JoyousAbandon

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by JoyousAbandon 2y ago
The main issue is the totally invalid and ignorant comparison of compressed-to-hell streaming versions and Blu-Ray.
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by JoyousAbandon 2y ago
That's because it's another douchily obscure title on HN. They love 'em here, and berate you if you call them out. Nobody should have to "hope" that an article is about something, after reading a referring post&#x27
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by JoyousAbandon 2y ago
"dog in burning house vibes" Whatever that's supposed to mean.
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by JoyousAbandon 2y ago
Rye what?
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by JoyousAbandon 2y ago
Hard drives weren't new in 1998. I don't even know where you'd have gotten a computer that lacked one by then; and most would also have had a CD-ROM drive.
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by JoyousAbandon 2y ago
The only snark here is yours. What are you talking about with "computers in someone's basement?" He pointed out glaring factual errors in the story, which should not have made it through any kind of editorial review. For exam
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by JoyousAbandon 2y ago
He never said it was better. He's pointing out glaring factual errors in the story.
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by JoyousAbandon 2y ago
Absurd errors in this article. Starting with: "it was from an era that computers didn't have a hard drive" Absolute BS. Pretty much every computer had a hard drive in 1998, and most had CD-ROM. Then they referred to the 3.5&q
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by JoyousAbandon 2y ago
Thanks. Not super useful without a keyboard, though.
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by JoyousAbandon 2y ago
You shouldn't have to look up keyboard shortcuts to operate a GUI. That's the whole point of a GUI.
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by JoyousAbandon 2y ago
I use Kodi on a Shield to play any local files I want to watch, which reside on a USB-attached SSD. Results have been pretty good, although it suffers from some non-intuitive UI design... the sort of which also plagues other media applicati