cecilkorik

@cecilkorik@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of Fan (OpenSource) Ports/Remakes of Games⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  A few more honorable mentions that are not exact re-implementations with compatibility with the original datafiles, but more spiritual followups:

  Total Annihilation - TA Spring > Spring Engine > Recoil Engine > Beyond All Reason github.com/beyond-all-reason (I think there are mods that make it “Basically TA”)

  EV Nova - Endless Sky endless-sky.github.io

  Goldeneye 64 (multiplayer only) - Goldeneye Source forums.geshl2.com/index.php?topic=7823.0

  Warlords II - LordsAWar! libregamewiki.org/LordsAWar!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of Fan (OpenSource) Ports/Remakes of Games⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  XCOM 1 (UFO Defense) and XCOM 2: Terror From The Deep - OpenXCOM openxcom.org

  Master of Orion 1 - 1oom github.com/1oom-fork/1oom

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The silent force behind online echo chambers? Your Google search⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe it, but I’m still debating whether something like Kagi is worth paying for. On principle, I strongly feel like it is, but in practice I’m still evaluating. So far, I’ve played with it a few times and I haven’t observed any notable improvements, but I’m trying to keep an open mind. First impression is that it’s definitely a little quicker and cleaner to get at the information I’m looking for. And taking a step back, I have to say it’s impressive that they can replicate a behemoth like Google’s accuracy already. On the other hand, I’ve felt like Google has gotten so crappy at search recently that maybe I’m simply not going to be satisfied with anyone simply “meeting” them and maybe what I want simply isn’t possible, in which case I’m just paying for disappointment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you document your Homelab?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve moved to an “infrastructure as code” approach, not using any fancy tools in particular, primarily just bash shell scripts. Basically almost everything I setup or do gets documented via shell scripts, I write them as I go when I’m learning to install something new, and before I commit to something to new, I take extra care to make sure the scripts are idempotent so that when I want to do make any changes, all I need to do is add it to the appropriate script and re-run it.

  The idempotent part takes some effort sometimes, but is not actually as hard as it seems, particularly if you don’t mind that it sometimes spends some wasted time doing things that have already been done, and occasionally spits out some harmless error messages because something is already done, but I also try to minimize that when I can. The consequences of doing too much by re-running are rarely serious. Yeah sometimes the scripts can break, but as long as they fail properly (set -euo pipefail) it’s usually pretty obvious how to fix it and it won’t leave too much of a mess.

  Doing this has transformed my homelab from a mess of unknowable higgledy-piggledy spaghetti-services that was always teetering one small failure away from total collapse and frantic rebuilding, into something repeatable and reproducible that I can actually … wait for it … test. Just firing up a Linux ISO in a VM is all I need to test everything I’m doing in a perfect sandbox, and I can throw it away when I’m done with no regrets. Plus it makes rolling out new servers, and more importantly, decommissioning old ones, a breeze, you know exactly what’s on them and how it was set up, because it was all in your scripts. Combined with good data backups (which are also set up in the scripts) and restores (which I also test with scripts)

  Yeah there are probably easier ways to accomplish what I’m doing using some of the technologies like terraform, ansible and nix/flake that people have mentioned, and I’ve dabbled with those, but for me, the shell script approach strikes a nice balance of not just documenting but also learning the process myself so that I understand enough of what it’s doing to effectively debug it when something goes wrong, and it works on almost everything and in most cases requires no installation or setup. Bash is everywhere. I even have an infrastructure-as-code setup for my Steam Deck to install stuff and get it set up the way I want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Tim Sweeney is an obnoxious hypocritical dickhead who has only gotten worse and stupider and more hostile over the years, he is constantly spouting anti-consumer and anti-common-sense nonsense while acting like he’s saving gamers and nurturing his egotistical martyr complex. He has gotten so bad that he has contradicted his own past self so many times that for awhile there was a literal subreddit “TimCriticizesTim” devoted to it. Also EGS itself is garbage resource-guzzling software that almost nobody actually wants on their computer, most of the people who do use it do it either because they’re forced to so they can play games exclusively available on it, or because Epic bribes them to by giving them free games constantly. It is nasty software that collects way more data than it needs to, spying on your files and possibly other stuff too, and they also lied about it (and as far as I know still do).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the minimum or recommended requirements for a personal home server?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally any old PC is likely fine. It may be slow, it may struggle or even fail with some of the very complex software (perhaps you will encounter timeouts, or you will spend so much time waiting for memory to swap in or out to disk that it won’t be worth using) but you can run Linux itself on a potato and if your machine isn’t powerful enough, maybe you can get a second one and run different stuff on each, or just scale down your expectations and don’t try to self-host LITERALLY everything just because you can. Certain services are very intense, others will run on a very small piece of a potato.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(i feel really stupid asking, but what the hell!) could i be of french descent?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d be better off doing actual genealogy, which involves research, reaching out to family members, combing through dusty family heirlooms, following up on leads and stories, gaining access to historical documents and records, and more and more and more research. It’s not so much a conclusion you’ll come to as a process of discovery you’ll go through and a story you’ll piece together, potentially over a lifetime. If you’re lucky the pieces will be very solid and well supported, but more likely they’ll be hazy and questionable and quite possibly completely false. It will lead you in directions you never would’ve suspected. DNA can sometimes play a part in that process, but it’s no substitute for it. Especially it can help connect you with distant or not-so-distant relatives who may be able to fill in huge pieces of the family puzzle, or may be no help at all, but maybe it will not be about the answers you get as much as the friends you meet along the way. Trite but true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨self hosted browser sync?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s aggressively privacy-first in some ways. It doesn’t do any self-updating which could be considered phoning home, so you have to make sure you have a way to keep it updated, through a package manager or otherwise. There’s a separate update monitor if you want that, for Windows at least. I tend to dial back the anti-fingerprinting a bit because it just makes browsing frustrating to me. I understand the risk of fingerprinting, and it’s good that they do everything they can to avoid being fingerprinted, but it doesn’t strike the right balance for me. Particularly forcing light mode, I absolutely fucking loathe getting light blasted unexpected into my eyeballs, I always have. The biggest mistake technology ever made in my opinion was trying to pretend an actively illuminated screen was paper and make it blinding white.

