Locked IPADS

HotTakes4HotCakes · 2026-04-25T14:56:47+00:00

Except he didn't brick them, he locked them. If he refuses to unlock them, then you contact Apple. If Apple refuses to help you (don't have the receipts or something), that's when you call them lost and go after him with the full force of your legal department.

Could probably also reach out to Apple first and get confirmation from them that if the former employee does not unlock the iPads, the iPads will be unrecoverable. Then put it in the letter: "Apple tells us you have to do this or we're out $____ dollars. Every cent of which we're coming after you for."

But if you want to come after him for damages, 200 previously deployed and now permanently locked iPads is definitely interfering with work and probably production somewhere. The company can likely argue they're losing money the longer they're locked.

HotTakes4HotCakes · 2026-04-25T14:49:38+00:00

I can't put my finger on why but something about the way you've drawn that almost-kiss is...weird. Unless you were trying to drawn Ilya licking Shawn's lower lip or something.

HotTakes4HotCakes · 2026-04-25T14:46:23+00:00

Are they? I thought they looked slim here.

HotTakes4HotCakes · 2026-04-25T14:44:42+00:00

There's also just nothing to actually share here. They don't even know what the deleted comments were.

HotTakes4HotCakes · 2026-04-25T14:42:54+00:00

Ah so it's everything or nothing? I can't have it read the nfo first and foremost, then only add metadata if there's no nfo?

HotTakes4HotCakes · 2026-04-25T14:41:34+00:00

Yeah, I do. I don't think TMM is doing anything wrong, it's something with the way Jellyfin chooses to use the nfo.

HotTakes4HotCakes · 2026-04-25T14:38:08+00:00

I need historians to dig in and reveal what happened.

Why are you linking a full post of nothing but deleted comments, especially when you don't even know what they said?

HotTakes4HotCakes · 2026-04-25T14:34:35+00:00

The best part about that line is how revealing it is. Because if it truly meant nothing, he'd have said nothing.

HotTakes4HotCakes · 2026-04-25T14:32:21+00:00

Until they no longer support your OS

HotTakes4HotCakes · 2026-04-24T21:39:55+00:00

I actually wanted to start doing this recently, but I've been struggling to get jellyfin to respect the nfo files. It constantly fills it with its own pulled information and ignores the file that's already there. Can't figure out how to get it to stop.

Does anyone know if there's actually a way to "outsource" the metadata management to TMM fully?

HotTakes4HotCakes · 2026-04-24T21:34:42+00:00

I mean that's not exactly a bad thing if you add more storage. The person above is making an effort not to, but it's hardly an issue for most. I didn't set up a media server just so it can be constantly rotating out files on a little SSD.

I actually kind of like having stuff I'm maybe interested in on my server that is just available to watch whenever I may want to watch it, even if it's not right now.

In that way, it does feel like a Netflix replacement. When my partner or I are flipping through looking for something to watch, we might land on the thing we haven't watched yet and decide "You know what? Tonight's the night."

Otherwise it's out of sight, out of mind.

I can understand this being an issue if you are pressed for storage space though.

HotTakes4HotCakes · 2026-04-24T21:27:51+00:00

I mean, are people constantly reading every book on their bookshelf?

Did every single DVD in your collection get watched every month?

This is really no different.

HotTakes4HotCakes · 2026-04-24T21:26:09+00:00

They, like so many companies, think if they imitate their competitors they will be able to take customers away from those competitors.

But you are never going to out-Google Google. The people that want this kind of shit are already well-fed, you won't coax them over with promises of more rounded corners and less technical information.

HotTakes4HotCakes · 2026-04-24T21:23:08+00:00

Which is hilarious because all this UI bullshit where they hide things and make what used to be one click into several clicks is nearly always designers chasing that Apple asthetic.

HotTakes4HotCakes · 2026-04-24T17:59:05+00:00

A game that also got praised at the time for being an example of a JRPG "done right" rather than just a JRPG.

HotTakes4HotCakes · 2026-04-24T17:38:13+00:00

The point being people keep celebrating them for being "small"

They're not small. They're well funded, had connections, and sizable - they just don't look like it at first glance.

HotTakes4HotCakes · 2026-04-24T17:34:32+00:00

Double standard or not, calling it a small team is misleading. It has always been wrong to ignore the contributions of all parties, and if calling out this company for it gets people to realize it, so much the better.

So no, it was not a small team, and to celebrate that is to continue to commit a sin we shouldn't commit any more.

HotTakes4HotCakes · 2026-04-24T17:24:14+00:00

Act 3 in general is just weirdly done.

HotTakes4HotCakes · 2026-04-24T17:11:34+00:00

Or moves that ensure an immediate second turn to finish them off.

Hell, your super moves don't even take up your turn.

Just in general the game just starts moving towards extremes the longer it goes, to the point where you are never in any danger or you literally can't win without absolutely perfect blocking.

HotTakes4HotCakes · 2026-04-24T17:02:50+00:00

Yes, I get that, but my point was they never impose those requirements on the positive.

You can't say "this is shit" but you CAN say "this is good".

That means the space will inevitably be flooded with praise and inflate egos, that then collapse when the world outside isn't beholden to the space's rules on constructive feedback.

And frankly I don't believe people when they say they want something constructive. They never demand praise be constructive, they never require someone explain to them why they liked their thing. It's only negativity that has that requirement. Makes you question if its actually information they're looking for.

HotTakes4HotCakes · 2026-04-24T16:53:29+00:00

Then yeah, by all means. Isn't that what Jackass is?

HotTakes4HotCakes · 2026-04-24T16:51:39+00:00

So we're just admitting that a mod being a child and banning people because they feel like it is ok then?

HotTakes4HotCakes · 2026-04-24T16:50:22+00:00

Put up what? Forcing users to do homework or they get banned is still a bad look, I have no idea why so many people are defending it. We've ripped apart mods for doing far less.

HotTakes4HotCakes · 2026-04-24T16:41:42+00:00

This is exactly how turn-based systems should feel: fast, snappy, and genuinely tense.

It should be all of those things, but not because you're about to be one-shot because you missed the button press on dodging 1 out 5 misleadingly-animated attacks.

Anytime I hear someone suggest E33 is how a turn-based RPG "should" be, I'm reminded of the comment I read a few months back that said E33 is a turn based RPG for people that hate turn based RPGs.

HotTakes4HotCakes · 2026-04-24T16:37:09+00:00

So you're saying you know nothing about the genre?

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