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[–] [email protected] 112 points 6 months ago (7 children)

There are a bunch of free channels on the internet that some TVs can just stream without a dedicated app. These channels are supported by ads like cable/whatever channels, but not locked behind a subscription. VLC is supporting whatever formats they use to allow (or make it easier; IDK) people to watch them if they want.

The other part is that they're working on web assembly to allow sites to use VLC as their embedded video player.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

If you don't immediately throw someone who doesn't flush off of your property to never return, you're nasty too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Discord supports threaded topic based formats as well.

The reality is that for a lot of interactions, a live chat feels better than a forum post. You can very easily do both on discord, though.

It's not perfect, but the alternatives that aren't a whole project by themselves building a tool don't have feature parity, or the user base.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"Monitors" are smaller.

And the minimum cost of entry to anything reasonably sized is double to triple. Changing some settings is well worth it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's really not.

In poor countries sure, but not the US or Europe. You will get sued and you will pay if you do that at any scale.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The other benefit with Costco is that they have an extremely generous return policy.

Some obvious stuff has different rules (electronics is 90 days, stuff like tires that have clear expected lifespans have their own rules), but it is extremely liberal. And my experience is that I pretty rarely have to use it, because while not everything is a premium product for a bargain price, they tend to ensure that the suppliers for products they sell have reasonable build quality and make stuff that isn't trash designed to fail.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (4 children)

The courts aren't. Nintendo is.

Emulation has already been litigated to hell and back. It's very clearly legal, including relying on users pulling a blob or two from their hardware for the whole thing to function.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

By existing. (Yes, that's the only argument they made. There is no assertion that anyone associated with Yuzu "cracked" (not necessary) or actively distributed TOTK.)

It's a distraction. It's literally impossible for it to be relevant unless the yuzu project page hosted TOTK files.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

No, it's not.

The case Sony lost also relied on the end user having a blob of Sony's code. A user using their own key and a blob of Nintendo's firmware, which is the official stance of Yuzu on the correct way to do so, is exactly the same thing. There's nothing new to be litigated. Every part of Yuzu is very clearly legal.

The fact that it was used to play a game before official release straight up cannot possibly be relevant. It's a distraction. The project isn't, and isn't capable of being, responsible for anything but its own code.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Emulation has also been litigated to hell and is also very clearly legal.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There isn't guesswork involved. They know for certain that people will. They have network effect on their side. Their entire audience is captive. Anyone willing to leave already has after the hundreds of different "revelations" of how fucking disgusting everything they have ever touched is.

They aren't selling anything but your privacy. It's Apple's limitations on being overt malware that they'd be bypassing, and it is absolutely guaranteed that they would do so the literal minute they can.

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