  I’ve so far resisted the urge to enable DRM. If something won’t show me stuff without DRM I’m willing to just say I don’t want to watch it.

  And obviously as per the topic, I turn on sync, which is not on by default, but that’s easy and a sensible default. Honestly it’s mostly sensible defaults.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨self hosted browser sync?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Librewolf, you can host your own sync server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And you can still only take off from a registered airport in most places, because silly laws. So you still have to drive to the airport. Oh also don’t forget they’re hilariously dangerous in a collision at basically any speed because they’re basically made out of paper compared to the rampaging 2 ton behemoths regularly speeding down our roads. So good luck getting to the airport safely!

  And getting back on topic, it’ll also need a license plate for the roads, and a transponder in most airspace, so you can still be tracked whether you’re on the ground or in the air. Flying cars are great at combining the worst of both worlds!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did they already take the porn?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  sh.itjust.works is in Canada, FYI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did they already take the porn?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  USA is going full Handmaid’s Tale to outlaw pornography by defining “obscenity” in the broadest possible terms and OP is conflating that with a sudden apparent disappearance of significant amounts of NSFW content on Lemmy wondering if instances potentially hosted in the USA are trying to get ahead of it by removing/defederating such content, which is honestly probably plausible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using DVD slot for second 3.5" drive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t stress about it. People are overly delicate with their hard drives in my experience. They’re surprisingly sturdy and failure tends to be pretty random. There might be a slight statistical correlation in failure rates with minor vibration, but anecdotally I’ve got drives that vibrate the hell out of themselves (probably due to some other manufacturing defect) and have lasted decades with no errors, and plenty that fail completely for no perceptible reason at all. Spinning disks are just inherently unreliable, not that any storage technology is perfectly reliable. This is why backups are never optional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re trying to move something with the inertia of an entire planet’s economy, which represents an incredible, almost incomprehensible amount of effort. Inertia becomes an incredibly powerful force that inherently maintains the status quo when you’re talking about huge systems with vast complexity. Yes, there are real challenges (which can be overcome) and yes there is real opposition from entrenched interests who stand to profit (or lose) significantly. But most people underestimate the amount that sheer inertia plays not just in this situation, but in all sorts of different situations, especially when you’re talking about global issues or societal progress. Human minds and values cannot be changed with the snap of a finger. Individuals perhaps can, but as a civilization it often takes decades, or even centuries when the change is massive enough, even when technology itself moves much faster than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Politics is life. The days of being able to hide from politics were ended by Donald Trump. You may be able to ignore politics again someday far in the future, but right now, politics is very interested in you and any attempts to ignore it will be at your own peril, because politics does not like being ignored.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flohra, the reuse app, lets you view Flohmarkt instances like Fedimercatino. Here’s how to download it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This looks great but the link to the most interesting bit for me, Flohmarkt itself, seems broken. This is the working link to flohmarkt

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I run docker compose on Bazzite?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Podman runs rootless containers, this means their permissions do not work like docker, and it is not in fact a drop-in replacement for docker as you’ve discovered. The rootless containers are the key difference. You could try to run a rootful container instead, or if you read this thread by someone encountering the same issue as it sounds like you are running into including using mode 777 maybe their comment later on with the solution for them might help you too. But yes, podman is not exactly a drop-in replacement for docker in my experience. It is quite different, though mostly compatible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PHILIPS FIXABLES. 3D-PRINTED PARTS FOR FRESH Starts. on YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is wild. I just had to dig out one of my older corded shavers because I lost the right size of guard for the one I use normally. I was thinking of trying to 3d print a new guard but was dreading how many steps it would take to shape it and fit it just right. Now you’re telling me I can just print a proper one officially? This is lovely. This is how technology is supposed to work for us, not against us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More than 100 presumably-Linux-users seem to have upvoted my comment, so, that seems more like 100 people all actually recommending the same thing. Your assertion doesn’t seem to hold water.

