JovialSodium
@JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on System Redundancy 1 week ago:
Not a redundancy option, but I also had my routing setup go in to a bad state while traveling which was a hassle.
I solved this by setting up nightly reboots while away. Both my routing PC and modem are rebooted by smart switches (zwave/ZigBee) controlled by home assistant. Which means they’ll operate without a working network. The routing PC is set to shutdown one minute before the smart switch turns off, and set to boot automatically when power is restored (smart switch turns back on). Which avoids any issues with hanging on a reboot.
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 2 weeks ago:
Oh Minecraft. She’d get bored with an open world sandbox. Maybe there are mods or something that are more story driven, but that’d ruin my nostalgia for the game. Bit of a pickle!
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 2 weeks ago:
She won’t like a survival crafter, but I do!
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 2 weeks ago:
I know and like almost all of these games! Unfortunately I don’t think she’ll like any of them. Maybe some of the early levels of dungeon defenders.
RoboQuest caught my attention. While I generally don’t gravitate towards roguelikes or FPS’s, the combo has my interest piqued!
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 2 weeks ago:
That looks like a lot of fun! Not sure if she’ll like the builder element but it looks simple enough.
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 2 weeks ago:
Overcooked: Looks cute, frantic, and fun! Super mario 3d world: Feeling meh about it. Limbo: Single player. But looks like something I might like. INSIDE: Also single player. But somerhingt we both might like.
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 2 weeks ago:
Maybe. I like a farming sims but I think it might be a hard sell. Though the cute graphics might help. How in the going in to town portion of the game? Does it have RPG elements? While I like that kind of thing, I don’t think she will.
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 2 weeks ago:
I think she’d enjoy that. And good to know there are several in the series so we can pick up the next ones if we end up enjoying it. Thanks!
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure I could convince her to play a tower defense style game. But it looks like MY kind of game, so thanks for the recommendation!
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 2 weeks ago:
Thanks! While I’ve heard of the franchise, I’ve never actually played a Rayman game before. But a local co-op platformer sounds good.
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 2 weeks ago:
That looks absolutely adorable and I think would be fun. I’ll suggest it, thanks!
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 2 weeks ago:
Haven’t played that in years but a game I enjoy! I wasn’t aware it had co-op, but I think that’s going to be too slow and involved for her tastes though. But the suggestion is still appreciated.
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 2 weeks ago:
This looks great! I hadn’t considered a local co-op but I think I’ve got a second controller kicking around somewhere and could make that work.
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 2 weeks ago:
That is quite the list! I know a handful of these but most are new to me. I haven’t gone through it them yet but I wanted to be sure to say thanks for the effort you put in to your reply.
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 2 weeks ago:
Hmm. Interesting options! I’m not sure if she’d enjoy these types of games. But I can show her the trailer at least. Thanks for the recommendation!
I wish they weren’t EA games. Split Fiction at least doesn’t require an EA account so I’ll show her that one.
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 2 weeks ago:
Kind of? I occasionally play them but never finish.
I did take a look at a trailer of the game and it might be something she’d like.
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- Comment on How do I not kill my Iomega ZIP drive I just got? (The experiences I've heard of scare me) 2 months ago:
If you want a novel but obsolete portable storage format, you could check out MiniDiscs. You’d need a working recorder that supports Hi-MD for data storage.
I believe them to be more reliable than Zip discs, though I no data to back that. But still, it’s 20+ year old equipment with mechanical components, so equipment failure is just a matter of time.
Working recorders can also be a bit pricey.
- Comment on Testing 2 months ago:
Not on Voyager but I just had to re-authenticate.
- Comment on One man's trash is another man's garbage 2 months ago:
I like 95-00. That’s also the period in time in which I liked Windows, so there’s certainly a correlation there.
- Comment on One wish 2 months ago:
This made me wonder, since the TV series came out a long time ago. Generation X ended ~1980. The original Dragon Ball series started in 1986. So there are Gen X kids (not that you have to be a kid to watch it, but that’s the most likely audience). So there is a time overlap of Gen X kids and Dragonball.
Just musing over that particular thing. I feel it’s safe to say it’s generally outside of Gen X culture.
- Comment on The internet doesnt really spark any joy. Sure the stuff can be funny but mostly just feels me with dread that for this cat meme I have to watch others suffer. 4 months ago:
What I’ve found helpful, specifically to the threadiverse is to occasionally scroll through all and find communities that sound fun, interesting, or uplifting to subscribe to. Makes it a more pleasant, less doomscrolly experience.
It’s not perfect. This is still a piety niche place so that’s not a huge amount of content. And it doesn’t solve the problem of the vast, soulless modern internet as a whole. But still, it makes one thing a bit nicer, and that’s not nothing.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 4 months ago:
I love Linux, but I admit these are valid. I’ve had some of these same issues.
Sleep mode that doesn’t work consistently, I haven’t had any issues with sleep in on my devices, but I have in the recent past on previous hardware.
WiFi driver issues, printer driver issues, touchpad driver issues, My WiFi doesn’t work at all on my desktop. Though it’s worked on a live image from another distro so seems likely to be an issue with the distro’s distributed kernel, not a Linux one. I run a rolling release distro so won’t be that the kernel is too old. But don’t care so haven’t troubleshot it much. My printer requires the use of vendor provided drivers, which are only available for some distros. It works, but not a solution I’m happy with. Never had touchpad issues.
several different wonky ways to install programs instead of just double-clicking an .exe and pressing “next-next-OK”, I think package repos > collecting and installing your software piecemeal from all over the place. But having to deal with repos, flatpaks, appimages, etc. can be daunting.
random shutdown of programs for no reason or error codes Sounds like an OOM process kill maybe? That’ll show in your kernel logs if so. But no immediate visual feedback.
…the list goes on. And on topnof that, all the stuff that people are used to using that just doesn’t run on Linux at all. If there’s proprietary software that doesn’t run on Linux that someone wants/needs to run and there aren’t any viable alternatives then yeah, probably a non-starter. There’s wine of course but it can be a crapshoot. No shade intended towards the project. It’s amazing what it can do, even if it can’t do everything.
- Comment on Space jazz music plays in background 5 months ago:
No specific negative association. I can’t say for certain, as it’s too long ago to remember. But I think at one point when I was young i felt more lukewarm about the song, but it was overplayed which soured me.
- Comment on Space jazz music plays in background 5 months ago:
Tangentially related: anyone else have a strong dislike of “Dancing Queen?” That song has annoyed me for as long as I can remember.
Just that song, not Abba as a whole.
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 5 months ago:
Death Stranding
- Comment on Custom remote backup 6 months ago:
The 3b just has USB 2, so even with slow spinning rust, that’s going to be a bottleneck. I don’t know your exact use case, but it’s probably still plenty fast as a remote storage device.
- Comment on Office problems on Windows 10? Microsoft’s response will soon be “upgrade to 11.” 6 months ago:
🐧
- Comment on is lemmy.sdf.org running poorly for anyone else? 6 months ago:
Also slow for me.
- Comment on What is the definition of concurrent vs cumulative? 8 months ago:
Thanks for the tip!