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same.

I'm going around to separate computers (so, different IP, different "fingerprint" on youtube). All show the same thing. Is it down for everyone or just me?

Just noticed the same I was catching up at 1.25 speed and got to about 25 minutes behind and then bam, "This video could not be played" ?? What happened in the last 25 minutes of the video that they had to make it private???

Yeah, i was watching delayed and just got cut off too

Ah, I see it now. Yeah that’s fine.

It looks like it has been marked as private.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnVUXC9Fou4 I was literally just watching and it suddenly shut off with "This video could not be played"

Rockstar the way around this is a third party patch that reverts the game to an older version that existed before the rockstar games launcher just the normal version of gta iv you get on steam requires the rockstar games launcher from the start, and since that doesn’t work on old windows… steam is bad enough for not working on windows 7 or xp/vista anymore, on paper it doesn’t support 8/8.1 but it still works on them

I accepted it bc I hated storing discs and floppies. It’s not like discs were the only medium for games lol one version of flight sim had like 24 floppies. It wasn’t sustainable. It’s also become extremely obsolete. I can download the entire earth in a crazy resolution from steam in under an hour. I hate gaming on a console when my nephew has to find the disc and pop it in just to verify ownership. It’s stupid. but I also don’t like having five different drm stores to navigate for all my tastes now. Each one becoming more resource heavy than the previous version. I mean the windows store is a joke. A JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!! But it’s easier than managing physical media when I want to play something. I used to pirate games when I was very young, so I guess I’ve always been okay with digital only.

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I have an MSI GP66 Leopard laptop that I want to install PopOS on, but I have to disable secure boot. I can go into BIOS and change the option to have secure boot, but when I save changes and reset and go back into BIOS, it is re-enabled. If I try to reset my keys to default, I get an error that tells me that "secure boot is locked out" and it won't let me change it. I've even tried setting an admin password for the BIOS and after I reboot (I set it to check every time) it reset to not having a password. Do I just have a faulty BIOS? Or is there something I'm missing?

I think it has more to do with media longevity, and digital only consoles and a lot of the games only function with an internet connection. Granted the same is true of many pc games digitally, but on PC there’s a lot more potential control over the media. Old consoles it’s less of an issue with the media these days because people have already made entire new hardware to handle digital versions of the games. Something like the Dreamcast has a mod that lets you just plug in an SD card and play any Dreamcast game ever made. Something like that isn’t as easy to do with modern DRM and hardware. I’m sure someone in the distant future will figure out how to get Destiny 2 working in single player via a modded Xbox One S, but as of right now that media and system are existing on a finite timescale. With digital games on PC, there’s a lot that’s done to preserve or control them. Like I have GTA IV on steam. That game requires the rockstar games launcher to work as is. And that doesn’t work on old versions of windows anymore. So even though GTA IV came out when windows 7 was new and vista and XP were relevant, you can’t play that game on those systems anymore. So there’s a few workarounds that have been introduced that allow you to play GTA IV on those old systems by bypassing the rockstar games launcher. Just run the .exe like any other application. That was doable on PC. DRM made the media harder to access, made it require an internet connection, made it unusable on old systems, and the community said screw that and fixed it themselves so the game can live on. Can that be done with digital only consoles? Can you bypass the DRM, and play your owned digital media standalone 30 years from now? Can you back it up so that the media can outlive the hardware? That has yet to be seen with modern digital consoles.

I don't really follow you. It sounds like sometimes you do get it to post? But yeah, that's going to be the best clue we can dig out - the CPU led stays lit - means the CPU didn't start. I think your initial hunch was right, about plugging in the 8+4 CPU power pins.

it's accepted more on pc because media preservation on pc is easier than console. it's not hard to obtain movies/tv shows or games when sailing the high seas. closed ecosystems like consoles it's less accepted due to basically being at the mercy of microsoft/sony/nintendo then you did what the majority of people on earth did except instead of moving from a pc to a cell phone you went from pc to mac/console. so not really unique in that aspect.

