Nibodhika
@Nibodhika@lemmy.world
- Comment on Slicer software for a Linux system? 5 days ago:
I used Lychee, I haven’t seen it mentioned here and it is very good.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 1 week ago:
Steam remembers my card, so I don’t have to input it there everytime. I get that you wouldn’t want to put your card info somewhere shady, but Steam is not that. Also, most banks nowadays have virtual cards you can use for that sort of thing, some even have one use cards that self destroy after a single purchase. So the safety that PayPal used to offer is not that important anymore.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 1 week ago:
It’s not though, in the current system everything must go through those shitty companies, so they can dictate anything, and if Steam disobeys they essentially block them from receiving money, and it’s impossible to jump ships because creating a competition is essentially impossible, no one will be able to handle the Volume of Valve’s transactions and it needs to be all done by one entity. Ñ
In the system I’m describing once you’re in the crypto space no one can dictate anything. The same people could try to act as gatekeepers, but it’s almost impossible because anyone with Ethereum can sell them to you, so if an exchange threatens to not buy Ethereum from Valve they can simply go to any other exchange, hell, they themselves could sell Ethereum to users who would then use the Ethereum to buy games returning the Ethereum to Valve to be sold again, and if not anyone with enough capital can start an exchange selling Ethereum to users and buying it from Valve, even with small initial capital you would likely grow very quickly doing this. And the best part is that Valve can sell their Ethereum to different exchanges in any ratio they want to, so it’s essentially impossible for one of them to dictate anything because 1 big exchange can be replaced by 10 smaller ones in a heartbeat without any disruption to the system.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 1 week ago:
So? Just use another exchange, that’s the same as saying paper money is bad because pawn shops might ban specific users.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 1 week ago:
You’re thinking on a very narrow definition of a contract, here’s a simple contract example that’s currently being censored and wouldn’t be censorable on Blockchain: Buy NSFW games.
A simple contract could sell you NFTs for game keys that could be redeemed on Steam/Itch/GoG or even the own dev site. So there’s no middleman who could oppose this transaction and say which sort of games can or can’t be sold. This whole thing would be completely automated, secure for every part and non-censorable.
You’re hearing contracts and thinking on paper legal documents, whereas smart contracts usually refer to programs acting on tokens, the code that acts on those tokens is the contract, in the example above the generation and transfer of the tokens would be the contract.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 1 week ago:
Ah, if that’s the case then MC statement is kind of pointless, so it’s not them putting the pressure, but you still have to go through the people putting the pressure to get to them. I thought that if you put your card number on steam it had some more direct form of charging than going through stripe.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 1 week ago:
Why less certainty? It’s more certain and less censorable than any other digital payment method.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 1 week ago:
If this is true then I honestly hope Steam and Itch go “ok, then, PayPal and Stripe are banned from the store as payment forms until we can figure out a way of limiting content you can pay with them”. Honestly I don’t think enough people use either of those payments forms, and even if they do currently they almost assuredly have a card they can use instead, and are more likely to switch payment methods than to stop buying games.
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 2 weeks ago:
There are lots of games where combat is not even an option, like Life is Strange, Before your eyes (do play this one with a camera and a box of tissues nearby), or Firewatch. But games where you’re expected to fight but can find ways around it the first example that comes to mind is Metal Gear Solid 3, you can beat that game without killing anyone, there’s even an achievement for that and one of the bosses will be particularly easy if you go this route.
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 2 weeks ago:
Spec Ops has no “pacifist option”
I mean, the whole point of the game is that you could have not killed anyone, you could have stopped playing, you choose to keep playing, you choose to kill all those NPCs, the game never forced you, turning off the game was always an option.
