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rjmccall posted:many large companies flail around at the "oh we should try doing what Other Company is doing, maybe there's money in it" game and it rarely ends well because ever since ballmer laughed at the iphone they've been perpetually late to the party, and when they do show up they only bring half a sixer of the shittiest beer possible and proceed to throw up on someone's shoes they cratered mixer faster than google goes through chat protocols
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lifetime supply of Pocky posted:what you refer to as a hip hop operating system is actually a GNU/hip hop operating system GNU ft. Linux
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VikingofRock posted:GNU feet Linux
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Fabricated posted:Microsoft is closing Mixer and selling it off to Facebook. They threw tens of millions of dollars at Ninja/Shroud and some other streamers less than a year ago. lol it is an actual question though who is stupider when it comes to that kind of acquisition (in the non-Ballmer era), quite possibly Facebook cut an actually significant check for it. why anyone would want to mix up watching gaming streams with their facebook presence i don't know though. far more likely that youtube ends up a real force in that area if google ever gets more focused.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:why anyone would want to mix up watching gaming streams with their facebook presence i don't know though. far more likely that youtube ends up a real force in that area if google ever gets more focused.
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youtube doesn't really have a gaming specific thing, they just do live streams w/ chat. twitch is so entrenched and idk what you'd do to compete w/ them. there are overlapping communities on twitch that you'd basically have to lift all at once which is almost impossible. the only thing that might work is if you started doing a bunch of smaller sponsored tournaments, each for different games to draw in multiple communities. all these mixer people will go to twitch or quit. nobody is going to facebook.
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youtube bought the rights to overwatch league so it inherited a lot of viewers from when OWL was on twitch the video quality is incredibly inconsistent and usually pretty bad twitch, for all its faults, is going to remain light years ahead of youtube for watching streamers
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Also - Zune, Silverlight, HD-DVD and other consumer facing devices were supported for Windows and (to some extent besides HD-DVD) on MacOS. But no Linux support. I'm pretty happy that I can purchase most modern devices and Linux support is not an issue. Except for some web apps that still require flash.
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starbucks hermit posted:youtube bought the rights to overwatch league so it inherited a lot of viewers from when OWL was on twitch OWL has been averaging less than 1/5 of its twitch viewer count though all the other activision-blizzard esports went to youtube as well, i think the COD league might be doing slightly better but hearthstone is in even worse shape than OWL
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starbucks hermit posted:youtube bought the rights to overwatch league so it inherited a lot of viewers from when OWL was on twitch lol i had no idea this was a thing. ive litterrally never seen overwatch anything recommended on youtube. i dont like overwatch, but i watch GSL and other video games youtubers that i would think make me the target demo.
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Shaggar posted:lol i had no idea this was a thing. ive litterrally never seen overwatch anything recommended on youtube. i dont like overwatch, but i watch GSL and other video games youtubers that i would think make me the target demo. frankly, it's a good idea for youtube to sign big names so that they get the audience needed to figure out how to scale their tech and bring about tools that streamers need to support their channel. It's an expensive bet, tho, since hobbesmaster posted:OWL has been averaging less than 1/5 of its twitch viewer count though I stopped watching OWL after last season and the production quality apparently went to crap because of the pandemic. Don't forget... lowtax streams on youtube for whatever reason.
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starbucks hermit posted:frankly, it's a good idea for youtube to sign big names so that they get the audience needed to figure out how to scale their tech and bring about tools that streamers need to support their channel. they fired like 3/4 of the broadcast talent before the pandemic started, production values were always going to go to poo poo for the youtube season
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anyways, twitch is well supported on Linux stuff mostly works on crossplatform chromium and firefox the only exception is flash support (which should be a non issue anyway) and stuff like in-browser Zoom
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The_Franz posted:they cratered mixer faster than google goes through chat protocols
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starbucks hermit posted:Also - Zune, Silverlight, HD-DVD and other consumer facing devices were supported for Windows and (to some extent besides HD-DVD) on MacOS. But no Linux support. not like there was iPod or Blu-Ray support for Linux either lol
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PCjr sidecar posted:not like there was iPod or Blu-Ray support for Linux either lol you could, at the time, use various apps to get ipod support
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starbucks hermit posted:you could, at the time, use various apps to get ipod support lol if that's your standard you could get hddvd or zune 'support', too
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PCjr sidecar posted:not like there was iPod or Blu-Ray support for Linux either lol ipods just presented a block device to the host OS, so they worked on linux long before a windows-compatible ipod was available. linux could happily interoperate with the mac filesystem, windows could not. bluray had linux support from day one but you had to buy a proprietary software package to decrypt discs that used bluray's lovely drm it felt like the early days of dvd
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PCjr sidecar posted:lol if that's your standard you could get hddvd or zune 'support', too No, you could not, because MTPZ is required to talk to Zune devices. Linux didn't have MTPZ support at all until Zune was dead and gone. For iPods, however, Notorious b.s.d. posted:ipods just presented a block device to the host OS, so they worked on linux long before a windows-compatible ipod was available. linux could happily interoperate with the mac filesystem, windows could not. and you just had to update some metadata files and you're golden.
