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Main account: e0qdk@kbin.social
This is my alt for when kbin is down or when I need to do something Lemmy-specific.
- Comment on What's your preferred way of buying games? (digital/physical/physical digital) 2 days ago:
- Preferred: DRM-free download (e.g. GOG, JAST)
- Will consider: Steam (if not encumbered with evil crap like Denuvo, Enigma, Ubisoft/EA shitware, …) – rarely preferred in some cases (e.g. the game is stupidly big)
That’s it. Those are the only ways I buy games in practice in 2025. (The last time I bought a physical copy of a game was pre-COVID…)
I have a Steam Deck and an ancient (offline-only) Win7 computer that is surprisingly still usable. If I can’t run a game on one of those, it might as well not exist as far as I’m concerned.
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- Comment on Handbrake local vs docker on Synology DS920+: same settings, very different results? 1 week ago:
Are you running different versions of the software? (e.g. different versions of ffmpeg, maybe?)
- Comment on Anubis is awesome! Stopping (AI)crawlbots 3 weeks ago:
I don’t like Anubis because it requires me to enable JS – making me less secure. reddthat started using go-away recently as an alternative that doesn’t require JS when we were getting hammered by scrapers.
- Comment on Keeping track of different targets in terminal 4 weeks ago:
I just right click on the terminal to change the profile to whatever I feel like it should be in the moment (usually red). I do it by reflex, basically. I never felt the need to try to set up automation for different servers, but I expect there’s probably a way to do that if you really wanted to.
- Comment on WhisperX — Automated Transcripts w/ Timestamps and Speaker Tagging 4 weeks ago:
“You love the robot more than me!” 💔️
- Comment on Keeping track of different targets in terminal 4 weeks ago:
I (manually) set the background color of my terminals depending on the machine I connect to. I currently have profiles for red, green, blue, and black backgrounds with black as my default. I usually use red for ones I want to be especially careful of.
- Comment on Uninterrupted Stream 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been trying to figure out a related sort of video streaming setup for work (without Owncast, but with a similar sort of 24/7 goal plus other considerations) and have been looking into using ffmpeg’s capabilities to output either HLS or DASH segments + manifests. (FFMPEG can do both but I don’t know which would be better for my needs yet.) The sources I’m working with are RTSP/RTP instead of RTMP and I only need streaming to browser clients currently – although it working with VLC naturally by pointing it to the manifest is nice.
HLS and DASH work by having videos split into small chunks that can be downloaded over HTTP, so just replacing the manifest allows for continuous streaming (the client pulls it repeatedly) without the server needing to maintain a continuous connection to the client.(Fan out to CDNs works naturally since the video chunks are just files that can be served by any web server.)
It should be possible to do some creative things by either creating / modifying the manifests myself with scripting or by piping chunks into another instance of ffmpeg from a script. (I’ve done something similar using
-f image2pipein the past, but that was for cases where I need to do things like create a video from an image gallery dynamically.) That’s as far as I’ve gotten with it myself though.I don’t know what the right answer is either, but I’m also interested in finding out and hopeful you get additional responses.
- Comment on Even in space it's possible to get hit by a self-driving Tesla. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Anyone else going basic with their NAS? 1 month ago:
I have an older version of TrueNAS on it from when it was still FreeBSD based (instead of Linux). I might replace it with Scale whenever I get around to doing maintenance on it next – or maybe just go to stock Debian or something since I don’t use most of the bells-and-whistles.
- Comment on Anyone else going basic with their NAS? 1 month ago:
I run my NAS that way too. I just mount it and play videos with VLC if I want to watch something I have on it. The main reason I have a NAS is because I ran out of drive bays in my main system a few years ago… Works fine for my needs currently; no need to make it more complicated.
- Comment on Comments not showing? 1 month ago:
Check your language settings. Either Undetermined or English may be disabled.
