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I’m not the OP, but I have this one in my living room… 50", $232.

Well I suspect the quality is not going to be up to your standard, but this is the one I have in my living room, and I think it’s perfectly fine. But if you just can’t live without 120hz or whatever, then I guess you’re stuck.

Walmart used to have a variety of these, now they’re down to one. All my TVs are either 10+ years old or Sceptre and therefore are all dumb. But I don’t have a purist bone in my body when it comes to AV stuff.

Whoever wins, we lose.

Epic and GOG work on Heroic just fine and I’ve run two standalone games (Elite Dangerous and ESO) using Lutris with no problems.

All you have to do to see it is find a piece of current but generally ill-regarded media and post something negative about it. Then just sit back and watch all the totally real users flooding in to defend it and talk about how people who shit on it are only doing so for weak personal reasons, and it’s not that bad they’ve always kinda liked it etc.

Or just go to any halfway popular sub that talks about a food item that comes in a wide variety of flavors and brands. It’s a constant parade of pictures of brands with titles like “Who has tried this stuff and loves it?” or even “I can’t stand this stuff,” with an army of totally grass-roots posters defending it as “not for everybody but I love it” - and so on and so on.

It’s so obnoxious I can barely stand it anymore. Product subs and media subs are just worthless. I still get some traction out of niche gaming and hardware subs but that’s about it.

For real, all my TVs are Sceptre. They are not easy to find, but they are incredibly reasonably priced and completely dumb perfection.

If people like us make them popular enough, maybe they’ll realize this is a lucrative niche market.

Pff, I don’t trust Apple to be able to get Siri to do shit.

Yes! And I would like to add, I’ve never been able to get the scanner to work on my printer from Windows. I always had to scan to a usb stick on the printer itself and then carry it to wherever I wanted.

Linux: just worked. Got done setting up the printer and it asked me if I wanted to set up the scanner too, it hadn’t even occurred to me.

Yeah, I’m floored myself. To be fair, I haven’t strayed from using it with Steam VR, so I can’t speak to anything else, but it was literally plug and play. Elite’s graphics were jumpy but all I did to “fix” it was change the quality in the game settings to “VR Ultra” and it was better than it ever was on Windows immediately. I’m gonna do Alyx sometime this week.

I did try it (and Geany, and etc), but it didn’t have the ability to “save as to ftp” which is a stupid thing to get hung up on, but I’m stuck in a groove with how I do certain tasks in web dev. This was before I realized you could mount a server like a drive in the File Manager (another awesome Linux thing I didn’t know I needed in my life), so I may go back and try it again, but since I got Notepad++ working fine and I’d have to port over all my syntax highlighting I’m not really motivated.

Oh yeah, I’m lucky in this regard. I became a (partial) Mac user back in 2002 when my company gave me a MacBook and told me all the stuff we were building had to work on Mac (educational software). I was always a Sonar guy - going way back. Sonar basically died so I was forced to start over and I was looking at Ableton and others but I decided to go with Logic because I had a spare Mac that could handle it just laying around. So I’ve been a Logic on Mac user since 2018.

But yeah, I can see how if you use tools like Ableton it would be a real impediment to switching.

Too true but I think their success, their actual success - as measured by desirable outcomes for Russia and the world it creates for itself to exist in - is far from certain.

Russian leadership has this bizarre sense of manifest destiny, an unflagging idea that destabilizing the dogshit out of everything everywhere (the “success” you refer to - because yeah, they’re killing it) somehow can only lead to good outcomes for Russia and not the reverse. That’s far from certain. Shit, if history is anything to go by, it’s strangely arrogant hubris.

Also, you can “install” things like Discord into a webapp and when you launch it it looks and behaves just like regular old discord, but never makes you wait through those annoying installation screens.

I was in the middle of making a reply like this but yours is better. Closed as duplicate.

The words “billionaire run” imply that Russian state media is not run by billionaires.

Welcome to the era of media that cannot die.

Same here, I got hired as a “webmaster” at a place that had been using some Yahoo web services for their website and they had dialup Internet accounts for everybody in the office. For the same money I got them access to a fractional T1 and set up a server on an old 486 gathering dust in the back room. We served up their webpages from in-house. They thought I was a god, I was just a big fat resume-padded liar who stayed up reading Usenet all night lol. Those were the days and I’ll never forget that distro:

Yes, yes I will, well Chromium forks.

Yeah, I’m not going to switch to a Manifest V3 browser because Firefox puts in access to an optional AI agent. If Firefox makes it so you can’t turn it off, which I wouldn’t think is likely, I might switch to something like Librewolf, but Chromium? No.

“Chilling moment”

They never stop trying to convince us, do they? This is only chilling if you’re an ultrawealthy sack of shit.