It surely is a weird timeline, but with a Gravity Rush movie confirmed to be in the works, a remaster now doesn’t sound too unrealistic at all. Who would’ve thought :P

My theory: The remaster could be coming out in tandem or shortly before/after the movie, to give people (and especially newcomers) multiple ways to experience Kat’s story.

I’m sure many would like to help, but “Queue doesn’t work” is very vague. Vague tasks tend to make us lazy, so to increase engagement, it could be helpful if you’re a bit more specific.

For starters, you could describe what exactly you’re experiencing: Is the next video in the queue not starting? Does it not add the video in the queue in the first place? Does it play the video without sound? Did it work before? What fixes have you tried already? Have you tried downgrading? Have you tried it on other devices?

Hope this helps! :)

Man, I love this. To my naïve eye it still looks a bit like a Windows install, but completely customized to suit your taste. This experience is what I want when I finally make the switch :P

That explains how I got caught🤣

Jokes aside, being part of the seed is all they care about, even if you’re just leeching? The wording in those letters sounds like they take issue in you uploading and sharing that file back.

But I’ve checked, you’re right. In their communication they don’t provide anything that proves that you uploaded a file or that you’ve done that for a set amount of time, they just use your IP address and time as proof.

So, to check if I got it right: “Never upload” is simply not possible because (1) the process of downloading something always includes uploading some information about the download and (2) copyright trolls don’t care how much you upload, what parts you’ve uploaded, what information you’ve uploaded or how long, they just care that you’re participating in the process of downloading a file, and that always includes uploading some information. They simply persecute torrenters because unlike with streaming websites, with a torrent they can easily monitor in real-time which IP is connected.

I’ve not gotten into self-hosting yet, but as someone who has gotten a Filesharing-Abmahnung amounting to roughly 1700€ I can tell you what I would do. All of this is of course purely theoretical.

Regarding torrenting and piracy, it is my understanding that German law (same with most other countries) has yet to find a decisive answer. But, to keep yourself safe, so far the consensus is as follows:

1. Don’t use torrents.
2. If you use torrents, never upload. ('Tis a trap, see below)
3. If you use torrents, use a VPN.

Now let’s put this into practice, with examples for each use case. Our goal here is to never break existing German law. The further you go away from option one, the higher the risk of breaking the law.

1. Don’t use torrents. If you never interact with anything regarding torrents, you cannot be sued for torrenting, and that’s really the only issue in Germany. As far as I’m aware, you’re not liable if you simply download or stream something from a website freely accessible on the internet. Examples are streaming sites like Aniwave or download (DDL) sites like DDLbase.net. Hell, you could click on one of them and watch something right now. No one cares. To make this a bit more organized one could even use Cloudstream, which is an app that can aggregate “streaming websites” through external add-ons and it gives you a beautiful UI for it. Available for Linux, Windows and Android.

2. “If you need or want to use torrents, never upload.” is what I thought, because it sounds reasonable, right? If you look around on the internet (and in my personal use case) the courts and attorneys that send out these Abmahnungen always seem to take issue with you sharing and uploading files. And mostly music, not movies or TV series. By uploading you’re sharing files that do not belong to you. So, if you deactivate uploads on your torrent client, you’re done, right? If you don’t share, you aren’t technically breaking the law, right? Wrong. And for two reasons: (1) The process of downloading something always includes uploading some information about the download. So while you might be able to stop uploading files, you can’t stop the upload of other information needed for the correct download of the files. Which leads us to the second reason: (2) These attorneys don’t care what information you’ve uploaded, how much you’ve uploaded, what parts you’ve uploaded or how long, they just care that they caught you participating - in any way, shape or form - to their tracked torrent. You participated, you necessarily both downloaded and uploaded something, you broke the law. If you want to make sure you don’t upload nor download anything, use a Debrid service like RealDebrid which downloads it for you. Of course you’re only using it to torrent Linux ISOs for you, so you’re not really breaking the law anyway.

3. Now correctly: If you use torrents, use a VPN. You either relegate it to someone else (a Debrid service or a seedbox like Ultra.cc) or you do it yourself by using a VPN. You’re not breaking the law by connecting to a VPN or a seedbox.

