Or in the far far past. Doesn’t this take place during Yoda’s lifetime?

They were going with an idea too lore shaking to be done with the level of abandon they appeared to be doing it, and were doing it way too damn close to existing canon in the timeline to pull it off.

Like, I couldn’t give less of a shit about that one Jedi council member being around something like 30 years before he was born.

But you can’t put a baby born from the force that damn close to Anakin without fucking up part of the core lore of the setting, the prohecy.

You can’t have Sith running around this blatantly when the Prequels have Jedi insisting they all died out and haven’t been seen since long before this show’s place in the timeline. They were obviously going for a cover up type thing, but the only way they could have reasonably pulled it off with how many people knew would be to kill off effectively everyone who doesn’t appear in later canon.

Kotor does cool shit with deconstruction of the jedi and the sith, and it can do it without caring too much about canon due to being far far in the past. It also was far better written.

Anyone have any reccomendations for a decently priced IR camera that isn’t dependent on a phone app? Don’t want something that will just stop working because the manufacturer can’t be bothered to keep updating the app later on.

Yeah, there’s something about the physicality of a record player and records that changes the experience. At least for me it encourages more focus on the listening. Even if you just put something on while you do something else, you’re going to be interacting with again before super long.

The record, the part you interact with, has size and weight. It’s definitively a “thing”. And choosing a record is a choice. You can’t just press some buttons on a remote and change to whatever else (unless it’s a full music system setup).

Plus the beautiful art on the sleeves, and the time it takes to get the record out forces you to spend at least a little time with that art.

With a CRT TV, you’re using a remote and there’s a lot more abstraction and layers between the physical object holding the content and your actual consumption of it.

VHS tapes are physical, but the moving parts that make it all work are hidden away in the VCR and the magnetic tape isn’t really touchable. Playing one on most TVs required another device plugged into the TV and pressing some buttons on one or two remotes that could just as easily bring you other content without ever leaving your seat.

There is art on the VHS case, but it’s not like it takes time to get the tape in and out, so you’re not as likely to look at it for long.

Most importantly, people are still making new record players and records. There was a long while where it was a very niche thing, and there weren’t a lot of new records coming out, but there were still new players coming out. And the technology is simple enough that the average person could at least keep a player in working order or fix the most common issues themselves. Enthusiasts could even “fix” an old machine with modern parts that are readily available, as long as they function the same. It’s not like people are going to stop making electric motors anytime in the next century.

CRTs simply aren’t manufactured anymore. Depending on the issue they aren’t end user servicable for the average person, or even most enthusiasts. Maintenance is potentially dangerous to the person doing the work. The parts have limited lifespans with no replacements available for the main bits. If the electron guns start to go, you can potentially rejuvanate them with special equipment, or you can end up breaking a damaged one entirely (see 10:32 of this video about restoring an old arcade cabinet).

It’s the same (sans danger to the person doing the repair) for VCRs. No new stock, specialized parts that can’t be swapped for more readily availble modern components, you get the picture.

And that’s also not considering the fucking weight of a good size CRT compared to a record player.

Don’t get me wrong. I love CRTs. Pretty sure I still have my childhood one in my basement, complete with some discoloration from when my 8 year old self had some fun with magnets.

I was legitimately distraught when my wife talked me into only keeping one of the three CRT TVs we had gathering dust, and I think I still have one or two CRT monitors stashed away somewhere.

I spent multiple weekends years ago looking up and configuring the best CRT shader for emulators so it looked like an idealized version of that childhood TV.

But I entirely get why records and record players are such strong and well thought of “nostalgia bait” and CRTs and VHS tapes are not.

My cheapo one has a short gap where it will start spinning before the speakers catch up and I can listen that way guilt free. You can also just turn the volume of the speakers all the way down, but that’s not nearly as disorienting as hearing a half second of the audio all small and tiny and not coming from the right place.

I’ve been thinking for years now about picking up one again that can run RockBox. Used to live out of an iPod nano with that, and didn’t have to carry flash drives. Just plug the usb cable into a computer and use it as one. A lot of modern music apps still aren’t as fully featured when it comes to on the fly playlist creation.

I once binged IT Crowd using an old CRT monitor as my second screen. Definitely a vibe.

