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- Comment on Apple's controversial iPhone accessory may have been discontinued 4 days ago:
I still use a c to audio adapter most of the time when I’m out and about. My wired earbuds don’t need to charge, have much better sound quality than wireless, and if one side falls out of my ear it just swings down instead of falling into the dirt/water/snow. As far as I’m concerned the only benefit of wireless is that they can’t catch on anything, and that’s more a skill issue than anything imo
- Comment on Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers. 3 weeks ago:
There is also TempleOS, with a fork of C called Holy C built specifically for better integration with it
- Comment on Star Citizen devs report drying funds, micromanagement, overspending, and episodic release for Squadron 42 5 weeks ago:
I got the game and some small ship bundle a year or two ago for like $20. It was a pretty fun game for the cost, but I honestly wouldn’t pay more than $30 for it. It’s buggy, runs like hot garbage even on my 3080 ti, and it’s very much a mile wide inch deep content wise from what I remember
- Comment on Jack Black is what happens when the class clown doesn't become depressed and instead becomes even more of a clown 5 weeks ago:
Half right - he did battle depression his entire life, and he was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia and Parkinson’s not too long before committing suicide. There’s really no way to prove which one influenced his decision more, but it was likely because of both.
- Comment on Request for CRPGs recs on the current Steam sale 1 month ago:
When you said poe2 I thought you meant path of exile 2 and thought that I had missed the release somehow
- Comment on Massive E-Learning Platform Udemy Gave Teachers a Gen AI 'Opt-Out Window'. It's Already Over. 1 month ago:
I could see the potential if they were actually correct more often than not, but LLM models are like a politician - they hallucinate and say things that are wrong or just outright lies, but do it confidently enough to make people believe them
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 1 month ago:
Looks like it’s Goodreads fault since it’s their api (which they are also killing at some undetermined date), readarr is switching to openbooks which should solve a lot of the problems but it’s slow going since readarr doesn’t really have consistent contributors
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 1 month ago:
The only issues I ever had were around authors having a bunch of books that weren’t released or were in different languages, that was solved by narrowing the profiles for what readarr finds which was a 2 minute task
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 1 month ago:
For finding guides and videos - just search for {thing you want to setup} setup guide, there are plenty of results for almost everything. Also, I then showed links to where to setup readarr and qbittorrent.
The only thing you need to get up and running is the OS specific guides (windows is download, run the installer, go to localhost:8787 in your browser, and macos is similar. Linux is a bit of a mess, and I would recommend going the docker-compose route if you are on Linux instead) which are short and tell you every step. The reverse proxy is just a recommended guide for setting one up if you want to access it outside of your network - I don’t recommend doing it, and it’s not necessary at all (I don’t have that setup, all of my stuff is only accessible on my local network)
For finding books, use the readarr quick start guide - it goes over how to use the app, how to add authors and books to grab, etc. I also found this guide that appears to show how to do all of this including the install guide, adding authors and books, connecting to your torrent client, adding indexers, etc: www.rapidseedbox.com/blog/guide-to-readarr#05
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 1 month ago:
You basically need 3 things: readarr, a torrent client, and a VPN.
There are plenty of step by step guides and videos for most things, especially popular tools like this. The servarr wiki has install and setup instructions for all of the core arr suite apps as well, both install guides and quick start guides: wiki.servarr.com/readarr
Qbittorrent (torrent client) is also easy to install on windows or Linux: www.qbittorrent.org . You’re also welcome to pick another one, I just like qbittorrent.
Vpn installs vary from vpn to vpn, but pretty much all of them should also contain step by step install instructions
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 1 month ago:
Readarr + calibre makes it very convenient and easy (the rest of the arr suite is great for other forms of media too)
- Comment on OpenBudgeteer: a selfhosted budgeting app made for Bucket Budgeting 1 month ago:
Well yeah, assuming you can install it on all devices you would want to use, and that it lets you use network storage, and that the app doesn’t conflict with other apps using the same network storage. A lot of apps don’t have a specific app for Android, Apple, Linux, macos, and windows because that’s a lot to build and maintain. A deployed webapp works on any device with a browser, and you don’t need to configure every device to use the same networked storage.
