gnuplusmatt
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- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 2 days ago:
Alyx was pretty fun
- Comment on Square! 1 month ago:
It’s hip to be a…
- Comment on Would you buy "self-hosted in a box" hardware? 2 months ago:
what’s your plan on teaching these people to maintain their selfhosted instances? Are you selling support? I mean you could script pulling and recreating containers, but without eyeballs on it, that stuff will die eventually.
- Comment on School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety. 2 months ago:
a private school needs to give the appearance that they do, or at least have this capability when someone asks. On the ground, its barely used
- Comment on School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety. 2 months ago:
I work IT in schools. There is limited surveillance tools on college owned devices. Mainly logging of web traffic. Screens can be viewed when on campus network, not reachable off campus.
No one in our department has time to waste looking at web history or screens. Teachers don’t bother to use it much either. We only look at it when directed by college executive or when I go in there at the end of term to clear the alerts.
I’d imagine most other schools are similar, no one gives a shit what kids are doing on their devices
- Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” 2 months ago:
I log into EGS via heroic a few times a year to claim a free game. Yet to ever play any said free games 🤷
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor 4 months ago:
wake me when we can use them as a saml provider
- Comment on Here’s how much Google says it’d cost to fulfill Epic’s biggest demands 4 months ago:
Aurora store works with google content today
- Comment on Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams 6 months ago:
its clear that eventually all the office apps will be web apps in either your browser or their own individual chromium instances. At least it means Linux users will finally get Microsoft office 🙃
- Comment on Here is what 6 decommissioned servers looks like. My Jellyfin will be very happy 6 months ago:
Where do you live that power is so cheap that you can spin that much rust and also can you run extension lead to my place?
- Comment on amazing!!! 7 months ago:
Top and bottom look the same to me, I am protan colour blind, red deficient. I see some red, but not all Image
- Comment on amazing!!! 7 months ago:
A search on play for colour blind has a few but I use this one play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=asada0.andr…
- Comment on amazing!!! 7 months ago:
I use this one play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=asada0.andr… but a search for colour blind on play yields a few
- Comment on amazing!!! 7 months ago:
I’m slightly colour blind and have an app on my phone that can simulate my deficiency. I take a photo and it shows the views side by side. I adjust it til they look the same and then show my wife (with her stupid perfect colour vision) and she can describe the difference in what I’m seeing.
On rare occasions she says what I’m seeing looks better, so it’s not all bad
- Comment on Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge 8 months ago:
no one complains about their phones more than iphone users
- Comment on Autostart Jellyfin flatpak 9 months ago:
Docker/podman are not virtualisation, they are containerisation. The system groups all the processes into a namespace and executes them on the same host/kernel as the base system. There is no overhead of virtualisation as its not creating virtual hardware or running a whole OS. Its more like the flatpak you’re already running than a vm
- Comment on Autostart Jellyfin flatpak 9 months ago:
I’d have thought it was less hassle to use the jellyfin OCI container in either docker or podman. podman will even generate the systemd service file for you
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media 9 months ago:
profit corporation being able to suck up your posts
anyone can spin up a server and federate, anyone can suck up your data, corporations, governments or unknowns
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
always on they wouldnt know about it and if the connection failed or the wg service crashed on their phone then the services wouldn’t work. It adds a complexity that you don’t want when you’re trying to pass the wife test. Plus yes battery.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
How do you all that have your services on your LAN accessing it over wireguard when external pass the wife/kids/family test? If I had to have my wife activate a VPN before she could access our nextcloud or bitwarden, she’d just never use it
- Comment on Bluesky opens to public registration 9 months ago:
joined awhile ago, I found the lack of hashtags frustrating - it limited discoverability, unlike on Mastodon where I just follow dozens of hashtags
- Comment on TIL - Linux supports tilted monitors... apparently 22° is best 10 months ago:
Iirc Wayland as a protocol supports rotation of Window surfaces. I’m not sure if any of the compositors have exposed it as an option. Maybe Weaton
- Comment on Can someone open this pickle jar? 11 months ago:
But the humour is like at its highest like 15% of the show
- Comment on We're going in the wrong direction 1 year ago:
Tbf a lot of the actual content is useless shit too
- Comment on We're going in the wrong direction 1 year ago:
Somethingawful forums!
- Comment on Streaming costs are rising, and there are more platforms than ever to choose between. Some people are going back to piracy 1 year ago:
I’ve always been surprised its remained optical media for so long. I’d have bought a USB drive with a season of television on it. No doubt they’d fuck it up with another DRM scheme.
I’m resigned to the fact that if there is no offline distribution in the not too distant future, I will still build a library of the media I want from other sources.
- Comment on Streaming costs are rising, and there are more platforms than ever to choose between. Some people are going back to piracy 1 year ago:
some of the big studios are starting to not do discs releases here in Australia as well. If I want an archive copy of a movie (for the months I dont feel like shelling out for streaming access), I can’t even fall back to disc. The high seas is already the only place to get some content, when its not on disc and no one has purchased the digital rights
- Comment on Disney+, Hulu Merged App to Launch Next Month, Bob Iger Says 1 year ago:
does this not just make disney+ like it is globally? where all the “hulu” content lives in its own section, just on ours its called Star
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
took away the daily suggestions because I don’t let it track my history
the funny thing is, if you go to a non logged in session, the suggestion page works fine. It was such an arbitratry grab for the user to consent to them collecting your data. I just bookmarked the subscriptions page and only go there now
- Comment on Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library 1 year ago:
of course! You’re right! Suggesting in a thread discussing a large corporation that wants to be seen as pro open source (hearting Linux, buying github) for the last decade does something with open source code in their OS and being bold enough to do even more in the name of native compatibility is childish!
