This is perfect for me since I was banned from the NextDoor app for letting my community know the creature was hunting. I can host this for myself and others, and the nonbelievers can walk amongst it.

When it doesn’t have a GUI I make one for it.

There are a lot of “And rightfully so.” comments here. And rightfully so.

Even the wrong non-isp routers are ridiculous compared to OpenWrt capable ones. You’re telling me I’m paying a huge premium to get a cutting edge Nighthawk, and then they shove a subscription service in my face to use any of these features? Let alone the security implications of having all your traffic routed through proprietary software. No thank you.

Yeah but that falls firmly into the second camp of my argument. Maybe I didn’t make it super clear but I don’t think spoilers for the Matrix are a thing we should be complaining about, same for things like Star Wars and that applies doubly so to classic literature like Romeo and Juliet.

But it’s not logical to discredit somebody’s feelings for something like, and just throwing a random movie out there, Eight Below. It’s not a household title and there’s a copious amount of media out there to sift through, enough for you to be able to dedicate your life to movie watching and still not even scratch the surface.

And some people really care about their spoilers. It doesn’t really bother me, but I’ll defend those that it does; Especially when the typical argument discrediting their emotions is one grounded by emotion and not fact.

The age of something has no correlation to whether or not spoiling it for someone is valid. There’s youth being born today that obviously don’t have enough lived experience to watch every popular movie known to man. Even for an older audience, you’d have to dedicate all of your spare time watching movies just to keep up with the bare minimum of pop culture references.

I’d argue instead that the Matrix is so widely known and referred to that it’s akin to Star Wars; Someone, somewhere is going to ruin it for you eventually and we can’t stifle our own cultural spread by limiting what we make reference to.

Hey, at least they used something based in reality opposed to the traditional falling Matrix text… Actually, on second thought, that might be a little bit cooler.

Well that was rather rude. Look closer, I’m pretty sure it’s just the wallpaper they’re using.

This is genius and the only answer I will accept now.

I didn’t know Doctor Who was real I thought he was just from a show.

Bluetooth at the gaming rig is some kind of sin I reckon.

If you have a Discover card, they offer a service like this for free. I’m not sure how good it is, but since they already have my information I figured it was fine to use their service instead of increasing my footprint by passing my info to another company. It also hasn’t found anything since I started using it because I did what they do manually, years ago.

Yeah, this and physical media collection are the biggest arguments for console ownership. But I do see this gap closing with designated operating systems for gaming hitting the market. Steam Deck and the new steam box are amplifying interest in this. I’m thinking eventually, other than Nintendo and their walled garden, the console landscape is going to shift to a more open ecosystem of prebuilt PC boxes marketed as plug-and-play, just as consoles. And the industry ruined physical media collection when they allowed game discs to just be an insertable download card. Point is, I think the wall for you and many other console players is shrinking, and quickly at that.

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This made me laugh out loud, thank you.

I can confirm, happened to me.

There’s a reason people refer to Linux as a rabbit hole. I started in your exact position, but even then I didn’t make the switch for years. But the more I read and learned about the constant, and I mean constant, flow of personal information Microsoft is syphoning from my usage, I made the jump.

These big companies don’t even follow the old rule of law, “If it’s free, you’re paying for it another way”. Windows is a paid product that still insists on extracting as much profit from you as they can, they don’t care anymore because they are the default regardless.

The switch to Linux isn’t bad really, there are plenty of distros aimed at the “I want to switch but don’t want to use the terminal” users that getting your foot in the door is basically painless. The worst of it is when you need to use some windows only software or run spyware disguised as a videogame.

This. I am wishfully thinking that even if it doesn’t hit the ground running at launch, over time enough people will convert for it to be a commercial success. The only thing that could make me put another console in my home is my desire for physical media, but even then half of the games released are just glorified download cards. Truthfully there is almost 0 reason for an informed consumer to purchase a console now.

You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.

That’s a good one. In school they had me memorize a novel of Latin root words, which is where things can get frustrating. You take a word and piece together the meaning, only to find out the definition has changed so drastically over the years that the root words are now nonsense. Both of our examples fit this description.