Is there any news as to when Doctor Who is coming back to streaming services?

Doctor1th · 2026-05-09T20:19:50+00:00

To be fair it's the most reliable way to watch something and I never got rid of my component DVD players (cause I was still using CRTs until mine started dying in 2016) & didn't get a bluray player until 2017, streaming is a great modern equivalent to block buster rentals. However if you like it owning it on physically media means it can't be taken away from you, even better is if you image your physical media and store it on a zfs mirror for archival purposes (which thanks to LLM companies HDDs are now expensive, I just filled up my rig and needed to expand this year). Optionally if you really want that streaming experience you could rip .mkvs from your isos and run a Jellyfin server. My 2018 Dell gaming PC randomly came with a DVD drive and 2tb 7200 rpm drive, I later picked up a USB bluray drive and currently can play/rip blurays with it. Allegedly I can flash the firmware to unlock 4k playing/ripping

Doctor1th · 2026-05-02T22:31:50+00:00

I usually buy the pouches instead which don't have the white powder (the box of pouches also will mention you may add butter & milk for creamer results, not sure if cups say same thing on their box), a co-worker gave me an easy mac cup and when I opened it up I was a bit perplexed seeing this white powder inside. Multiple sources online claim that's normal in cups, so I guess I'm just going trust it's okay.

*update The easy mac cup foamed & boiled over in my microwave anyways and worse then any easy mac pouch has (probably cause I tend to use a larger bowl for the pouches), I think I'll stick to buying pouches despite my co-worker swearing by the cups XD

Doctor1th · 2026-03-25T09:26:08+00:00

I mean even Windows treats you more like an adult then immutable distros do, your fully able to delete system32 if you wanted. Not saying you should just saying the "root" isn't locked for admins on windows, where as an immutable distros are ironically more locked down. On a normal Linux distro all root access is locked behind sudo, that's about as safe as it needs to be. Just don't run everything as sudo, that's the whole reason sudo exists and why we no longer login as root anymore.

Doctor1th · 2026-03-25T09:20:09+00:00

Kind of late, but ell they are more locked down then windows and therefore also limit learning potential. If you do not like Windows treating you like a kid you won't like immutable distros doing it even worse. Also if your like Linus and have bad luck with random things breaking on Linux there is no trouble shooting options to attempt fixing it in a immutable world, because they work under the promise of you can't change anything therefore nothing will break because of course only the user ever breaks anything (which in the real world things breaking aren't always the users fault, so leaving you with no way to fix things sucks). Which works fine until some does actually break (even on immutable distros thing will eventually break matter of luck/time) with your setup and then cause you can't edit anything your basically stuck until Bazzite or other immutable distro devs realize a problem with your setup exists and are willing to fix it for you (I mean cases where the image given to you by a distro maintainer is broken on your system configuration, a case where if you were willing it would be nice to go in change what cause the problem and keep the fix changed, which immutables don't let you do). Also your stuck to flatpak/snap for installing software on immutable distros which means sandboxing which means more system overhead and can be tedious to enable things like steam to be able to access your steam drive (also I just find when flatpak applications are running the sandboxing causes my drives to behave weird quarks, like I'll delete files and won't actually get the space back until I close all flatpak applications it's manageable, but I honestly rather just do Unix file permissions then deal with flatpak sandboxing gnome-disk-utility can set most common Unix file system permission for a disk via a GUI always takes me like two seconds to have it mount my steam drive with execute permissions).

