bjoern_tantau

@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone use Hetzner Storage Box to backup their Synology NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No idea about their storage boxes. But I’ve rented dedicated servers from them for a long time. Both as a corporate and private customer. Never had a problem. Support was always great. Sometimes even Mr Hetzner himself would step in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Du machst das sehr gut. Ich bin stolz auf dich!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any Middleware that performs similar functions to Cloudflare, just... selfhosted?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t one of Cloudflare’s biggest strengths that they have a shitton of servers around the world and can thus provide DDOS resilient caching?

  Having a shitton of servers is kind of the antithesis of self hosting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I loved my N95. It showed what an oldschool smartphone could look like.

  Until the N900 came along and defined for me what a modern smartphone should look like. Thus killing my enthusiasm for all future Android phones.

  But the N95 was sturdier. I still have it in my backpack as a backup phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh, the Sailfish guys made the same mistake that Nokia made in not open sourcing their work. That has kept me away from them so far.

  Then again their company is still in business so maybe it wasn’t such a bad move after all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Gas is expensive over here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you don't know how good you've got it, kid⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Da oben fliegt ein Reiher!
  Von unten sieht man seine…

  Ach ne, das ist ein Kranich!
  Der hat ja sowas gar nich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨roundest birb⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Suddenly the Angry Bird designs make more sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For the first time in forever I am playing multiple games at the same time.

  Lands of Lore: Throne of Chaos. I had that game as a kid but I don’t think I ever got any further than the first enemy. And it’s amazing! The whole game is dubbed. And it has four protagonists to choose from, each with their individual voice lines about basically any situation or item you come across. And all the NPC’s lines match them and they address you by name.

  And the graphics are super beautiful. Pixel graphics but with great details and animations. Like when you get your spellbook you get a super elaborate T-1000-like animation of some droplets forming a scroll.

  X-Wing via XWVM: The old X-Wing game with updated graphics and quality of life improvements. Just awesome! It’s still an alpha but basically plays like a beta. I have hardly any bugs, just occasional crashes, and none are game breaking. And supposedly they are already pretty far along with TIE Fighter compatibility. Can’t wait to play that. TIE Fighter TC is nice and all, but stuffing everything into the X-Wing Alliance engine feels pretty clunky while XWVM just works.

  Cyberpunk 2077: My son bought it on sale and I wanted to try it as well, although I don’t really like cyberpunk. Too realistic. But the game is great. Plays like a combination of Deus Ex and GTA. I’d say it feels more like the original Deus Ex than the newer Deus Ex games. Maybe with slightly less open levels. But not much.

  Limbo and Inside: The games are about to be delisted from GOG so I got them quickly. It’s chill to play which suits me well. Love it so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pocket knife⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, he’d have to keep them in his bra for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We should be able to legally have a different name just for work for better work/life separation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At school we had an anonymous grievances box. So that the kids could safely air their grievances. It was rarely used. But one day a note read “I don’t want to be called Willy anymore.” And amazingly it worked. Even the biggest bullies and class trolls called him William from that day on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We should be able to legally have a different name just for work for better work/life separation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When I applied for a job at this company, my last interview was with “Joe”. For everyone else I got the first and last name. And email addresses were also firstname.lastname@example.com. But not for Joe. Joe’s was just joe@example.com.

  Same company after I was hired. I got on at about the same time as Peter-Michael. Whom we all called Peter-Michael. Because he was introduced as Peter-Michael. A few months in he revealed that he’s only Peter-Michael at work. Everyone else just calls him Peter. It just happened like that because he used his full name on his application and then went with it.

  I know several people who go with their second name as their usual name when around friends. Either because they like it more or sometimes because the parents chose that order because secondname-firstname sounded weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from dead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  HDMI-CEC seems to be currently unsupported. So you won’t be able to use your TV’s remote yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from dead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice! The revival is further along than I thought. Can’t wait to put it on my Steam Deck. And maybe my desktop PC will move into the living room in the near future. Would be the perfect timing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people calculate pi to the hundredth+ decimal place?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh, spacetime curvature has so little effect that it actually does come down to measurement accuracy. And if you go to the scale of the whole universe it is flat as far as we currently know.

  Now I wonder how LISA will handle curvature changes due to sun, earth and moon moving around, or if they won’t make enough of a difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people calculate pi to the hundredth+ decimal place?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The universe being non euclidian needs some extraordinary evidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people calculate pi to the hundredth+ decimal place?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wat?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't like having an iPhone⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Be glad if you never knew the awesomeness of the Nokia N900. The absolute best mobile Linux experience ever available. Killed by Microsoft and stupid Nokia not open sourcing their work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LIMBO and INSIDE are being delisted from GOG on July 17th⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good way to get some additional revenue. I went and bought them and have been enjoying Limbo yesterday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m reminded of when my boss asked me whether our entry test was too hard after getting several submissions that wouldn’t even run.

  Sometimes prospective employees are just shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You received a like!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When I lose my phone in my couch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Wars is an ode to the stupidest use of battle lasers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Light sabers follow a similar overall principle of ‘plasma bolt contained by some kind of coherence field’… but they use totally different internals to generate both the plasma and coherence field, and can seemingly just… do this nearly infinitely, never needing to ‘reload’, never running out of energy.

  In the comics taking place tens of thousands of years before the movies the Jedi have to carry large energy cells with them. They are attached with long cables to the hilts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Wars is an ode to the stupidest use of battle lasers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They aren’t lasers, though. That’s just a colloquial term. Like how we call large language models AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's just science⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You are what you eat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riding the bus to the underworld⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So bus is really pronounced beece. Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riding the bus to the underworld⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I wonder if I pronounce bus or Anubis incorrectly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there even a botanical definition of vegetables?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Adding the games to Steam and running them through SteamVR usually works. At least it worked for me with Hellblade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨meal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When I scrolled past this earlier I thought it was maggots. i don’t know if I should be more or less disgusted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨B.I.R.D.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bundesinformationsreportdrohne

  verdeckte Operation: Große einheitliche Luftraumüberwachung