I’ve heard of folks using VLC.

Floopy goober

I still hear a dial-up modem when I close my eyes

I think Microsoft did do an ad campaign about it

I accept your premise that parameters of technological advancement need not influence each other, but assuming that they correlate similarly as on Earth, prosthetics and interstellar travel might have moved forward by the same coefficient.

In that case, walking on the Moon is like using a rock for a prosthetic eye.

Well… Your logic seems on point but keep in mind this is a civilisation that does hyperspace travel and stuff

I have lived for over a week with less than 0 in my account in college and I’ve driven my car 150km with the gas light blinking in panic. Your argument is invalid.

If I may ask, what country is that?

It’s difficult but the harsh truth is that it’ll only get better once you find people that can accept you for who your are. For me, this was college. I found a lot of like-minded people and realised I tried to adapt to a world that was never made for me for 21 years. Then again, I only have a mild case of autism.

Actually drugs are good for you because they broaden your mind.

Actually smoking is good for you because it relieves stress.

Actually murder is good because it decreases the population.

You can rationalise anything, especially when addiction is involved.

To be clear: hdmi 2.0 is not a cable spec. The ports on both your gpu and your monitor can have a hdmi spec like 1.4 or 2.0 or 2.1. Cable specs are High Speed, Ultra High Speed or Ultra High Speed with Ethernet. Essentially they all work with all hdmi port specs.

Similar goes for displayport except the main cable just has one spec. Your monitor has HDMI 1.4 (no vrr) or DisplayPort 1.2. Your gpu does HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.4. They are backwards compatible but the default to the lowest spec, so connecting HDMI means you can only use HDMI 1.4 spec and connecting DP means you can get DP1.2.

DisplayPort has a much higher bandwidth. Without going into detail I’d say for PC gaming DP is always better. Look up HDMI vs DP for more on the subject.

If you don’t have an Nvidia GPU you can’t use GSync. You can use FreeSync if you have it but variable refresh rates need at least HDMI 2.0.

What it does: your monitor relays a certain refresh rate to your gpu and if you turn on VSync, your gpu will not render more frames than your monitor can display. GSync and FreeSync make the monitor able to relay different refresh rates, making it possible for your gpu to render less frames whilst still showing a consistent picture.

So in short: if you don’t have a DP on your monitor you can’t use variable refresh rates anyway and GSync is out of the question.

I’ve looked up your monitor specs, if you really want to you can use FreeSync over displayport. It’ll require some setup in Windows and in your games.

Why exactly can’t you use hardware acceleration with an nvidia card? We have Arch Linux with a Quadro P400 and using the nvidia driver Tdarr runs super smoothly. The way to get all your content in x265 is just by decoding and encoding, which Tdarr, Handbrake etc can do. But it’s one stream per nvenc/nvdec at a time so it takes time.

Essentially the 12 volt cigarette lighters in cars are fireless. There’s also plasma-like lighters that work with electricity.

So yeah, do they work just as well? Depends. Fire lighters are a handful in windy conditions. Electric lighters are less efficient but they work just fine.

It’s almost as if something gets infinitely worse once the masses adopt it

Yes but I don’t buy those glasses. And as for useless features devices come with: there are scores that everyone pays for but never uses. For instance: Windows 11 has a feature that let’s you control RGB backlight of your computer components.

Imagine if everyone got their devices and software tailored to their specific needs. The cost for the developers would be so much higher and they’d never develop anything actually useful for the majority of users.

Take Windows. An OS is a very complex piece of software that has tons of features. One of them is coincidentally a blue light filter called Night Light. Microsoft listens to input from the community to add these features, they don’t unilaterally decide it gets in and users just get it because they pay for it.

And if you feel like Windows is too bloated with features you don’t want, you don’t have to pay for it. You can get any Linux distro for free and you know what? Some of them come with blue light filters. But even then, your computer monitor will likely have a colour tone called Warm, which is a lot less heavy on the blue.

Buying? I’m not paying for blue light filters, they come with the devices.

And the pentacorn spoke thus:

SoulSeekQT is a free p2p file sharing service specifically for music and you can specify file types or bitrate in filters.

Money is not the issue to me. I’ll happily pay for every episode I watch, maybe even per download. I just don’t want my content scattered across different platforms in suboptimal quality and be forced to pay a fixed fee even if I just need the one show on that platform.

It’s a service issue.