a PC is better because of 24/7 reliability, better cooling, no risk of laptop battery swelling, easy RAM and storage expandability, and low idle power consumption

On the other hand

• laptops are sometimes recommend due to the battery acting as a built-in UPS. That means the system should truly be reliable 24/7, even in the event of a power outage
• with that said, you want to ensure that whatever laptop model you’re looking at supports battery bypass charging so you don’t risk the battery swelling that you mentioned. When the battery is full while plugged in, if the laptop is still routing power through the battery, yeah, you risk swelling. But if the laptop is set up to pull power directly from the wall without going through the battery first (only switching to battery power in the event that it gets unplugged or whatever), it’s no different than a UPS battery
• some laptops cannot be upgraded at all, but memory/storage are the two most common upgrade paths for the many laptops that actually are able to be upgraded with standard SODIMM, NVMe, etc. Just make sure whatever laptop model you’re looking at can be upgraded
• laptops are specifically designed to have a low power consumption, so I’m not sure what that point is about. Unlike desktop PCs, which are supposed to be plugged into power 24/7, laptops are intended to be used on battery power most of the time, so they want to make them last as long as possible on battery power by optimizing power consumption through efficient chipsets and whatnot. So even if you use it plugged in, it should still use little energy compared to a desktop workstation

With that said

• a desktop will undoubtedly have better cooling. Laptop designers sure put a lot of effort into creating very smart cooling solutions that work very well, but physics is physics. Comparatively, desktops are larger and more open, leading to naturally better cooling
• if a laptop has upgradeable memory/storage, at best, it will probably only have two slots for each. On the other hand, with a desktop, you often have the ability to use four memory sticks and a dozen storage drives.

Parboiled brown rice is still “real, genuine brown rice”. It’s just been parboiled. It’s not fake rice somehow.

If it was free, I could imagine downloading it once to try it out. But I doubt I would ever run it again after trying it once. It doesn’t seem like a more interesting or efficient means of selecting content to watch or anything like that. I would also be wary about giving a closed-source program access to my media library.

But if it costed any fee, even just a one-time purchase of 1€, I wouldn’t be interested at all.

It’s a slop bridge to play your slop games through the slop service on a different slop OS than the original slop OS that the slop service is actually made for.

If you use Windows, you can install that software to browse your registry. If you have already set up Flatpak via WSL or whatever, I can imagine that being a decent option.

Anubis is open source under the MIT license. If the branding is an issue, fork it, change the branding, call it good.

People complained when the Tesseract dev did that. Though that response may have been emotionally charged due to what was also happening with Tesseract.

All these comments about the URL being unprofessional or whatever, and I am just now realizing what they mean by that. I saw anubis.techaro.lol and didn’t get what about that was unprofessional. Professional tools can be named after mythological beings, etc. It wasn’t until seeing your comment here that I realized lol may seem unprofessional or something.

Mounted drives

They should show up in the bottom of the Places pane on the left, in the “Devices” section. If it literally cannot find them, then I can’t say anything about what is wrong.

Shared drive

You should be able to add a network folder in Places (the left pane) > Network > Add Network Folder (in the top menu). If that wizard doesn’t work, you should be able to do it manually by typing sftp://trackendakracken@192.168.1.123 or whatever into the URI bar and press enter.

Enable text preview

Menu (the three lines button in the top right) > Configure Dolphin > Interface > Previews > Text Files

Dolphin seems to have that feature. Menu (the three lines button in the top right) > Show Panels > Information

If you already have Syncthing set up, yeah, it’s probably the simplest option. No need to install anything new, set up a new account somewhere, start a new Docker container, etc. I certainly haven’t tried all the options out there, but I don’t have any complaints about performance with this Joplin sync solution.

Certainly. This is what I do:

1. Set up Syncthing normally (which you have obviously already done)
2. Within the folder that you are synchronizing with Syncthing, create a new folder called joplin or something
3. In Joplin (on desktop, mobile, and every device), set the synchronization target to your local filesystem.

• Configuration > Synchronization > Synchronization target > File system

4. Point it to your joplin folder that you created in step 2

• Configuration > Synchronization > Directory to synchronize with (absolute path) > /your/path/here/joplin

Leave it out in the rain to install Rust

If someone wants to publish on Steam, yeah, probably. But if Lepton works like Proton, the game doesn’t actually need to be distributed through Steam. For Proton, you can run basically any Windows executable file through Proton, even if you downloaded the file from somewhere other than Steam. I assume the plan is for Lepton to be able run basically any APK you throw at it regardless of where the APK came from. I just doubt that Lepton will bypass the Oculus DRM.

I think devs will have to ship a build that does not have the extra DRM and whatnot that is required to run on Oculus devices. The beauty of Lepton is just that developers won’t have to rewrite their game for a new architecture or anything. All they have to do (hypothetically) is export a new build of their project without the “include Oculus DRM” button checked. From what I understand, it’s not the exact same situation as Proton, just similar in many regards.

I remember using some “YouTube video downloader” website (the kind we all used before learning about yt-dl) to download an age-restricted video recently. I had tried several of those kind of sites, and most failed. But one site in particular did allow me to successfully download the age-restricted video that I wanted. Unfortunately, I do not remember the exact website that I had used. And honestly, with what I understand about how volatile these YouTube downloader websites are, I wouldn’t be surprised if that exact site doesn’t even exist by now anyway.

All that to say: try a bunch of YouTube downloader sites. That is unfortunately your best bet at this point. You just have to hope to find one that works with age-restricted videos.

fatchub.com

So, every time I want to go back one frame, I have to open that plugin from the menu and then respond to that dialog window? That is certainly more cumbersome than the way MPV/Jellyfin do it, where scrubbing is just a keyboard shortcut. Even if I assigned a keyboard shortcut to activated that plugin (I assume that’s possible), I still have to respond to that dialog box?

When I scrub through a video to get the perfect frame to screenshot, the experience is usually something like:

1. Pause video, no that’s not the right frame
2. Scrub back five frames, not right
3. Scrub forward one frame, looks closer
4. Scrub forward one frame, looks closer
5. Scrub forward one frame, that’s almost what I want
6. Scrub forward one frame, that’s worse, I guess I went too far
7. Scrub back one frame, settle on that one

Using MPV, that’s pretty simple because each step there is just a keystroke that takes zero effort and zero time. But if each of those steps also required me to respond to a dialog box, that would just make the process tedious.

That’s not as common of an occurrence as multiple versions of movies, but I have sure had a few instances when I wanted that for a TV show episode as well. That is certainly a welcome feature that I am looking forward to.

, and . scrub frame-by-frame during playback

That is exactly how MPV does it. But from what I remember, VLC devs claim it’s impossible, so VLC only allows you to scrub forward frame-by-frame, not backward. You can skip backwards in three-second increments or whatever, just not frame-by-frame at all. It’s the main thing that keeps me using MPV as my default video player, because I frequently skip around videos trying to get a screenshot of the perfect frame to use to make a meme or something. Being able to scrub frame-by-frame in both directions is a big deal.

It’s set to “Unrestricted”:

Besides, like I say, the video does keep playing in the background, it is just the audio that cuts out after a few seconds.