need something that "just works".

How are people solving this problem? I've thought about a few solutions, like whitelisting ips (which can change of course), or setting up VPN or tail scale (but then that is more work than they will be willing to do on their side). I can even add some level of auth into my reverse proxy, but that would break Jellyfin clients.

Wondering what others have thought about for this problem

 
 

Heads up for those who run a dedicated server who haven't tried experimental first, posting this so it's on your radar.

Long story short, we had to open two additional ports on our server, 8888 and 27777. Following is a direct copy from the changelog:

Dedicated Server - Port Forwarding Updates

If you have Host a dedicated server, you should definitely give the next block a read as many new improvements have been added to allow for extra flexibility since the last update on Experimental

We have updated the Port Allocation Strategy in Reliable Messaging New features:

Explicit Port Configuration

  • A new -ReliablePort= command-line parameter allows explicit port selection.
  • The value must be an integer between 0 and 65535.
  • If specified, the server will attempt to bind to this port and fail to initialize if the port is unavailable.

Default and Configurable Port Ranges The following settings in Engine.ini control port allocation:

[/Script/ReliableMessaging.ReliableMessagingTCPFactory]
PortRangeBegin=8888
PortRangeLength=512
ExternalPortRangeBegin=-1
  • The server will attempt to bind within [PortRangeBegin, PortRangeBegin + PortRangeLength).
  • By default, the server starts at port 8888 and tries up to 512 ports until it finds an available one.

Client Awareness & NAT Handling

  • Clients must connect to the correct port, but port remapping (e.g., via NAT/firewall rules) can break this.
  • To address this, the server now communicates the listening port to clients during the initial handshake.
  • If external port remapping is used, the server must be aware of the external port via:
  • The ExternalPortRangeBegin config setting (for remapped ranges).
  • The -ExternalReliablePort= command-line parameter (for explicitly mapped ports).

Server Host Requirements (TL;DR)

  • If hosting a single server, port 8888 TCP must be open by default.
  • If hosting multiple servers, a range of ports starting from 8888 TCP (by default) must be open.
  • The server will attempt up to 512 ports before failing (configurable).
  • If port remapping (NAT/firewall) is used, the server must be configured accordingly; otherwise, clients won’t be able to connect.
  • Logging is in place to help server maintainers verify the allocated ports.
 

Hi folks, title essentially. I'm using Open Razer and Polychromatic on PopOS right now for my keyboard, but I have a few other peripherals that are also RGB. A corsair cooler, my EVGA card, and my Gigabyte mobo lighting. I was wondering if there's a single pane I can organize them all with. I don't have super high expectations, but maybe there's something out there. Thanks!

 

I am someone who always enjoys having something on in the background, helping me focus.

I love me some Andor, GoT, a lot of newer stuff that is made with really high production quality - but I sit down to watch those.

What shows do you watch that just sit running in the background, ones that aren't going to win any Emmys but you just enjoy?

For me my last two are Home Improvement and Everybody Loves Raymond. Both were fine in their heyday, but now they are noise filler. Not terrible, not great. So what are yours?

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