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It's more that there's not really any other use case for dual GPUs (without SLI/Crossfire) other than using those GPUs for stuff other than graphics processing. That means AI or crypto-mining in a VAST number of cases, with very very tiny subsets of users doing stuff like passthrough GPUs to a VM.

If the next Xbox home console is running full-ass Windows instead of a walled DRM garden, and then they partner with Steam for easy swapping between the "Xbox/Gamepass" UI and Steam Big Picture, that's the best console. As in, like best console ever.

$1000 and your gaming PC for Alyx is way beyond buying a PS4 for Bloodborne, and even doing that is a bridge too far for me.

It's FOSS at least, but when a Discord replacement kinda needs all the users on the same server (one of the subtler evils of discord is using "server" to mean "chatroom"), you're still in the hands of the master company's decisions regarding their instance. The only theoretical protection from corporatization on Revolt is that when they do start shilling Revolt Ultra (and locking features behind it), someone else can fork their codebase but must still convince "the community" to migrate - including new accounts, reconnecting to all friends, communities moving to the new fork (likely without their history coming along for the ride)...

Matrix is feature-bare at the moment, but as a federated platform it is more tolerant of Matrix Dot Org going corpo. It's the same situation as what'd happen if Lemmy.world or Mastodon.social started piping in ads and subscriptions - bad, but not platform-killing. Revolt is basically analogous to Bluesky, with Matrix as Mastodon. Bluesky obviously won the fight over Twitter refugees. I think Mastodon would have had a chance if they had polished up onboarding and focused on ease-of-transition a couple years before Twitter imploded. Hopefully Matrix devs do that push before Discord finally gets to the tipping point where people are willing to actually go somewhere else. It needs to have Discord-level convenience and quality on screenshare and group audio/video rooms on day one of Discord imploding to have any chance. To have a good chance, it needs to be as good as or better than Discord Nitro, for free, on that day.

I think one thing Matrix does better than Discord and Revolt is allowing p2p file sharing as an option, in addition to serverside hosting. File size limits in a chat client are a lot more tolerable when it's "whoops, we don't want you uploading a 2gb video file to our servers... But would you like to send it directly? Your contact will need to accept the download." As a general rule, chat apps being more p2p means they're more sustainable (because the servers don't have ballooning storage requirements) and more private (because with p2p e2ee communications, nobody but one of the peers can share your data with anyone). P2P is notoriously hard to wrangle for group chat situations though, or validating 5 clients per user like how people use Discord. Also, resilient data is often considered a downside in social situations- people like being able to delete and edit their messages. Yes, someone could already be screenshotting/archiving their Discord chats but a p2p system would have everyone automatically doing it.

No, this is worth treating with just as much disgust as if it was what people think "mobile ads" means. It's ads in the client, on mobile. Desktop discord "quests" and nitro upsells and flashing graphics on a "shop" button that shouldn't exist in the first place are ads too.

$20 Walmart Onn 4k. Degoogle it if you want or just slap smarttube and jellyfin/plex on it.

If you're leaving Plex because it's subscribeware, Emby is also subscribeware.

And now, that feature costs $240. Suddenly, jumping through hoops to configure Jellyfin's external SSO plugin becomes a lot more rewarding.

I mean yeah. Game consoles are DRM-riddled computers shackled into being toys. Being able to crack one open and turn it into something that can be used in non-manufacturer-approved ways is a cool scene in its own right.

This is "hacked" in the console modding parlance. It's not about gaining access to someone else's Xbox to do something nefarious, it's about running software that Microsoft doesn't want you to run on your xbox, including pirated games. "Jailbreak" is a synonym for "hack" or "softmod" in this scene.

I like to go whole hog with my Fandom wiki extension: Indie Wiki Buddy automatically cannibalizes Fandom's SEO and immediately redirects your click on a fandom wiki to the appropriate non-fandom one. If your wiki doesn't have a better alternative, it loads (or creates!) a BreezeWiki version of the page (Pulled, parsed, and rehosted content from a Fandom wiki page).

it's Element/Matrix if we're lucky. Revolt is just another Discord - surely this single company will last! With Element/Matrix being an open protocol, it won't be a "platform" you have to leave when it goes corporate.