- Comment on OpenBudgeteer: a selfhosted budgeting app made for Bucket Budgeting 1 month ago:
Control over your own data (if you mean regular program as cloud apps), or accessible on multiple devices and to different users if you mean an offline computer app
- Comment on Here’s how much Disney Plus will charge to share your password 1 month ago:
Man, I’m so glad I shelled out $300 for a 16tb HDD and taught my wife how to download movies and shows from a nice web interface (overseer) that I’m self hosting. By the end of the year it will have already paid for itself. No more ads, subscription fees, not being able to watch something because another service owns it, movies and shows moving to other services, shitty UI changes, password sharing crackdowns, or any of the other shitty things about streaming.
Remember kids, if buying it isn’t owning it, it’s not theft to get it without paying. (Moral advice only, not legal advice)
- Comment on Day 67 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 month ago:
If you want a more realistic (mechanics mainly, better graphics too but still blocky) and survival focused game, vintage story is great. It’s meant to be very realistic (mechanics, not graphics) so it’s a very different play style than Minecraft.
Need storage? Make a reed basket with 8 slots and doesn’t help food preservation, or make a ceramic storage vessel with 12 slots that decreases rate of food spoilage. Manually build clay storage vessels voxel by voxel, put it in a pit kiln, cover in dry grass, sticks, and firewood and let it cook for an in-game day then you’re good to go.
Food? Better hunt, fish, and grow crops. Make soups, stews, jerky, etc - better make sure you have a cellar with sealed jars of food for the winter though. Also need to balance soil nutrients for crops to grow well.
Leather stuff? Have you to kill animals, skin them, get pelts, soak in limewater/borax and water solution in a barrel, scrape them with a knife, soak in weak tannin then strong tannin (made by soaking oak or acacia logs in barrels of water), then you finally have useable hides.
Charcoal? Have to get a bunch of logs, cut them into firewood (crafting recipe so this part is quick), make a 2x2x2 to 11x11x11 hole and fill fully with firewood, light a fire on top, cover, and wait a day. If it’s not fully covered you’re just left with a bunch of ash instead of charcoal.
Metal tools? Have to get the ore/nuggets, melt over a charcoal or hotter fire, pour into ingot mold, hammer and clip it into the desired shape, cool in water. Want to carry something hot by hand? Better have some tongs or you’ll take damage.
Trying to cook inside? Smoke can build up if you don’t have a chimney - and your fire can go out if it’s raining and the chimney is straight down.
Everything takes a lot more work than Minecraft because it’s meant to be more realistic - but there are so many mechanics that it’s a ton of fun to learn and complete stuff. My current playthrough I’m still sifting sand to get enough copper nuggets/items to make a pickaxe to mine some copper ore to make more tools, but I have a nice little stash of vegetable and meat meals stored in crocks in my hole-in-the-ground cellar/bedroom. Still need to get around to making an actual shelter and cellar, but I want a pickaxe first so I can make a nice sized cellar to preserve food through the winter.
- Comment on Tupperware in fight to survive after bankruptcy filing 2 months ago:
Fun fact, Tupperware used to rely heavily on MLM schemes for free advertising. Remember your parents going to Tupperware parties when you were a kid? Check out the Tupperware Parties heading on wikipedia (not sure how to link to the heading itself) - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupperware
- Comment on USA to be renamed to XXX 2 months ago:
Well, look where we are
- Comment on Comedy shows have laugh tracks cuz they aren't that funny 2 months ago:
The reason why they no longer do live studio is a TV star got followed home by someone in the audience and they tried/planned to hurt her. After that they used laugh tracks, and other shows followed suite when they realized that audiences didn’t really care. Made it easier to film
- Comment on Interesting to see how dead the MMO genre has become. Are there still players around? 2 months ago:
Yep it’s still chill. The war just started so I’ve spent the past 2 hours driving materials from my regiments stockpiles to the Frontline, eventually partisans (enemies behind the Frontline) took out my truck so I flagged the location, next time I drove through they were all gone and I kept delivering supplies. Even if you mess something up in logistics, no one is going to get mad at you. It’s competitive in that each team hates each other, but largely unless you start trolling or team killing people are positive
- Comment on Interesting to see how dead the MMO genre has become. Are there still players around? 2 months ago:
The next war in foxhole starts today, it’s a war MMO and I highly recommend it. No subscription (one time $30 purchase on steam), no microtransactions, no paid expansions, no cosmetic bs, grind is optional. New players are in the same spot as veterans, all resources are shared (regiments/people can have private stockpiles, but they decay after 48 hours of being inactive) and are all made by players. You don’t get anything for making or transporting supplies except for the joy of supporting the war effort - which is good because if no one made supplies, no one could fight.
