MonkeMischief
@MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
- Comment on GARBAGEOLOGY 6 hours ago:
And I think it was Blair before that. XD
- Comment on GARBAGEOLOGY 6 hours ago:
Look we made a bunch of overblown jokes against the French for a while…
…then they got BASED organizing ferociously for their workers’ rights…
…Then we stopped joking so much…
…and now they’re not doing so hot again.
I think there’s a causative effect here. Should the jokes continue to spur them to greatness once more, if only out of spite?
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 17 hours ago:
Because of course now they’d start just quote-pulling from a book there’s no way they’ve read. Can we go back to when they were just pseudo-scientific?
- Comment on Lemmy’s essential 25 PS1 games 1 day ago:
I was gonna say Star Ocean: Second Story, because it’s incredible.
But “Second Story R”, the recent remake, is incredibly good and clearly made by people who understand and love the original. I’d go so far as to say “objectively superior version.”
Even the soundtrack I’d call “enhanced” instead of “changed.” I’m continually impressed and loving every minute of it. Especially since I got really stuck on the PS1 version and never beat it.
So here’s one I’m not sure I’ve seen here yet!
Dragon Valor. It was a really neat fantasy beat 'em up by Namco, with some cool ideas and presentation, fun combat, really slick aesthetic, and a Castlevania-esque storyline of playing various characters through a family legacy.
It was really neat. And when I had trouble with a gimmick to beat the final boss, Namco’s support email kindly replied to me back in the day with a hint. That was pretty cool. :D
- Comment on Nextcloud Hub 10 – your unified, modular digital workspace - Nextcloud 1 day ago:
Sounds like Syncthing for syncing and something like…is it… croc or Wormhole…? To drop files and send things.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding haha.
- Comment on I love the future. 5 days ago:
If only it didn’t fund more of it. Wish they could spend it on mental health or education instead. :(
- Comment on I love the future. 5 days ago:
That’s always the struggle, just like marching up to the manager’s office to demand better. Yeah you all get fired up and heated in the break room, but when you actually hit the stairs, can you trust them to follow? Or do they just want to complain and keep the status quo?
This irritating effect of individualism and mistrust is why we struggle to cooperate. There’s so few unifying ideals anymore.
The other problem is a simple matter of logistics. How do you actually make your stand to do something good, and not just be a group of easily snuffed rabblerousers that get easily snuffed out, or worse, hurt the people you’re fighting for?
Idiot fascist movements seem far easier to motivate because you simply need to ask “Hate something? Hate everything? Blaming someone else? Show up and scream something to feel like you matter! Violence not guaranteed but encouraged.”
True, we’re collectively against President Musk and his weird little orange purse poodle, but nobody understands practical tactical leadership to actually gain any kind of momentum. Everybody’s just trying to simultaneously shout over the crowd or worse, infighting each other over superficial ideals.
It’s bleak.
- Comment on I love the future. 5 days ago:
That freak show might actually believe the shit he spews.
He may, he may not, but the brain worm does, and he’s given to its will.
- Comment on I disagree. 5 days ago:
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 5 days ago:
I’m a bit biased as I started with Jellyfin, but the Roku app works flawlessly on the family TV.
I’d advise at least becoming mildly familiar with how you’d go about it, since corpos suddenly rug-pulling existing users and forcing subscriptions is pretty common, basically expected, behavior of American business now.
That way you have an “out” and your service can have minimal downtime. :)
On the other hand, you might just find you like how sleek and functional Jellyfin is. I can only see wins for you here. :p
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 1 week ago:
I really miss the early mobile games days, when they were still experimenting with the format and you had games like Angry Birds, Infinity Blade, Peggle, and various Marble Madness or Monkey Ball clones, just for starters.
People were making games designed to be fun, and if they were addictive, it was because you were enjoying yourself. If you bought the game they didn’t care how addicted you got or not, only that you didn’t tell all your friends it sucked! Lol
Once it started taking notes from the casino industry, that was it. I don’t even open the Play Store anymore.
Just now had a thought: If places like Newgrounds or ArmorGames were pay to play for developers like the mainline mobile stores are, I bet we would have seen a lot more of that nonsense a lot sooner. (kongregate seems to serve a perfect example of this.)
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread 1 week ago:
It might be some way, however not easily. My mega-corpo ISP blocks incoming connections on common hosting ports, because they want to
keep the network safesell expensive home-business plans. LolI’m also very amateur at this as I go along, and I’m not sure I’m ready to deal with the fallout of missing some security step and getting my server botted or ransomwared lol.
I haven’t done the hardware stuff with setting up my own router/firewall box either, for instance.
So Tailscale works really well for me by seemingly magically bypassing a lot of that nonsense and giving me less to worry about. They allow 3 users for free, but have a relatively inexpensive family plan for like 6 users as well, if that becomes necessary.
I mainly just need to tell them not to try and use my server as an exit node if they’re across the country 😂.
But yeah definitely, I’m using this as a way to test the waters for running service alternatives as the web we knew collapses around us lol. I’m not ready to be running something people really rely on yet, though. :)
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread 1 week ago:
Thanks! This is very helpful! I really appreciate it! :D
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread 1 week ago:
I have a family member across the country that wants to break from Google and really isn’t the type to self-host themselves, and I connect to my self hosted NextCloud solely through TailScale.
