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Well, OP is from lemmy.world, where there are tens of thousands of people connecting the instance to the various porn communities, so of course there's a lot in the All feed. Over at lemmy.ninja, we have hardly any. Our paltry 150 users must not be that in to the pr0n.

I just started playing it for the first time a few weeks ago. Bought it in the Steam Summer Sale. It was really frustrating at first, but that's because I was playing a survivor and I'm much more suited for the killers. But I kept with it and I think it's quite fun. No toxicity, quick matches, and interesting available strategies. I really like it.

First, I haven’t found MKV to significantly larger than MP4.

The raw .mkv file is usually four times larger than the comperssed .mp4 file. Handbrake settings vary, but surely most handbrake presets would result in a smaller file since the .mkv file is not compressed at all?

I specifically switched to MKV because it was much more flexible in terms of handling subtitles.

I should have said forced subtitles. My experience has been that the forced subtitles aren’t flagged properly to show up when viewing the content in Plex or VLC. I can’t remember which flag I always had to set — default or the forced flag — but I always had to do it before playing a .mkv. Even figuring out which subtitle track that is is a bit of a pain in the ass, since I have to test it by going to a part of the movie where I know non-English speaking is taking place. Handbrake’s foreign audio scan always solved this for me, which was a huge bonus.

Right now? Silo. Every damn episode of that first season was perfect. In a few months it will probably be Star Trek Lower Decks again.

That is not true. It will fail with a cryptic error message on all instances that have never searched for fediverse@lemmy.world, and it will fail for Mastodon users. Those are just the ones we’ve discovered so far.

I’m watching Foundation season 2, which is just as visually stunning as season 1! I’ve also just finished re-watching Good Omens season 1. With only six episodes, that really doesn’t feel like very much of a project. But it’s been lots of years since this came out. I’m surprised by how much I forgot about this show, considering I’ve watched it once and read the book.

I’m also slowly rewatching the 2004 Battlestar Galactica. Still a great show!

There are several ways to link to a community. If your instance has had someone previously search for the community, then they will all work. If this hasn’t happened (usually because your instance is small or new) then there can be problems with the “shorthand” method that begins with an !. I’ve written a full explanation in this article at the Community Search Tips community. It lists the drawbacks and advantages of each approach that I’m aware of.

Paradoxically, Apple has regularly introduced features over the years that result in me needing to use my devices less. When I got my first iPhone (an iPhone 4, I believe), every little notification would light up my phone’s screen. These days that doesn’t happen, and Apple has further cut down on those intrusions with focus and bed time configurations. I’m big into using HomeKit for home automation. And while it annoys me that home automation is still such a simple application, Apple has done a good job of insulating me from the need to use my devices when I want things to happen in my home.

In short, letting myself take advantage of the Apple ecosystem reduces the touch-points of the technology I use. I just have to invest the time to learn about features and how they work, and to tune them to my preferred lifestyle.

Glad to hear it! If you know of other great communities hidden away in different Lemmy sites, please feel free to post about them here! Everyone benefits when we spread the word about the interesting corners of the Fediverse.

That was really good and worth watching!

I've actually used Plex for this before, but I was looking for something simpler. Good call, though!

Sadly, this doesn't appear to have a slide show feature.