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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • It makes perfect sense if you’re a systems engineer.

    Downloading games costs bandwidth.

    Steam services millions of customers daily.

    Valve, correctly, decided to do a bit of load-balancing by prioritizing updates by how recently and frequently you play them, and spreads them out.

    This is nicer to their systems, and its nicer to most people who don’t live alone and have to share internet with other human beings in their home (or at work).

    You’d think it would be no big deal, bandwidth is “infinite” and “free” in most peoples minds. But there is a maximum throughput, and there is a cost in energy, time, performance, and money.

    Load-balancing, people. It saves lives.














  • Lol. Lmao even.

    If it has google play services on it, at all, there is absolutely no privacy.

    If you can manage to stick to an F-droid+Aurora+Obtainium setup (maybe with IzzyOndroid enabled in F-droid), you can probably pull off privacy, but in my experience there are at least three major streaming services ive encountered that refuse to run if Google Play Services aren’t running and you can’t pass the SafetyNet authenticity/security check thing (which raspberry pi is missing the firmware and hardware to be able to support.) Netflix being the biggest of them, I think Disney Plus has issues, and it’s been a while since I tried but either crunchyroll or hbo Max gave me a hard time.