PieMePlenty
@PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News #2 5 hours ago:
Shoutout to a great top down racing game on deck: Circuit Superstars. Simple, cute, clean presentation. All racing, no fluff.
- Comment on 🪨 Rock on 🪨 2 days ago:
Get a job in the forest industry and you’ll be: exercising daily and getting ripped. Sisyphus has a job, it was pushing a boulder up a hill for eternity. Personally, I’d go nuts because I crave mental stimulation.
- Comment on Why am I getting gore on my racism app? 2 days ago:
Because people are sick and if you put an upload button on any website, the sickness will spread through it. Instagram has content moderators and probably AI to filter it but if you have more sick people uploading this shit than moderators, well it gets through. Believe me, they dont want to host it because its not advertiser friendly and alienates users… there is no incentive to them hosting this, as you said, they arent rotten.
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News 2 days ago:
Thanks for this. Keep em coming.
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 5 days ago:
Bluesky is what happens when someone with a corporate mindset wants to make something new and good. Mastodon happens when hobbyists get together and make something. Ive heard BlueSky has a board of people in charge to make sure it doesn’t end up like twitter. Exactly what one would expect a company to do. Make sure something doesnt go wrong? Put a few people in charge. Mastodon just has the whole community. I may be wrong here as I dont use either. Right now Im just wondering what will happen when BlueSkys provider comes knocking with the hosting bill.
- Comment on Chad rule 5 days ago:
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 1 week ago:
The applications aren’t that good. That’s the only thing keeping me from switching completely. Subtitles, aspect ratio, audio track selection just don’t work as expected. In some cases I can only pick the aspect ratio and no subs and sometimes the other way around? Also if I have no subs for a movie, I can’t search for them on the fly - good feature of plex. As it stands, jellyfin video player is not up to my standards and I can’t switch yet. I use it for porn though. That works fine.
- Comment on Facepalm on multiple levels 1 week ago:
He can do 20 more years. Weekend at Bernies is also possible. No crazy scheme is off the table in today’s America. Trump may also just be laying of the red carpet for some even crazier lunatic. Elon? Nothing is off the table at this point. Fuck me and the bleak possible future.
- Comment on Please donate 1 week ago:
I don’t know anything about manga. Is it really that expensive?
- Comment on Which reverse proxy do you use/recommend? 1 week ago:
Nginx installed directly, I use nano over ssh to edit configs. Forces you to learn some things and I never moved passed it because it works so well.
- Comment on First home server advice 1 week ago:
Debian and either do containers or dont. I have most services without container and a few with, no issues.
One thing I dont see mentioned by anyone is power draw. Figure out how long you intend on running it and what energy expenditure you are comfortable with. Old hardware will usually draw more power.
- Comment on Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 2 weeks ago:
I hope so. Enshittification means people get more incentive to look for alternatives, making the internet more decentralized. Reddit CEO doing his part!
- Comment on How do you keep up? 3 weeks ago:
I use debian, so what’s to keep up with? Apt upgrade is literally everything I need. My home server doesn’t take a lot of my time except when I want to tweak something or introduce something new. I dont really follow all the trendy stuff at all and just have it do what I need.
- Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery 3 weeks ago:
11th gen i5 NUC.
- Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery 3 weeks ago:
I discovered a similar issue. PC desk was using 8-9W when the PC was turned OFF! My power strip was taking a bit under 1W (the little light, old), two smart bulbs as well but I’ll allow those losses. An older Logitech speaker setup (2+1) was taking 6-7W, turned off! Crazy… and illegal if it were made today (in EU). So this is completely wasted energy in my opinion… started disconnecting the whole desk now.
For comparison, my home server is averaging 7-8W, turned on all the time:
- Comment on Perspective 2 months ago:
“Instead of getting rid of the orphan crushing machine, they found out it was easier modifying it to accept CEO’s as well. Now it is an ‘orphan and CEO crushing machine’.”
- Comment on PS5 FPS preferences 3 months ago:
If you are into the classic battlefield games at all, maybe try Battle Bit?
- Comment on Where to start as a beginner 4 months ago:
Install linux somewhere, ssh to it and set up a web sever and an ftp server. Access it locally and then access it from the internet. This should be your first goal. It will make you comfortable with the command line and linux. You can try a montero node then.
- Comment on Tough Shit 4 months ago:
I one held a shit in for a week. Literally 7 days. I was in the hospital and forbidden from using the toilet and using the portable bag toilet in the room with 6 others was not gonna happen so I held it in. Nurses gave me laxatives because they were concerned but I beat them too.
After finally being allowed on the toilet, I basically filled the bowl to the top and clogged the toilet. Yes, it hurt. I now know why and I’m never doing it again.