This might sound crazy, but despite being an Xbox player for quite a while, I cannot stand the 360 or original controller after using the Series X. Its quite annoying as I feel I've become a bit snobbish with my controllers. So I was wondering can a Series X controller be used on a 360 and are there third party controllers shaped and quality like the Series X that can be used on the original? My online search's didn't yield much so I've come to consult with the community that I refer to as the consult of the nerds. Don't worry thats not an insult, I'm on the same forum as you after all. lol

That sucks, sorry to hear you had such a bad experience with the Xbox controller, I personally love them. Though I will admit it is so hard returning to the Xbox 360 or goodness gracious the original's controller.

Also yes I did switch from PC to console and switched from PC to a Mac, I know I'm the worse! XD

So first let me establish a couple things: I'm for physical media and like Luke said during WAN show once "real physical media, not just discs disguised as digital download codes". The title could be a tad click baitey as I'm not sure if it is truly accepted on PC, but feel like its been much more accepted, at least from my perspective as someone who actually returned to consoles for the physical media after being a PC gamer for quite a while. I'm not defending digital only, its good for some, but I don't want it to be the only standard, just pointing out an oddity that I've noticed and could be entirely wrong about, hence why I'm asking the community. So in my perspective it seems that Steam and Blizzard being digital only have been wildly accepted as just natural and I can't remember anyone ever really blinking an eye or raising an eye brow at the topic. PC was all digital and console was not. However as modern consoles have begun to switch to digital I've seen a flurry of discussions about media preservation, proper ownership, games being taken away after the fact (thanks Ubisoft) and loss of access due to down servers whether they're for the game or the platform you purchased them on. Those discussion points are great and I want them pushed further as I want physical media to stay permanently, but it feels like it's really only being and only has been directed at the consoles. Perhaps these discussions did take place as physical media for PC gaming began to drop off and I was just too young or not in the scene when it was occurring, but if we're going to have these discussions about media, ownership and online services, should we not have it about ALL forms of media on ALL platforms? How come streaming movies, music and downloading games on PC have seemingly been accepted but we draw the line at consoles. Should the line not be where any possibility of the removal of perpetual ownership of a piece of media is concerned? Perhaps I'm just becoming the old lady screaming at the clouds. lol Would love to know your thoughts on the subject and any information I might be missing. Also just for good measure, f### Ubisoft. lol

Takedown TV shows also okay? Limitless NCIS FUBAR - Episode 6

In The Island (2005), Dr Merrick uses a desk style computer that at the time was thought to be a prototype Microsoft surface. It wasn’t, but was fairly close to the original Surface design idea. This was suspected because of a lot of Microsoft product placement in the movie, with talks about the Surface at the time, people thought this was it. And it wasn’t too much longer later that we see the original Microsoft Surface, later rebranded to PixelSense, show up as a very similar idea.

Bottlenecks are not something to be too concerned about, realistic utilization varies between use cases. Sometimes the cpu will be a major limiting factor, sometimes it won’t. I would not buy any 1660/1650 at this point. Their product tier has been replaced with the 6gb 3060, RX 6500 and arc a380. The 6gb 3060 in general isn’t great but it’ll do fine. It’s what I would recommend in that tier. If used is an option for you, get a used GTX 1080 on eBay. It’ll perform better for less money than a 6gb 3050. Make sure your psu has the required pcie power connectors for the card you choose. And pcie is backwards and forwards compatible, a pcie 1.1 card works on a 5.0 slot and a 5.0 card works on a 1.1 slot, etc.

I have gotten more into competitive shooters lately. Had my 144hz dell 1440p monitor for gaming. I had a second display for my media stuff. I recently upgraded to Alienware AW2523HF 1080p 360hz screen. I notice it feels more grainy, blurry text and games a little pixelated. Is this normal coming from 1440p? Or might their be something wrong with the display? Non competitive game like 7 days to die looks pretty terrible and grainy so i just play it on the 1440p monitor. All shooters and everything else are just fine on the alienware, which is kinda what i really wanted.Just be nice to know if it's normal "down grading" to a 1080p display.