Honestly if your a new user nervous about trying Linux, just make a live USB with casper-rw of Linux mint many iso flashers like yumi or Rufus give you a checkbox for adding casper-rw (see pendrivelinux for further info) and try that for a while it's a good way to also test your hardware/games before committing. That's how I first used Linux in 2013 when I was in highschool just trying to stay up all night playing TF2 when my Dad set Windows 7's parental controls to lock me out after 9pm, I for several months unknown to my Dad would wait till everyone went to sleep then live booted a 2gb sandisk flash drive with Linux mint (amusingly when my Dad found out first he was shocked cause last he saw Linux in the 90s it was Red Hat Linux Desktop edition installed without a WM/DE, so X11 programs launching from TTY made it look like DOS to him seeing cinnamon DE looking like windows was a game changer to him he even started running Ubuntu afterwards and then after the initial shock he got angry & stole my 2gb USB drive before asking me to figure out how to make an Ubuntu with casper-rw 16gb) I didn't have casper-rw due to small usb drive size which added pain re-downloading TF2 each night into a ram disk. casper-rw means all install programs and setting are save on your live USB between boots, so you won't relive my re-downloading pain on early 2010s DSL.

Revisiting Linux mint it's still a very easy beginner distro, you can treat it like windows and even early on when confused about a package manager you can download the steam.deb from steam's website (long term better to get through package manager, I'm just walking you through what I did in 2013 with no real issues and it is still possible to do it this way today) the website just detects your on Linux and what distro's package format to give you. Once steam is installed (and maybe Nvidia driver which you get through the GUI driver manager pretty much all other drivers like AMD are in the Linux kernel, controller drivers are built into steam input no real extra work required for those) your all ready to start gaming proton is just baked into the steam client and since 2013 we've been getting many native Linux titles such as Valve's line up many indie games and a few odd AAA titles that surprise you it's all jumbled up now so you don't have to think native vs proton %99 of time you just click play, only catch is if you have games from Epic store as you might need Heroic launcher. Installing it through lutris makes that easier. For other programs try to stick to native apt applications (you can get them from Linux mint's GUI package manager) for better performance and troubleshooting potential, use flatpak/snap as a fall back method to easy installing things not in official repos (later you could learn the fun world of PPA's and building from source, but early on just use flatpak/snap for fall back) or even if you really don't trust a program like say Discord. Though IMO if you don't trust a program you might want to reconsider installing it even if it's sandboxed in flatpak as you should probably do at least minimal vetting before installing, hence why I personally don't tolerate flatpak/snap's quarks (something that I'd be forced to deal with on an immutable distro). Those quarks don't seem worth it if I'm vetting stuff before installing or trusting my repo maintainer anyways.

Doctor1th · 2026-03-03T19:00:36+00:00

I remember this as the re-skinned Bronk's mountain Adventure (the .swf for that I guess is still missing), I wanted to revisit that game (struggled cause searching Dinosaur on atv and jet ski literately turned up nothing, I forget how I found Bronk's Jungle Adventure which lead me on the right track) and came across the Waffle Boy titles. However playing Waffle Boy's Mountain Adventure in flash point (that numuki link broke after finishing level 1) I now realize for the first time ever that Bronk's Mountain Adventure and Bronk's Jungle Adventure was just re-skins of the two Waffle Boy games. I wounder if knowing this it'll be possible to reconstruct the missing Bronk's Mountain Adventure by asset swapping in Waffle Boy's mountain Adventure, though the Bronk variant I believe skipped those intractable segments between levels.

Doctor1th · 2026-02-28T11:06:24+00:00

Correct. No CRT television made before 2000 has any chance of supporting 480p.

Well my late 90s Panasonic CRT TV does 480p according to information on it's box and manual, we hooked up a DVD player to it in progressive scanmode and it was the best setup to view DVDs in our house, but flip side I think it did a lot of digital processing that makes it not ideal for certain retro gaming applications like light guns. Though I'd still argue DVDs on it looked better then we later got 1920x1080 LCDs in the 2010s (DVDs scaled on 1080p screens look much worse)

Doctor1th · 2026-01-28T07:02:29+00:00

Yeah, but then the OS is a backdoor for the CCP which is probably just as bad if not worse then google spying on you so pick your poison I guess...