- Comment on Why does the PC gaming industry still use such deceptive pricing? 4 months ago:
I don’t know how to feel about Nintendo pricing. On one hand, all of their games keep their value long after release, but that also means they are hard to get cheaply. I know when I sold my 8 3DS games a few years ago, I made about 230 eur which was pretty good for some used games. I dont play their games anymore but I’m not sure I’d even want to now since they never drop in price.
- Comment on Stop killing games 4 months ago:
From what I gather, you want specifics in an initiative. You are getting ahead of yourself. What this initiative signals is the need for change and legislation in video games. If passed, the next step is sitting down with representatives of both consumers and video game producers where specifics are drawn.
You don’t start an initiative with specifics. If you start an initiative that way, you are presenting a one-sided list of demands where the only representation is the consumer. Unless people start dying over shutdown video games tomorrow, this is the only good shot at actually getting some consumer protections in this industry.
If you want change, you will sign this petition. If you don’t, you won’t. It’s as simple as that.
- Comment on Steven Spielberg is ‘a big PC Gamer’ — loves shooters, and insists on keyboard and mouse 4 months ago:
Mouse for aim, wii nunchuck for movement.
- Comment on Ubisoft comes crawlin' back to Steam 5 months ago:
And those “reasons” were plentiful. Most importantly is their market share. From a purely business perspective, if a distributor has 200% more users and charges 100% more while offering the same features, they will be the better choice - purely from en economical perspective. 30% is ok because you will reach a larger audience and if so many publishers disagreed with Steam’s cut, they wouldnt all come crawlin’ back would they? In other words, the market dictates the price and the market has decided that price is 30%. It doesnt matter who does or doesnt defend it. Thats what it is.
- Comment on Ubisoft comes crawlin' back to Steam 5 months ago:
Well I guess I’ll just stop buying things then because all Im doing is contributing to some billionaire’s cocaine fund. This is capitalism. I learned to live with it. When the time comes to sieze the means of production and give power back to the proletariat, I’ll be there to help. Until then, I’d rather give Gabe my money so he can shove more ships up his ass than give it to Sweeney because at least Gabe will throw a penny back into linux gaming. Ill take the crumbs if I can get them because Im not a 21 year old student with a burning desire to change the system anymore.
- Comment on Ubisoft comes crawlin' back to Steam 5 months ago:
AFAIK it falls to a lower percentage if you sell more copies. As to why I dont mind the fee as a consumer; valve invests its earnings into linux gaming and does cool shit like that. I can’t remember the last time i aplauded ea or ubisoft or epic for doing something like that. Oh yeah… it was never. Id sooner applaud Microsoft for investing into a non lucrative venture like accessible gaming accessories. But they aren’t on the same playing field… so from them, I’d expect it.
If i were a developer, I’d let valve eat the 30%. The amount of customers they bring to the table, deal with chargebacks, host the files. That shit isn’t free. Epic has to take such a low amount because they don’t have as many users and can’t produce such sales numbers and don’t have to deal with as many chargebcks and don’t have to waste as much bandwidth hosting the files.
- Comment on Mini PC for Jellyfin 5 months ago:
Check the CPU, every NUC has a different one. An 11th gen i3 will generally offer better performance than a N100 but a N100 may offer slightly better power efficiency.
- Comment on Mini PC for Jellyfin 5 months ago:
NUC is good for transcoding if you really need it. NUC11 i3 i think has 30w tdp and draws sub 10w at idle and does transcoding fine. Check specific HW codex support for your needs but stick to Intel beacsue they will generally be the best in this space.
Also can confirm Jellyfin doesnt run well on a rpi4. No problem on a NUC.
- Comment on Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be 5 months ago:
So heres the thing, people can make bad games sometimes. People can make more than one bad game in a row. People can overpromise and undeliver.
I dont like Molyneux as a person because he overhypes the shit out of his games. I like his past projects though. Populous, Dungeon Keeper, Black and White, Fable are some really fun games he was involved with. Even though he hasnt put out anything worthwhile in 15 years, I have no problem in trying out anything new he does. What do I have to lose anyway?
- Comment on It genuinely upsets me that Valve spent their time and resources on another Dota variation 5 months ago:
On the flip side, they still have that Valve spice. Alyx was worthy of the Half Life badge, something I was skeptical was still possible after all that time.
- Comment on The Verge Under Fire For Publishing Info About ‘Deadlock,’ Valve’s Secret Shooter 6 months ago:
Valve gives you access to a game and tells you not to spew your mouth off. A gentleman’s agreement if you will.
You spew your mouth off and valve takes access away.
shocked pikachu face
This is a non-issue of you ask me. A person, who happens to be a writer, got access to the game through a steam friend and was asked not to talk about it but thought they could just not agree to a warning and write about it anyway? I got access too and i didnt write about the game. I get to go back and play it today, they cant.
