Because they are prioritizing data collection over performance.

Windows is no longer about giving customers a good operating system. It’s now a vehicle for Microsoft to collect data from you for them to use and sell to other parties at a profit. It’s why Microsoft hasn’t cared much about pirated versions of Windows much anymore. They’ll do small things to annoy you, but overall, you can still use it and they still get to collect your data.

Microsoft is only starting to be more concerned as Windows loses market share and Linux gains some. The Steam hardware survey has only gone up a few points of percentages but this accounts for thousands of losses and this only shows gamers who use Steam, not all the other use cases.

So Microsoft is finally starting to make some promises to improve performance now that they have some real competition. And they’re only doing that because they want to continue collecting your data.

That is what Windows has become, unfortunately. Your performance while using it is very secondary, if not at all a priority of theirs.

You’d think he/she would have learned. My cat hit his head on the ceiling fan one time and is now always watching out for it whenever he’s close to the ceiling.

But this is an orange cat, so the rules are different.

If you’re going to spam, at least get the right community, dickhole

This happens a lot in the same application’s code, let alone between two different pieces of software.

You wouldn’t believe how often I go in to fix something in an app I’ve built and end up breaking something else despite never directly touching that. Like I have a music player I built and I’ll go in to fix an issue affecting skips at the beginning of the song and when I go to test, I find that issue is fixed but now the whole app’s color scheme has changed or some other unrelated issue has appeared.

Code is very finicky and fragile and relies on specific conditions it expects. The removal of a space somewhere in the code can do a lot of damage you never thought possible. You think it’s just an empty space, who cares? Nope! The code is expecting that space and when it doesn’t see it, it throws a fit and shit breaks.

And when we’re talking about issues on the same system, these applications talk to the same things or each other enough that they have a similar effect. One application expects specific conditions and when it doesn’t find those, it spazzes out. Nvidia’s software was given explicit instructions on where it needs to go and what it needs to do. But if another application does something that interferes with those instructions, your Nvidia GPU will start acting up. The application unrelated to Nvidia wasn’t written by someone who is aware of what Nvidia is doing and so an issue appears. And then these developers work to figure out what happened and provide an update to fix.

You can see why you’ll have more issues the more software you add into your system that’s unrelated to each other.

It’s like hiring a bunch of professionals to work around your home but not explicitly telling them about each other. You hire a landscaper, an exterminator, a maid, a butler, a chef, a chauffeur, a contractor… and all of them come to your house on the same day every week. Each of them has a job to do and on your end, their jobs seem independent enough that they won’t be bumping into each other, but you forget about the little stuff that will cause interference. The maid wants to clean the living room, but your exterminator is chasing down a mouse right now and is gassing the living room. The maid starts working in there to clean up but doesn’t know about the gas and now she gets knocked unconscious and this causes the rest of your house to remain in a disorderly state. This is also not even taking into account any issues that can happen from one person that affect the whole home and everyone else indirectly like if the contractor was fixing the foundation but he uses dynamite and the whole house comes crashing down and now no one else is able to do anything.

Yes I would, now fuck off

Gotta be honest, I’d probably do the same here. There’s no room on the sides to take from the side to not make it noticeable like that. Kind of like a cream cheese container.

I’m sorry for your loss. RIP

People block you for a reason. Cut this stupid shit out

Happens to my sheets all the time. I am just used to it now and prepared to unravel and run again with the stuff that got trapped and is a big ball of damp mess.

I had a similar but less severe experience when I was younger too.

I was standing at the refrigerator looking for something to eat when one of those fuckers ran out from under the fridge and ran up my leg under my pants.

+1 on all roaches dying.

Their computers are crap too. At least the cheaper end ones that people fall for.

Oo a $200 Windows laptop!

Yeah, don’t. It should be illegal to sell those pieces of shit with Intel Celeron, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of eMMC soldered storage running Windows 11. You’ll be using 80% of CPU sitting at the desktop, 60% of RAM, and 20GB of free storage after removing the bloat of Windows 11.

I don’t know about their higher end computers, but I always hate when someone brings me one of these pieces of shit and asks me to help them set it up.

I am also reminded of trying to get support for one of our HP monitors at work. We bought 400 of the same model monitors for our offices and one of them ended up going out. A director had two of them sitting side by side on her desk and one of them started going out. We hadn’t had these things for a full year when this happened.

Contacted HP support and they wouldn’t do shit for me until I formatted Windows to “confirm” it was the monitor despite me already saying I’ve tried multiple computers, other cables, even HDMI and DisplayPort, and even going as far as different power cables and outlets…no. HP “support” said they wouldn’t honor their warranty unless I formatted the computer. I lied and told them I did just so I could get the warranty I was owed. Still wasn’t good enough. They needed to see the receipt and the receipt needed to have the serial number on it. wtf…we bought these in bulk. This isn’t fucking CVS where the receipt is the length of a new movie’s red carpet with all the serial numbers. “Sorry, can’t help you.”

