Of course you could just bypass all that nonsense by pirating your media
And this is precisely why piracy is on the rise. People will pay for convince/features, as we see with steam and music streaming.
The video industry has yet to figure this out.
All hail Windows 11 for making the future brighter on that front too; with Microsoft pushing forced obsolescence!
Yeah, tons of businesses are and will be offloading intel 7th gen and older computers.
Looks at lap
Logitech K400 still kicking it! (No clue if there is a better one, but it’s going to be hard to beat the classic)
Your old laptop & a generic bluetooth keyboard/mouse combo unit.
That is my setup. :)
Agreed, ditch the idea of trying to run an OS on the TV itself. It’s not worth it.
The TV is best used as a TV and nothing more. Plug a small computer into the back of it using one of the many video/audio ports which exist for just such a purpose.
Yeah, the BSODs got less and less helpful for debugging over time. Which is extremely frustrating when you are trying to fix it.
I think they were attempting to not scare consumers. But nothing scares me more than an unstable PC and no obvious way to fix it. Particularly if this is a family PC, means best I can tell them is “well, I improved things, but since I don’t know what caused the problem, I can’t confidently tell you I fixed it. Call me if it breaks again and we can, shudder get you fixed over the phone.”
Out of curiosity, which video card do you have?
I believe you simply downloaded the file to ~/.local/bin/yt-dlp, you did not install it. You need to either add that location to your path or you need to cd to that folder in terminal, then run the command. It will check things in the current folder when trying to run executables.
Some ISPs will also let you switch to your own modem if you call them and set it up with them. Have done that for years with my ISP as they otherwise charge a rental fee for the modem that pays for a completely brand new modem after only 6 months.
I have a very specific memory of coming in with a jet to shoot one of my buddies in a chopper. Then he does a damn barrel roll, dropping well out of my cone of fire almost instantly.
The helicopters in Desert Combat gave you a ton of control. They were a quite simplistic compared to DCS, which is where I get my aircraft fix now, but I really enjoyed the wild shit you could pull with them if you got good.
We transitioned to boardgame parties. Works much better as you can’t do those online.
We tried Tabletop Simulator; it works, but it’s not nearly as good as in-person boardgames.
I had a look at the support page for the mobo, and there is a BIOS update from Mar 11th. It contains a zip with a .F52q file inside. You should be able to use that file directly from a USB in the BIOS.
Which motherboard do you have? There is almost always a way to load from a flash drive via the BIOS. Many motherboards even have a way to do it from a flashdrive without the UI working at all via a button on the back (BIOS Flashback).
People buying Steam decks are likely the majority of those numbers.
The Steam Deck shows up as Arch Linux in the steam numbers; Arch is only 10.7% of the Linux user-base on Steam. And this is on top of the fact desktop Arch Linux is a thing as well sharing space in that line-item.
The Steam Deck (and Microsoft tomfoolery) certainly was the catalyst for the current wave of adoption, but it is barely a notable percentage of Linux installs on Steam.
Nothing wrong with Ubuntu. If you like Ubuntu, go with Ubuntu.
Just weird I haven’t seen anything about using that one.
Most people don’t mention Ubuntu because they are pushing Snaps real hard, which cause issues for people. Mint is basically the same as Ubuntu, but without the stuff Ubuntu does people don’t like.
Bazzite is the go-to gaming distro. It’s basically Steam OS.
I’m personally a fan of Mint (old, stable) or Fedora Plasma (cutting edge), as both feel very familiar coming from Windows. I went with Mint personally.
This is a great use-case for a live Linux environment. Throw one onto a drive and see if it works well, and if not, just restart and go back to what you have.
But, like you said, not a big deal either way.
If you have a desktop, these work great for swapping SSDs out. Get a pair and swap them out whenever you need/want to. You just need a spare x4 (or larger) PCI-e slot, which is pretty common to have. (Technically they work fine with a x1 slot, but then you are slowing the SSD down.)
What do you mean OSes are sticky as hell?
What are your feelings on switching to a different OS, such as MacOS?
I’m currently on Arch … I’m thinking of switching to gentoo
These are both the same OS: Linux. And one of the nice things is Linux lets you switch around so much at-will as you are thinking of doing.
Yeah, that is my standard way of doing things. Old desktop becomes the server, and it’s specs blow everything I want it to do out of the water, so things like file storage (and the CPU required to encrypt-on-disk), etc have no chance of ever presenting an issue. Though, I do have a pair of Pis with POE hats on them (as well as a POE switch), because I really like POE.
Then I set it up for auto-updates and proceed to ignore it. Love very simple home networking setups that still accomplish every goal.
The dedicated NAS appliances really annoy me. Every time I have had to use one I just think ‘I can just do this in Linux on any random desktop lying around, why am I learning another proprietary thing?’