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People can buy a prebuilt pc running steamOS automagically updating itself with immutable images.

The advantage of consoles are:

- No minimum/recomended config to check and insurance that a game or an accesorry bought for a console gen will work well for that console gen. In term of game compat this is something Steam tried to with the steam deck but has no way to enforce really and the biggest one imho. When you buy a brand new "budget" computer in the price range of a console you usually knownyou won't be able to play some of the upcoming AAA titles at least woth decent graphic quality.

- availability in retail stores

- ability to sell games in the second hand market but I don't think this is something that is here to stay with the disappearance of physical medias

In this case it is none of the above and it is about deals on selected ip characters for movie/shows production but there are many ways to "buy" stuff. In theory Microsoft could just shutdown the xbox divisions and just sell the XBox brand + some selected IP rights. The buyer would be free to use whatever tech they decide on next iteration of console/OS.

What kind of exclusivity do they have on Elder Scrolls if all their games were releases on at least 3 platforms?

Do you meam potential upcomimg game that may be vaporware for a decade or two?

Yes in contradiction to what the downvoters might think, I am not judgemental. By all means use what works for you. I was just pointing out how one thing can be done different ways and I might not even have thought about using OBS for that purpose while being a user myself of the program.

My wife is not super tech savy but has no problem plugging an hdmi cable and learned the function key to switch monitors modes. "friends" somehow never asked for it as there is no visible screen in my living room and those spending some nights on the couch usually bring their own laptop or phone and whatch whatever they want anyway.

Having said that we are not the typical household with TV turned on 12h a day. We have a screenless kitchen+dinning space separated from the living room. I know it is less popular these days but we prefer it that way, especially when cooking stuff with powerful smell, and it allows us to enjoy having a meal and having a conversation without distraction. Cooking/eating alone we might individually decide to watch something on our phone/tablet/laptop but the unwritten rule is to turn it off when it becomes a family moment. In the living room we are using a video projector instead of a TV so deciding to watch a movie or a TV show is more an active decision to gather together, bring something to eat and drink, turn off the light and watch a specific thing we all agreed on. I might be the only one occasionally turning it on in the evening to play a video game, mostly in the winter when days are short. While we ocasionally have a binge watching couple of days this is a rare occurence and turning on the video projector is typically not even a weekly event. For instance this month I think we only turned it on twice. We never really have moments when someone is alone zapping randomly through channels.

I don't really understand how some people can get bored enough to decide to sit in front of a screen and watch "random" stuff when I barely have time for all my hobbies. For instance when I am watching sports it is usually on replay while I am doing house chores so it is usually on a tablet or laptop in whichever room I happen to be. I will never decide to put aside a hobby or sport I can enjoy myself and watch other people — regardless if they are professional and better at said sport — do it and enjoy it themselves instead of me. I know I used to do that when I was a teenager but this is now a foreign concept to me.

YMMV, it works and in our case bring us a better quality of life: better sleep/rest, more time for conversation with my daughters, more active and enjoyable sexual life with my current partner than with previous ones who were glued to a TV every evening, more time for hobbies and gratification of making stuff ourselves.

> Isn't this just giving in if your only reasonable backup location is a US cloud

my backups are not in a US Cloud.

Contacts and calendar on self hosted carddav

Pictures and files on self hosted drive.

Deltachat on mail servers (non us hosted provider) and XMPP conversation backups.

I don't backup whatsapp automatically, only do manual exports once in a while of important conversations that get copied to my self hosted server. Whatsapp pictures and vids are automatically synched with syncthing.

I host encrypted backups for another tech savy relative on a server of mine and in exchange he also host space for me on his own local backup server. We are 2000km appart so it allows us to keep a safe backup in remote location in case of fire or natural disaster without relying on the cloud.

Only thing I have missing is an automatic backup test of random files to compare checksums. I have done test backups manually but last was a bit more than a year ago so it is time to run a new one and add this automation as well.

Just wipe your phone before entering any airport and restore the data once at destination.

I think EU regulation kind of force the banks into app usage as 2nd factor

Depends what are our criterias:

- size on disk

- cpu usage

- size in memory

- impact on user lives

- impact on developer lives

- impact on our industry as a whole

- <insert other criteria>

The thing is, ffmpeg is a dependency of obs, so if you install obs you have ffmpeg installed while the opposite is not necessarily true.