Fuck HP.

Hell no, fuck Windows 10 too. It’s what started a lot of the bullshit we’re dealing with today.

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It depends on what you’re going for and how much time you want to spend on it.

If the bunker is far off in the distance from the player and they’re never meant to see it up close, you’re best off making one big 3D object that contains everything.

If you want to be more detailed, like you’re making a VR game and want realistic effects like what you see from Half Life Alyx, you’ll want to take your time and build the bunker into as many small pieces as you can. The player will likely be picking up objects and holding them and examining them, turning it around and looking at all sides. For best results, you’ll want each object to be its own thing built from the ground up.

But it really depends on what you’re aiming for. And Half Life Alyx is actually the exception for VR games. Most use very low quality assets and don’t put too much thought like Valve did. But if that’s what you’re aiming for, that’s your best bet.

It depends on how much time you want to spend, or money if you’re going to pay others to make the assets for you. Most solo devs aren’t putting that much effort or money into their project. A bigger team may do it.

As for the bunker itself, same deal here. Some people will build out the bunker into separate pieces. I’ve done this in some levels where I’ve taken 4 long rectangles to make a room rather than getting a solid rectangle room and then hollowing it out.

It’s upside down, it’s not supposed to be seen that way. Plus it’s obviously a heart with a health meter, even recognizable while upside down. It’s also made for kids who should be innocent enough not to have minds to recognize that sort of stuff. And it was $1, so you can’t expect the best quality or thought placed into every area and how things might appear to redesign. It’s most likely made in a sweat shop by kids in some south Eastern Asian country.

I’m not sure what’s mildly infuriating? It’s not like someone intentionally designed it that way.

Edit: I’d consider the last part about kids making them to be the mildly infuriating part, obviously, but what isn’t nowadays to warrant it for these specific sandals, is my question

Plex was good for music for me until it started acting weirdly a few months ago. It started scanning my library nonstop and running my hard drives on full speed for days before I eventually caught it.

I was told it was the agent from Plex but changing that out didn’t fix the issue so I moved my stuff off there and have been working with Navidrome instead.

I have tried it but having Plex handle the out-of-home routing for me securely is a great feature Jellyfin doesn’t have but doesn’t for obvious reasons and I justify that as why I pay Plex. I have thoughts and better knowledge now about how to properly implement it, but I’m not sure I want to rebuild my current setup that just works with very minimal upkeep.

That and I am on someone else’s Plex server who updates it much more than I do. Mine just supplements theirs with stuff they don’t have and one-offs I’ve wanted and found. I’d still be using Plex even if I did rebuild with Jellyfin today.

But if these price increases keep coming, I may make the switch. It’s tempting to shell out the money for the lifetime membership, but I don’t have faith in companies, including Plex, to keep up their end of the deal on these things.

Depends on who you ask, but I think the biggest reasons:

• they seem to have contributed to making people dumber indirectly. You see a lot of street videos of people asking questions like where is this state or that country and they can’t answer those questions but they can tell you almost anything about the Kardashians. Because of that, some people hate the Kardashians.
• they’re rich and have no worries. On one hand, you have some people who hate for jealousy and others who think it’s gross how rich these people are.
• the reason why they’re famous. On the one hand, the late father was one of the lawyers in the OJ Simpson case, but the real reason for their more recent fame comes from Kim doing a sex tape and getting famous off that. To some people, that’s gross and a stupid reason to be famous compared to someone else who finds a cure or does work in the community or just someone who actually worked for their fame like a movie star or famous writer.
• the Kardashians are kind of a nasty bunch of divas. I mean, if you have seen some of the clips, you can see that most of them are not really good people who care about other people but themselves and their fame. And the people they’re connected to aren’t the greatest people either which speaks more about who they are as a family.
• they come off as stupid. Not as an insult, but legitimately dumb with some of the things they have said or done and that pisses some people off. If you watched someone have a hard time finding a word as common as “the” or determine what 2+2 is and felt some type of anger, that’s what some people feel towards them for some of the stupidity they’ve seen from the family.
• the fact that they are famous at all. To some people, it pisses them off that the Kardashians get a spotlight at all.
• scandals. Caitlyn Jenner is an extension of the family but the accident and death resulting from it and barely a slap on the wrist is worth hatred from some people. Scandals like those are among the family. You also have conspiracy theories like what happened to Lamar Odom’s death and some thinking they had something to do with it.

A whole lot of possible reasons depending on who you talk to.

I had the same “problem” and I’ve learned to just ignore those people. We were just being bored/curious which is natural for humans.

I think it’s older generations who were abused and trying to pass that off onto us as well.

Which is funny because staring at someone is rude. So either you be rude and stare at someone or you stare off into the void and let your mind wander.

I still do it. I don’t give a fuck.

My cat loves these videos. I put them on when he comes around and starts watching my stuff.