WolfLink

@WolfLink@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨should I go back to my old job now that several people, some of them more knowledgeable than me have told me they don't understand my decision to quit it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d just try to understand why they feel that way to make sure you aren’t missing anything.

  Is it the pay cut? 20% sounds pretty significant to me but 2% isn’t, but in the end if you are making enough to live the way you want that’s all you need.

  Is it the career path options? That can be more complicated, but if there’s nothing you would want from “climbing the ladder” that’s up to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solutions for remote access?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have set up WireGuard manually running on a home server. It’s not that hard to set up IMO but that definitely depends on your experience level.

  Other than that I’d second Tailscale which is similar but easier to set up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games you played inside video games.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In smash bros, turn the launch multiplier all the way up and turn on sudden death mode so everyone starts at 300%.

  Go to one of a few levels (the underground area of Hyrule Temple works, the underground area of Skyworld is better, but it’s best if you make a custom stage)

  Getting hit once will send you bouncing around the screen! You only ever loose if you get unlucky. It’s hilarious, and we call it “Pinball Mode”. I’ve made a couple custom stages to improve on the experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨steam vs gog, which game store to buy from?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Occasionally I will prefer Steam to take advantage of Steam matchmaking

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My thumb stick on my 3ds is disintegrating, and my switch is starting to follow. Please help.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Replacement 3DS circle pads:

  handheldlegend.com/…/analog-circle-pad-replacemen…

  Replacement joycon sticks:

  handheldlegend.com/…/tmr-joystick-assembly-for-sw…

  This site has a lot of good stuff

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just 💚 them and think they're neat.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a pokemon if I’ve ever seen one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One man's trash is another man's garbage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think for the Mac icons here I like the 2001 variant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One man's trash is another man's garbage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It peaked in 2006

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I use CloudFlare. They block the worst and cache for me to reduce the load of the rest. It’s not 100% but it does help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I add non-Steam games to Steam just so I can use Steam Input for controller rebinding

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your ISP can’t tell who you are contacting if you are using a VPN, but websites will track you by other means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  inb4 someone says “just try xyz!”

  lol fair enough

  I don’t have a smart TV.

  Honestly where did you get one? When I was shopping for a TV a couple years ago I wanted to get one without any built in smart TV software and I could not find one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Take a look at Sunshine and Moonlight.

  You install Sunshine on the PC and Moonlight on whatever is connected to the TV. Your TV probably has a “Smart TV App Store” that already has Moonlight available to download.

  It should work well with the default settings, and has very low latency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s much better for games that were designed around VR in mind.

  Some of my personal favorite recommendations:

  • Beat Saber
  • Super Hot
  • I Expect you to Die (trilogy)
  • Half Life Alyx
  • The Myst and Riven remakes
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just checked and I’ve gotten over 100 hours out of mine so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. Optimizing the factory for your immediate current needs sounds very tedious, because those needs change all the time. I instead optimize for expandability and adaptability. The factory game genre isn’t for everyone, but if you are interested in some tips:

  My solution is usually something like:

  • really long line of basic resources (usually a belt of smelted copper and a belt of smelted iron, eventually adding more stuff and adding more belts of iron and copper as supplies are needed)
  • when I need thing 1, I make a little package that builds it, drawing resources from the line with splitters so the excess can continue down the line
  • thing 2 is an independent little package farther down the line
  • When it’s time for thing 3, I build copies of the packages for building thing 1 and thing 2 as necessary to feed the construction of thing 3, again as separate feeds splitting off the main resource line
  • when it’s time for thing 4, its again independent of the production of things 1-3, except they are splitting off the same main resource belt
  • If the resources on the main belt are insufficient to feed all of those machines, one of three things needs to happen: 1. Add more raw resource processing until your belt is full and backed up at the beginning 2. If that’s not enough, upgrade the belt 3. If you don’t have a belt upgrade available, build another main resource line and use splitters to rebalance it onto the main line

  This construction allows for easy expansion without having to destroy anything. I typically don’t disassemble anything unless it’s actually a problem for some reason or I need the space. This is especially important because you often need some basic components like the level 1 belts even into the late game.

  Also, once you unlock robots, you can literally copy-paste, just select an area to upgrade all belts/arms/etc. in, and a lot of other neat tricks that drastically speed things up.

  And one last peace of advice: Overproduce everything and let belts backing up balance out the resource distribution. Then if you discover that belts that previously were backed up are now sparse, figure out why and optimize it, usually by adding more production of whatever the missing resource is.

  Ultimately throughput is all that matters. Loss of throughput because you don’t need something isn’t wasteful. Loss of throughput because you aren’t producing enough of something is a problem to solve. Things that don’t affect throughput don’t matter and aren’t wasteful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s funny, I love Slay the Spire, but I have mixed feeling about Balatro.

  Balatro is addicting in that once I start playing I don’t want to stop, and yet after playing for a few hours I couldn’t say for sure I had fun at any point the whole time.

  Playing Balatro feels like exploring the backrooms to me - just infinite bland nothingness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’ve seen people try to balance things perfectly in factorio, but strat is always to overproduce and let belts getting backed up balance out the throughput.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Deus Ex Human Revolution and Mankind Divided do a similar cyberpunk vibe to Cyberpunk 2077 but with better gameplay and plot IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious how you play factorio because when I played there was very little refactoring, just adding more and more onto the assembly line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we go from being against fake pictures of the moon to accepting things like changing out the entire sky?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a huge difference between adjusting the color mapping of the RAW data and using Photoshop or AI. It’s really hard to get an “objective truth” color mapping, and that certainly doesn’t come by default.

  When I take a photo, I want to see the photo I took. If I decide to photoshop something with it, that’s my decision, and it’s no longer a real photo, and I would be a liar if I were to present it as such.

  We should not start accepting manipulated images as a replacement for real images, and it’s unacceptable that Samsung didn’t give its users a choice in whether to use the real image or a manipulated one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  doesn’t have the track record of totally redoing their entire OS in the course of a single OS generation

  I have a grandparent who’s been on macOS for a long time and would complain whenever they changed something. Usually not the whole OS, but something like the Photos app, which they completely redid like 7 years ago or something.

  Also macOS is currently headed in the direction of merging with iPadOS, but they are making that change gradual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s a reference to light cones

  The idea being that if you take relativity into account, everything is always moving “at the same speed”, it’s just something stationary is moving only in the time direction, and something moving in a spatial direction is therefore moving slightly slower in the time dimension.

  I’ve heard this description before but I don’t think the math quite works out and it also doesn’t really explain why the speed of light is the speed limit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The speed of light is one lightyear per year

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia and TSMC produce the first Blackwell wafer made in the U.S. — chips still need to be shipped back to Taiwan to complete the final product⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a huge difference between making a PCB and a modern processor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨plump pumkins⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to gut the inside to make a jack-o-lantern, and I think I remember my mom cooking with that gunk from inside at least once or twice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Velma can't math.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  0 = ax^2 + bx + c

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Prism Launcher shows up in flat hub (the “app store” that comes with Bazzite).

  It manages different Minecraft instances of different versions, and helps manage mods, texture packs, shaderpacks, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes Steam is the main tool Im using to run games, even non-Steam games.

  Bazzite also comes with Lutris which will set up some wine wrappers for you, which work fine, but Steam gives you things like Steam Input. I’ve never seen a controller mapper as good as Steam Input.

  I don’t know what the performance comparison between Valve’s Proton and current FOSS variants of Wine is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m trying out Bazzite, and although it does take a little tweaking sometimes, I haven’t encountered a game I can’t run yet.