Yeah, I mean this seems like much ado about nothing. Don’t get me wrong…I’d prefer Plex never even attempt this, but they make it dead easy to opt out. There’s literally an “All No” checkbox. It’s been that way for a while. Every time someone posts another “Plex sux and steals your data!” thread, I check it and everything is still set to opt-out. They’ve never auto-opted-in anything, unlike how back when I still had a Facebook account I’d have to constantly re-opt-out of things because FB seemingly changed my settings to opt back in every time the moon entered its waning phase. Roku does that too. Every time I go into the “secret” menu and turn off ads and stuff, then there’s a system update, you have to go turn that stuff back off.

NMAP still has a semi-open-source license. Not sure if anyone else considers in FOSS, but it’s a critical tool in network security.

Also, I’ve never used any commercial video editing software but kdenlive is awesome.

It essentially splits the archive into multiple rar sub-files (*.r00, *.r01, etc.) and then creates several more chunks that contain parity information (par2 files) that go with it. By doing so, if you then lose *.r45 but get *.r00-r99 you can recover the *.r45 file from the parity (par2) data. It’s pretty slick.

I don’t expect it to sway any of them. But it should get some media attention. And the longer it goes on, the more likely it will. And that will generate more pushback.

Yes. Yes it is.

Thanks! I appreciate the info. protondb bookmarked!

I play the DMZ mode of Call of Duty a lot. And Cyberpunk 2077. Recently started playing Reka. Heard of any issues with those?

Same. I mean…I know he has the best medical care possible…but he’s old AF, fat, does not exercise, his brain is quickly turning further into mush, and no matter how much his handlers insulate him from doing actual work, he still has an insanely stressful job. I don’t see how he makes it to 2028 without major health problems up to and including stroke, heart attack, and/or death.

I’m a long time Linux user going back to the linux 1 kernel days. The only reason I still use Windows on my home PC is for gaming. I know Linux has come a long way thanks to many contributors like Valve, but how stable are the AMD video drivers and how well does it work for playing AAA PC games? The last time I built a new PC (2023) I tried running Linux w/ Windows in a KVM virtual machine and direct GPU passthrough, but that was such a nightmare to get set up and working, I just wiped it and installed Windows 11. I game on it and run Hyper-V VMs for Linux, which works quite well actually but feels like a sin.