What? I made a purchase from Epic instead of Steam since they didn’t make the MENA currency change and as a result many older games are significantly cheaper on Epic in my country.

For example Celeste’s base price on Epic is 66 cents in my country with no discount (currently on %75 discount) versus 10 USD with no sale and 2.5 USD currently on Steam.

The most boring way: lemmy.world on browser. Somehow among all the comments I am the only one doing it this way

Casually recommending DDLC💀

If only, I have a 10 year old Macbook Air lmao

framework spotted! (13 pro? wink wink)

forgot to add this to my previous reply: if you configure the remote to put the PC to sleep instead of shutting down and allow waking up from USB devices, you might be able to wake your PC up with the remote. I can’t do this because my remote uses Bluetooth low energy which I couldn’t configure wake up for. And yes 2 of the PCs are ancient enough to use ATA instead of SATA probably, one has a Pentium T4300 and Intel GMA 3100. However I don’t need 5 HTPCs lol.

I am locked in the software space as I need something very specific that kodi could only partly satisfy and android tv could fully satisfy.

My current setup is similar. the pc runs a custom build of android tv w/o google services, with the remote of the tv box. I already have checks notes 5 spare pcs, i just had no idea 2.4ghz remotes could be dirt cheap. The item you sent appears as 2 usd before taxes & shipment but doesn’t ship to my location lol. Oh and every single one of the pcs have hdd, i’ll need either a new ssd or use one of my flash drives with a live linux install as permanent is very slow from USB.

Since there are a lot of comments here I want to ask this: we purchased a xiaomi tv stick (specs below) and a 15 year old intel pentium dual core w/ android runs circles around it with the exact same apps plus the PC has significantly more stable network connection. The stick’s OS is old however not bloated and it even blocks google banner ads OOB. Did we get a very bad unit or are all of TV sticks / boxes unusably slow unless you get a shield or an apple tv?

https://www.mi.com/us/product/mi-tv-stick/specs

I also have this, with videos too and on pc, android and ios…

Does it get better as it progresses? I dropped the game in Inazuma iirc part 3, might play until end of sumeru or fontaine (whichever is later) in a distant future just for finishing up what I started almost 2 yrs ago. Or wait till the story concludes then play the whole thing, if it ever actually concludes.

Genshin has been played by 150 mil people in china and another 150 mil in rest of the world according to a economic report by the game developer.

It might not be the one you want, but you always get what you pay for. Similar concept to blind-box toys.

With gachapon, you always “win,”

Disagree with the 2nd point here. If you are playing genshin or whatever, spend real life money on pulls to get a specific character and instead get something else, you have effectively lost. What you got is not what you spent your money for and possible not or barely valuable.

Tell me about it😅 FC 26 leaks VRAM to the point it is not playable if you have 4 gigs even on lowest settings

I had a VM with that specs, win10 dialed down its ram usage to 1.4g. It took 3 mins to boot and another min to load chrome but was operable after that. Heck even 256m was enough to boot, but certainly not to install.

Even windows 10 will run on 2 gig of ram and hdd.

Even if they were made to work, they may still be bad in price / perf and not worth using simply due to being manufactured for a completely different purpose.

And I don’t care about the why question. I don’t care why it’s a failure. It doesn’t matter. In the end it’s a failure.

I always have to keep this in mind when setting up something new for someone else

OP are you using Crossover or similar to play portal? The native mac version of Portal doesn’t support macOS newer than 10.14

I was about to recommend specifically OW because I played in 1-2 hour sessions per week over many months (not every week). I left the game open with the PC sleeping quite a few times to avoid losing my current run (and each time a blackout happened lol) however I did my fair share of silly stuff and didn’t feel pressured.

I’m surprised something like plaid even exists, i’d expect banks to cooperate with no one regarding customer data