not sure what beef you have with GN, but they’ve seemed pretty rock-solid reliable to me for years now. Just good, detailed benchmarking and high-quality journalism. Unlike many tech channels and blogs, they actually cite their sources thoroughly.

And for the record, the Kraken Z7 I bought 6 years ago and mounted vertically is still running quite strong, despite gamers nexus all but telling me I was an asshole for mounting it that way because it was going to die within 2 years and I’ll have only myself to blame.

Quick google is pulling up no parts called “Kraken Z7” so not exactly sure what you’re talking about. I think you’re referring to this AIO mounting video they did 5 years ago? Generally speaking, computer parts are subject to a binning process, which means not all parts are created equal. Just because your AIO has lasted 6 years with a suboptimal orientation doesn’t mean that every Kraken Z7 will last 6 years in that orientation. In that video, Steve uses a lot of qualifying language. In the chapter testing vertical orientation, he even specifically says “this one is more about noise than performance”. They also say that you could mount vertically with the tubes towards the bottom of the radiator, and that would solve most of the issues. They supplied tons of testing and evidence proving that their recommended orientations would work best. I’m not sure how you heard “this could shorten the life of your AIO” and took that as a personal attack, but sure. Take it out on GN i guess.

Well if they drop Jellyfin, I know at least one friend that would rather drop their Fire TV than go without. Here’s hoping this backfires and just drops Amazon’s TV user base with no positive tradeoff for them.

TL;DW: Gamers Nexus was contacted by the U.S. Secret Service because of their investigation into Nvidia’s slow corruption. In this vid, Steve and crew dive into how Nvidia has been getting into bed with Palantir, the Trump admin, and the global elite that are fueling the AI bubble. Nvidia went from almost no political contributions ever, to donating a massive amount to the Trump/Vance ticket. And GN brought RECEIPTS.

Hmm I’m not sure about contributing. You’ve presented yourself as someone too broke to afford a VPN so I didn’t think you were buying CDs and ripping flacs. Sorry if I misunderstood your goals. I was more focused on the goal of obtaining files.

Edit: ps, not sure if you saw yet, but I pm’d you about another possible solution.

If they haven’t divested yet, they have no morals and no common sense. Or they are betting on a more friendly future for Nazis. Either way, I think we need to stop caring what Tesla investors think. They’re all Nazi sympathizers at this point.

Either way, if ruins it for everyone else.

How does it ruin it for everyone else? One slow peer does not ruin the network.

Doesn’t Proton have a free VPN tier? I think it doesn’t support port forwarding so your connections would be limited, but that might still work?

Otherwise, check the megathread and go with direct downloads. Those happen over https so completely encrypted.

I was super impressed by the audio quality of this performance!

No, but they can say that it was all Jim’s fault and then fire Jim.

It’s astounding the way Republicans will ruin literally everything they touch. They can’t even keep a grant program running without turning it into an extortion racket.

Rentry megathread is my first resource, personally. After that, fmhy, which others have mentioned.

If people think that and can’t see how dumb that is, they aren’t worth your time. Hair color does not define a personality. Lol.

That makes sense. I’m just not sure how to make that a clean experience, beyond acquiring files and setting up my own server.

Isn’t port binding in the advanced settings? If you reset advanced settings to default, don’t forget to re-bind your client to your VPN to avoid leaks!

I wonder if even VLC could run those streams for you? 🤔 Not sure, but whats the appeal for you over just opening the browser on your HTPC?

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very glad that Windows magically let me stay on W10 security updates for another year. I think maybe my VPN tripped them up, but i’ll take it.

maybe they can do what I do, run Windows on the server so you can tell Backblaze that it’s a personal computer. Then I only have to pay a flat rate for the one computer.

that’s gonna be an expensive backblaze account