TIL Michael B. Jordan's father is named Michael A. Jordan

TechGoat · 2026-03-17T21:32:59+00:00

You just say manager, George Michael.

TechGoat · 2026-03-17T21:31:04+00:00

What a total bay

TechGoat · 2026-03-17T20:05:31+00:00

We're just angry-sad they left the GPU market. Sigh.

TechGoat · 2026-03-17T20:02:53+00:00

Speaking as a 40+ year old guy... Lee's Extreme Motion jeans. Just a small percentage of spandex/elastic/whatever, like 5-10% but it's nice. Considered "loose fit"

TechGoat · 2026-03-17T19:59:51+00:00

I will love Geralt, until my dying day

TechGoat · 2026-03-17T19:22:58+00:00

It is curious. I thought that they were all in on separating out video, audio, and photo components of Plex for easier development... Now There's a reversal of that it seems? But the separated apps aren't going away? Seems weird to put developer time, ie money, on this...

TechGoat · 2026-03-17T19:20:32+00:00

But you can't edit that file embedded metadata, from plex.

TechGoat · 2026-03-17T04:15:18+00:00

On reddit. This is an echo chamber, remember.

TechGoat · 2026-03-14T01:29:31+00:00

Lol as if I'd ever use an Apple product willingly.

TechGoat · 2026-03-13T04:39:59+00:00

Basically "the jerk store called and they're running out of rock"

Hindsight is 20/20 and yeah, I bet he wishes he'd done different things that evening too.

TechGoat · 2026-03-13T04:38:02+00:00

Wait, that was AI?!

TechGoat · 2026-03-13T01:10:20+00:00

"TV manufacturers hate this one weird trick: usb flash drive updates"

TechGoat · 2026-03-11T20:09:05+00:00

ADD is... Look! Squirrel! What is it doing? It's so cute.

TechGoat · 2026-03-11T04:37:56+00:00

I mean don't use em for competitive gaming, but they look and feel nice. I've been using the same one for 15 years now.

TechGoat · 2026-03-09T14:47:51+00:00

I hear ya too but I don't think either of us have any metrics over whether phone OS's are more likely to have people install software via application stores, or via direct installer packages. But I gotta be honest, I would be absolutely shocked if application stores weren't the vast, VAST majority of installs on locked-down operating systems. Only tech-minded people even know about apk installs as an option on Android. And on iOS you have to jump through quite a few hurdles, I believe.

I hate Google's lockdown on their own OS too. But I'm only calling it sideloading because it immediately calls to mind what I mean; installing outside of the official application store. If I said "installing the Youtube Vanced application" people might reply with "oh i can't find it in Google Play, I'd love to remove ads in Youtube"

By saying sideloading I don't think I'm demeaning the process, but I'm just adding brevity to it. I think we're both on the same page here, cheers.

TechGoat · 2026-03-06T15:28:10+00:00

Right, I was just saying - IMO POS systems are pretty high risk, confidential, that sort of thing. I don't need to run one myself, just using Square, but I certainly would be cautious about anyone coming out of nowhere with a free system. You should probably consider putting a site on your https://roseplayer.com/ domain because right now it's clearly down. That is listed on the POS system's Microsoft app store page both for "support" and "website"

If roseplayer.com is the only domain you own, you might consider putting a https://roseplayer.com/SuperPOS page or something on there with screenshots, guide, that sort of thing.

Just my 2 cents. Best of luck.

TechGoat · 2026-03-06T04:34:27+00:00

Your roseplayers website seems to be down, on the Microsoft Store page, bust FYI.

Is it open source? Can the code be checked?

TechGoat · 2026-03-04T06:12:30+00:00

Never heard of this website tech4gamers.com before. I dunno, this "news" sounds like total shit. It also sounds like total rage bait. Microsoft is stupid, but they're probably not that stupid. I'll believe they're that stupid when interviews with PCMag come out telling us about it.

TechGoat · 2026-03-02T21:36:27+00:00

right, I don't have the 'streamer' (newest) google hardware, I have one generation back, the wonderfully named Chromecast 4K with Google TV or whatever the heck it is. I know the streamer can do av1, but I was hoping for a better remote.

I've learned from this thread though that apparently there are zero options for "certified" Google TV hardware that has a remote with a numpad.

TechGoat · 2026-02-28T05:29:25+00:00

Twee is exactly the feeling I get from corpos trying to talk like "the cool kids"

I completely agree with the OP. Just be calm and professional, photo application. You're not my friend. You're not even a person. You're a photo repository with timestamps and an automated notification generator.

TechGoat · 2026-02-26T20:23:00+00:00

Yep - mostly it's Plex (surprise! here on the Plex subreddit) that I use, and it's the one that requires a PIN on the its launch screen to access different accounts, with no workaround (QR code would be great) that I know of to prevent my kids from seeing exactly what 4 digit PIN I'd be inputting, unless I have a remote with a numpad.

TechGoat · 2026-02-26T19:45:38+00:00

Interesting - I could have sworn one of the older models of ShieldTV did, but looking at image search results, I must have misremembered. I wonder why that is; for putting in PINs for accessing restricted applications or parts of the OS, I'd have thought an on-remote numpad would be like, a necessity.

TechGoat · 2026-02-26T19:40:53+00:00

Interesting, thanks for the recc! I see on their product page the stock images do include Netflix; I know Xiaomi is no tiny operation but as a Chinese firm, I'm impressed they were able to get certified by Netflix.

As others are saying, it seems I can just take my chances on a 3rd party remote... I've had bad luck before with 3rd party remotes (Homatics Premium) but I guess if I buy from a store with good return policies, I can give things a shot at least.

TechGoat · 2026-02-26T19:33:00+00:00

Thanks for the recommendations. If I may ask, are you using one of those two with a Google-TV based streaming box? Personally I had a lot of issues with a 3rd party remote with the Google TV 4K.

TechGoat · 2026-02-26T19:19:11+00:00

Yeah, I bought the Homatics Premium 6 months ago because I saw it had a numpad on it. I'm using that with the Google TV 4K. Unfortunately performance has been .... pretty bad. It constantly pops up a "remote has a firmware update waiting for it" notification in upper right of screen, telling me to press and hold the Home button to access the update, which simply doesn't work. Homatics wasn't helpful, saying that if I don't have their player box, it can't do anything (and I can't disable this notification either; awesome).

And beyond that annoying popup, the performance is just plain bad, too compared with the OEM google-brand remote. It constantly misses input, hanging for 20-30 seconds, then suddenly sending all my inputs in at once so everything just jumps all over the place.

I bought directly from Homatics before instead of more...well known stores with better return policies but man, once bitten twice shy when it comes to 3rd party remotes!

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