That’s not gaming anymore than people buying toys, leaving them in their boxes as an “investment” are into playing with toys.

Meanwhile the rest of us are buying games, playing them, enjoying them, moving on to other games and so on.

Or Ubisoft with a AAAA.

I don’t know, the first one was cobbled up together from early access by programmers at a marketing firm and while janky (part of the charm some would say), it was quite an achievement.

The approach which should have delivered better results was wrecked with takeovers and company drama then dumped to the public in a bad state.

Such a tragedy. And that was a game that just needed a tech upgrade, expand a bit, more of the same, nothing crazy.

This is worst. They worked for both the shitty pharma company rushing their dangerous opioid into market and the regulatory agency.

It’s scandalous and the trail of bodies and even more broken lives is heartbreaking.

And and with the crappy FLIR resolution announced, that buck will look nothing like in the marketing material.

Fremen setup some shields in the desert to punish the Harkonen for randomly firing lasers at the sand trying to smoke them out. Or something like that.

Also Bandcamp.

In Switzerland it technically is legal. Only hosting for others is illegal.

Ha, didn’t think the battery would be easily changed, good to know. I don’t have it anymore, sold it cheap second-hand.

That’s so wasteful. And I dragged my old Sony reader for like 7 years and then even handed it down until the battery just wouldn’t hold a charge anymore. In 14 years I’m my second reader and feel the Kobo I’ve got is perfectly fine.

Ah, didn’t notice the two. There was a short period the subtitles on Plex had the warning the API was going to change backed into them.

And Plex’s on-demand subtitle download.

I was OK with the ads. Just a message before the dialogue and a message after the movie dialogue was over.

But paying for subs? Good luck.

No no, I can read the audience. He can get a pre-built NAS from the likes of Synology or QNAS with a nifty simplified web interface. They are very low maintenance and there are detailed, step-by-step guides to turn them into streaming monsters.

Can you get better hardware for less money? If you go the DIY route without a doubt. But sometimes you want a box with a bunch of drives to store your movies and serve them without a hassle and you can buy that.

My only complaint is Synology skimps too much on the RAM.

Unless you’re running a full network setup like Linus

I’m not sure I understand what that means but yes, a NAS is not indispensable, but it’s a great convenience. Pre-NAS that’s how I rolled until I didn’t want to have to run my full-powered gaming PC all the time.

I got that but wondered if he knew what an NAS can be. It doesn’t need to be complicated but you are right: he can just add a bunch of HDDs to his current PC and install the necessary server apps. But I doubt someone who doesn’t want to bother with an added NAS has a PC that can host a bunch of extra SATA drives.

Get a Synology NAS, put HDDs in it, easily install Torrent client and media server software, and enjoy.

A NAS is a box for HDDs, a low-powered computer to drive them, an OS, and some bits of software you choose to run on it.

In my country, they are surprisingly conservative socially-wise so meh.

The low quality audio for mic must be a bandwidth limitation which they could fix with wifi.