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Wrote an article about the PowerShell Module Entra shenanigans today. I legit could have been owned by this and am lucky I was not. medium.com/@planedrop/m...

@stefanwey.bsky.social Not to be "that guy" but your Powershell module listed here does not in fact "contain no functional code", it collects telemetry. Should either remove that or update the description. www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Ent...

@patrick.risky.biz you've made fun of Firefox more than 1 time in a month, I'm deeply saddened now. 😭 lol

@patrick.risky.biz Goona be honest, an episode sponsored by Persona sort of bugs me. Their backed by Peter Thiel, have had privacy issues in the past, were at the center of the Discord discourse recently, etc. They've also got some weird stuff in their privacy policy about who they share data with.

Anyone defending DLSS 5 is like hallucinating or something. It looks like trash, and these were the hand picked examples by NVidia themselves lol.

Thinking back on one of the weirdo convos that happened on here yesterday, I feel like I need to make sure everyone knows that those of us who think EVs are the future of cars are like... not at all married to lithium. We just think batteries are good! We're open to any kind of battery! In fact,

Every company right now: "we laid people off because AI is so good, totally not because the economy is suffering and this is an excuse to make our stock go up" Meanwhile, AWS has a 13 hour outage thanks to adopting AI. WTF are we doing.

I'm so happy to see that MCP is being done right with #xcpng. Having it setup so it's an add-on and completely optional is the right way to do it, I don't really want my hosts being touched by AI anything lol.

New video is out, my review of the #Keychron #Q1Ultra keyboard. youtu.be/YX0QyrVPNTQ

The low profile Keychron board is in, time to see if I like this or not. Been like 6 years since I used a low profile unit.

This thing running #CoreELEC is literally the best media player you can get, absolutely impressed.

I honestly can't decide if I want to use my clicky keyboard with OEM style caps or my tactile board with KSA keycaps lol. Too many great options.

At some point I am going to do a video about Blu-ray failure rates because it's actually insane how many are scratched by default out of the box to the point of being unreadable. Manufacturers really need to take more care.

#Keychron #Q1Ultra first impressions, I'm sorry, but this thing sucks. And that's a first for a Keychron keyboard for me. Out of the box these new POM Brown switches are mushy, too quiet, slow to respond, and have no tactility whatsoever.

The Ugoos AM6B+ flashed with CoreELEC is working exactly as intended and I can finally watch my 4k rips in native bit perfect quality.

Today was yet another reminder to #selfhost all the things. So done with using cloud providers for anything.

So far my experience with Windows on ARM has been surprisingly good actually. Going to work on a dedicated video about it, but it's the most stable Windows experience I've had on a laptop.

It would be really cool if @jellyfin.org could make it so you can adjust transcode settings on a per Library basis. This way you could have a 4k library but tell the system to never transcode that library so you don't end up asking your GPU to transcode anything 4k by mistake.

New video up youtu.be/H7f_Tcy4NoA

New video is up: youtu.be/H-PVJIzJTUc

I love how the Windows Clipboard has been bugged for years now where it just doesn't copy things sometimes when you do a copy operation. I'm sure all the AI coding Microsoft is using is helping with stability.

It's all I want

#ClicksKeyboard Communicator has been ordered.

Ranked in Marvel Rivals is basically play time, not skill, and that's really sad. It's just like how Apex Legends used to do it, you're matched against people with your skill level regardless of the rank you are in. So constantly I fight Celestials while being in Diamond.

Going live in a few minutes with Marvel Rivals ranked. youtube.com/live/zTWizmx...

Marvel Rivals ranked system is the most broken and blatantly obvious EOMM system I've ever seen. Every rank up match I have is absolutely horrible, I was on my GM rank up match and end up fighting a 4 stack of recent Celestial III.

#MarvelRivals ranked system is so absolutely EOMM and rigged it's actually insane. Blatantly lying to the public about not using EOMM is nuts, it's too consistently flawlessly engagement farming. 1 match before GM and it gives me literally the worst teamates I've ever had period.

Is Reddit vibe coded at this point? It's the buggiest website I think I've ever used and gets worse constantly.

Pro tip, if your short video starts with the Discord join noise I'm going to skip your video.

Been using a Surface Laptop 7 with Snapdragon X Elite lately and I gotta say I am REALLY impressed so far. But, I wish @frame.work would get ARM at some point, this device goes against all my principles of right to repair etc....

The amount Google Workspace advertises their own upgrade services within a paid service is absurd, multiple times a day I am shown "upgrade to AI ultra" and "upgrade to business plus" it's so insane.

Sorry but the #OnePlus15 is a downgrade from the OnePlus 13 and I'm sick of people pretending it's not.

This took a while, but I finally got insanely lucky on #MarvelRivals #MarvelZombies with #JeffTheLandShark and was able to complete Nightmare IV alone with EASE. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAM9...

I'm still always really impressed with this Marantz microphone, everyone uses the SM7B but I personally think having a little style or being different is worth it, as cringe as that might be.

Twitter just keeps getting worse, only really going to browse there now rather than be active I think. Back to the better place.

We need to do something about this shit. Props to @bennjordan.bsky.social for pressing this issue so much. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-...

Somedays I can't type right, I don't know why, I just can't. Today is one of those days. Maybe it's something to do with sleep or something?

Going live with some #MarvelRivals youtube.com/live/kDsKywH...

I switched from Stelo to Lingo for my continuous glucose monitor and so far it's FAR better. Readings are faster, way more accurate, it's more comfortable, and easier to install.

Hear me out, modern phones should absolutely have a 2 stage shutter button on the right hand side like Xperia still does. Apple messed it up on the iPhone but regardless it would be so nice to have. Also bring Xperia back to the US please.

I am so sad and upset about what is happening to the PC community due to AI garbage. This feeling is amplified by the fact that AI isn't being used for hardly anything useful and they're buying up stuff specific to NOT use it.

I work so much better from home it's not even funny.

Everyone blowing up about the #Firefox being "a modern AI browser" really needs to go actually read the info about it. I don't like AI in my browser, but I feel like this is mostly a way to try and keep Mozilla's revenue from completely collapsing.

New video up on the main channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cFo...

All the cheaters on Apex Legends are on during nights and weekends, I'm confident they just don't do bans automatically so anyone can do whatever they want during off hours.

Normally I agree with MKBHD basically across the entire smartphone awards. But giving the OnePlus 15 a runner up for most improved is just wrong IMO. The 13 is a better phone, better materials, better design, better cameras.