  Yeah there are (and always will be) a lot of people who will shout noisily about their (current) favourite distro and how great it is and assert that everyone should use it, but the world is full of people like that. If you don’t learn to ignore them you’ll never be able to get a useful recommendation for anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly proton running the windows version under linux is typically better polished, better performing, and more compatible than the “official” native linux version that most publishers put out, except in very rare circumstances where the developer actually understands and uses Linux and makes it a primary development focus. It’s counterintuitive, but proton actually is that good (also most official linux releases are pretty lazy, like “console ports” if not worse).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mint would still be my initial choice, unless you’re really intending to dive right into playing the latest AAA games in which case Bazzite might be a better starting point.

  But it’s really easy to install both. You might even prefer to have both. You can install Mint on a disk partition with only 50-100GB or less. Most Linux installations will work fine with about the same. It’s only once you start installing games that it’s going to consume tons of disk space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How do I self host these? I tried docker run liquidtrees it didn’t work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Basic human psychology has been weaponized against us, and they’ve been getting better at it faster than we’re getting better at resisting it, for decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this specific kind of sheet called?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think what you’re describing is a “duvet cover”. A “duvet” is a two part comforter with a bulky padded insert and a thin washable outer shell. There are a variety of types of duvet covers available in all kinds of different materials and many of them would essentially match your description of “two sheets sewn together” but they can also be significantly thicker and heavier weight materials, they still would be thin and won’t have the padding of a comforter though as that would be what the insert is normally for. The giveaway would be that there’s usually a zipper or button flap somewhere to insert the comforter insert into, and there are usually buttons or ties on the inside as well to keep the insert from bunching up.

  You could just get one of those and skip the insert. I often sleep with just a duvet cover during the summer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m gonna have to go super old school on this, because I think gradually games have gotten gradually better about this as the art form advanced. The absolute worst for this that I know of for this has to be “Below The Root” which, despite this point of criticism was a mind-blowingly advanced game for its time, arguably the first real open world CRPG. I have no idea how anyone could’ve legitimately completed the game without either using a guide or playing it over and over for years to learn every possible route of progress. I think the confusing nature of the world was in fact simply because nothing of that scale had ever really been attempted before and there was absolutely no precedent for how to adequately guide players through it.

  The world was, for its time, truly immense and sprawling with a multiple screen interiors for most buildings, a full cave system hidden underground, ladders and secret platforms aplenty. You could converse and trade with various NPCs in houses and wandering around on many of the screens. And when I say “screens” you have to keep in mind I’m talking about something this size. That is not a lot of context to work with for navigation.

  It’s also full of secrets and hidden things, and like many games of the time you will need to find and use pretty much all of them, in pretty much a specific order, to actually complete the game. I can’t even describe how insane the sequence of events you need to do to actually complete the game is, this guy uses a guide and save states but I think it illustrates the general lack of clear guidance in almost all cases. Combine that with the fact that you “die” easily, your inventory is extremely limited capacity, and did I mention you’re on a time limit? Because the “goal” of the game is to rescue a guy and if you take too long, he dies and you can’t win anymore!

  Many naive players (myself included) weren’t even convinced it HAD an ending and just kind of played it endlessly like it was some early version of The Sims.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You certainly can say it, but I’m going to have to mostly disagree it’s a good example though because I felt Half-Life was very linear. What it did do a good job at was creating a convincing illusion of non-linearity, which I can certainly see some people getting lost in occasionally, but probably briefly (unless you have particularly poor navigation abilities which some people definitely do). It can be especially bad once you get to Xen, which felt deliberately confusing and not really the greatest section of the game for a lot of reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows interface is also stuck in 2005, and the evidence suggests most people prefer that. Many people claim they want modern interfaces, but then people get literally angry whenever Microsoft tries to update it and almost nobody ever uses any of the “modern” features they add. Mint is a perfectly fine choice for most people, who are perfectly happy to be stuck in 2005.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux comes in a million flavors but most people should start with Mint. That sounds like a pun, but it’s also true.

  Mint is a nice, safe, up-to-date, simple, Windows-like choice that won’t unnecessarily complicate the transition to an entirely different operating system. It has good hardware support and good defaults. Most things will feel very familiar and be very accessible. It is popular enough to find plenty of help on the internet and answers to almost every question you could have. It mostly just works and when it doesn’t it’s usually not a deal-breaker.

  It’s not my favourite distro, but you aren’t ready for my favourite distro. Honestly I’m barely ready for my favourite distro. It’s not elitism, it’s just practicality. You’ll learn as you go, and you’ll eventually want to try other distros, but start with Mint, and keep a Mint system around for when you break everything else. Which you will if you start playing with other distros.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse Corporate Sabotage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Careful civil disobedience is the sensible way to deal with an uncivilized government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly right. They also had managers/publishers telling them to do shit like make the rockets even wobblier than KSP1 because it made for funny viral videos that would get more PR.

  Nobody who actually played the game wanted wobblier rockets than KSP1. Nobody really wanted wobbly rockets at all. Sometimes a bug can actually be a feature, but in this case, it really was just a bug. The people in charge didn’t ever care about the people who actually played the game, they just wanted sales, and they made decisions accordingly. That’s why it looks nice, but plays like shit.