NextCloud permissions seem easy enough, but I’m researching how to add them to my Tailnet safely to avoid potential compromise of my network if something happens to their system.
Presuming this involves ACLs, which look intimidating, but I’m doing some research on that.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread 1 week ago:
I don’t have any backups.
Horror story, stranger. Oh no!
If this is stuff that you can’t afford to lose like family pictures, music library, or 90’s memes or something, I’ve had decent luck with iDrive for my offsite backups. 4TB relatively cheap, works with Linux (using some Perl scripts they made), and you can define your own encryption keys so not even they can see your stuff.
They’ve usually got a crazy cheap deal to start with on their homepage or if you look around, for the first year. So maybe that could be helpful until you get some other storage. :)
(I think we pay $100 a year now for 4TB)
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread 1 week ago:
This may sound dumb or be helpful so I’ll toss it in just in case:
Depending on when they’re built, a lot of houses’ RJ-11 phone jacks are actually using CAT-5E. If you’re lucky, they’re individual runs and not daisy-chained!
The way they set up the runs here is weird though, they’re cat-5E but we have no fancy junction box. It all runs to some hatch on the side of the house presumably for telecom/satellite TV installers.
So it was cool finding out there’s already capable infrastructure in the walls, but you gotta replace the wall jacks with RJ-45 and then the next trick is figuring out a switch that can handle a garage that could get to 100ºF + in summer…
- Comment on What do you use for notes? 3 weeks ago:
It depends on the notes, for me:
I’ve had an oddly long-running obsession with Tiddlywiki!
It has a bit of a learning curve, but it’s VERY flexible. My favorite part being that by default it’s just a single, portable, HTML file. No special app required besides a browser, no accounts, and you can just sync it like any other file. (Syncthing, Nextcloud, and friends)
There’s also an app called Tiddloid for Android to make managing and saving a little easier, but they open in any browser.
I have a Tiddlywiki that I use like one might use Obsidian, where I just stash stuff I’ll want to remember and maybe link between similar ideas.
And then I’m currently trying to use it to make a solution to sketch out my Savage Worlds RPG campaigns. It gets a little tricky but you can make templates, script buttons, and that kind of thing. If you’re already comfortable with web stuff you’ll probably catch on WAY better than I have.
You can also host it as a website, or on your server or whatever, to use it like any other wiki. There’s also plugins to use Markdown instead of “wikitext.”
There’s also an excellent guide to learning it at groktiddlywiki.com/read/ . It’s basically an online workbook using Tiddlywiki itself!
The community is also super helpful. I do wish it had a little more out of the box, but something about a customizable, portable, digital “notebook” that doesn’t require an account or hopefully-supported-in-5-years application is SUPER appealing to me. It’s quite underrated.
Also just for fun I wanted to share my favorite example someone’s been working on for quite some time now, a heavily customized D&D wiki
intrinsical.github.io/wiki/index.html
Tiddlywiki can be a bit dense and the documentation is slowly improving, but there’s so much potential!
- Comment on Enthusiast mulls reviving Sony's retro micro PC — Orange Pi CM5 planned as mainboard upgrade 5 weeks ago:
That is REALLY nice.
Let’s have that, but a full-blown pocket Linux machine with a decent resolution and a cell-modem and let’s gooo!
The term “internet appliance” is pretty awful though lol.
- Comment on Enthusiast mulls reviving Sony's retro micro PC — Orange Pi CM5 planned as mainboard upgrade 5 weeks ago:
I too laughed at “enthusiast mulls.”
That being said, I too, am an enthusiast who’d love to see these handheld-like PCs come back.
- Comment on sampling bias 2 months ago:
Why oof? O.o
- Comment on BACK IT UP 2 months ago:
I appreciate your gratitude and I really do hope it does some good for others… Especially because I really hate needles but I have it done anyway for this reason. Lol 😬
- Comment on Just a little guy 3 months ago:
(recorder clicks on) “It seems the diet consists…mainly of a waxy substance…apparent preference towards bright primary colors.”
- Comment on Just a little guy 3 months ago:
Well they didn’t want people getting the wrong idea.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 3 months ago:
Man this picture is such a vibe lol. Love it. :D
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 3 months ago:
That’s so weird at first look on this picture I was like: “What’s O…P…D? 🤔” LOL
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 3 months ago:
Simple, elegant, rock solid. Very nice. :) Love your decals too!
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 3 months ago:
Wait I see EMT piping for that printer frame… Did you convert an Anet A8 to an “EMT-8” like I did!? :D
Just seemed like a neat coincidence!
The stock A8 was such a scary fire hazard lol.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 3 months ago:
OMV has such a nice Docker management interface too. I really feel spoiled with it.
I was planning on all my services running in ProxMox or something, but my OMV VM handles all of them except PiHole basically lol. OMV is snazzy. :D
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 3 months ago:
Oh yes the red rotary phone…I imagine if it’s ringing, something has gone terribly wrong.
- Comment on They're called leaves for a reason. 3 months ago:
I’m increasingly seeing neighborhoods where there’s only a sidewalk on one side of the street…and then it terminates for no reason…and then it starts again…
It’s so bizarre.