Funny how you went the huge app route for such a narrow scope where I would have just used a lightweight tool like ffplay given the setting would never really change.

It only limits the blast radius on multiusers systems or when people do not follow basic security measures like having a different password on each computer. I agree it is a good one to avoid breaking the system yourself too easily but that is only if you don't blindly copy paste commands with sudo.

The only thing it mitigates really is how easy a malware can hide in the system once already present. But as said earlier once running under your username it is game over, your data is right here ready to be stolen, compromised, altered, destroyed or encrypted.

To be honest this matter more on graphene than on linux or windows because of the sandboxing of all apps by default.

On Linux and Windows it doesn't make a huge difference to be admin or not on a single user system. If you have a process on windows running with your user rights it can access all your data, which means game over already. Same on Linux if you aren't using heavily sandboxed flatpaks or do not run all your apps inside jails using tools like landrun or firejail.

Doesn't seem like a lot according to the description and pretty much what I would set by default.

My whole family is on android devices and none of them install stuff outside of playstore by mistake.

There is plenty of warning and friction to be able to do that already.

All of these are mainly distributed through the playstore actually so it won't change anything in that regards since google doesn't care.

> Does DolbyVision or HDR10+ content work in this setup?

I don't know what these things are but I just plug the hdmi cable to my laptop and use a wireless keyboard+trackpad combo[1] as a remote. Never understood the need for a "TV" interface or TV box. I tried Kodi and its alternatives years ago but never found them to be faster to load the apps and browse for content than loading the netflix/prime/hbo web pages in a tab or freetube in a dedicated window, switching tabs or virtual desktops is usually faster than switching apps on one of these interfaces, same for browsing on your filesystem for local content or run a music app.

But what do I know, I am a simple person who likes simple solutions.

[1]the microsoft one that look nearly the same as a Logitech K400. Not sure if it is still sold.

What about vendors like Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo? Don't they have any QC?

Like viral that everyone browse quickly at the project page, put their most inspired comment on hn, the go to the next news and forget about it.

I don't think there is a lot of people who actually clone the repos and try the stuff.

France is not doing anything. This is BIG SOCCER suing the hell of everyone.

I guess banning may be challengeable to court in many juridictions but it would be expensive.

What would you want to update if you are using it as a monitor?

I was only making a comment about pop culture.

Languages have always evolved and will always evolve, I agree and am ok with that.

You are delusional if you think people like a french, italian or swiss cheese just because it was made in said parts of europe.

Or you have no taste.

I believe my current Fedora install started as a Fedora 26 so rougly 10 years without issues on 2 different laptops with same install?

On servers I have changed providers so it never lasted as long but at work we upgraded ubuntu LTS at least twice on same hardware.

Before Fedora I had similar experience with slackware, freebsd, openbsd and ubuntu on my daily drivers.

The only upgrade that ever broke a system of mine was my own fault by not reading news on archlinux website and upgrading blindly right when they were doing the changes with /bin /usr/bin. But Arch is different, it is opinionated and not expected to be free of human homework.

I've yet to experience that in what, 7 years of using web version of office365 in 3 different companies?

pop culture is quite new. It has what 3 to 4 human generations?

For most users it is enough. I know a number of companies that nowadays only provides the basic office365 license to their employees (which disable access to desktop apps) for cost saving reasons. They only provide the full license to a small subset of administrative users who are totally irrelevant in an OpenBSD related discussion as they would use windows or MacOS desktop anyway.

It really depends how they are prompted really.

Monitoring doesn't have to leave a way to enter the system automatically.

Alerts can be sent, and HVAC operators could have a process where they open a support ticket to get temporary access during scheduled windows by store managers.

I remember setting this up years ago for an hospital. Some third party suppliers could obtain RDP access to some VDI who could only accept a limited number of ips but they had to open a ticket and give a reason to get access. It wasn't a 365/24/7. Monitoring could still be sent any time.

I like OpenBSD, but I don't think this is a specific reason to appreciate it as any decent OS these days has been upgradeable release upon release safely for more than 2 decades, regardless if it is a linux distro, an Open/Net/FreeBSD system, a macOS or Windows system.