Now, to the point that you’re probably most concerned about. “What if one day sharing Linux ISOs becomes illegal, what if the program or kill-switch fails, what if the VPN actually does sell my data, what if the police use brute-force and physically take the datacenters, what if X or Y protection fails?” Enter layered protection. For example:

• Use a VPN, but also never upload. This way, even if your program accidentally uploads a file, it doesn’t matter because your VPN is there. Use a VPN, but also use a Debrid service like RealDebrid that downloads the torrents on your behalf. This way, even if your Debrid service sells your IP, it doesn’t matter because your VPN masked it. It is highly unlikely that both fail, and even if there’s still a risk, you’re statistically in a much better situation than you were before. You’re basically doubling your chances of success.
• Use streaming and DDL-websites, but use a VPN too. Let’s say your VPN does sell your data and everyone finds out that you, you, did a thing. It doesn’t matter, because you were just browsing streaming websites, and no one cares about those.

P.s. This approach doesn’t replace using good tools to keep you safe. Similarly, it doesn’t matter if you have 5 locks on your front door if they’re all made out of chocolate. Use a good VPN, use a good torrent client, use good trackers, etc. And lastly:

Don’t stress too much.

A friend of mine uses NordVPN, has a kill-switch on the VPN and uses Stremio with a Debrid service to make sure he never uploads nor downloads any torrents on his server, and paid for it with a Paysafecard that isn’t digitally tied to him. Is this perfect? No. He is the farthest away from option number 1 and is exposing himself to risks. He can theoretically be identified if you look up the security footage of where he bought the Paysafecard. NordVPN has not been proven to be as secure as Mullvad, has no diskless servers and the clients aren’t open-source. He paid the VPN with his credit card. The single kill-switch can fail. He is still dabbling with torrents by using a Debrid service. He is using public trackers. But remember: The FBI or in your case the Bundesnachrichtendienst will not invade Panama to shut down your VPN, then threaten the developer of your favourite streaming client to install a backdoor to see that it’s really you that is pirating this show right now, and then come knocking on your door because you pirated KissXSis or the latest season of Game of Thrones. You’re simply dealing with copyright trolls and to quote someone else in this comment section: “Trolls will look for the best return on their trolling”. As long as you take just two good precautions, you will be safe from most adversaries. And that’s really all you can and want to achieve.

Edit: corrected the “upload” parts. Thanks @[email protected]!

Got it, thanks! Very specific advice, I feel a bit more secure now and I’ll save this for when I have to replace the switches, that being hopefully never :P.

Good to know, I’ll look out for those signs then, thanks a lot!

Praise iFixit. Soldering required does mean that I’ll have to learn that first though. Do you have, by any chance, a recommendation for a sort of “intro to soldering” type of video/content that I can start with?

I can hear this comment °-°

So basically you’re saying that my beloved MX Vertical will 100% fail pretty soon? I freaking love this mouse, it’s so comfortable and elegant and a joy to use :(

It was @[email protected]’s pun ;) And I liked it too!

It’s because you will not take care of it immediately…

but instead mid-journey. Midjourney! Ahahahahah, get it!!! (I’m lonely pls send help)

This is freaking beautiful, gives me big Harry Potter vibes!

I have a 256GB SD card (with the black & red SD2Vita adapter) and it’s been nothing but a joy to use.

I’d say that the possible failure points are:

• A bad tutorial: I’ve followed this one from vitahacks, it was and probably is still the most straightforward tutorial to get it working.

• Using StorageMgr instead of YAMT(& viceversa): I’ve seen some people report that their SD2Vita didn’t work well in conjunction with StorageMgr. Then again, I’ve seen people report that they had issues on YAMT and fixed it by switching to StorageMgr. I switched to YAMT and everything’s fine, but didn’t have any problems with StorageMgr either. I’d still try to switch to the opposite kernel plugin if I were you.

