The writer and Brent Spiner said recently that Data didn’t really die, fwiw.

It’s all fun and games until you have to spend 3 actual days ripping 50 blu-ray disks to your media server.

Gonna turn an old vacuum tube into an extruder nozzle to keep that nice, warm analog sound.

Can’t wait til 3d printers get good enough to make records so i can stock up on audiophile filament!

I would also put a good bit of the blame on executives and marketing people being way out of touch with the average person.

to get something as flexible as my android tv i’d need an nvidia shield and those are going on ten years old at this point. maybe if/when they do a hardware refresh, assuming sideloading isn’t completely impossible by then.

Yeah. To be honest on the DNS side it would probably be far easier to just do a whitelist instead, block everything except your specific service. and yeah, its a stupid amount of work. i hate smart tvs but i’ll be damned if im gonna pay extra for a streaming box =|

just saying its possible

Not sure if you mean hardcoded DNS IPs or hardcoded “phone home” IPs. Hardcoded DNS addresses in devices are annoying, the only way i’ve found to get around that is using destination nat rules (DNAT) which requires more than a consumer router typically. hardcoded phone home IPs would get blocked by your firewall. you’re right that most firewalls are set up by default to implicitly allow outbound traffic. you set up a rule that explicitly denies all outbound traffic from the TV, then only allow port 443 (or whatever port your streaming service uses) on the specific IP/IPs that your service uses. Here’s Netflix’s published IP info for example.

edit also i’m fully aware it’s fucking ridiculous that we as consumers have to go through this much rigamarole. you shouldnt have to be a literal network engineer to do something as simple as have an internet-connected tv that doesnt spy on you.

no it helps to block everything that isnt just netflix or whatever streaming service you use. you combine a DNS adblock along with blocking all the unused ports and it severely limits the communications. you could also add a vpn to add another layer of security. idk about jellyfin but most streaming services i know use https/443 to stream to your tv. so youre only allowing the specific service you want and only on a specific port. buncha great dns blocklists here https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists, and a smart tv specific one for pihole here https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/blob/master/SmartTV.txt

It’s relatively easy to restrict a smart tv to TLS/HTTPS traffic only using your router and a dns adblocker.

Right? They should be making them watch the entire Lord of the Rings extended trilogy instead.

can’t wait to tuvix the entire crew lower decks style!

hah, computers have had the same drive rail layout for so long that i didn’t even notice! .^_.

what, do i dare ask, are the computer holes?

yeah the steam version is the newer port that doesnt have the issue. the one im talkin about came out in like 1999 or something, the steam version is based on the 2012 version. and yes it was a mess.

The original PC port used MIDI music with a custom soundfont, however due to PlayStation and PC differences the resultant music is not the same. It can be replaced with the FFNx FF7Music mod. While the original PlayStation version outputs at 60 FPS with 3D elements running at lower frame rates, the PC port outputs at different framerates at different parts of the game: this causes the combat camera and some menu mechanics to have lower frame rates, but it can mitigated using mods.[2] Just like the PlayStation release, the resolution of the FMVs in the game are 320 x 224.[3]

I should play the newer FF7 pc port sometime… i played the original port published by Eidos and it’s such a trainwreck. It relied on midi sound and came with yamaha soundbank software you were supposed to use to load samples into your soundcard or something? I never got it working and the music sounded like it was being played on recorders and harmonicas.

arch wiki is good, been using that since i migrated to cachyos in september (had been running win 11 pro for years prior to that). only major issue i had was display related lol, i use a tv that needs a custom EDID to expose 120hz mode and it was an absolute nightmare trying to generate it with linux. ended up using a linux tool to dump my existing EDID then popping it into CRU via wine to generate the new one. Works pretty damn well now, have to say.

Doesnt each play start with a traditional sniffing of someones balls before the football is thrown back

It’s all just one big ass blast.