Nibodhika

@Nibodhika@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
  • It lacks a d-pad
  • It lacks a right thumb stick
  • The thumb stick it has is not capacitive nor drift free
  • It only has one back paddle for each side
  • Ergonomics of the deck are way better, at least for me
  • It lacks the … button (although this is minor because Steam+a opens the same menu)

  Don’t get me wrong, the SC 1 is a great controller, but the Steam deck is better, getting a Steam deck like controller would be awesome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone migrated from a Markdown notes app to another?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, just drop the markdown files in the folder where Silverbullet stores the markdown files and they’re accessible. BTW the format to reference a file is [[path/to/file]] and you can reference inexistent files and they will get created when you navigate to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone migrated from a Markdown notes app to another?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to do that, but eventually found out about silverbullet.md it’s still just markdown files but I can edit them on the go with my phone.

  Plus it has some nice extra syntax to query documents that’s quite handy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is spontaneous betting (as portrayed by comics and movies) supposed to work?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn you, you started to say that hacking is not portrayed realistically and I was going to reply with Mr. Robot, then you said about programming and I was going to mention Silicon Valley. Which goes to show that those are likely the only two realistic examples out there hahaha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you click the source for the graph above and scroll down you’ll have it there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The answer should be fairly obvious to anyone who’s looked at an European map, there’s a reason why the oldest cities are always around or near rivers. Also humans had bottle-like technologies since essentially forever, it’s probably one of the first tools to be developed after “pointy stick”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The growth rate is a better chart for that, because you can see the population growth drastically diminishing (because more deaths = less grow) until vaccines where made available and then it immediately goes back to normal. If someone wanted to depopulate all they had to do was prevent the vaccines from reaching people or have people not take the vaccine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex has paywalled my server!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but they have a setting to fix this by letting Plex know that 192.168.0.x range is local network (as if it needed it) except it’s behind a paywall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex has paywalled my server!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Giving it write access to a folder is not even remotely on the same level as giving it control over the host networking. Worst case scenario in the volume access is to delete that data, which is on a btrfs drive and has backups, worst case scenario for network host is root access to host machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex has paywalled my server!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes I am, but I don’t want to give full control of my network drive to a closed source application because it paywalled me out of being able to access my media on my local network. It’s ridiculous that I have to do that. It breaks ECI, and is a security risk. And yeah, it’s a bit paranoid, but the fact that they can fix it with a simple config and put that behind a paywall is VERY worrisome, so I now need to pay if I want to isolate Plex from the host where it’s running.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex has paywalled my server!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, that’s exactly the problem I have, it’s ridiculous that it doesn’t let me stream from a local network just because it thinks that it’s local network is only the docker one, it should be fairly simple for Plex to figure out it’s accessible via a direct connection and it doesn’t need to route through the Plex servers for this. But it won’t get fixed because it pushes people to pay, hell from what people are saying here the config to fix this is paywalled so they create a problem for which they sell you the solutions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex has paywalled my server!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Therefore it’s literally impossible for me to watch my media locally, way to go Plex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex has paywalled my server!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have that configuration: Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex has paywalled my server!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t speak for OP, but I self host lots of stuff, have literally dozens of services running, have an Ansible repo to manage it all and routi some stuff through a VPS, not to mention my day job has included managing services in one way or another for a long while. This is to say, I know what I’m doing. I couldn’t setup Plex to work the way I wanted to, they expect it to run in a docker with network set to host mode, I couldn’t find any way to tell Plex that my living room TV was in the same network, it just wouldn’t accept any connections as local. I know I shot myself in the foot here by not letting it run with network on host mode, but I shouldn’t have to, the port was exposed, I could reach it through the local network IP, but I wasn’t able to stream any content locally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex has paywalled my server!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had that happen to me with plex, it was probably 100% my fault because I specifically changed things during the setup of the docker file, but apparently Plex can’t figure out that is local if it’s running inside docker with non-host network, it probably only accepts local connections from the docker network, and I was never able to make it treat my actual home network as local.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex has paywalled my server!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really, if you use Kodi the information on what you have watched remains on the PC running Kodi, if you always watch from the same device that’s not a big deal, but if you like to watch stuff on your smart tv, then on your PC, and downloading some to watch on your phone on the go, having the information of which episodes you’ve watched on the server helps keep things organized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The best way is asking: what’s your point? Is it that transgender shouldn’t be accepted or that transrace should?. And proceed from there to either defend transgenderism or criticize transracism accordingly.

  First let me start by saying I strongly dislike the race therminology, but I’ll use it here for consistency, although normally I would call it ethnicity.

  The difference between those lies in that gender is a social construct, and race is not. Race has some biological meaning, just like sex, people can’t change their sex (yet), they can’t change their race (yet).

