yonder

@yonder@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Note: before tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I bough Farcry 5 for around $10 CAD a few years back and that’s about how much value I got put of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bigscreen Announces the Beyond 2 VR Headset⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  lvra.gitlab.io is a great source of info for vr on linux. The discord server you mentioned is also bridged to Matrix for those who don’t want to use discord.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting minecraft⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had My minecraft server scanned by at least 3 different bots, and I even had some friendly guy join my server that apparently found it using a bot he wrote. I’m now using a whitelist lol. One of the account names that scanned my server was "Fifth Column, which is a griefing group.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s plenty of good, open source UX in FOSS. Have you seen the Gnome family of apps? They look great and are easy to understand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would do this for just 1.99⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  $4.99 to plug in their camera

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gulf of Make a Report to Apple⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry. They can send the reports to /dev/null where they will be read by Tim Apple himself when he checks it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chip companies should package all the broken pieces in the factory and sell it as: "Chip Dust".⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I thought too. Must be all the “AI” this and “NVidia” that dominating news.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Tails When Your World Doesn't Feel Safe Anymore⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It Debian, so it should absolutely run Doom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Project MINI RACK - a 10" Homelab Revolution!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I currently have my homelab on a small shelf constructed from 4040 aluminium extrusion. If I could convert it to a rack, that would be epic, since right now it can be difficult to safely move.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD captures 28.7% market share in desktops⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think so. The Jellyfin documentation still says it sucks lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World Without Corporations⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who uses Gnome familly applications daily, I have to disagree with the notion that bad UX is fundamental to FOSS software. The gnome apps and shell all follow the same set of UX guidelines and feel quite cohesive as a result. I can definetly see where you get the idea of bad UX in foss though (looking at you, GIMP and Libreoffice)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Migrating from Nextcloud AIO to Owncloud Infinite Scale: Good Idea?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Filestash looks awesome! I tried the demo on my phone and it was way snappier than Nextcloud or even Google drive lol. I mostly use Nextcloud for documents and for calender and contacts, so I might replace nextcloud soon given how slow it usually is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI tool that sounds like elderly grandmother created to waste scammers' time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty good, but you can already waste scammer’s time with Lenny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lack Of Interest In The PS5 Pro Is Forcing Scalpers To Sell Them For A Loss⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Scalpers make a gamble that the price will go up. This time, they lost that gamble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After six years of hardware ray tracing, the best examples of it are modified old games, like Quake and Minecraft.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think part of the push is just from Nvidia to try and get vendor lock-in, like they have with CUDA. Many games that use raytracing will only work on “RTX” cards which are only sold by Nvidia. Raytracing also has the benefit of increasing demand for upscaling, like DLSS, which further increases vendor lock-in.

  Also, most devs are going to be using some sort of game engine where the hard parts of rasterization are already taken care of, like with Lumen in Unreal Engine 5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC’s click-to-cancel rule | Cable companies worry rule will make it hard to talk customers out of canceling⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think waiting on the phone for an hour just to argue with someone to cancel a subscription is reasonable, as long as the signup process also involved waiting on the phone for an hour before an agent tried to talk you out of buying the service.

  But if I signed up on a website in 30 seconds, it should take tine or less to unsubscribe on the same website.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A linux-only society. Those using non-free systems (google android, windows, macOS) are expelled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I generally find that peertube lacks much content but I’ve found a few channels that I am actually interested it. I find that the video quality is usually higher than what youtube gives me, so I use peertube for the few videos a month I can.

  Also, I’m replying from a linux phone running postmarketos, a pixel 3a specifically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'It Has Plateaued': Should We Be Worried About Console Gaming's Future?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  By this metric, the wii is better than the switch since it can backup saves without a subscription or internet connection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When the app is prompting you to accept cookies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use the Voyager Web App lol, only gotta store browser cache and cookies. Take that private social media!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Building a human rideable 3D Printed Hydrofoil⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  RCTestFlight videos are always a joy to watch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you already know Docker CLI, is there a reason to use Portainer?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is exactly what I do. I find Portainer to be nice for getting an overview of my containers that are all created using docker-compose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Too bad, only the poorest text for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They should preinstall libre office as a replacement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll have to mod a switch purely out of spite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only redeeming thing about the PS5 is the support for standard NVME SSDs. But at that point, just get a PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if you can physically hold it, you better be damn sure it will work without internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California will force companies to admit you don't own digital content⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It more akin to having a 15 year period to pick up your Mona Lisa painting replicate after buying it. Although if this was Nintendo’s Mona Lisa, the painting would self destruct if it’s moved to a different wall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California will force companies to admit you don't own digital content⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo usually doesn’t do the right thing, but they kept the wii shop working for around 15 years after the console released, which seems reasonable enough, though for how much hosting costs they should still be offering downloads. IIRC you could store downloaded games on an SD cars so you could make a backup. Now the WiiU and 3DS, their online stuff shuttered too early. If I had bought Mariokart 8 digitally for my WiiU and wanted to redownload it, I would be unable, yet Nindendo still sells the same game on their newer switch store. The only Nintendo games I can say I own are the ones decrypted on my NAS that work with FOSS emulators.