Toribor
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- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections 2 days ago:
These days 8BitDo controllers are superior to first party Xbox controllers and sold for cheaper.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 2 days ago:
The updated fluid mechanics are a lot more forgiving and basically have infinite throughput. It’s still a whole new layer of complexity but doesn’t have nearly as many confusing limitations as it used to.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 3 days ago:
Bravely running away is the quintessential FromSoft experience. The ultimate flex on enemies is to not even bother attacking them and just rolling to dodge occasionally while you grab items and run past them to the next checkpoint.
- Comment on Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers 1 week ago:
Obama taking no action to dismantle the surveillance state was my biggest problem with his administration. It was so obvious how that surveillance would be abused were it ever to get in the hands of a President with authoritarian tendencies.
And here we are.
Now they’ve fully eroded the 4th amendment and will use that knowledge to eradicate the 1st.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 2 weeks ago:
This is my exact concern.
If I pay for the lifetime pass now, what’s to stop them from restricting even more features behind new types of subscriptions and paywalls. “We’re adding back the ‘Watch Together’ feature but it requires a Platinum Plex subscription and will not be a part of Plex Lifetime Pass users.”
Seems kind of inevitable honestly.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 2 weeks ago:
If you mean that you are using Proton VPN on your Raspberry Pi to mask your downloading traffic, then no that same VPN will not help you access services like Jellyfin on your home network while you are remote.
Instead you’ll want to use something like Tailscale (or Wireguard). You run it as a service on your home network and it then becomes your own VPN that you (or others) can use to connect to your home network when you are remote.
You could run Wireguard on the same RaspberryPi that you use for downloading but I would recommend against it assuming that you’re running Proton VPN right on the host itself (and not inside a container).
- Comment on What host names do you use? 4 weeks ago:
This is basically how I do it too.
I used to be more creative but then I got in the habit of running more servers and swapping hardware more frequently so it got harder to remember what hardware I was actually connecting to. Now they get hardware based names and everything else is named by service-based Ansible roles.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 4 weeks ago:
My mouse recently developed an issue that had me looking at potential replacements and again almost nothing currently available matches it or was even close.
I used the exact same Logitech MX518 mouse from ~2009 until ~2020. Then I went through one every 9 months or so until they succumbed to same problems with the scrollwheel failing until I finally had to stop buying their crap.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 1 month ago:
At least if/when that happens all your files are in markdown, owned and controlled by you so migrating to another tool is pretty easy.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 1 month ago:
The power of the sun in the palm of my hand.
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform 1 month ago:
Welcome friend. :)
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform 1 month ago:
I’m not on Reddit much these days but every time I am and I see threads with people discussing these Reddit policy changes Lemmy gets mentioned. Usually with people complaining they already tried or couldn’t figure it out or that it isn’t good enough…
I think as the enshittification marches on they’ll be some more exodus from Reddit but generally I think everyone is just getting used to all online social media being a total corporate disaster.
- Comment on DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers 1 month ago:
I’ve started using Firefox to install sites ‘as a web app’. I use that for cloud services and things I self host. Basically works like a native app but way more control over data.
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 1 month ago:
- Comment on You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism | Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 1 month ago:
After working with computer software most of my life I’ve come to understand that if success relies on people ‘paying attention to something, making an informed decision and then performing an action’ that it is nearly impossible to get the desired outcome more than half the time.
We’re so fucked.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 2 months ago:
So… how long before the federal government buys up a couple million of these things…?
- Comment on What do you use for notes? 2 months ago:
This is what I’m using and I haven’t found any reason to switch yet.
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content 2 months ago:
1440p at 120Hz+ is superior to 4k 60Hz and is much more achievable for most hardware anyway. That’s the sweet spot in my opinion.
- Comment on AI-powered weapons scanners used in NYC subway found zero guns in one month test 5 months ago:
Facial recognition confirmed he was a criminal and the scanner confirmed he had a gun! Of course we opened fire instantly. How could we have known it was just some guy with a water bottle?
- Comment on Your politics can affect whether you click on sponsored search results, new research shows. 5 months ago:
I can’t believe that there are people are out there just raw dogging the Internet with no AdBlock. The advertising is so aggressive and intrusive. I legitimately cannot tolerate using the Internet when 80% of the page is filled with attention grabbing bullshit.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 5 months ago:
Where else am I going to share the fun stuff I find with StumbleUpon?
- Comment on Bethesda Believes Starfield Now Has "Its Own Fanbase" 5 months ago:
While true, this was not in the game until over a year after launch. Otherwise I think basically every other vehicle (spaceship/tram/etc) is either a cutscene or a loading screen or both.
- Comment on Bethesda Believes Starfield Now Has "Its Own Fanbase" 5 months ago:
The loading screens were unavoidable back in maybe 2005 when they released Oblivion. But now it’s 20 years later and it’s pretty crazy that they are still dealing with the same limitations where the game is split up into zones with a max of like 12 NPCs each before you have to load in a new zone.
I understand it’s mostly due to the way they handle everything as a physics object in the game, but it’s hard to believe the gameplay sacrifices they are making just so I can dump like 100 cheese wheels or whatever on the ground and watch them roll around.
- Comment on Bethesda Believes Starfield Now Has "Its Own Fanbase" 5 months ago:
I played Cyberpunk again for the first time in a while and was thinking about how something simple like getting out of my car and taking an elevator up to an apartment had zero cutscenes. In Starfield it would have been a cutscene getting in the car, a loading screen for driving, a cutscene exiting the car, a loading screen entering the building, a loading screen entering the elevator, a loading screen entering the apartment…
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
If you can run 4k at high frame rates then sure but the performance hit can be huge and a lot of displays can only do 4k at 30Hz anyway which isn’t worth it when 1440p is usually an option.
