Recent content by Mercutio

I've never tolerated Valve and I've never understood why anyone else does, either. Valve actively makes PC gaming worse for the essential monoculture it has created for gaming, a space where that never should have happened. GoG is much closer to the ideal everyone should hope wins out, and I...

A socketed CPU and one PCIe port would probably change a lot of minds, but they didn't go that route. The frustration I have here is that I can see a lot of people saying that they were looking at this thing as the entry point to make PC gaming console like. I don't know why that should be an...

I never thought I'd see the day that I'd jump at a chance to spend $40 on a 250GB SD card, but here we are.

I've never been OK with Valve, but I think the mass audience of PC gamers thought it was their friend that could do no wrong, and see the price as a smack in the face. The smack in the face is somewhat real, but I've been telling people all along that whatever that thing sells for, it'll still...

Windows 7 was really the last no-bullshit version of Windows. I understand wanting to cling to it.

Steam Machine is $1050 for 500GB Storage and $1350 for 2TB. The controller is $20 cheaper if you buy it with the PC. Ouch.

That is very fixable. Open the install file with 7zip, extract the files and install them by hand. At worst, you might have to modify a .inf file or six.

The issue for AMD on Windows 7 is actually just the USB drivers. You can either slipstream the drivers into the installation media or, if you have a PS/2 port on your system, you can just install them after the fact. I'll admit I haven't tried setting up anything better than maybe a Ryzen 3700...

UPNP made a lot of consumer level LAN services a lot easier to set up but of course it's a bad practice to use it. The main reason I use Jellyfin is that it supports multichannel FLAC and I have a lot of multichannel audio. Jellyfin's music service defaults also do a better job than Plex at...

I know there are people who update drivers for older AMD drivers but it's mostly because AMD used to be terrible about abandoning mobile graphics. That A10 is from AMD's pre-Ryzen time in the wilderness. I'm not even sure I've ever installed anything in socket FM2+, but I suspect it would be...

I was going to suggest running your music through Squeezebox or Jellyfin. UPNP / DLNA i certainly works, but you may have an easier time in something that handles presentation as well.

It's something I just noticed in passing. Nadia's birthday is in a couple weeks and I'm looking for something fun to give her. I suspect it would be fine for a lot of use cases that aren't AAA gaming, but she already appropriated my Logitech G Cloud and has an Ayn Odin 2 for her hand-held needs...

I'm assuming that you're on the last set of drivers released, which was from... four years ago. Given that's the case, why not just have your PC reboot like every Sunday night so it's not an issue?

What happens if you turn off the Firewall on your Linux PC before you search?

Windows? Linux? What are you using to host your music? Dedicated server application or just Windows Media player?