Yeah, I hope he does a part 2 where he gets some help to get it working, summarizes how, and re-runs the benchmarks.

Those stuffed shirts in DC aren’t giving Americans what they need, that’s why Trump had to come in and kick them into gear!

How are we ever supposed to feel safe when these people can be walking around with concealed weapons, drugs, gang affiliation signs, and tattoos that we can’t see because they hide them under clothes? You see these people, they’re not from here. They don’t belong here, and you can never know what they’re carrying or what they’ll do!

We need our lawmakers to step up! If these people could be hiding weapons dangerous to the American people under their clothes, then they shouldn’t have clothes!

They come in here with their drugs, poisoning the American people, with their knives and guns hurting the American people! Hunting us for sport! You know, some very smart people have told me- the smartest people, well traveled people who know the world- there are towns out there where these people mount the heads of what they’ve hunted on the walls!

Horrible, evil people coming here, hunting us for sport, desecrating our bodies, and taking our heads as sick twisted trophies!

Using weapons and drugs they hide under their clothes!

That’s why we need DC to pass this law: for the safety of the American people! No longer will we allow these foreign criminals to wear clothes on our soil!

Local sicko kills seven squirrels, stuffs them in camera equipped box to livestream his sick perversion

Similarly, Jerboa tries to make @indie-ver.se in the post body into a link to a user profile and also stops at the hyphen.

Toss some rooftop park/garden/green spaces up there as well and they’d be pretty damn great, as far as skyscrapers go.

You don’t have to store them in intune, as far as I know. I’m not a desktop engineer, but I know at my workplace they historically are stored in AD.

Why do you think he’s wearing long sleeves?

We can safely assume that anyone wearing clothes is only doing it to cover up international terrorist organization tatoos. Nothing to hide, nothing to fear.

Sounds like useful post-install steps that should be made clear for the nVidia release of Bazzite ;)

Yeah, the video’s length is absurd. I enjoy his content, but an hour of watching clips of the same damn benchmarks isn’t particularly interesting. Definitely should have been cut down further, imo.

Anyway.

I think as people with technical background, we need to understand that for Linux to eventually overtake Windows it needs to work for the average knuckledragger.

Wade didn’t have to google how to install the driver on Windows in advance (as far as we know, that’s some important clarification that’s needed).

Bazzite is supposed to be the distro for minimum hassle gaming, and they even have specific distro releases for these old nVidia cards, which he used.

What is the point of having a specific release for that hardware if it doesn’t work? If users have to take extra steps after the install, there should be something that pops up on first boot to direct them to it, or a warning about this when you download the iso.

It shouldn’t be on the user to have an issue first, then guess at what they need to search to get useful info.

I get that Linux maintainers are loathe to turn the experience into “Windows Lite” where it reminds you to wipe your own ass with their proprietary paper, but at some point I think we need to accept a bare minimum level of hand holding can be useful for user experience.

How hard would it be for a message box to pop up: You’re using NVM/llvmpipe and you may not be getting the full support for your GPU. Click here for more info. Click here to never show this again.

I kind of hate that it isn’t making a bigger point of the artist that made the “piece” in the first place and their incredibly unhealthy relationship with AI.

The guy was using it as his therapist, experienced what they self label as a psychosis, at some level see that it’s a bad influence on them, despite that used it to make a piece they got put in a gallery, and haven’t actually cut it out of their life. I don’t think it would be entirely unfounded to call it an addiction.

Someone needs to get the “artist” some actual, licensed psychological help.

Clearly MS-13.

Needs a nice thick vein, like a snicker’s bar.

I think he does regular drumming streams too.

Some more evidence this is motivated by racism and evil (I know, redundant to say) is that if there was even an ounce of logic in these fuckers heads they would either escort the kid home, or tail/surveil him to identify his home, then grab the whole family.

This is not how you would run an organized campaign actually attempting to achieve their stated goals. This is intentionally causing extra emotional distress and chaos.

I know, I know, that’s been the obvious case the whole time. Just had to get this scream into the void.

Like, I don’t get how anyone could support this. Even the racists. If you want these people out why would you cheer for such an obviously horrifically mismanaged clusterfuck? Ugh.

Reality needs to get some better writers, this shit is getting too unbelievable.