Want to chill? Mine scrap and make basic materials, throw in your nearest seaport for anyone to take (or put in your regiments stockpile if you’re in one). Or transport supplies from far backline stockpiles to Frontline/closer via truck, train, or boat. Or drive supplies to the Frontline, just make sure you have a gas mask and radio! Or make bullets, medical supplies, or anything else in the game at factories. Or trucks, cars, boats, tanks, trains, etc.
Want to plan? Either start building up production centers at the start of the war, rebuild them as we take land, or build defenses in the backline or on the front.
Want to fight? Get on a ship crew in an artillery gun and listen to your captain to tell you when and where to fire. Get in a tank with a crew and go balls to the wall on the front line. Grab a gun and some supplies and charge into trench warfare. Mortars? Yep. RPG’s? Yep. Want to be a doctor? Move with friendlies and fix them up when they get messed up, or carry them back to your hospital to get new supplies for people to spawn from.
Want to be sneaky? Sneak past the Frontline and sabotage their logistics people or buildings.
Want to be a gigachad? Join the wardens now.
- Comment on Do I need to store this in the fridge when opened? 2 months ago:
Pickling and canning is better than refrigeration - until opened
- Comment on Are LLMs capable of writing *good* code? 2 months ago:
My CTO thoroughly believes that within 4-6 years we will no longer need to know how to read or write code, just how to ask an AI to do it. Coincidentally, he also doesn’t code anymore and hasn’t for over 15 years.
- Comment on Deadlock from Valve has very quickly risen up the most played list on Steam 2 months ago:
If anyone has an invite link I would appreciate it, the war in foxhole is almost over so I will finally have a few days to play other games
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
Donations and fundraisers are tax deductible, it doesn’t actually cost the rich anything to donate to them
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
There are an infinite number of solutions, 42 is in at least one of them
- Comment on self hosted digital journal? 3 months ago:
Seconding (thirding) logseq! Your daily journals all show up in one long scrollable page (delimited by the date and such) so you can easily see what happened previous days, etc. If you click one it brings up that page in full screen if you want to focus on it, it works very nicely imo.
You also aren’t limited to just journaling, you can use it for a pkm system. Say that you journal for that day about learning something, you can do this:
- Today I looked into [[eulers_formula]] ** Created by Leonard Euler ** e^(ix) = cos(x) + i sin(x) ** Etc
When you go to the eulers_formula page, all of that info will be in the links section without having to leave the page. I personally do all that, then write my own summary of the info on the page itself, so I have the original content and my take on it.
It’s also fully foss, you can pay for their sync service to have it available on multiple devices all the time and it’s fully encrypted in transit so they can’t see your info, I personally just use syncthing and haven’t run into any issues using it on my phone and computer unless you try to modify the same file at the same time (which isn’t really something you would ever do)
- Comment on A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too 4 months ago:
I don’t think they meant it was inferior, just that chatgpt is only mostly functioning
- Comment on Tough Trolly Choices 5 months ago:
Then I moved the microscope until it finds at least one, pick the first one from the new lever group, and my power takes care of throwing that first found/seen lever in the same instant as me throwing it in a normal set of levers
- Comment on Tough Trolly Choices 5 months ago:
The first one that that guy sees, or the first one listed when they tell me what levers they have in the warehouse
- Comment on Tough Trolly Choices 5 months ago:
They get smaller to show that they’re further away in the background not that they get infinitely small. If they were actually getting smaller, then sure, I grab an electron microscope, look at a field of levers, zoom until I see one, and pick that one, then somehow throw an electron sized lever, move to the next, smaller, physics defying lever group and just wait for quantum mechanics to do it’s thing I guess