Nibodhika

@Nibodhika@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, check www.protondb.com and look for the games you want to play, it will let you know how well they work out of the box by just installing them on steam and hitting play. The reality is that it very much depends on what games you want to play, if you like CoD and other competitive multiplayer you’re unfortunately in the missing 10%, but for most cases you should be fairly well covered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why while I love 40k, I have mixed feelings about there ever being a mainstream movie/show about it. I can already imagine MAGA wearing shirts saying “Purge the xeno scum”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  First of all, read again, no one is talking about below 30. Secondly, yes, you can definitely notice dips even if for a moment, it makes the game feel choppy, or more precisely like a weirdly encoded video that goes slow momentarily and then catches up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps you should read what I wrote again, you clearly stated a regular human won’t notice fluctuating FPS as long as it doesn’t dip below 30, and I’m saying that is bullshit, I (and everyone else I know) can definitely see a deep to 30 fps even if it doesn’t go below it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that, as long as the framerate doesn’t dip below 30, a regular human won’t notice fluctuating FPS.

  This is complete bullshit, 30 fps is playable for most games, and I have in the past bumper graphics until fps dip to 30/45 because depending on the game 30 fps on high is a better experience than 60 on low for me. But to say that a regular human won’t notice it is bullshit. There’s a game I play on my deck, for some reason it’s very sensitive to disk usage, so if I’m downloading stuff it dips to 30, and I always have to go and stop the download, because if you’ve been playing at 60, 30 feels very sluggish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, the å in Stargate is a coincidence, as it’s the symbol to represent earth which is represented by a pictograph of a pyramid with the sun behind it, i.e. this.

  But I can imagine how annoying that is, I can read Cyrillic and every time people use a Я to be an R it bogs my mind for a second.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google flags Immich sites as dangerous⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, Google has miss reported my websites in the past, all of which were valid, but the person I’m replying to seemed to assume no-SSL is a requirement of the feature, and he doesn’t understand that a wrong/missing SSL is indistinguishable from a Phishing attack, and that the SSL error page is the one that warns you about phishing (with reason).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google flags Immich sites as dangerous⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It is for pull requests. A user makes a change to the documentation, they want to be able to see the changes on a web page.

  So? What that has to do with SSL certificates? Do you think GitHub loses SSL when viewing PRs?

  If you don’t have them on the open web, developers and pull request authors can’t see the previews.

  You can have them in the open, but without SSL you can’t be sure what you’re accessing, i.e. it’s trivial to make a malicious site to take it’s place an MitM whoever tries to access the real one.

  The issue they had was being marked as phishing, not the SSL certificate warning page.

  Yes, a website without SSL is very likely a phishing attack, it means someone might be impersonating the real website and so it shouldn’t be trusted. Even if by a fluke of chance you hit the right site, all of your communication with it is unencrypted, so anyone in the path can see it clearly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First thing that comes to mind is the video game Tunic, where the objective of the game is to decipher the language.

  Secondly, Stargate (the movie) while not entirely or majorly in a fictional language, the alien characters speak their own language consistently, and part of the plot involves how they communicate. In the TV show they forego of that because it would be a pain to have new languages every episode, so you do have to suspend your disbelief for that, but the movie is golden in that regard.

  Then there’s other stuff like Sims or Shadow of the Colossus where everything is in made up languages but it has no impact in the plot or mechanics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While YUNO is a great way to get started, I strongly encourage you to understand basic concepts, like docker, and maybe try to run something outside of it for fun. While not even remotely the same thing since YUNO is just the OS and “app store”, you would be very similarly tied to that ecosystem the same way you are to Google now. Not to mean that YUNO would have any control over your stuff, but you would be dependent on them for what you can self host.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did Cash for Chritianity become a thing? When even Jesus the son of god wouldn't stand for it in a church? If they preach why don't they practice from the bible?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2008-11-24

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I pay for Spotify, price hasn’t raised in years. I pay for a family plan so mother people from my family (that live in different countries) can use it too.

