rtxn
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I take my shitposts very seriously.
- Comment on Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits 50 minutes ago:
Absolutely! Multiple, in fact. In order of preference:
- Shut down the game, dissolve the company, and donate all remaining funds to a women’s shelter.
- Prosecute groomers instead of banning and threatening the people who are trying to stop the fuckers and crying about vigilantism even when the proper reporting channels are used.
- Use AI for a beneficial purpose at least one goddamn time. Scan the text and voice communications (it’s a public game, there is no expectation of privacy), flag suspicious exchanges for human review, then ban and report groomers.
- Comment on Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits 4 hours ago:
Problem: the game is getting a notoriety for being infested by pedophiles.
Solution: send your photographs to the game infested by pedophiles to prove you are a real child.
Fucking. Incredible. If this was written in a manuscript, it would be tossed for being too cartoonishly unrealistic.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 11 hours ago:
Through brand recognition.
- Comment on An Update on Cities: Skylines II - Development moved to Iceflake Studios 1 day ago:
That is still so fucking mysterious to me. The Chinese Room makes exactly one type of game, which is “guided-interactive narrative experience” to be diplomatic. Dear Esther, Ozzy Mandus And The Crankhog Machine, their entire portfolio follows the same formula: strong in art direction, atmosphere, and story; weak in gameplay. Even a hit like Still Wakes The Deep only takes gameplay as far as “throw object to make the thing look away”. Their gameplay systems are not just middling but comfortably average, just enough to keep the player engaged while moving through the (admittedly beautiful) environments.
So why the fuck did Paradox choose them for Bloodlines 2? Are they stupid?
- Comment on An Update on Cities: Skylines II - Development moved to Iceflake Studios 1 day ago:
Sounds like it’s for the best. Paradox was killing CO.
- Comment on Own domain for Jellyfin and privacy concerns 1 day ago:
It’s possible that, when the ISP revokes the public address and assigns a new one, the DNS record isn’t updated immediately and still points to the old address. Then every new request would be sent to the old, invalid address.
And this is where I start shilling for Tailscale. It’s a Wireguard-based mesh VPN that is designed to work from behind firewalls, NAT, and CGNAT. It has its own internal split DNS provider, and probably some mechanism to handle public address changes that is transparent to the tunnelled traffic. You can use it to share the server with only the devices that have the client installed, or expose the server to the internet.
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 4 days ago:
That is a completely valid reason to hate Microsoft. Who the fuck wants another Apple?
- Comment on Valves first title with a 3 in it 5 days ago:
A whole new way of enjoying your
neofetchfastfetch output! - Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 5 days ago:
Imagine. Product is released, people buy the Steam Machine, and Half-Life 3 is just… there. Preinstalled on some of the units. The buyers post it on the internet and get called bullshitters. Then Half-Life 3 is officially announced the next day. Gaben ascends to godhood. He Has Cooked.
- Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console 5 days ago:
Archived link: archive.ph/ydtw4
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 6 days ago:
Looks like you’ll have to remove the entire bottom shell. From GN’s video:
A disassembled Steam Controller with its bottom shell removed and its insides visible.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 6 days ago:
“The Frame headset won’t be priced higher than the Index”:
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 6 days ago:
The controller is exactly what I wanted. Take a Steam Deck, cut out the middle, glue the grips back together.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 6 days ago:
It probably will. Watch Gamers Nexus’ video, it has a short clip that shows the battery, and it looks like it’s held in a receptacle like removable phone batteries. Valve have already said that you’d be able to disassemble the controller with a screwdriver, but no word yet on replacement parts.
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 6 days ago:
What sounds like gatekeeping is often a strongly worded emphasis on having the prerequisite knowledge to not just host your services, but do it in a way that is secure, resilient, and responsible. If you don’t know how to set up a network, set up a resilient storage, manage your backups, set up HTTPS and other encryption solutions, manage user authentication and privileges, and expose your services securely, you should not be self-hosting. You should be learning how to self-host responsibly.
Friends don’t let friends expose their networks like Nintendo advises.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 1 week ago:
Elden Ring. It is good for what it is, probably the best in its genre, but after so many Soulsbornes, it just feels like more of the same. Formulaic.
- Comment on Game of my childhood, Windows xp, best windows 1 week ago:
DT770 gang!
- Comment on Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games? 1 week ago:
You can probably play Vampire Survivors. All you really do is move around.
- Comment on What OS do you like for digital signage/kiosk/dashboard only? 2 weeks ago:
At work, we use PiSignage for a large overhead screen. It’s based on Debian and uses a fullscreen Firefox running in the labwc compositor. The developer advertises a cloud service to manage multiple connected devices, but it’s completely optional (superfluous in my opinion) and the standalone web UI is perfectly usable.
- Comment on opencloud - I migrated from nextcloud. Screenshots and docker-compose-compose.yml included 2 weeks ago:
You can absolutely use it without a reverse proxy. A proxy is just another fancy HTTP client that contacts the server on the original client’s behalf and forwards the response back to it, usually wrapped in HTTPS.
All you have to do is expose the desired port(s) to all addresses:
# ... - ports: - 8080:8080
…and obviously to set the URL environment variables to
localhostor whatever address the server uses. - Comment on Is Twingate good for remote access to a selfhosted Nextcloud server? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know which feature you mean, can you link the documentation?
- Comment on Is Twingate good for remote access to a selfhosted Nextcloud server? 3 weeks ago:
I used it for a while, and it’s a decent solution. Similar to Tailscale’s subnet router, but it always uses a relay and doesn’t do all the UDP black magic. I think it uses TCP to create the tunnel, which might introduce some network latency compared to Tailscale or bare Wireguard.
- Comment on Local dns rewrite problems on android 3 weeks ago:
Right… my mistake, I guess I had SSH config entries in Termux and never questioned whether SSH was using those or DNS.
Still, try to find some way to check which server is being queried. It might reveal connectivity problems with the local DNS server.
- Comment on Local dns rewrite problems on android 3 weeks ago:
Install Termux, then use either the
digornslookupcommand to query the DNS name, and check which DNS server is queried. If it’s the private server’s address, you might be having connectivity issues. If it’s100.100.100.100, the resolver is still trying to query Tailscale’s MagicDNS. - Comment on Local dns rewrite problems on android 3 weeks ago:
private dns setting of android
Probably. If that setting is enabled, Android (including Graphene) defaults to 8.8.8.8 if the higher-priority DNS servers (manual or received from DHCP) don’t support DNS-over-TLS or DNS-over-HTTPS.
- Comment on Which operating system should I choose? 3 weeks ago:
Proxmox is my number one choice. It’s based on Debian, and has an excellent, extremely straightforward web UI for managing virtual machines and LXC containers.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 4 weeks ago:
It’s perfectly reasonable from the perspective of corporate scum: take away a standard feature, then sell it back as an extra. As far as I know, the modem still had UPnP for applications that rely on it.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 4 weeks ago:
No, I got it from the horse’s mouth: my WAN address was publicly routable all along, the ISP just disabled those NAT-related features.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 4 weeks ago:
I finally got my ISP to enable bridge mode on my modem.
I also learned that I didn’t lose port forwarding and related services because I had been moved behind CGNAT or transitioned to IPv6 – they simply no longer offer port forwarding to residential customers. Let that stupidity sink in.
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 4 weeks ago:
Even in the open source community, the libre-ness of a product is just one of many factors. The fitness for a purpose, the initial difficulty of the setup, the continuous difficulty of operation and maintenance, the pace of development (if applicable), the professional or community support structure, the projected longevity of the product or service, and the general insanity of the people involved are all important factors that can, and often do outweigh the importance of open software.
