mctoasterson

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[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 33 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Can confirm that 60fps Perfect Dark goes hard on the SteamDeck.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

So this dude knows why Constantinople got the works?

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 23 points 6 months ago

Just imagine. If you install Amazon video on an external streaming device and hook it up to a new Roku TV, you could get the pleasure of looking at multiple layers of Pause screen ads.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 3 points 7 months ago

"Hol up baby, I'm almost to the record-breaking run in this Summoning Salt video."

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I know Google Fiber generation 1 setups were Fiber to the home (to a "Fiber Jack") with a provided router that had 1 gigabit Ethernet port and a coax/MoCA output. Then each TV receiver box got its connectivity via MoCA from the router (most of the customer homes were already set up for cable to any area there was a TV) and put out 100mb ethernet from each of those endpoints (these also doubled as Wifi APs).

What I've never heard of is an ISP offering a MoCA coax to your house and you having only a MoCA receiver. Supposedly the max distance between MoCA devices is about 300 feet.

Seems more likely the person asking the question actually just has a cable modem and could put their own router downstream of it if they wanted?

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Another important thing to note is that you only benefit from this if you have so many itemized deductions that you can do better than the standard deduction. The mortgage interest alone isn't going to do that in a vast majority of cases. Since legislation in 2017, a lot of the tax advantage of owning a home was reduced.

The OP is wrong on every conceivable level.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 4 points 7 months ago

SNES 9x ran great on systems of this era. I spent days playing all the Megaman titles and save-scumming or scanning memory to make infinite health cheats.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah except probably not. Its not like billionaires have a savings account with $1,000,000,000 sitting there collecting 5% interest (much less sitting collecting even less interest in a checking account...)

They have a net worth based on tons of diverse (non-liquid) assets like securities, company ownership stakes, real estate, art, etc. To say nothing of their holdings in trusts and shell companies abroad, or whatever the latest tax avoidance strategies are.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 6 points 8 months ago

Wait til he finds out that people still use IRC and Usenet for filesharing too...

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 12 points 8 months ago

Seems OK with BT in the sense they do not throttle traffic etc. Using basic prevention measures like private trackers and port randomization will get you far here. If you are using public torrent sites I would probably use a seedbox or torrent friendly VPS host... Then your ISP will only see SSH traffic from your machine to the box.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"O-counter"? Is that legitimately for tracking how many times you blow your load to a particular scene?

People are really into advanced metrics these days...

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 53 points 8 months ago (11 children)

Isn't this equivalent to those trucks that have "stay back 300 feet - not responsible for damage" signage, when in reality they are legally responsible if their load isn't secured?

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