- Comment on Crunchyroll CEO Responds to Calls To Pay Japanese Anime Companies More Money for Overseas Distribution 2 months ago:
“The easiest way to stop piracy… is to give those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.” -Gabe Newell
Yep – although even there, I have 5x as many games on GOG as Steam because they’re mine and I don’t have to worry about dealing with forced updates ever. That was a BIG deal for me when I had crappy internet access – a single game’s forced update could tank my entire month’s quota… I still get nervous putting Steam in online mode to this day even though I don’t have to deal with that shit any more.
Disagree with you on the BD issue, though. Much more capacity, higher quality video and audio, and drives are dirt cheap. I have a BDROM in an external enclosure, and it handles DVD and BD perfectly.
My complaint there’s about Blu-Ray’s DRM. Better quality video means nothing to me if I can’t actually get the damned thing to even play.
- Comment on Crunchyroll CEO Responds to Calls To Pay Japanese Anime Companies More Money for Overseas Distribution 2 months ago:
Whilst I agree, there’s (currently) nothing stopping you from buying the DVDs?
I have a ridiculous number of DVDs. (Blu-Ray on the other hand can fuck off and die.) A ton of content is just not practically available as DVDs.
Checking Amazon just now for some stuff that was absolutely impossible to find at all a few years ago when I was looking for it, there seem to be non-US releases now (e.g. region 2, region 4…) for some of them at not insane prices. Others want $300 for “only 1 in stock” from a nonsense bot account with a last purchase comment from ~2015… i.e. they probably aren’t real listings even if I was willing to pay that insane amount. A few others look like they might be commercial pirate offerings with only subsets of episodes and strange packaging. (I might just be OOTL on some marketing gimmick with those though.)
Honestly, I’ve largely given up on anime since COVID hit. I still like the art, but I don’t really watch new shows any more. The inability to get legit copies in a timely fashion is the main reason why. The shift to Blu-Ray really alienated me. Yes, I can work around its bullshit up a point. No, I am not going to pay ~$60 for half a show from years ago and then have to do quasi-illegal shit just to get it to maybe play on my computer – without menus. Fuck that.
- Comment on Crunchyroll CEO Responds to Calls To Pay Japanese Anime Companies More Money for Overseas Distribution 2 months ago:
I really wish someone would just set up “GOG for anime seasons” and let me buy and download MP4 files (or whatever) so I can have an offline collection legally.
- Comment on Is there a server that doesn't require allowing javascript of a million other servers? 2 months ago:
I don’t know what anyone else intends to do, but if I can fix the issues I’m currently looking at – and no one else has stepped up in the interim – I’ll at least take a look at the 1.0 stuff. (I use mlmym and would like it to keep working…)
- Comment on Is there a server that doesn't require allowing javascript of a million other servers? 2 months ago:
the thumbnails now are even more clearly 4-pixel potatoes
pictrs’s thumbnail parameter uses dumb raw pixel sampling – which leaves something to be desired… It has other sampling options implemented (with
resize, according to the docs), but they don’t seem to accessible on my instance. You can removethumbnail=96if you want to get the image without that thumbnail sampling, at least.make everything zoom 150%
I do this with my browser’s UI (ctrl-plus keyboard shortcut in FF-based browsers works for me).
e.g. right side bar
[…document.querySelectorAll(“.side”)].forEach(sidebar => sidebar.remove())You could also just adblock the element with class
side. - Comment on Is there a server that doesn't require allowing javascript of a million other servers? 2 months ago:
someone forks and maintains it.
MrKaplan already forked it and is keeping it on life support for lemmy.world. I’ve been trying to make enough sense of it to fix several issues that have been bugging me for a while, and will contribute my fixes there if I can figure them out.
I’ve only got a few hours each weekend where I have good concentration + enough free time to work on it, and don’t know the relevant languages (Go, Rust, TypeScript), so my progress is pretty slow… but I’m still poking at it.
- Comment on Is there a server that doesn't require allowing javascript of a million other servers? 2 months ago:
Voting
You could support this by making vote buttons submit a form if JS isn’t enabled. (That’s what mlmym does.)
