If you’re unfamiliar with the term, “nearline” refers to storage that is not quite online, yet also not quite offline. It’s “warm” data, information that needs to be available for ready access, but doesn’t have to be as quick or responsive as the SSDs that serve as primary online storage for essentially all systems now. Because it isn’t constantly being accessed, hard drives can fill this role in an economical fashion.

I didn’t say it was cheap, lol. I said it’s where you can buy music.

Deezer, Qobuz, and Bandcamp. Between those three you should have everything.

Vesktop is great. It even has plugins for youtube adblock and dearrow. For privacy peeps you can also enable the SilentTyping to hide when you are typing and ReplaceGoogleSearch if you want to use a different search engine.

Not like that.

Hey! I’ve seen you before! You’re the unhinged jackass noticer!

…i looked in your comment history for too long to figure out why though. https://lemmy.world/comment/18001123

Unfortunately I already left Pop! for Fedora when I updated my GPU. I needed something with an updated kernel anyways and Fedora played nice with it out of the box.

But man, I still am surprised when I open up software and it just… loads with no issue.

I was on pop for a while! It was cool.

Why does the pop shop suck though? Why?? Why is it so slow, why does it crash so much? Why is this such a problem with so many users? It wasn’t the straw that broke the camel’s back, it was more like an unnecessary brick the camel had to carry.

Counter Strike Source and other old school LAN games.

Then invite friends over and pass the drive around so they can all install games and you can have a LAN party.

Yeah, it’s written in English, which is read left to right.

In the image attached to the post.

It bothers me that the graphic lists red-then-blue but there text lists blue-then-red. It’s inconsistent to how we read the information and makes it confusing to process.

…like gerrymandering

Don’t be ashamed! The two are very closely linked. One leads to the other, either way.

That looks like a good bread! You did a good job!

I guess they want you to read the comics on their website? A quick search leads me to “gocomics.” Top comment on the first C&H page:

“This’ll be the last comment I ever leave on GoComics. For those who don’t know, they just closed down r/calvinandhobbes due to copyright striking. Really lame and unnecessary perversion of fair use, especially in conjunction with the paywalling. Cancelling my subscription.”

GoComics seems like a fine enough place to read comics. They have a lot of comics on there- aaaaaand a paywall. Yeah idk about that.

I don’t understand this.

If I put on something with video I want to absorb it. There’s more video content in existence than I could ever watch, I always want to watch something worth watching. If it’s something I’ve seen before them I’m rewatching because it was entertaining enough that I want to watch it again. Even if I try to ignore it, it’s good enough that it’ll rope me in.

Put something on and not watch it? Is it boring enough that it’s not pulling you in? It’s just background noise? Then why isn’t it a podcast or something?

If you’re ignoring it then why turn it on? Do you turn on lights in rooms you’re not in? It feels… like something just above brainrot. Like it’s not rotting you, but either it’s not engaging or it’s just background noise (with an unused visual component)

IMO, everything has to do with piracy.

Ever since the r4 for the DS spring boarded Nintendo piracy, every single console they’ve released since then has been ripped open and has had very easy-to-use tools developed for it to make it really, really, easy to put pirated games on. You can buy a flashcard from amazon with DS games on it. You can mod a 3ds in 15 minutes. You can play switch games on the steam deck.

They hate this. They want to do everything they can to lock down their systems and prevent this.

On the Wii (or maybe it was 3ds or Wii U) when updating, you used to get a notification “…this update will also check for unauthorized material and remove it.” Now they’re simply saying it there’s unauthorized stuff they’re not going to account for it and let things break (or force it to break)

Now they’re locking down the usb-c port, again making it harder to crack the console. They failed with every console this far, so now they’re trying something different.

In the long run it may get cracked eventually. But for now, like denuvo, it delays piracy.

So what can you do with this, run custom-burned DVDs? I’m used to modern consoles with menus and USB ports that can run games of off drives. I don’t even remember if the ps2 has a USB port.

Shutout to Thunder, another great client.

Ahh, the old Lemmy switcheroo.