MonkeMischief
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- Comment on Recommend some games for PCem 1 week ago:
This reminds me: I was thinking of “Independence War Deluxe”, because sheesh, I couldn’t even get that running from a PC Gamer demo CD on release-era hardware LOL.
- Comment on Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever 1 week ago:
I think we were all hoping that some loveable genius was quietly subverting their surveillance state and getting a view of the outside world via Team Fortress 2, but, yeah, if it’s not North Korea’s fattest man, it’s probably a high ranking military crony.
. . .Hey just musing here but that sounds like a kinda hilariously easy doxx. You don’t think they’d keep state secrets on that same machine? . . . Surely. . .? Noooo. . . 🤔
- Comment on Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever 1 week ago:
(The machine with the only Steam account active in North Korea would like to know your location)
- Comment on CasaOS/ZimaOS (or similar) vs just Debian experience? 2 weeks ago:
OpenMediaVault is pretty rad. I run it in a VM on a ProxMox machine and it ended up doing all the Docker lifting because the GUI management is just so nice.
I do need to get more CLI-ninja with Docker eventually, but in my experience it’s a very cumbersome and fiddly process.
Unless something breaks and needs more hands-on, I feel like OpenMediaVault’s container interface completely replaces Portainer and smooths the on-ramp for newbie self-hosters.
- Comment on Recommendations 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for this, I’m impressed by Bambus’ quality but I’ve always been highly suspect of the true cost of their “turnkey” operation and appliance-like nature.
It was making me sad seeing people just recommending them left and right even though it seemed like a huge step backward from all the hackerspace innovation we’ve been seeing with 3D printing.
I’m really glad to see people pushing against that and advising people to consider the ramifications. <3
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
“mOvE fAsT aNd BrEaK
tHiNgSLaWs” - Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It’s all Thiel’s stupid idea. He’s started a ton of companies all ripping off Tolkien’s work while basically LARPing Sauron. Such despicable trash.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 4 weeks ago:
Seriously if we just hardcore PSA’d even basic media literacy skills into our culture, MAYBE people would stop thinking that random internet anecdotes (which are likely largely bot-driven these days) constitute “scientific evidence.”
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 4 weeks ago:
LOL I wish it were like that. The “kids and their superior grasp of technology.” That’s how it’s supposed to be. They’re supposed to be smarter than us.
Indeed, with desktops and internet forums it really did seem to be going that way…and then with smartphones becoming specialized as content consumption and attention-capture devices, the kids started going backwards.
Yeah, they can swipe their lil’ fingers and use instagram now, but using files and folders or printing their homework? Relegated back to the esoteric and arcane arts. It’s tragic.
But this kids who do make a point to learn and teach themselves are doing incredible things.
So I guess, the average has dropped, and now we’re seeing two more prominent extremes. 🤔
…/TED_talk lol
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 4 weeks ago:
And somebody’s gotta spray that RoundUp… hasn’t there been numerous class actions about the effects of that stuff? 😬
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, when I get the urge to buy, I go through my library and pretend it’s a “store”, and “shop” for something I haven’t played.
Small psychological trick that…seems to mostly work. :)
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 5 weeks ago:
Also if you wanna go real oldschool, Divine Divinity and Beyond Divinity go for like 70¢ occasionally. :D
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on How do you manage your home server configuration? 1 month ago:
I’d really like to know if there’s any practical guide on testing backups without requiring like, a crapton of backup-testing-only drives or something to keep from overwriting your current data.
Like I totally understand it in principle just not how it’s done. Especially on humble “I just wanna back up my stuff not replicate enterprise infrastructure” setups.
- Comment on The Fuck Jar 1 month ago:
This is the secret to where Roy Kent gets his power!
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 month ago:
“You can set up your own email server at home, for fun!”
– The 90’s, Probably.
Lol. I’m kinda sad I missed out on that expressive time of making websites when I was growing up. You’re right, now everything is very homogenized and there’s a billion botswarms just waiting for you to be 3 seconds late to a security update so they can zombify your site for…
(Flips papers) Crypto somehow… it’s always crypto.
Internet crime isn’t even cool anymore. Lol
- Comment on Assumptions 1 month ago:
LOL sounds like that game gets it right too! In Cataclysm DDA there’s something called an “antlered horror.” Basically undead moose.
Sheer. Friggin. Terror!
Obligatory:
“A Møøse once bit my sister …”
“Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti…”
“We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.”
- Comment on It improves the morale of the future worker. 1 month ago:
Thank you so much for sharing your story.
I’m grateful to your mom, and I’m glad you’re here. <3
- Comment on Assumptions 1 month ago:
Anyone who’s played Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead will tell you: Moose are NOT to be messed with. Hoo boi.
In the season, if you see them across the map, pray they haven’t seen you.
I imagine this models a healthy respect for real moose(s?) too lol.
- Comment on **How** should I properly document my homelab? 1 month ago:
The good thing about YOUR homelab is that YOU’RE taking notes solely for YOURSELF and only YOU know how YOU work and how YOU organize YOUR thoughts.
Normally I’d agree, in that it’s not some corporate production environment, but also I personally want to document my self hosted setup in a kind of document that can at least be accessed and understood by my closest family, if something were to happen to me.
Convincing them to archive stuff on my Nextcloud instance for example, and them losing access because I’m not around, temporarily or permanently, would spoil the whole point of the endeavor.
- Comment on Journiv v0.1.0-beta.8: This Thanksgiving, give your family the gift of memories that last forever 1 month ago:
Oh this is REALLY cool. I’ve been using Daylio for a long time, and this seems like it’s aiming to be a great self hosted replacement!
So, multiple users can journal on their own accounts, or can you control who sees your entries?
This is such a neat idea. As a soon to be parent, I 100% understand the motive behind building it too. I can’t wait to try it! :)
- Comment on Insulin 1 month ago:
It truly is amazing how an entire industry makes billions by literally avoiding delivering the most basic service it’s paid for at every possible turn.
- Comment on Insulin 1 month ago:
Unless I had already reached my annual deductible, that is.
“Hey good news! After about 35% of your annual income is spent on medical bills on top of your triple digit monthly premiums… That health insurance starts to kick in!”
(Until it resets at the end of the year. Teehee!)
- Comment on Insulin 1 month ago:
Either that, or maybe they don’t have diabetes there. (Lol joking)
- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 2 months ago:
That’s awesome. Like he was really hoping for some dismal and dark exposé on “savage human nature” a la “Lord of the Flies”, and at every turn, proven wrong by people who were happy to just get along and cooperate for mutual benefit…
… Which should come as a complete shock, social species that we are! /s
I think these desperately dark tales of people turning on each other in sociological contexts is another propaganda tool to put this idea in our heads that without “qualified leaders” we’d all just be grunting and beating each other over the head with rocks.
Nah, someone to gain has to motivate us to fight each other. What if we just said “lol, anyway” and kept getting along on the raft?
- Comment on Immich v2.2.0 adds OCR 2 months ago:
That’s AWESOME. I hope Nextcloud gets better at this soon. So far I’ve been needing to spend some time renaming the files from 64 character CDN hash names to tags like
“Monkey,gibbon,spin,woop,reaction.gif”It’s worked somewhat well so far if I try to keep it as simple and obvious as possible.
- Comment on snail lyfe 2 months ago:
Sounds like they were designed by a Spore player. 😂
- Comment on Fight me 2 months ago:
So does our Colombian red tail boa! :D
- Comment on Smells Great 2 months ago:
It got dissed.
What it did to deserve that, we might never know. . .
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 3 months ago:
Okay, so eat the fucking coffee cup. I’ll wait.
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