- Comment on Authentik vs Authelia? 2 weeks ago:
On paper I should love Authelia, I’m a sucker for y’all configured services, I can write a couple of files on my Ansible and boom, everything works… However I never had much luck setting Authelia up, Authentik on the other hand was very painless (albeit) manual (via UI) configuration. I don’t do anything crazy, so any of them would work for me though, I just failed on setting Authelia and tried Authentik and had had no reason to change.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
If you look at most popular streamers today you will notice that they have years of doing it, and the reason is that it’s difficult to gain followers, and even if you to viral for some random reason it’s difficult to maintain the followers engaged. And without followers ads or sponsors are not going to give you too much money, and trying to charge your followers is more likely to lose you followers than earn you money.
In short, take a “normal” job that’s okay with you doing that as a side gig, and with time you might earn enough on your streaming that you might be able to quit your job. Good luck, it’s a hard market to get into.
- Comment on Is Mexican food uniquely good with alcohol or have I just been conditioned? 3 weeks ago:
Sorry I don’t live in Germany, so I don’t know the chain, but are you sure it’s a chain and not some random restaurant? When I was in Germany I remember seeing lots of random restaurants selling Pizza + Kebab, with no apparent name, just the sign saying what they sold.
- Comment on Is Mexican food uniquely good with alcohol or have I just been conditioned? 3 weeks ago:
What chain? Doner Kebab is the name of the food, it’s served in several places, it’s like saying Hot Dog chain should make it to Europe.
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 4 weeks ago:
First of all this is not a paradox, unless you’re not explaining something, there are two yous past and future, if past self turns off the machine before seeing the numbers nothing happened, if he turns it off afterwards the information has already been transferred so nothing happens either.
I have a feeling you might have recently watched Primer and are thinking of a similar working tome machine, where the machine needs to be powered on from past until future. But if this situation happened in Primer it wouldn’t be a problem either because you’re not in the box after you leave it. It’s a bit weird, but if you imagine time as horizontal lines, the box allows you to travel diagonally, so you only exist inside the box in that timeline at the moment of exiting, before that you were in a different timeline, so if you exit the box, wait a while and turn it off you’re only preventing yourself from using the box again. In fact that’s one of the big reveals of the movie, except it’s said in passing by mentioning that the boxes are multi-use.
- Comment on How does AI use so much power? 4 weeks ago:
Your answer is intuitively correct, but unfortunately has a couple of flaws
Supercomputers once required large power plants to operate
They didn’t, not that much anyways, a Cray-1 used 115kW to produce 160 MFLOPS of calculations. And while 150kW is a LOT, it’s not in the “needs its own power plant to operate” category, since even a small coal power plant (the least efficient electricity generation method) would produce a couple of orders of magnitude more than that.
and now we carry around computing devices in out pockets that are more powerful than those supercomputers.
Indeed, our phones are in the Teraflops range for just a couple of watts.
There’s plenty of room to further shrink the computers,
Unfortunately there isn’t, we’ve reached the end of Moore’s law, processors can’t get any smaller because they require to block electrons from passing on given conditions, and if we built transistors smaller than the current ones electrons would be able to quantum leap across them making them useless.
There might be a revolution in computing by using light instead of electricity (which would completely and utterly revolutionize computers as we know them), but until that happens computers are as small as they’re going to get, or more specifically they’re as space efficient as they’re going to get, i.e. to have more processing power you will need more space.
- Comment on Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report 4 weeks ago:
I never said they were good, and you didn’t complain about them being bad, you complained about killing the franchise, and whether a franchise is dead or alive IS measured by popularity.
- Comment on Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report 4 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, they absolutely killed Fallout, the first game released by Bethesda (Fallout 3) was such a franchise killer that only sold 20 times more than the original game, and their latest game fiasco only doubled that. And let’s not talk about that fiasco of a TV show, that couldn’t even make it to most watched on Amazon, had to settle for the 2nd most watched show on Amazon, with only 4 times more viewers than Fallout 4 sold copies… In short, yeah, the new direction is such a fiasco that only managed to bring 165 new customers for every 1 that the original had.
