AlphaOmega

AlphaOmega , 8 months ago to asklemmy in Not sure of a better place to ask this but wondering how to figure out why Windows 11 freezes mid game?

With steam and proton, setup on Linux is rather simple and it works as well as windows for meost of the time. And I don’t know anything about Linux, except I get 25 to 40% more performance in almost every game

AlphaOmega , 8 months ago to technology in CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024 | Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are "very excited."

Damn I already got competition?

AlphaOmega , 8 months ago to technology in CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024 | Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are "very excited."

Time to polish up my resume.

AlphaOmega , 8 months ago to world in Russia destroyed 300,000 tons of grain since July in port, ship attacks, Kyiv says

Destroying food stocks should be considered a crime against humanity

AlphaOmega , 8 months ago to technology in How is the security level of PHP in 2023?

PHP makes up like 80% of all websites worldwide.

I must is missed the security concerns, I didn’t start programming in PHP until 2003.

AlphaOmega , 8 months ago to world in Israel and the West reckon with a high-tech failure

Verizon is backing the Israelis, and Mint Mobile is backing the Hamas.

AlphaOmega , 9 months ago to technology in Alternative ways to run Plex?

Subtitles yes. Not sure about transcoding. VLC is a pretty robust application with decades of development.

Okay - googled and yes wiki.videolan.org/Transcode/And I believe most modern browsers will support this and casting, so you can always just open the local media file with your preferred browser and cast it that way

AlphaOmega , 9 months ago to technology in Alternative ways to run Plex?

I stopped using Plex a few years ago. Now I just cast the video to a Chromecast. VLC or cast via browser.
It’s not going to work for remote, but if all you want to do is cast movies to a TV, it’s a simple solution

Also as a bonus, you can cast a lot a streaming media without commercials by using an adblocker.

AlphaOmega , 9 months ago to technology in Return to the office? These workers quit instead.

Obfuscation ftw

AlphaOmega , 9 months ago to games in Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield

Plus Plus you can get it on sale.

AlphaOmega , 9 months ago to worldnews in ‘A cocktail of ignorance and a big ego’: A Ukrainian war official has slammed Elon Musk after he disrupted a stealth operation by cutting off Starlink

Yeah, I was wondering why so many headlines about this, I thought he had done it a 2nd time.

Turns out his biography or something came out and this was mentioned in the book. So apparently this is to drum up attention for his book? Weird option to go with to sell a book.

AlphaOmega , 9 months ago to technology in 'Where ambition goes to die': These tech workers flocked to Austin during the pandemic. Now they're desperate to get out.

When I lived in Austin in the 90s, I would leave the windows open about 9 months out of the year. Since the early 2000s, that’s become less and less.

AlphaOmega , 10 months ago to asklemmy in Gamers. What was the game that got you into the hobby?

Asteriods, Atari 2600

AlphaOmega , 10 months ago to technology in How do i stop this kind of pop up from ever appearing again? Win10

Yeah. It’s been that way for at least a decade. My dad used to use bing for reward points and was scoring an Xbox controller every 3 months or so.

AlphaOmega , 10 months ago to world in Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia

Yeah I just read an article two days ago where he had sent out some videos via telegram showing he was still alive. Kinda surprising, then boom.