Thanks for the suggestion, that is one of the things I tried that did not work though :(

Thanks for the recommendation :)

Ah OK. I have refunded it now so can’t try as I spent nearly 2 hours “in game” time trying to get the thing working and didn’t want to go past that 2 hour threshold and then be stuck with an expensive game I couldn’t play.

I did, I tried multiple Proton versions, tried experimental and tried it with the bleeding edge beta option.

None of them acted differently, all if them loaded the black screen with the loading icon bottom right and then crashed and gave no details on why it crashed at all.

I can’t get the damn thing to load on my machine -_-

I have this same problem as my sister loves all those kinds of shows, particularly the older seasons can be a real struggle to find.

I’m have only ever really used torrents before and was struggling to find a lot of things or like you say they stall out or only have random episodes and not complete seasons that are still being shared.

I have had the most luck with looking into and getting onto newsgroups to find this kind of thing. I have been using geeknzb and have found a lot of things there that I hadn’t been able to even find dead torrents of so would recommend looking into that for some things.

That other thing I have had luck with but is very time consuming is dailymotion. There are a lot of full episodes of the older reality stuff on there. The search function is dog shit and you’ll need to scroll through a lot of irrelevant results and repeat episodes trying to find a full season of things but when desperate I will go there and using a generic downloaded I found just by searching, painstakingly go through, find the episodes and then plug the links into the download site.

The quality can be quite questionable and if you want subtitles you’ll probably be out of luck but my sister will watch 240p and be quite happy with it so doesn’t really care.

Good luck, reality TV fucking sucks to find xD

Even if you knew what to do I find those captchas for archive links never work. It will just make me keep completing them forever and never show me the site.

I did consider it when I broke that port as I used batteries on that controller for a short while but as weird as it sounds I like using it wired.

Micro USB is utter trash for sure but now with USB C I’m happy. I only had that one time when my own clumsiness ruined that one controller.

Appreciate the recommendation though :)

I haven’t ever tried a series X/S controller but I had a couple of 360 controllers that lasted through many many years of abuse then moved on to the ‘one’ controllers and the only issue I have had with those is an older micro USB version that I dropped with the cable plugged in and it smash the port off the board inside.

That issue was my fault so in general I have had very good experiences with them all.

XBox One controller is my current favourite:

Well built

Long lasting

Decent prices secondhand

Always worked first time on every OS I’ve tried it on

USB C as long as you get the newer generation version for wired play

Most comfortable size and layout IMO

Air VPN has port forwarding, been using them for years.

It is weirder to me that people back shit like this up. I have zero desire to keep a backup of chat and random images people have sent me.

Shame it is only 128 MP3s, I’m guessing that is what the audio is streamed at.

I agree but mixcloud isn’t far behind it I don’t reckon. Especially as they used to have unlimited free uploads. I have 60 or more mixes on there myself and I’m just a bedroom DJ

You could be talking about either company here. I’m no fan of AI but you know this will set precedent for scummy companies like Warner Brothers to over reach into other things for “copyright reasons”.

!drumandbass@lemmy.world

Or

!jungle@lemmy.world

May also appreciate this :)

I doubt anyone cares at all. You get a fair amount of snobs who will lock their files up and ask for specific trades or for bandcamp vouchers in exchange for access to what they have but I don’t converse with those types personally. If I see them I usually block them from downloading anything of mine out of principle because I can’t stand that attitude.

However everyone else I’ve interacted with there are more concerned about the quality and don’t really care of origin or anything like that.

I was looking at the nvidia before getting this current one as everyone recommends it but it is so old now and yet still absurdly expensive that I just didn’t think it was worth it, so if you could buy it and force a new iteration for us all that would be great!

Good luck with whatever you buy, if I had my way we would have a PC hooked up to the TV and do everything via that but I would probably be kicked out just for suggesting something so “absurd” xD

We used a firestick for a few years which was more than adequate in my experience once you’d set it up initially. Earlier this year I switched over to a cheap Chinese google box by “mycool”, so far this has been working fine too with no issues aside from the cheap remote (I didn’t like the fire stick remote either but it at least felt a little better quality)

I absolutely hate both Amazon and google but my primary concerns were more about the girlfriend acceptance factor as it had to be something that was easy to use as she does not want to put any effort into it. It also needed “Netflix certification” so that the Netflix app would work as she belligerently keeps paying for and using that despite me providing multiple alternatives.

I added a custom launcher to the googleTV one so it literally displays the 6 icons of the things we use and none of the other shit so the experience is easy and streamlined with no adverts or bullshit and this has passed the test with no complaints.

For my sister I got a fire stick up and running as she is, again, very against using anything that requires any kind of effort and she seems happy with that so far.

I’d like to move away from both Amazon and google at least in my own house but not sure how to yet and still get the A OK from the other users, I tried kodi in the past but they both refused to use it due to the interface, which to be fair is fucking dog shit in my experience.

So for now I’ll be sticking to the fire stick and googletv options I have running.

Cheers for the info and mentioning it in general, I never thought to look for ones made of a different material before but now you’ve said it it makes a lot of sense.

I understand exactly what you mean about the grip too as my thumb is perpetually slipping off after the thumb stick rubber gets worn down a lot. Other than a general clean the thumbsticks are what I have changed the most.