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Why replace torrents? Why not use both? It’s a bonus if your usenet provider includes a VPN.
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Why replace torrents? Why not use both? It’s a bonus if your usenet provider includes a VPN.
I pirated a certain ‘crash cars and shoot’em up’ game because, even though I own it on Steam, the gameplay (especially the launcher) absolutely sucks.
No more automatically downloading online content when I don’t even play online and no more updates breaking my mods. It’s worked out so well that I’m looking at pirating other games I already own.
I’d definitely swap as many parts in/out as possible before buying new stuff. Besides, you might end up finding out something just became unseated or unplugged - it happens over time. Just have some thermal paste handy before you start swapping CPUs.
Does it boot / POST at all?
AMD APUs have Video Coding Engine / Unified Video Decoder, while Intel CPUs have QuickSync. FFMPEG’s hardware page says that AMD support is incomplete.
You may want to ask over in !datahoarder@lemmy.ml . This topic often came up back on Reddit, and the general vibe I got was that most people prefer QuickSync. Intel may not be great in a lot of areas, but they are a beast in video encoding/decoding. That being said, I use a Ryzen APU and it’s perfectly fine. There are way more important things to look at when choosing a CPU.
If your performance is slow, I would check your CPU is listed on the chart I linked above. Not all CPUs support all codecs.
Edit: If your CPU doesn’t support the codec, it will still work, it just won’t be accelerated.
OMG. I originally got the impression (from somewhere) that you couldn’t pass arguments to an alias, so I googled and found that weird function nonsense. Oh well, live and learn. Thanks.
alias hgrep='function _f(){ history | grep $1; };_f'
Because I’m to lazy to type
history | grep whatever_I'm_looking_for
Thanks for posting this. I couldn’t figure out why Steam was broken on my laptop for the last 3 weeks or so. Installing the .deb from the Steam website fixed it. I’m starting to get fed up with Canonical.
One thing I love about usenet is that it’s great if you’re just looking for one episode, song, etc and don’t want to download a whole collection.