• Too many GB: While there are some people with 512 and 1TB SD cards, I’ve seen the most success with 128GB and 256GB SD card sizes. I have around 150 games and have roughly 80GB left, so think about if you reeeeeeally need the higher capacities.

• A knockoff SD card: What someone else has already commented, abysmal read speeds could theoretically maybe perhaps have an impact on your gaming experience. Make sure you have one from known brand names like ADATA, SanDisk, Samsung, Kingston, etc., and if possible not from Aliexpress, just this once ;). You don’t need to splurge on U3 SD cards with 200MB/s transfer speeds, a normal U1 100MB/s will be more than enough.

Personally I’d recommend just going the good ol’ troubleshooting route. Install on your internal memory a game that normally stutters on your SD2VITA adapter (possibly the most lightweight), see if it still stutters, go from there. If it doesn’t stutter, nice, focus only on the points mentioned above. If it still stutters, nice, you can rule out the points above as the culprit. Install PSVshell and monitor your CPU and GPU (or even overclock if you’re just looking for a quick fix) to spot any weird behavior.

Edit: Added advice.

Awesome run, so happy to see Gravity Rush at this year’s AGDQ!

A wise man once said: “We’re so backkk”

You’re right, other people were definitely using the network! This doesn’t seem to bother any other streaming solution, may that be Parsec, Moonlight, Stremio, Steam Link, etc…

I’m just saying that it felt like it had 400ms input lag. Basically, it wasn’t a good experience at all, especially when flying and fighting with Kat, and that’s simply what I wanted to stress…

I’d be the first to pre-order if we had the game available offline. It just saddens me that while others like Digital Foundry are, rightfully so, thinking about ways to run Gravity Rush at 4K 60, players on PC are still stuck simply worrying about their internet connections…for an offline game. 😔

Hopefully one day!

That’s why I find this so mindblowing, my internet connection is wired to my PC with a steady 100Mbps up and down.

Just try it out for yourself, of course your mileage may vary. But in my experience, PS Plus streaming is simply not a viable alternative (last time I tried was during covid, dunno if they’ve made some improvements since then).

Imagine this on PC. What we have now at best is laggy 1080p streaming and what feels like 400ms input lag with PS Plus Premium

Oh, and it costs 160€/year.

Didn’t know about that obsession of mine, thanks doc :P

Seriously though, let me rephrase: What I meant with my comment is that I have as much trust in a Twitter user as I have in Twitter and Elon Musk, which is zero.

So, when talking about Twitter, I trust what I can look up everywhere: I can look up that Twitter fired more than half of its workforce, and in addition I now know that Elon Musk likes to obsess about Twitter’s code when he knows nothing about it and that he made changes to its code over and over again.

As you can see, I am not giving Elon or Twitter the benefit of the doubt, I’m doing the exact opposite: If it’s posted on Twitter, it’s most likely false until proven otherwise. Wouldn’t make sense to distrust the same person when they tell me something that I know is false, and trust them when they tell me something that I like, would it?😂

If you’re talking about “arguments”, there’s enough shit that happens around Twitter, using the dubious screenshots of a Twitter user as arguments just weakens everything else. This is just a “sad if true” and a great conversation starter for us. I wanted to take a jab at the possible truthfulness of those screenshots, learned about the fact that Elon did in fact, in its infinite wisdom, change considerable part of Twitter’s backend and could have fucked up the algorithm, and thus am quite convinced that not even new Twitter users are safe now. At this point I even pity the Twitter bots.

Anyways, carry on :)

Didn’t know that first thing, sounds insane but can’t say that I’m surprised🤣

I might also add the repeated, and I do mean repeated, layoffs of Twitter employees that cut its work force to almost 1/4th of its original number.

While I do believe that Twitter is slowly becoming a right-wing paradise due to its owner’s say… “tendencies”…AND has an interest to push its users towards that direction, I doubt the veracity of these pictures since it would mean that Twitter’s algorithm would have gone completely bananas.

While “trust me bro” sources often confirm what we all think, they often don’t tell the whole story and have the sole purpose of going viral, especially on Twitter.

Anyways, what’s Twitter? Is that a knock-off Mastodon?