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I still own a Zune, mind you, and I bought it during the tail end of its lifetime because they were dirt cheap and I wanted to see first hand how bad the interface was. It was bad, but it had a nice spinny hard drive with lots of space for its time. It also played video. ebay still sells batteries for the zune, and I expect that I'll have to fix mine if I want to use it again.
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starbucks hermit posted:For iPods, however, [...] you just had to update some metadata files and you're golden. i couldn't afford an ipod or firewire back then, and additionally my home/work situation was freebsd/solaris, but boy do i remember linux weenies lording it over me it did kinda eat my rear end at the time more my lack of firewire than my lack of ipod dollars
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no wireless. less space than a nomad. lame
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i couldn't afford an ipod or firewire back then, and additionally my home/work situation was freebsd/solaris, but boy do i remember linux weenies lording it over me I didn't get my ipod until the 4th gen (~2004), and it was paid for with one of my first paychecks after landing a programming job after college. It helped that I lived with my parents at the time, trying to save for a down payment for a house. It was the sweet Macintosh font that sold me on it. Thankfully, it had usb connectors along with firewire. I wouldn't have bothered if it was firewire only. I think it used a fat32 disk that appeared as any other block device on a Linux system. I had the habit of storing all my music on it until the root directory got corrupted. Thankfully, FAT32's architecture still lets you find each file's disk blocks where the data is stored, but not necessarily the filename 
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:more my lack of firewire than my lack of ipod dollars my Sun Blade 150 has FireWire, and the switch to PCI was well before then so you could’ve just installed a card in your, what, Ultra 2?
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starbucks hermit posted:I didn't get my ipod until the 4th gen (~2004), and it was paid for with one of my first paychecks after landing a programming job after college. It helped that I lived with my parents at the time, trying to save for a down payment for a house. It was the sweet Macintosh font that sold me on it. Any decent music manager will let you auto-rename MP3 files based on their idv3 tags. Assuming you haven't already switched to online streaming like most people who don't post in Linux threads.
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i have fond memories of using amarok to manage music on a ipod nano as recently as 2016, maybe even 2017
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amarok was the only linux thing i ever liked
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you could actually run linux on an ipod until the 5.5th gen (which I had and it was great) too I'm not sure if it ever became a thing again I remember running gameboy emulators and doom on it fe: oh this is the MS thread; well I don't think you could do any of that on a zune
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you are mistaken, this is the linux thread
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infernal machines posted:you are mistaken, this is the linux thread. lame
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Private Speech posted:the M$ thread
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Last Chance posted:amarok was the only linux thing i ever liked good news! it doesnt run on current distros becaue it uses a too old version of qt, and the qt5 port is still half-working last i knew
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zune had an fm tuner which kicked rear end
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Bored Online posted:zune had an fm tuner which kicked rear end the inline remote fm tuner for the ipods was a pro add but having it built in is way nicer
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Private Speech posted:fe: oh this is the MS thread; well I don't think you could do any of that on a zune there is no zune, only linux microsoft adopting linux on the desktop killed the linux desktop thread in the 'pos, and i think that is the best possible sendoff to my posting career
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all but 4 microsoft stores have been sent on an incredible journey to a nice farm upstatequote:As we look forward, we start a new chapter for Microsoft Store. Our team has proven success serving customers beyond any physical location. We are energized about the opportunity to innovate in how we engage with all customers, optimize our talent for greatest impact, and most importantly – help our valued customers achieve more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSAXEVXvNz8
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an end of an era lmao
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where are people going to park their goony kid while they shop at the mall?
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The Management posted:where are people going to park their goony kid while they shop at the mall? in my opinion, bring back the arcade franchise Time Out while we still have malls
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yeah rip https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/26/21297400/microsoft-retail-stores-closing-cities-open
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