EarMaster
@EarMaster@lemmy.world
- Comment on We'll probably never see a Grand Theft Auto set in a futuristic city like GTA 2 because the team "hated it": "People didn’t connect with the game or its city" 1 day ago:
Am I the only one who never realized it was supposed to be a futuristic city? To be honest my English wasn’t that good at the time I played it, but that information never clicked with me.
- Comment on How do I migrate my VPS out of Cloudflare? 3 days ago:
Do you really need that DDoS protection? I have been having my own webserver for decades now hosting public sites and I have only once been in the position that my server was not reachable because of a DDoS attack. And even then the attack was not targeted at my server but at my hosting provider at that time. Everything else was handled by fail2ban easily…
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 4 days ago:
I can somehow understand the people who funded it in the first place, but who invests now in a project which has already been in development hell for more than a decade and produced barely anything playable. Every whale has already been milked - what return of investment can an investor expect from Star Citizen?
- Comment on Do you rebuild your container images yourself? 1 week ago:
Almost never. I don’t see any benefit .
- Comment on what do y'all use for CI/CD? 2 weeks ago:
Gitlab CI/CD pipelines are my go-to tool. At work we self host an instance, for personal projects I use gitlab.com.
- Comment on Lightweight and flexible: Bitwarden lite self-host deployment is now generally available | Bitwarden 2 weeks ago:
That is true for a single person - but in a multiple person household that would mean that everyone needs to carry a copy of their with them. So this mechanism is no replacement for a solid backup of the server somewhere else…
- Comment on Lightweight and flexible: Bitwarden lite self-host deployment is now generally available | Bitwarden 2 weeks ago:
The Bitwarden family plan has been one of the best expenses (if you want to call it that, because it really isn’t that expensive) in our family.
- Comment on Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS 3 weeks ago:
Why is everyone bashing Nintendo for this? I mean I get it that Nintendo is not to be liked, but this is clearly Bethesda’s fault. They did a fast and cheap port and failed hard with it.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 4 weeks ago:
These days games often allow you to individually change the difficulty which I make use quite often when I feel a game is becoming too much of a hassle than a joy and I still want to know how the story continues or see what might be coming.
I don’t think I have used a classic cheat in a long time. The last time I actively remember was The Sims 3 (I guess) and it kind of killed the game for me because suddenly everything was possible without any challenge and even a normal playthrough felt like I was missing something.
- Comment on Gatekeeper: The first open-source DDoS system. Has anyone tried mass hosting this as a group? 4 weeks ago:
You may want to change the title and include the word “protection”…
- Comment on Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November?? 5 weeks ago:
The traffic is really suspicious. Have you by any chance a health or heartbeat endpoint which provides continuous output? That would explain why so many hits cause so much traffic.
- Comment on openDesk 1.10. Enhanced security architecture 5 weeks ago:
It is an open alternative to MS365 developed on behalf of the German ministry of the interior and distributed as open source software.
If I remember correctly it is not an independent development but it is based on existing software and integrating them to build a consistent service.
I think it combines Nextcloud, Element, Jitsi and some other projects.
- Comment on Classic text adventure Zork is going open source, but I'm side-eyeing Microsoft's announcement about it hard 5 weeks ago:
It sounds like a few sixty year old engineer(s) got some managers to sign off the release of the source code release and decided to do the most out of the lack of resources they had available. I have no problem with them using AI to write a press release. No one is going to read it anyways in a few weeks of time - but the release is there forever (within reasonable limits).
- Comment on Rybbit - Open source Google Analytics replacement 5 weeks ago:
The community edition allows me to have multiple sites, multiple users and is way easier to set up. If I ever need additional features like funnels I would need a subscription for both - Plausible is less expensive.
- Comment on Rybbit - Open source Google Analytics replacement 5 weeks ago:
Just a word of warning for everyone: The free self hosted version is heavily limited. I will stick with Plausible which may be simpler but also doesn’t want to push me into a subscription.
- Comment on Rybbit - Open source Google Analytics replacement 5 weeks ago:
The free self hosted version is heavily limited. I will stick with Plausible which may be simpler but also doesn’t want to push me into a subscription.
- Comment on We have one at home 1 month ago:
I have an Ouya and an original Steam controller…
- Comment on EA Announces No F1 26 Next Year, F1 25 Will Get a Major Expansion Instead 1 month ago:
But it also means that 2025 most likely will not get patches anymore.
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 1 month ago:
Make sure to get some that mimic battery power loss at the end. Some models just shut off when they are empty and others slowly reduce the voltage so that battery indicators on devices are able to pick that and display a warning to change batteries soon.
- Comment on how do you explain selfhosting to the non-techies in your life? 1 month ago:
Everyone has experienced an AWS / Google Cloud / Azure outage or has had a service - you are happy to use switching to (more expensive) subscription service. That’s two things that are not going to happen to self-hosters (except the outage thing, but you can actually do something about it when it happens).
- Comment on Autograding tool 2 months ago:
You could use automated testing tools to do the work for you. You define your requirements as individual tests and every input is tested separately giving you a report which tests failed and which succeeded.
- Comment on Lemmy being pinged each midnight 2 months ago:
Is your server running on UTC? Depending on your location midnight UTC could also be 8 AM and it could be a user with a very regular morning schedule.
Only you can find out which machine is sending this request…
- Comment on I suppose it's better to find this out 35 years later than never at all. 2 months ago:
And you used this technique in every one of them?
- Comment on can we now "safely" auto upgrade immich? 2 months ago:
Immich obviously does not follow semantic versioning when 2.0 is to be considered the first stable version.
- Comment on PuffPals: Island Skies, a cosy game that earned $2.5 million on Kickstarter, has been slammed with refund requests after its website and online store disappeared 3 months ago:
It is, but hear me out: There is a difference between failing with a reason and failing silently - and seemingly with no reason. I don’t know this project and I don’t know what happened and how the creators handled this, but I have been on Kickstarter since it came to life and I have seen projects with poor communication fail and everyone was furious and I have seen projects fail who managed to communicate their struggles to their investors very well and they didn’t get overrun with refund requests. I know it is hard to admit problems and finally failure, but it has to be part of the progress.
- Comment on Podcast Discussion | Star Trek: Khan | 1x01 "Paradise" 3 months ago:
I liked it. It was the perfect length to listen to and the voices are well cast and distinctive enough. The only thing I didn’t like was the intrusive (for a lack of a better word) music in some parts. As if they needed to further emphasize “this is the part where romance is supposed to happen”.
- Comment on Which open alternative apps list is the best? 3 months ago:
alternativeto.net is also my go-to resource because they have a good filtering system and are not solely focused on open source.
- Comment on Is there a self hosted version of Google Earth? 3 months ago:
There is Cesium. But the thing you actually need is the actual maps. There are free maps (many of them based on OpenStreetMap), but the fidelity you know from Google Earth is usually not free. Also if you also want to self-host the actual maps you need a tile server for that and lots of disk space because these tiles take up a lot of it…
- Comment on Why doesn't Star Trek use TrekLit for streaming shows? 4 months ago:
That might be cynical but it’s true. The fans who liked the book(s) will with a fair chance not like the adoption. So an amount of your hardcore fan base is already against you. The idea would only work if the book series has for some reason a (partially) different target audience than regular trek.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x06 "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail" 4 months ago:
Also maneuvering a space vessel with two thrusters which are facing in opposite directions may be impossible…