Kongar

joined 2 years ago
[–] Kongar 3 points 11 months ago

I came here to say this. I’ve been gaming since the early 80s. Factorio is top 5 for me.

[–] Kongar 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This one has been sitting in my steam backlog since the dinosaurs roamed the earth. I should get on that…

[–] Kongar 155 points 11 months ago (38 children)

This is the third update in like six months that is horribly broken. There was a windows 10 update that wouldn’t install because the recovery partition that Microsoft’s installer created was too small. The prior win 11 update just won’t install for lots of people and there’s no real rhyme or reason. Now this crap.

They just don’t give a shit anymore. Microsoft had a great run folks, time to move on.

[–] Kongar 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

100% agree. Buy a brother laser printer and be happy. I would NEVER buy anything else.

[–] Kongar 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

I still for the life of me can’t figure out what’s so great about secure boot and tpm. All it’s ever done for me is prevent me from booting a legitimate OS, or a bootable flash drive with iso images on it (like ventoy). It’s also pretty good at giving me a headache trying to figure out how the keys work and how to register them.

I just turn them both off and live in ignorant bliss.

[–] Kongar 1 points 11 months ago

I do use a wireless keyboard/mouse combo. A very very small one. But I very rarely use that. I push all content through plex which can be driven easily with devices like firetv and have remotes. The htpc does the real work, but I don’t interface with it directly (generally speaking).

[–] Kongar 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Ya, because it’s a TV. You connect those things to the inputs and drive the content from other things (game console, firetv, htpc, etc.

I’m baffled by people negatively reacting to my post. It’s how tvs have worked for 50+ years. Just because they recently got the ability to execute programs, doesn’t mean you have to use it. Just air gap it and the issue is 100% solved as far as the tv is concerned.

[–] Kongar 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Why? That’s exactly what I did with my tv. It never saw the internet and works just fine. I literally don’t care what Samsung does or pushes out for updates because it doesn’t matter.

I can still do everything I want from Netflix to streaming from my NAS etc.

/shrug

[–] Kongar 92 points 11 months ago (26 children)

Just don’t connect it to the internet.

[–] Kongar 26 points 11 months ago

Good guy valve.

Please take all my money. Someday Gabe will be gone and they will enshittify - but right now - god bless them.

[–] Kongar 1 points 11 months ago

That’s how I use it as well. Plain old brave browser gets the job done on iOS.

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