Can’t manually switch between dark and light mode
Hmm… There are some pretty nifty things you can do with a hidden checkbox, label, and some clever CSS (e.g.
html:has(#element:checked)+ CSS variables – though FYI:hasis baseline 2023.)Making it persistent would require some more effort – e.g. form + cookies + server side style sheet selection, most likely. mlmym lets users change their theme w/o JS by submiting a form on the setting page. I’d have to think a bit if there’s a good way to make it persistent across multiple requests for logged out users with a CDN caching things in between though…
only automatically based on browser settings
Doesn’t actually work for me in a FF138-based browser w/ JS blocked via NoScript – I always get light mode despite having a dark mode preference set. (Where do you have your
prefers-color-schememedia query?)Also, FYI I had to manually override font restriction – otherwise all your buttons end up as tofu characters. (I think NoScript is being kind of unreasonably strict there by blocking first party fonts.) That’s a papercut kind of issue, but figured I’d point it out in case it might save you some debugging time if you get confused NoScript users in the future.
- Comment on Recomend me some slive of life anime like K-On! but without the musical band stuff 2 months ago:
Yuyushiki, maybe? It’s slice-of-life with three girls in a computer club instead of a music club. I liked K-On’s humor more, but I remember thinking they were similar when I watched it a long time ago.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 20] 2 months ago:
Trying to decide if I want to stick this out to find out what all the fuss is about or not.
I don’t know if you’ll enjoy the ride overall, but the show’s a roller coaster with a long hill climb. It picks up later.
- Comment on Usernames using randomized nonsense 2 months ago:
I picked an RNG name since my old common username (from reddit, etc) was not available when I started on kbin.social (RIP) and I couldn’t think of anything else I wanted to be called. I deliberately kept it short though. Not sure what to make of other RNG names – esp. long unintelligible ones – but I’ve seen at least one account that I think is legit which has a long, bizarre RNG-looking username and a non-English display name, so 🤷️
- Comment on You look so lonely 3 months ago:
- Comment on Band Anime my beloved 3 months ago:
Top left looks like Bocchi the Rock.
- Comment on Choose one 3 months ago:
Based on Kyubey and Monokuma, I can take a guess… but what is the third?
- Comment on VIZ Media Wins Up to $26 Million in Damages Following RWBY Lawsuit Over Copyright & Trademark Infringement 3 months ago:
Looking through the list of sellers, I don’t think they’re going to collect on much, if any, of that…
- Comment on "Suggest a community" community? 3 months ago:
There’s a lot of overlap, but the other is a bit more general purpose (not just new communities). I joined both to help with community discovery.
- Comment on "Suggest a community" community? 3 months ago:
There’s more-or-less already an active community for that: !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
From their description:
Promote your favourite communities here, or ask about a community you are looking for
A post titled like “Is there a community for TOPIC?” with text in the body indicating you’re interested in making one if not would likely do well there.
- Comment on Would there be any potential problem of hosting public and/or private (vpn) services in a school office? 3 months ago:
What was the most ridiculous or funny boundary push you saw?
Trolling someone by attaching a camera to the ceiling right above their keyboard. I’ve been paranoid since I saw that stunt pulled… They got their point across about physical security though.
- Comment on Would there be any potential problem of hosting public and/or private (vpn) services in a school office? 4 months ago:
I’ve worked for a university before and it was very common for staff to remote into their systems from home – usually with SSH for CS types or Remote Desktop/Team Viewer/etc. for less computer-focused folks. (The former usually didn’t have much issue – the folks using the latter mechanisms got compromised a number of times… -.-) There was also a campus provided VPN that was required to access certain systems with instructions to students and staff on how to use it, but other systems just got public IP addresses.
If what you’re doing is related to your work and campus IT doesn’t object, you’re probably fine to do it. I’ve run various kinds of websites and web apps for colleagues to collaborate on research projects. Being able to do things like that is kind of the point of the internet.
Having seen a number of students, uh, push the limits and find the boundaries of acceptability the hard way though… I’d strongly advise you not to install cryptominers, run TOR exit nodes, or torrent TV shows/movies/etc. That kind of thing tends to get your systems in hot water with IT or other parts of the bureaucracy…
