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I’d love too, but they never send a verification email and the captcha doesn’t work on the login screen for some reason

The UI works well. Can’t get it to play videos on my Pixel 8 though.

Definitely will try again once it’s on F-Droid proper.

This list is awesome. Unsurprisingly nearly every game has bad reviews.

They’re not even for denuvo itself.

I wonder. Do the shitty shovelware games gravitate towards Denuvo? Or do they install denuvo as part of their enshittification process

Its simple.

Pirates don’t ruin games for other players.

Pirates ruin games for the dealers.

Idk I really like playing my backups upscaled with high fps with a not shitty controller. I wont buy any more though unless it’s in Steam and not with a petty DRM.

😅 Sorry, my intention was to compare the value compared to the value of a Panels subscription

wallhaven.CC Free, automatically sizes the wallpaper for your device. No ads

I’m in the middle of a play-through right now.

Is this going to boot me? Can I block the game from being upgraded? Or is remastered a new SKU?

Steam does good by the customer. No one else does. Only when they are customer first will they make a dent in Steam sales.

That’s half the reason I don’t buy Ubisoft games. The other half is their launcher and DRM system.

Rooting for Palworld devs, I can think of several examples of prior art.

I felt the same however Organic Maps did have many businesses. And with Street Complete I can correct any errors when I visit.

It may simply be my area, but I so recommend organic maps over Osmand for business and POI lookups

Been using vite for a while and haven’t had to think about it.

Glad node is catching up. But it’d spare even more headaches if it natively supported ES6 modules

What I would do if look at every point in the video and audio chain and validate they all support hardware decoding (or passthrough / direct stream) for your supported codec.

Based on what you told me. I know your chain might look something like this:

Server
  > Network
     > streamer
        > HDMI
           > TV
        > audio cable
           > receiver or amp
              > audio cable
                 > speaker

For your two speaker setup, is it hooked up with a digital cable or analogue?

If the stereo is analogue, does it support audio at a different sampling and bitrate than what the player puts out?

Or if it’s digital, does it support AC3? In a quick search I saw complaints about EAC3 not working well despite being advertised as such. So I wouldn’t rule it out.

When you stream from the Roku, you can look in your media servers settings to see if it’s transcoding the video or audio. However for the stereo system, or whatever is powering the speakers, you would have to reference its supported formats.

I did find the Roku Developers page and something noteworthy is

Supported video codecs

Videos can be encoded using H.264, HEVC (H.265), VP9, or AV1 (DASH only) codecs.

Something else that may be a good lead, looking at their supported audio codecs it lists

16bit | 48 Khz | Passthrough

For AC3, this is a but ambiguous to me, if given 44.1hkz (much more popular), will it pass through 44.1khz? Will it be delayed? Will it refuse to play? They also don’t specify if this is hardware accelerated or software decoding within the Roku.

If the Roku’s cpu is being fully utilized decoding video in software, it may not have the cpu to decode the audio reliably. This is unlikely as most streamers are built with hardware decoding support to enable cheaper smaller lower power components to be used.

I did see on the forums people recommend AAC for general support but Roku themselves recommenf E-AC3 for 5.1 audio.

People often recommend forcing Direct Stream and disabling transcoding as a troubleshooting step to force out the container formats that won’t work. It may also be worth a test and see if you lose audio.

As for where I look specifically, I tend to look for the most verbose documentation I can find, the Roku developer docs i linked would be what I would look for. I also did a lot of research on audio gear which helped as prior knowledge. Audio-science review forums taught me a lot over time from reading reviews.

As an aside I generally recommend Open Source formats where possible (AC3 and EAC3 are not) because they tend to have broader support in perpetuity. I also find Android players tend to have very broad codec support (piggybacking mobile phone components).

But I don’t like to recommend new hardware in general because not everyone can buy a new device.

This is a bit all over the place at this point, but I hope it gives you some leads for determining the cause!

I usually don’t skip an opportunity to rip on Roku but it’s possible the player supports the video codec but the audio is being software rendered.

Our stereo system also added delay for some codecs so we had to change that as well

We had to retranscode some of our library because my dad really likes his Roku

Trickle down economics?

I disagree. I bought a game for all the features it had at the time of buying it. There is no avenue for a consumer to push back against publishers changing that

I agree with you, I don’t want the trouble and just use mailgun free tier.

That said, I just need password reset emails for my IAM solution.

I imagine some just want to try, under the desire to avoid having their email data misused for data collection / ai training

Some news sources sell suvscrptions via newsletter.

Personally I find it quite nice, its similar to RSS and has high quality authors.

Google Pay/Wallet

Right now tap and pay is completely and hopelessly corporate