I should. We’ve been estranged for nearly a decade. I should just do it to be an annoying prick.

I like doing the reverse.

Like if someone asks me if I want A or B, and I’ll say yes.

Logically, as long as I want one of those things, the answer is “true”

… People hate taking to me.

Last time I checked, people didn’t found their core belief system around whether prisoners of war existed or not.

Even so, there’s tangible proof of him being there, by his physical body being there, when it happened. This can be proven by science. Obviously that’s not able to be proven after he was released from the camp, and yes, we have to take the scribbles on a page to know it happened.

I will give you that.

For anything that is a universal truth, like gravity, chemistry, the properties of light, electricity, and all the principles behind electronics engineering, etc… All of that is provable. Lived experiences, history, sure. We have to accept that what we’re reading is true or not. But that’s a choice.

Science, which defines pretty much everything that’s happening, why is happening, and how it can happen, is immutable.

The idea of “God” has no basis more reliable than someone’s report of it happening. For something so universal/omnipotent, the fact that the only “evidence” that it happened is in a book, yet this God has a plan for you right now, but you can’t know it because God won’t tell you, nor do anything outside of what physics/Science says can/will happen, isn’t evidence of the existence of such a deity, regardless of what someone calls “God”.

All other things that exist, the forces that act on those things, and all of the possible outcomes of that thing existing can be proven by science. God cannot be proven, by science or otherwise.

Even history, to some extent, can be proven, because the evidence still exists. You can visit auschwitz, and see where history happened from WW2. You can see the damage from bombs and gunfire in structures that were standing when conflicts happened. There’s still evidence for a lot of that. And again, the same cannot be said for any book about any deity.

a lot of things.

🤔

Science doesn’t work that way. There’s provable and repeatable experiments and proofs that you can independently verify.

Last time I checked most things that aren’t metaphysical (like philosophy), have some relationship with science, and therefore, only requires that you go through the motions to prove it yourself by creating your own reproduction of an test/experiment/proof…

In my experience, Plex struggles with the same. Depends on the series.

I don’t. There’s just a nontrivial number of people I care about that use Plex that don’t know enough about technology to handle something like jellyfin.

Losing years of watched data isn’t great, but ultimately it’s small potatoes.

A big part of the reason I wanted to set up Plex to begin with, was so that my friends and family didn’t have to waste their time downloading the stuff that all of us want to watch.

They don’t demand anything, I want them to be able to use it because I care about those people. If switching to jellyfin is too difficult for the non-techs I care about, then I’ll keep rolling with Plex.

I’m not sure I can switch. I have too many friends linked to my server and a decade-ish of watched data.

I know many people watch from TV apps and Chromecasts and I don’t know if there’s an app for every TV brand for jellyfin or emby or whatever.

People watch from all sorts of weird devices. I got push back when I forced SSL because at least one person had a TV so old that it didn’t support doing SSL for Plex. It took me a week to drill it into their brain that I’m not going to change it back and to go buy literally anything to make it work (Chromecast type thing). I think their ended up buying a Roku.

This is just the brainpower that most of the people I share with, have. They just want easy. I do all the hard work in the background and their life is easy.

I can’t imagine how many would have a fit if I forced them off Plex. Jellyfin looks cool and all, but it’s unlikely I’ll be able to move anytime soon.

They’ve “streamlined” your experience.

You won’t find me coming to the defense of either large structured religions nor to the defense of the sun god, or his celestial counterparts.

It’s all Hocus pokus.

He has a point. It’s ironic that the only piece of “evidence” most religions have is a book written by humans.

Any belief in the sun/moon/stars/whatever… At least you can point and say, there it is.

But Christianity is normal and not crazy at all, and believing in Ra is the crazy thing… Sure. Yeah.

I think it’s all nuts. But whatever.

It’s excessive, I’ll give you that. I can’t really argue with your point here.

Oh, right, they’re cool.

Along with humble bundle. Those guys are cool too.

Woohoo to being responsible for others not having any fun playing a game!

Woo! Woooooo.

What?

I don’t know why you would admit this.

… Because when it comes to billionaires, gaben is the least of our concern?

Don’t get me wrong, billionaires are always bad, but not all billionaires are hated.

You won’t see Bezos doing anything that helps people, not unless it will line his pockets. Valve doesn’t charge us for using vac, they’re unlikely to sell a lot of new copies of CS2 by making it harder to cheat in the game. They have nearly zero financial reasons to bother with any of this. They did it anyways.

Yeah. Go buy hollow Knight, or schedule 1, or anything from an indie studio. Support both good devs and studios, and valve. And you even get a fun game to go with your support. Honestly, everyone wins.

… Does anyone still wonder why I boycotted all other gaming platforms other than steam?

You think you’re going to get anti-cheat this good from the likes of epic? Ha.

I was blissfully unaware, probably because I’m not cheating scum.

Couldn’t have happened to a better community of people.

Fuck cheaters.

IMO, cheating is just taking away all the fun of the game. The cheater didn’t have to get gud to be able to win, and the victim is denied any recourse or any fun in playing the game. Bluntly, I have absolutely no sympathy at all for these kinds of people. If you suck at the game and need to use cheats to win, maybe don’t fucking play it competitively?

There’s a reason I’ve kept my counterstrike antics to private games among friends and local matches against bots. I have no interest in larder boards. I just want to have fun. Dying over and over before you can even do any damage, isn’t fun.

If you’re a cheater, get wrecked.

Bravo valve. Bravo.

It very much used to be.

Some of the newer stuff they’ve been putting out has been surprisingly good. Full explanations of how things interact, descriptions of what each option does, what options are available, how to configure things, useful examples…

Then you get to one option called something like “-outputformat” or something and the docs literally just say “this option configures the output format”, and you fall flat on your face and perish.

I assume everything I read on the Internet is someone’s opinion. Unless it’s about an Internet thing, by the company that made that thing.

Like finding usage articles for Windows/office/whatever, on Microsoft’s website…

This. This is the reality and the root cause of a lot of the issues regarding homelessness, starvation and preventable illness in the world.

Aggressive capitalists value money more than anyone’s, and everyone’s life.

They will let you die to bump their profits a fraction of a percent.

I just thought it was relevant to the discussion.

Not arguing whether it’s good music.

The fact that these chucklefucks worship money is my point. They put money as more important than life itself.