Yes

Most domain registrars make whois info private by default these days. It’s typically just a toggle. Same with DNSSEC

Gonna be real with you chief, I think those are of the least concern with the recent advancements the American government has made towards becoming a single party state in the last few months. The Epstein files were the distraction, not the other way around.

While I have no desire to defend Randy, Twitter is as Twitter does, and unless you spend time looking at his whole timeline, it sounds like he’s saying only stupid shit like this. He did actually acknowledge the issues, and stated that they’re working on them but also that for now the best way to play is with FSR/DLSS and frame gen.

I disagree with this deeply. He makes arguments about the imperceptibility of latency in frame gen, but that’s only true when the base framerate is high enough. DLSS is probably fine, but it’s also pretty fair for those who are using an 80 or 90 class card to complain about struggling at 1440p native, let alone 4k.

I’m not sure about the coins but I’ve been using it for a few months now and have been thoroughly enjoying the service. I think the coins are literally just their store wallet, and whether you keep some store credit there or not doesn’t matter. It’s equivalent to buying an iTunes gift card or something. You can just pay for whatever you want outright.

BL3 had some fantastic DLC though. Loved that.

I mean, it’s just a mod that someone put together using Conroy’s voice through some weird AI service. I don’t think a studio was involved here

Without that second image it just looks like you got some kinda pancake.

This would explain why my 11 year old account got banned out of the blue despite me only using it to post videogame screenshots. Cool.

“Community Add-ons” leads me to think this is probably Kodi. You can generally do IPTV streaming through it, or torrent streaming even.

I’m going to assume you’re looking for a solution in a personal context, not organizational so I won’t suggest local group policy.

Instead, I’d recommend removing the msstore source from “Winget”. The Microsoft Store uses this source to push updated for installed third party applications. It may not solve the issue entirely, but I find that as Microsoft expands the use of winget as a package manager for Windows (especially Windows 11), the store itself seems to use it for update provisioning.

This is the “Blue Ball Machine”. It’s a real old gif. YTMND seems to be the most recent host but it predates that for sure.

Some additional context: this was from the Something Awful forums and it was a collaborative effort to produce a looping but linked set of gifs. More info here, since I don’t think those original forum posts exist anymore. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/blue-ball-machine

Oh wow, I read that comment and I think my brain auto-corrected. I didn’t even notice that. That’s bizarre

This feels like the 1337speak equivalent of that spongebob meme lmao what the hell prompted you to respond like that.

No, dd doesn’t. It will just plainly write an image to a disk.

Both are great, and I think complement eachother nicely. Qobuz mostly focuses on label offered music catalogues, while Bandcamp has always catered to indies. If an artist offers their music through Bandcamp, I still prefer to make my purchases there, but if the artist is signed to a label then it’s a good shot Qobuz has it.

Either service offers the music in the highest quality provided, though lossless versions through Qobuz do tend to be priced a few dollars higher than the regular album.

I’ve settled for Qobuz. Its discovery features are terrible, but it’s basically a music storefront with a streaming library. High-quality, had basically my whole library and I can buy albums directly for download.

You can use slsk-batchdl alongside a CSV of your Spotify Playlists to make quicker work of this.

Yes. Texture and asset streaming is affected pretty significantly by the speed of your storage. Load times are a large part of where SSDs of different classes can help, but the better your SSD performs for I/O operations, the better for overall visual performance.

It works on all of them. It’s just prohibitively expensive to acquire one. A better setup is just a raspberry pi configured to act as an intermediary service provider.

Am I misremembering or did Finland begin migrating a large number of their government systems to linux/FOSS software?