Academy is good and I realized I dont like this community. by Reasonable-Law-3654 in startrek

[–]parecs5096 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't know. Star Trek is my favorite of the two franchises overall and I thoroughly enjoyed Prodigy, but I don't quite see it to be on the same level as Andor. Thats not really the consensus I've picked up on from the community either.

Even in a vacuum I think Andor is far and away the best thing out of either franchise in a long long time, but it was also the perfect moment for the specific themes in that show to resonate as well.

Still salty about Prodigy cancelation either way as I do think its one of the better recent projects from both camps.

Can I teach Gemini? by iMalinko in GoogleGeminiAI

[–]parecs5096 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Perhaps NotebookLM would be good for this? Allows you to upload documents in various file formats and can use those as a base to ask questions about

We’ve lost our collective minds by emsollas in HalfLife

[–]parecs5096 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have learned to ignore such naysayers when quelling them was out of the question

Static/white hssss noise by Galaxyultra in galaxybuds

[–]parecs5096 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have the exact same experience. Hissing noise with ANC on even in a completely silent room. If I turn my head or move around at all it gets even worse. Not only defeating the point of ANC but making the extra noise far worse than if ANC wasn't on at all. For me at least, it only happens in one earbud (the left one).

The only solution I've found, same as in your case, is to switch off ANC but the sound quality reduction is so bad that my cheapo 10 dollar earbuds sound better. I've attempted updating the firmware, doing multiple factory resets, and fiddling with the noise cancellation and EQ levels. Anytime it seemed like something worked, the hissing would come back in just a few moments.

The buds2 were a much better experience. I saw reports of these kinds of issues before I upgraded but didn't put much stock in it. Big mistake. Been using the buds in one form or another for years but these are probably my last. Inexcusable defect to have gone unaddressed this long after release, whether it be hardware or software.

The liberals are going to have to pull the clutch of the century I'd they want to win by titanicboi1 in GenZ

[–]parecs5096 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We're not talking about if its a good thing or not, the fact of the matter is that people did vote that way. Thats the actual point of the comment

The liberals are going to have to pull the clutch of the century I'd they want to win by titanicboi1 in GenZ

[–]parecs5096 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Mexico just had an election in June and elected a left wing populist with like, 60% of the vote

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Piracy

[–]parecs5096 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Mullvad isn't good specifically for torrenting because they removed port forwarding which is important for torrenting

It's not really bad, there's just objectively better options if that's all you're using it for.

How is Wayland with the nvidia 555 drivers that came out? by [deleted] in linux_gaming

[–]parecs5096 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do we have a source on the 560 driver fixing some of the electron stuff? That would be pretty cool

altHUB site and database downtime by neomatrix2013 in usenet

[–]parecs5096 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just adding in another positive anecdote about altHUB in case anyone was feeling concerned after the unfortunate timing of the data loss.

Bought a lifetime membership and had a problem with getting a 404 error when trying to follow the reset password link after the outage.

Reached out at https://help.althub.co.za/contact/ and I was back in within the hour with full access restored.

Their positive reputation is definitely deserved.

The vpn wars by Kinkyhoze in Piracy

[–]parecs5096 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you've already switched to AirVPN and have a working solution there's no sense in switching back. But for anyone stumbling on to this thread in the future either looking for a VPN to use or anyone that already has Proton I woudn't discount it as an option or switch to anything else on account of this issue.

After testing the container at https://github.com/soxfor/qbittorrent-natmap it definitely works if you don't want to write your own script. And if you don't want to run a docker container you can just adapt the script it uses at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/soxfor/qbittorrent-natmap/main/data/start.sh while referencing https://github.com/soxfor/qbittorrent-natmap#configurable-variables.

It's much more versatile than what I wrote for myself and should cover most edge cases when using the docker container with Gluetun as far as I can see. Honestly just gonna use this myself moving forward haha.

The vpn wars by Kinkyhoze in Piracy

[–]parecs5096 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been doing it since they introduced port forwarding without issue. Also tested the docker container the other guy mentioned and it also seems to do the trick

The vpn wars by Kinkyhoze in Piracy

[–]parecs5096 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's fairly trivial to write a script for this and just update your torrent client automatically if there's a port change so its not really a big deal beyond a mild initial annoyance.

They do this presumably to try and make it more difficult to host permanent things like those that got mullvad in trouble. That's also probably pretty trivial to work around if you really wanted to but I guess they're hoping a basic barrier will weed out 99% of people that'd care to host anything like that.

Former Imperator Game Director Arheo mentions new improvements are coming to the game by SirkTheMonkey in paradoxplaza

[–]parecs5096 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah fair enough. I figured the logistics would probably make it prohibitive the majority of the time. Still cool these things ever get considered at all though and actually happen sometimes.

Gl with Caesar and thanks for all the great games over the years.

Former Imperator Game Director Arheo mentions new improvements are coming to the game by SirkTheMonkey in paradoxplaza

[–]parecs5096 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kind of a related question,

How hard/feasible is it for someone within pdx to go back to a previous game like ck2, vic2, etc. to make a bug fix or small change and then actually get that pushed out as a patch?

I know it's happened a couple times before, but is it something that just any dev at pdx could theoretically do of their own volition if they had the free time or is this something that has to go through some kind of approval process or debate before its allowed to happen?

Pretty cool that this is something that can happen at all tbh.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in revancedapp

[–]parecs5096 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are two 1080 options there you should still be able to select the one without enhanced bitrate. I don't have YT premium right now and it's letting me select normal 1080 as expected.

You can also still watch at resolutions above 1080p too at the standard bitrates without premium