  I work on my computer, so I’m usually listening to music all day long, I have multiple playlists I alter depending on my mood, plus several albums as well. So, yeah, I think it’s worth it for me. That being said if they removed the family sharing or increased their price drastically I would definitely consider alternatives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How is a password protected zip file different from an encrypted blob? And a quick Google will show you dozens of devs asking how to do this in different engines, because it’s a very simple way to delay access to something, it won’t be permanent, but it can allow you to do stuff like pre-loading that game/DLC and activate them remotely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You crypto heads always bring up the Argentinian Peso even though it’s still actually more stable than even Bitcoin.

  I bought the Argentinian Peso because I am Argentinian, and lived through the devaluation of our currency, and the Patacones and Corralito, maybe because you haven’t experienced something similar you don’t understand just how much of “money” is based on trust.

  People aren’t buying Argentinian Pesos thinking they might become rich one day, because it’s an actual currency, not a speculative asset, which is what crypto is.

  You can speculate with anything, the fact that people speculate with crypto has no bearing on it being money or not. Also you might be unaware but people do speculate with dollars/pesos in Argentina, that does not disqualify either of those as money.

  But ignoring that, most of the world does actually accept US dollars

  No, you’re wrong, outside of Argentina and the US (and a few tourist heavy places) I have never seen stores that accept dollars. This is a misconception Americans have, dollars are not accepted worldwide, you need to exchange it for the location currency, just like how trying to pay for stuff in the USA with Euros or Reais would not work.

  it’s the most traded currency in the world.

  Bitcoin is more traded than some small countries currency, if that mattered then Bitcoin would be more of a currency than that one.

  It’s also safe to say in nearly every country you can probably exchange USD to the local currency fairly easily.

  Also possible to exchange Bitcoin, that has no bearing.

  If you can find me a city where more stores accept Bitcoin rather than the designated currency, then sure. I’m not sure a single one exists.

  Than the designated currency no, but than a specific currency absolutely, I’m 99% sure every city I’ve lived for the past 5 years has more places that accept Bitcoin than Argentinian Peso.

  And that’s bitcoin, which actually is well known and traded. What the person in the article lost wasn’t even that, not any other well known crypto like Ethereum.

  Still, it’s a problem of definition, money is an abstract concept, one where is very hard for you to find a definition that includes all of the countries currency but doesn’t include Bitcoin.

  But here’s the most important thing that goes through everyone’s heads, just because something is money doesn’t mean it has inherent value. People who invest in crypto, be it FT or NFT, are no different from people who invest in gold or art. And scams involving crypto are no different from other scams, you don’t go around saying emails are scam because people use them to scam others.

  All of that being said, crypto bros are the other extreme from you, thinking that crypto is a magical solution to everything and can’t see the glaring issues that will make it impossible from being adopted in any meaningful scale (and it boils down to cryptocurrencies having the same attributes than paper money, bit people not taking digital security seriously the same way they do with securing paper currency)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a steam forum of someone asking why some devs do that from a year ago: steamcommunity.com/…/4423184558852867037/ so it is done by other devs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  By that definition the Argentinian Peso is not money because it’s not stable, nor is the dollar since the majority of stores in the world don’t accept it (mostly just the ones in the USA do, and a couple of others here and there, but definitely not the majority worldwide). And if you’re going to start randomly limiting locations, I’m fairly confident you can find a specific neighborhood or city where more stores accept Bitcoin than dollars, and worldwide I’m fairly confident more stores accept Bitcoin than Tuvaluan dollar, does that mean that that is not money?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Password protected zip file is also a way to deliver content an indie dev might use to lock content, so that on its own is not enough, but also the “payload” was connecting to a remote server, which is not indication of bad behavior, lots of games connect to remote servers and receive commands from there, e.g. event X starts now, or something. Except in this case it allowed a reverse shell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No automated scan would have captured this, only a paid professional dedicating some time would (and only because this was an obvious attempt, a more subtle one would go unnoticed even by an expert) and that is not feasible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you seen the malware? It would have passed that test.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not analyzing the code. Also almost assuredly steam does that. Finally that wouldn’t catch this since it was a back door, as long as the attacker didn’t use it it would not be detected by any automated means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And it is very easy to detect you’re in a virtual environment and not do those things, or have a date to trigger the changes or something. The game had been out for a while when this happened without any issues. I just dug a little bit and it was opening a back door apparently, so as long as the attacker did nothing at that time it would have been impossible to detect. You had to know that it was malicious to look for it, then it was quite obvious, but with Valve needing to vet millions of games it’s not feasible to do a full scan of every update of every game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is your definition of money then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a us citizen, and there’s a big difference between the government uses my taxes for war to a game will use my money for war. You have no choice over the taxes, but by knowing this and still buying the game, you’re saying that your hours of entertainment are more valuable than people’s lives. And yeah, not buying the game won’t bankrupt the Kremlin, but it’s like throwing gasoline to a fire, you’re fueling the war, imagine someone whose house is on fire and throws gasoline in it because “the fire won’t extinguish if I stop throwing gasoline in it”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like MurrayL@lemmy.world said in other comment:

