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    1. Ironically, the cheapest machines are less likely to be annoying in the way OP describes because they have less fancy electronics (or might even still be electromechanical if it’s an old design, but probably not because PCBs and microcontrollers are even cheaper nowadays).

    2. Even expensive machines aren’t necessarily higher-quality these days, unless you’re really careful to do your research and buy the right brand. For example, I would not actually expect an expensive Maytag to last longer than a cheap Amana because both brands are owned by Whirlpool and might very well share a bunch of the same internal parts. The Maytag would be fancier and prettier, but probably not actually better-made.








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    Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, all those guys, they know better. They’re also doing fine money-wise. They had every option to just tell Trump to get fucked, and mess up their company if he wanted to make that decision

    You say that as if they’re complying reluctantly instead of enthusiastically.

    All the billionaire plutocrats are fucking GLEEFUL at what’s happening. Every. Single. Fucking. One. is the enemy of the People.









  • Otherwise any old PC you have lying around will do as a Jellyfin server.

    Unless you want to be able to do on-the-fly transcoding for clients that are picky about codecs (e.g. because they’re only fast enough to decode ones with dedicated hardware support). In that case, you’re going to want your Jellyfin server to have a GPU with decent hardware encoding support.

    (I learned this the hard way: my Jellyfin server is running in a VM on Proxmox and I haven’t figured out GPU passthrough yet, so some of my media fails to play on clients like Roku because the codec isn’t supported.)


  • The dungeon entrance is marked with a message in an ancient language called “English.” It reads as follows:

    This place is a message… and part of a system of messages… pay attention to it!

    Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

    This place is not a place of honor… no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here.

    What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

    The danger is in a particular location… it increases towards a center… the center of danger is here… of a particular size and shape, and below us.

    The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

    The danger is to the body, and it can kill.

    The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.

    The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.

    $10 says the party decides to delve for treasure anyway.