Back in the day, I bought some Fortnite VBucks to get a couple skins and emotes. It wasn’t really to “show off to others”, I was just tired of looking st the same starter character and all of the gameplay based aspects of the game are free so I figured “Why not”. I did the same in some F2P MMOs like Vindictus and Black Desert.

In shooters, I usually don’t engage with skin mechanics because they are, in most cases, immersion breaking. I like my firearms black or maybe with some FDE furniture, I might do some cosmetic customization as long as it’s believable enough for the setting. Definitely not spending real money on any of that stuff.

I get inquiries for TV repair, though I don’t take them in because they take up too much space.

Just like monitor repair, the inquiries usually boil down to a cracked panel or a power on issue. Rest would be backlight, followed by miscellaneous “weird stuff” as the edge cases.

I can’t actually remember the last time I even saw a stuck or dead pixel, laptops with LCD panels make up the overwhelming majority of devices that I service.

Can’t say my experience aligns with your claims, and OLED displays have not been in widespread use long enough to be able to make a realistic comparison of longevity.

That’s… not really a logical conclusion from the article, or from anyone’s experience with either technology.

Anecdotally, back in 2012 I bought a secondhand LCD TV made in 2009. That was used as my primary work, gaming, and media display for 4 years before being relegated to a bedroom TV.

I moved that TV to my shop in 2019, it’s been playing a rotation of videos since then - coming up on 7 consecutive years.

There’s no ghosting or visible degradation on that TV, you’re commenting on an article describing degradation on a display used 4 hours a day for 2 years.

My shop also runs a bunch of other older LCD monitors - at least 5 of them are 12 or more years old and in active use every day.

unnecessarily taxing my hardware

What?

Thank you so much for all that you do for this instance, and by extension the Fediverse at large! We all really appreciate you :)

Disk space utilization is represented as a graph of percentage - if you don’t mind sharing, what is the actual storage footprint of this instance at this point in time? If applicable, how much of that is content native to Lemmy.zip versus cached content from other federated instances?

I play the Tale of Two Wastelands modlist on Deck

Includes both games and runs quite well!

I do have Infuse and the pro subscription!

It’s not really a “first party” (for lack of a better term) solution so the UI is not consistent with the other apps.

Personally, I don’t really like Infuse’s UI arrangement and use it exclusively for content that has Dolby Atmos.

Many of my friends / family aren’t all that techy, usability is key and having access to that content through a single app / single name is pretty important.

friends dont let friends use plex

Emby and Jellyfin still don’t have Apple TV Apps. Many of us bought a Lifetime Plex Pass ages ago and it still does what it’s supposed to. Migrating / starting over with something else is quite an undertaking when what you already have is working fine.

storage is very cheap now

In what universe? I bought two refurbished 12TB enterprise HDDs for $80 USD each back in 2024. The same type of disks are now $250+ each.

Yes - especially with chopsticks

John Woo’s Max Payne

Not sure what they’re on about, it’s soldered.

https://www.ifixit.com/Device/iPod_Touch_6th_Generation

With that being said, it’s not a terribly difficult part to desolder/resolder. Use flux, take care not to short the positive side to anything else while you’re working.

Grandma doesn’t need to “learn” Linux

Most of the older generation compute almost entirely through a web browser. They often struggle with the amount of notifications / solicitations that come up in a a Windows OS, as they can have trouble discerning between what is real and what is a scam - becoming fundamentally distrustful of everything as a result.

Through my repair shop, I’ve transitioned plenty of older generation folks to Linux Mint with minimal friction.

Main area where that can get a bit more complicated is for those who are clinging to an older piece of software they’re unwilling to let go of.

You’ve confirmed that you have 5V / peripheral devices are being powered

Since this is affecting all USB ports, my initial hypothesis is a fault in PCH

Measure resistance between USB’s D+ and D- as well as resistance between each of them and GND

pretty sure your magnifier is meant to be mounted after the optic

Every magnifier I’ve ever interacted with went before the optic. They usually have short eye relief, putting one that far forward would make it unusable.

Using MMOD doesn’t track playtime for the man game

You’re using Chrome on iOS.

The address bar expands when you scroll up and contracts when you scroll down.

In your screenshot, the address bar is in the expanded state. In this state, it will partially cover page content unless you have scrolled to the very top edge.

This is not deliberate malicious placement on iFixit’s part. You are falsely attributing malice to a coincidental UI behavior in your browser of choice on your mobile platform of choice.

Yeah, it’s just an inline resistor

A potentiometer is a resistor that you adjust using a dial. If you want control, you may want to get a PWM fan control module. There’s the Noctua NA-FC1 https://www.noctua.at/en/products/na-fc1 but that’s pretty much just a fancy expensive version, you can find the same concept for as little as $1-2 USD

Assuming the supply can saturate the current the fan will use, at 12V it’ll be running at full speed. That’s probably pretty loud. Give it 5V, it’ll run slower and quieter.

$20 was the cost of a whole CD Album, I don’t remember singles selling for that much. Or maybe you’re referring to the phenomenon of having to buy a full Album just for the one song you like?

I prefer to buy Albums, and these days new Vinyl usually comes with a lossless digital download redemption code.

At the same time, I still subscribe to music streaming services. I’ve got some ambient / background music playlists that are days and even weeks long - I’m not going to allocate make local storage space to them, let alone pay $9,000

These services are amazing for music discovery. I live having an album or playlist finish and then getting “radio” of similar music to hear and discover.

What the hell? Premise they’re going with just makes it any other gameshow. Missed opportunity to have each “Vault” have some kind of unique experiment or twist.