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- Comment on "This Is The ONLY Home Server You Should Buy" Or, why older computers may be better for the environment | Hardware Haven 5 weeks ago:
What problem are you having? Docker is very straightforward, just copy the compose file and run a command.
- Comment on "This Is The ONLY Home Server You Should Buy" Or, why older computers may be better for the environment | Hardware Haven 5 weeks ago:
Kodi is a graphical app, like Firefox, so you won’t use docker for it.
- Comment on goodbye plex 5 weeks ago:
I have Jellyfin running for years too and it has never broken for me, I use Linuxserver image, so maybe they delay the updates a bit?.. Now, Immich has broken so many times that nowadays is the only docker I don’t keep at latest (and I know using latest is a bad practice, I understand the reasons, but the convenience of not worrying about the versions beats all that for me)
- Comment on Nginx Proxy Manager 2.12.4 Released with Certbot Enhancements 5 weeks ago:
Configuration is much easier, e.g. this is the full config you need to expose nextcloud on
nextcloud.example.com(assuming caddy can reach nextcloud using the hostnamenextcloud)nextcloud.example.com { reverse_proxy nextcloud }
Comparing that to ngnix configs that need a template for each different service (although to be fair they’re mostly the same).
- Comment on Reevaluating my password management 1 month ago:
My point is that of those 120 probably 110 have never been compromised nor forced you to change the password due to expiration policies. The remaining 10 are the ones that require some mental gymnastics, so while the problem exists it’s not as serious as it sounds. I probably have more than 120 identities using this method since I’ve been using it for years, and I don’t think I ever had to use the counter, it’s a matter of being consistent in how you think about websites, for example if you know how you refer to a site slugify it and use that for the field, so you would use spotify, netflix, amazon-prime.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 1 month ago:
Good luck, and let me know how it goes, it should be just that really, just don’t touch the controller until you’re through
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 1 month ago:
That’s weird, that’s the solution, does your controller has some drift that could cause it to still be firing some thrusters?
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 1 month ago:
Obvious spoiler ahead is obvious: Just let go of the controller when you enter that area, you’ll float peacefully (albeit very close to them) until the exit portal.
- Comment on RETIRED: Readarr - Sonarr for Ebooks Book Manager and Automation 1 month ago:
Yeah, it’s probably a legal thing, rreading-glasses is just metadata for books, completely legal, but readarr legality is less clear, so maybe they’re trying to prevent issues.
Also I didn’t understand what is rreading-glasses and why you need it
Say you want to grab a book by Isaac Asimov, you type the name of the book in readarr search bar, readarr contacts a metadata provider to show you cover images, author, date, etc. Then when you select the book readarr uses that metadata to search for downloads and ensure you’re getting the correct book and not another random book with the same name.
The problem is that readarr uses a closed source API for it’s metadata, and it’s constantly offline, which makes it impossible to use readarr. Luckily they allow you to customize the URL for the API, and rreading-glasses is an open source implementation of that API that you can use as a drop in replacement.
- Comment on Reevaluating my password management 1 month ago:
Yup, but most of that is easily solvable by being consistent, e.g. always use lowercase and your email (even if it’s not the login for that site). But yes, you need to know to be consistent so it’s a good point to make.
- Comment on Why do people especially men care if someone forgives a cheating partner 1 month ago:
No, you’re not, you cheated that’s the most fundamental thing not to do, that’s like saying “I’m a great cook, I would argue better than the majority of cooks, I only put rat poison in my food once!”, would you eat in the same restaurant where a cook intentionally put rat poison in your food once already?
- Comment on RETIRED: Readarr - Sonarr for Ebooks Book Manager and Automation 1 month ago:
I noticed that my Ansible playbook failed to do a docker pull on readarr, I just commented it and was going to investigate further today. This sucks, especially because rreading-glasses did in fact completely solve the issue they’re facing. Not sure why they didn’t consider migrating to it officially, it’s only a config change.