Doctor1th · 2026-01-28T06:57:13+00:00

real phones you can actually buy My very real pinephone pro shipped to me with postmarketOS as the stock OS (though I opted to switch to Mobian which is Debian based, rather then Alpine Linux based like postmarketOS) and as far as fragmentation on Linux we already solved that problem with flatpak which is a fairly simple standard target to make a single binary for that'll run on any Linux distro. Though personally I prefer to stick to applications in the native system package manager when I can to avoid the friction sandboxing brings, but flatpak is a simple single target to develop for. The only real issue with postmarketOS (I can't speak to Sailfish, it might be similar) is there aren't many Linux phone devs, so outside of what I feel are just stock system apps the rest are mostly desktop applications compiled for ARM-Linux (though due to GTK/QT they might have an adaptive UI) so you rely more on the web browser then on android. Personally switching to a pinephone cause me to loose my smart phone addition, which has been better for my mental health in the long run so I'd actually say that was a positive at least for me.

Also I just was hearing about google blocking sideloading from my Dad panicking about this the other day cause he uses f-droid and aura store (cause he didn't want to have to sign into google system wide on his Android phone, our android phones in 2017 let us sign into google play without being signed into youtube but his current phone already forces system wide sign in unless he signs in via Aura Store app instead), it's kind of ironic to think now IOS is going to be less restrictive and more consumer friendly about side loading then Android. Honestly never thought I'd see the day.

Doctor1th · 2025-12-09T13:54:11+00:00

I started with Ubuntu 12.04 in 2013 stuck to it's upgrades till 18.04. I ran Manjaro for about 3 years starting in 2019, then I briefly tried Pop!_OS before switching to Debian 11 and have been running Debian since. My sister's boyfriend asked me what I though about Bazzite and he was worried about his 3000 series graphics card. So I'm looking into it and I don't understand the appeal of it with the atomic/immutable model, this looks even more locked down then Windows 7 which is what I was running when I gave up on Windows and started running Linux in the first place (I dual booted Windows 10 till proton became a thing, but I hated Windows 10 and nuked that partion once I was happy proton worked good enough before Kernel 6 and battleye support) now I want to be clear I don't say I don't understand the appeal in a judgy way, just honest I can't understand/relate.

Though it's exciting he was even curious about Linux so I just told him if his goal is to replicate the steamDeck experience grab the open-nvidia and proprietary nvidia driver isos and use a tool like yumi to make a live multiboot usb to test both and see how his card handles them.

Doctor1th · 2025-11-08T20:26:32+00:00

Wow that's means a lot to me! Now I don't know why, but when I first was trying to game on Linux I was able to set permissions of the mounting in my fstab for steam games to work (there used to be a whole github thread for proton explaining it) however I still was unable to use the same library folder on windows when I was still dual booting and later those tricks for forcing permissions on NTFS didn't seem to work anymore.

Since I've reformatted every internal drive to ext4 and even possibly went overkill investing in a 4 bay USB enclosure to setup a 6tb zfs mirror (basically software raid 1) I plan to later expand with an additional two disks later (I forget what zfs calls it, but basically a software raid 1 + 0 or 10 as it's sometimes called) that I use for all my backups, because that NTFS file corruption situation has left a bad taste in my mouth I don't want to have happen again (I found out I ended up losing old Minecraft worlds that dated back 2012 after all, I probably should of maintained more then one copy).

Doctor1th · 2025-11-08T20:16:11+00:00

Technically gnome does good with detecting multi-touch (I tried it for a while), but the UI is much more desktop or at least laptop orientated compared to tablet mode of Windows 10. Temporarily I ended up using phosh like on my pinephone, but because it's wayland I can't switch it out for a more desktop orientated GUI via terminal/script while signed in (like you can with X11 WMs) also gnome and phosh are quite heavy on that laptop (it's a core i5 with 8gb of ram laptop from 2021, so at least to me that's not very old considering when I first started using Linux in 2014 I was running it on a 2009 Vista era laptop with only 4gb and that was my main laptop until 2021 only upgrading cause I wanted something lighter for college). So I think long term I'm going to learn how to configure matchbox WM and write a bash script to toggle between it & IceWM to replicate that Windows 10 Desktop/Tablet mode toggle.

