It’s no secret to regular readers of this newsletter that I’m still an avid Plex user. Despite the numerous privacy concerns, price increases, and recent (confusing) primary domain redirect from plex.tv to watch.plex.tv, I still find the transition to Jellyfin a hard sell given its fragmentation and smattering of third-party clients that are all good* but not really great (oh, and hello to the Lemmy readers who always roast me for this take)*.

Alright, I’ll spare you then. <3

This is a seriously cool plugin though, and I legitimately loved Plexamp. Plex’s decent really sucks for this community.

Don’t give me hope…

How would they even start production of something like the Steam Frame without having a supplier for RAM?

They can’t… hence the delay.

If RAM is the problem, then the Steam Controller would have been out by now.

This statement doesn’t make sense. The steam controller is an accessory to the Steam Machine. This would be like launching a PS6 controller before the PS6. Sure you could use it with PCs, but they are part of the same product launch.

That is unless they plan to release all 3 products on the same day, which is absurd and something not even Apple does anymore.

Why is that absurd? Reading their actual blog post, it really seems like that’s the plan.

It seems like you’re just grasping for reasons to be mad at Valve.

You underestimate how long custom hardware takes to produce. Supply chain issues hit the consumer well after they became a problem for manufacturers.

It’s likely Valve has been struggling securing RAM supply since well before the announcement, which is why the announcement didn’t come with a launch date or a price. Valve was noticeably responded, “we’ll see” when asked about those factors, because they were clearly still struggling securing capacity at a reasonable price.

I hate the AI industry so much–ruining everything we actually like to fund empty promises of a world no one asked for.

Translation: They going to try to “marketing” their way out of this hole.

Nothing about Windows or Microsoft will fundamentally change.

They just said ChatGPT.

No real ones.

There’s definitely some “our team, their team” going on, but this isn’t really the same thing.

“Following TikTok’s sale to a Trump-aligned business group, our office has received reports, and independently confirmed instances, of suppressed content critical of President Trump”

This is not a criticism of the sale itself, but of reported censorship after the sale. Make no mistake, Newsom is still on the side of the billionaires. He just wants the billionaires to return to their progressive facade.

I just recently deleted my account and uninstalled the app. I’m not going to lie, it was hard because I had finally curated my algo to some pretty decent content that wasn’t just brainrot trash.

But I’d rather be bored than give Oracle anything.

EDIT: Also Loops is neat from a technical standpoint, but it feels like a ghost town coming from TikTok.

iOS and Android provide these statistics to app developers. Anonymized stats on installs and account statuses are totally fair telemetry imo.

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But so much of the content is uncreative. The same songs and sound effects to some stupid reaction video.

How is that different from most social media platforms, though? Have tried browsing an uncurated YouTube recently? If there’s any incentive to boost views and engagement, people will optimize for that.