“Community Add-ons” leads me to think this is probably Kodi. You can generally do IPTV streaming through it, or torrent streaming even.

I’m going to assume you’re looking for a solution in a personal context, not organizational so I won’t suggest local group policy.

Instead, I’d recommend removing the msstore source from “Winget”. The Microsoft Store uses this source to push updated for installed third party applications. It may not solve the issue entirely, but I find that as Microsoft expands the use of winget as a package manager for Windows (especially Windows 11), the store itself seems to use it for update provisioning.

Both are great, and I think complement eachother nicely. Qobuz mostly focuses on label offered music catalogues, while Bandcamp has always catered to indies. If an artist offers their music through Bandcamp, I still prefer to make my purchases there, but if the artist is signed to a label then it’s a good shot Qobuz has it.

Either service offers the music in the highest quality provided, though lossless versions through Qobuz do tend to be priced a few dollars higher than the regular album.

I’ve settled for Qobuz. Its discovery features are terrible, but it’s basically a music storefront with a streaming library. High-quality, had basically my whole library and I can buy albums directly for download.

You can use slsk-batchdl alongside a CSV of your Spotify Playlists to make quicker work of this.

Yes. Texture and asset streaming is affected pretty significantly by the speed of your storage. Load times are a large part of where SSDs of different classes can help, but the better your SSD performs for I/O operations, the better for overall visual performance.

Someone listened to Lateral recently

I am a Linux user. Bizarre assumption to make given my excitement over a Wayland specific Discord feature. But I don’t have any actual qualms with how Discord implements its own services. Matrix just doesn’t fit the bill for me. If you enjoy it, and it suits your needs then all the power to you. It just isn’t what works for me.

Not if I want calling, video chat, screen sharing and role based chat rooms all in the same place. I’ve explored this, but it just isn’t feature complete enough at the moment. I’d definitely describe myself as a Discord power user and Matrix just doesn’t manage it.

Oh my fuck, finally. Good lord Discord, only took you eons to get that working with Wayland after you broke it.

I get that there’s other things like Discord out there, but nothing works like Discord.