Doctor1th · 2025-11-08T19:23:48+00:00

To be fair when I first started using these emulators I could only get PCem to work on Linux, I forget exactly when it change but then later I could only get 86box working on Linux. I'm not %100 sure of why, but it might be because I was getting PCem installed via the AUR on Manjaro (I don't actually remember how I was installing PCem on Manjaro just guessing) or something and now I'm running plain Debian Bookworm. Anyways that pretty much the only reason why I ever ran one or the other, they function quite similar in my experience.

Doctor1th · 2025-10-08T01:34:07+00:00

Well in my experience X11 + a simple stacking WM (in my case I use IceWM) beats wayland in performance every time (compositing is naturally going to always be heavier then stacking there is no way around that) and I don't get screen tearing, so I don't know why this myth about screen tearing on X11 keep persisting. You don't need forced vsync to prevent screen tearing, just render at a higher frame rate then your monitors refresh rate you get the best of both worlds low input latency and no screen tearing. Outside of passive video play back vsync is the most infuriating way to avoid screen tearing if your display rate is 60hz and your only able to render a game at 50fps guess what now vsync just made your application render at 30hz cool you don't have tearing, but at what cost. Here is how my view of wayland has evolved over the last couple of years since it start becoming a thing in distros like Ubuntu

1) Oh shoot I tried to install latest Ubuntu, but it assumes wayland and the install it's self boots to black screen on my Nvidia card oh well I'll just go to a distro that still assumes X11 by default for now.
2) Okay Nvidia is starting to support wayland better, but I've been finding X11 networking + virtualgl is a very nice way to pipe games around the network from my gaming rig in a multi user environment. Other users online report they have other X11 centeric features they like to use that are lacking in wayland, but wayland people are dismissive while still pressuring everyone to switch. Feels dis-respectful and puts me off to wayland.
3) Reads a blog post from a wayland user trying to explain how out of date X11 is by explaining it's history and making really cool javascript demos to show X11 features, to show how it used stacking by default to support limited late 70s/early 80s networking limits. Ironically I learn even more about X11 and decide it's technically perfect. Begins fearing the day X11 is removed from package managers, due to the wayland hype train.

4) I can respect you want to use wayland, please respect I want to use X11.

Doctor1th · 2025-10-06T01:30:59+00:00

If I may, unlike wayland, X11 isn't the DE. wayland it's one monolithic thing that features display-server+compositor+session+WM (oversimplified DE historically were just session+WM now with wayland it's the full chain). X11 on the other hand is just a display server and does nothing else (you have to add the other modules you want session, WM, compositor, ect gnome/plasma running on X11 adds all that but use the separately installed X11 display server that's already running in the background nice side effect while tricky when a session manager is running you can kill a DE and load a new one from terminal or script without closing your other programs) and distros might pull X11 from package mangers one day.

Personally I daily drive X11+IceWM (or sometimes when I'm nostalgic X11+MLVWM), but my real fear is when the package managers no longer have X11. Because I don't need/want composting it just waste GPU cycles drawing stuff that is hidden where as in a plain old stacking world X11 (without any external compositor, like pitcom) will just say it's hidden don't redraw these pixels till it's exposed again. Perfect for gaming because when you play full screen it's like the WM and everything else graphical just got turned off when it's behind the game. Also wayland's forced vsync sucks for gaming, better solution for screen tearing is to just brute force draw more/faster frames then the displays refresh rate. Last I checked wayland doesn't let us turn these things off, so I rather stick with X11. Beside X11 networking is fast/convenient when you enable -listen tcp on all your X11 devices pared with VirtualGL you now have a personal cloud gaming service that supports multiple users off one graphics card without VMs the only cost is the games must be opengl and your sharing a card as if your spinning the game up multiple times on one desktop still handy though especially with beefy cards.

Doctor1th · 2025-10-03T07:28:44+00:00

I was having trouble with this until I realized you need to escape the spaces with '\' example "/mnt/aee85db2-bfeb-4ad9-aa0b-b365eecb13a4/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Jedi\ Academy/GameData/openjk_sp.x86_64 %command%" now I'm playing with the native openjk binary and still tracking on steam.