  Purchasing Escape from Tarkov directly supports Russia’s war in Ukraine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fucked up, games should not be removed from your library.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for this. I wasn’t planning on buying it anyways but now if I ever do want to play this I will sail the high seas before giving them a penny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, so, there are multiple things you should be aware.

  First of all you’ve set that DNS to be 10.0.0.41, that range of IPs is reserved for lan, similar to 192.168.0.41 would be. Only people in the same local network as you might be able to access it.

  Also, usually your home router doesn’t use the 10.x.x.x range, but some ISPs might do it in their internal network, which means your router doesn’t get an internet IP, instead your ISP router does and it shares the same external IP with different houses, so you would need to use something like www.whatsmyip.org to know what your external IP is.

  But there’s more, since you don’t control that router putting that external IP in the DNS won’t work either.

  You need to do something more complicated, I recommend you read on cloud flare tunnels for example.

  And one final piece of advice, don’t share your urls with randoms on the internet, security by obscurity is not security and all, but publicly advertising your url is asking for trouble, even without doing that you will see several attempts of logging into your servers constantly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The same reason why there are many political parties, or restaurant brands, or even games: everyone thinks that their way is better, or are trying to improve on something that they like.

  I get that it can be daunting for someone wanting to start, but just like with other topics you should start with something simple to dip your toes and move on from there. My personal recommendation has been Linux Mint, it has sane defaults, works out of the box for most cases and it’s popular enough (and based on another popular distro) which makes getting help easier.

  Trying to pick your distro from the sea of available options might feel impossible, but 99% of the stuff is the same, so picking something that works out of the box for you is a great start, and you can learn what you need to make a meaningful choice afterwards.

  Let me give you an example on the sort of differences you can expect: do you think that updates should be delivered as soon as possible or leave some delay to catch bugs/issues? If a delay how big should it be?; How much stuff should come installed by default with your system? Should you get a bare ones system to build up or something at least functional for everyday tasks to adapt?; Should you be able to edit your system files or should they be locked so it’s harder to break stuff?. These sort of questions might seem pointless, but they’re the core differences between Linux distros, and if you’re answer to them is I don’t know/care anything that works out of the box would be good enough until you develop an opinion on the matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think an important question is what is your current desktop? You might be able to upgrade a single piece and get better performance than that micro PC. Also note that micro PCs tend to run hot (which causes performance issues) and you can’t replace or sell used parts easily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, things like original email and Nickname are some of those questions because after they change the public might have no way of figuring it out. Notice the support tech asked for those informations and when provided with it he said that he couldn’t verify ownership, this means OP reported wrong information for the identifying questions.

  I’m not saying the service is great, asking him to access an email he claims to have lost access is dumb, but everything after that the tech support person did his best, and I don’t think he should have disabled 2FA, since it could be a social engineering attack.