Oh man, I hadn’t thought about Dragon’s Egg in years - thanks for the nostalgia bump

Yeah but even when you do that, the shuffle is still garbage. What i think is happening is that they’re loading the first X entries in the Playlist and passing that to the (bad) shuffle algorithm instead of passing the whole Playlist first. Then when it gets towards the end of X, it does the same thing with the next chunk. I can’t imagine that it saves that much money but it tracks with both what I see and the general trends of enshitification

Spotify shuffle has been awful for a very long time. I’ve had the same experience more times than I can count (shuffling the Playlist gives you the same order for the first 10-20 songs). I’ve also noticed in my case that if I have a very long Playlist (like 300+ songs), I never hear anything but the same 70 or so. I have my theories but I can’t prove anything

You specifically referenced the media pack, which in win 11 looks like it’s packaged as a pseudo Windows Store application. You also said Windows N, which is a different case (and the reason you even need it in the first place). I get the EU/GDPR thing, and yeah it’s probably a pain, but you said “doesn’t offer offline installers for anything relate to Windows 11 anymore”, without qualifying that is your specific niche case. Have you tried K-Lite? Do kids even use that anymore?

That’s a whole different story…UWP apps offline for an EU build is a “best of luck to you, pal” thing

I’m as anti-M$ as anyone, but this just isn’t true. The windows update catalog still exists for offline patches

The biggest thing to remember here is that sending FROM your linux.com vanity address probably won’t work well. Yes, you absolutely can set your “mail from:” address to anything you want, but without corresponding SPF or DKIM records in the linux.com DNS server (which you can’t control and they won’t do), most major email providers will either send your messages to spam or outright reject them.

As another KC resident, I’ll second this sentiment… there is nothing happening here worth the risk

Maybe? I guess it depends on which of his handlers wins out. Greenland is big in what’s left of his mind, and he’s got a warm fuzzy feeling right now towards Venezuela.

I could see an argument that it’s a very small price to pay to get Trumpkin to leave your country the fuck alone, though. I’m not super spun up on the topic, but if I could get the eye of Sauron off of me by giving a toddler a shiny medal and a piece of paper, I’d jump on that in a second

Doing the Lord’s work. BrightScript seems to exist only as a way to torment those of lesser constitution.

Looks like when you’re in a “mixed Playlist”, whatever that means, the shuffle and loop buttons are removed from the interface of the audio player (AudioPlayerView.bs:148-159). I’m not sure why that is, but it seems like it’s deliberate.

One of the most iconic bbq joints in one of the biggest bbq towns (Joe’s KC, formerly known as Oklahoma Joe’s) started in the back of a gas station and it’s still there today

Ya - or close enough (10.11.3). My LAN networks are my server and workstation subnets (both /24s) and my external NAT (my public ip). I also have my reverse proxy address (from jellyfin’s perspective) in my known proxies. From there, my external users are set to allow remote connections, have passwords set, and are set to “hide this user from login screens” and my internal users are set to NOT allow remote connections and to NOT hide from login screens. After that, i just use my public dns for every device whether it’s internal or external and call it a day

You can already do number 2 (with some restrictions). You have to set up your networking tab correctly, use blank passwords, and uncheck “allow remote connections” for the “local” accounts. i have things set up so that external users are forced to log in and local users just pick a profile. If you also add your external users’ IP addresses to the LAN Networks box, they’ll be treated as an internal user too (though how you keep that up to date is a bit more challenging). It’s not precisely the Netflix experience but it works well enough for us

C64 gang, represent!

Seriously though, I feel like that generation of machines was the last time you could look at hardware and say “yeah, I understand literally everything about how this works” and that knowledge has made even some of my (tech sector) coworkers think I’m a wizard

One i haven’t seen yet - Marilyn Monbroe

Edit: Annie Broakely

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I guess man, I’m just trying to offer alternatives. We travel enough that we like knowing what we’re gonna get instead of having to worry if we’re going to be the next horror story. The airbnb app makes a point now of assuring you that the price you see is all-inclusive of fees - now why would they do that, I wonder. Ultimately, we’re probably some of the tidiest travelers. We just don’t have time to worry about rules changing at each place depending on how badly the host wants to pocket that cleaning fee

After chores, cleaning fees, and non-refundable deposits, is it really though?

What you’re looking for is anything labeled a “suite”. I prefer to stay in those whenever possible, and generally use Staybridge, but there’s other options out there