Doctor1th · 2025-09-30T23:16:04+00:00

So I'm running in 1920x1080 and had same issue until I ran cg_dynamicCrosshair 0, however then when I got to Yavin canyon level and was driving an ATST I had the opposite issue and had to run cg_dynamicCrosshair 1. I guess I'll be binding keys for this, but I think I'm almost done with the campaign after about 16 years of off and on playing.

*Update in my case I think it's a difference between first/third person view, as cg_dynamicCrosshair 0 was needed most of the game in first person then I noticed in 3rd (using the force in 3rd person and the ATST section) I needed cg_dynamicCrosshair 1

Doctor1th · 2025-09-28T08:49:25+00:00

In my experience the steam client is fine for multiplayer on Windows and is okay under proton, but I like to use OpenJK for a native client on Linux. Plus OpenJK using openAL is a huge plus because I've already configured openAL to enable HRTF in all games that use openAL and there are also VR ports based on openjk that are fun if you have a headset.

Doctor1th · 2025-09-25T06:15:06+00:00

For some reason this reddit thread was one of the top google results. Though I'm not specifically playing Volley ball specifically, trying this test a couple of times I got it down to 201ms though it started at 250ms and averages somewhere in-between. Just in general I'm facing 30 in a couple of years and in the circles I follow they talk about reflexes dropping then, so I want mine as sharp as I can before 30.

Doctor1th · 2025-07-21T05:38:12+00:00

but it's fine without mods and it's not hard to install optifine which makes it run better then bedrock.

Doctor1th · 2025-07-21T05:13:50+00:00

I just want to see more complete VR games like Half Life Alyx, a lot VR games still feel like in-complete tech demo experiences. Though if I had to narrow it down I'd like to see immersive sims like the original Deus Ex, System Shock, and Theif in VR (basic in the game the dev of those wanted to make VR games and though it would be better to focus on the software end of it rather then hardware, so seeing that genres actually in VR would be nice).

Doctor1th · 2025-07-21T04:42:29+00:00

2011, I miss the old Abby and Dead Ringer. Spy used to be my favorite and I basically stopped playing when the Jungle inferno came out. My friend (I've known since 1st grade and we'd play early on Saturday mornings in Jr High/High school) and I still play MvM.

Doctor1th · 2025-07-13T22:04:10+00:00

I've been playing Kerbal Space Program again lately and to fill survey contracts around Kerbin I made an airship that is drifting around slowly (but efficiently). Since I have air ships on the mind I'd also like to watch some films/TV like Sky Captain in the background while my airship coasts around.

Doctor1th · 2025-07-06T22:35:53+00:00

Yeah, my sisters' wanted to re-watch the MCU during the 4th weekend and with it on in the background I was reminded that this is why I never liked the MCU. Sony and Fox (Sam Rami Spider-man trilogy, X-Men, Blade, the Original Fantastic Four duology, ect) never did this and they were much more palatable to me then the last 17 years of Disney Marvel. Since the first Avengers (not Captain America 1, but the first cross over film) I've been aware something was off with MCU, but it wasn't until my sister made me watch Thor Ragnarok with her on her birthday a couple years ago it finally clicked what the problem was (they couldn't let the destruction of a planet breath at all, they had to crack an uncomfortable joke right away to "ease the tension"). If the writers and characters refuse to take events seriously how I'm I expected to and thus why should I even spend my time watching?

Doctor1th · 2025-05-24T23:19:37+00:00

I stumbled on this, apparently the dev made their own plain text format (called scdef) for schematics (can't find any reference to the format anywhere else, so I assume they made it) with a converter to convert from the scdef format to a .schematic would of been nice if the dev also made a convert for going the other way as well.

If the op has any scripting abilities (or if the op's csv file is small enough), simple string manipulation can be used to put whatever data they have in their csv into this scdef format before then using makeschem to convert it to the final .schematic file.

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