  Gender is a social construct, it’s things that have nothing to do with biology but that we as a society attribute in general to a specific sex. A similar concept for race would be culture, a person can be of the sex male but prefer to wear clothes usually associated with female sex, just like someone can be of the white ethnicity but prefer to hear music usually associated with black ethnicity. I wouldn’t call Eminem or Michael Jackson transrace, what would that even mean?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I get your point, but you’re missing the point of what the person is saying. They said that if no one cared about gender or race transgenders or transrace wouldn’t be an issue, it would be seen similarly to people who dye their hair or undergo plastic surgery to change something they don’t like on themselves, i.e. cosmetic changes that society in general doesn’t give a crap.

  If society treated race the same way we treat shoe sizes, i.e. they exist, we recognize them when it’s needed but understand that outside of picking a shoe you don’t care about it (there are no toilets for people who use size 6, or a special door that only people with size 7, and people certainly don’t require your shoe size in your CV and use that as a decision point as to whether they will hire you). IF we could get everyone to think like this, then we wouldn’t need to worry about the plights of any group because they would be in the past. That being said, this is not realistic because people are habit creatures, and if you grew up being taught to be racist and are never confronted about it you will keep those beliefs, that’s why it’s important to break stereotypes, that’s why affirmative actions are important, not because it helps the individual break through a societal barrier (although that’s important as well) but because they help society break from the preconceived notions that have engrained in most people’s minds through centuries of oppression.

  The ideal future is one where gender or race doesn’t matter, but the road there goes through recognizing the plights that each gender and race has to face and adjust society to compensate for them so they can live “similar” lives and that on the long run society walks towards a more diverse and inclusive group. It’s easy to have a prejudice against someone different from your “normal”, which is why it’s important to break “normal” views and extremely important to normalize taboo behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Me too, didn’t even know people thought it was a bad game until recently. Honestly I don’t get why, I wasn’t expecting anything different from what I got, there were definitely some dialogues that made me chuckle, and a lot of storylines were very tongue in cheek, and while gameplay was nothing to write home about neither is fallout and this was sold as “fallout in space”, and definitely delivered on that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game has the best tutorial, in your opinion?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dead cells, there are people out there with hours of gameplay that haven’t completed the tutorial.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t believe no one mentioned Maemo and MeeGo, I stand to this day that my Nokia N9 was the best smartphone I ever had because of the OS, I only switched because Nokia abandoned it in favor of Windows phone which made apps stop supporting it and no new apps being released for it, if it hadn’t been for that I wouldn’t have switched to Android.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is white light "white" because that's what our start emits?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Red is a single wavelength, we call red to anything that emits light waves with length between 625 to 750 nanometers, green anything between 500 to 565 and blue anything 450 to 485.

  White is not real, white is what your eyes percebe multiple wavelengths together, if we had evolved near a red dwarf, there would probably be less blue light so out white would likely be independent of blue, just like it is independent of UV currently (because we don’t see those wavelengths).

  Curious thing is that purple is also not real, purple is what your brain interprets blue+red, which are two separate wavelengths, so it’s not a color like red or green, but rather an illusion that your brain creates to show you red and blue at the same time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this genocide denial?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the dictionary definition:

  the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group

  And this is a quote from Israel’s Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant:

  We will eliminate everything - they will regret it

  He also said:

  We are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly

  And here’s a quote from Amit Halevi, a Likud member in parliament:

  There should be two goals for this victory: One, there is no more Muslim land in the land of Israel … After we make it the land of Israel, Gaza should be left as a monument, like Sodom

  Those are just some examples that I could find with a quick search, but they clearly show a will to perform a deliberate and systematic destruction of the Palestine people. Therefore since they act on those wishes I would definitely define it as a genocide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hahaha, I had a friend around college time where we had the exact same dialogue every time:

  • Hey, wanna go watch a movie?
  • I can’t, I don’t have any money
  • How many times have I told you, I’m asking you if you want to, not if you can, I’ll pay for you

  I wasn’t rich or anything, but paying for that extra ticket or meal wouldn’t break my bank and he was my friend, I enjoyed hanging out with, so I would gladly spend that money to hang out with him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Searchable db/Knowledge Management Software⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Another vote for Silverbullet, it allows you to write your code blocks in a certain manner that you can query them, so it suits very well the use case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So we would have gone full circle on Mainframes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, and by that definition it’s also not magic in LoTR

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So? It’s still super advanced technology from our point of view. Next you’ll tell me that Dune, Warhammer 40k or the Empire trilogy by Isaac Asimov are not advanced technology either because they’re stagnant too.

  Technology is not the main focus of Star Wars, but they do have super advanced technology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never said Star Wars was sci-fi, it’s not. But it does have super advanced tech which is the issue being discussed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely, there are lots of examples, but the first that comes to mind is Warhammer 40k, they have super advanced technology and magic coexisting and sometimes intermingling.