Localhorst86
@Localhorst86@feddit.org
- Comment on Another update that no one asked for 3 days ago:
As someone who uses nextcloud exclusively for calDAV and cardDAV, what replacements are recommended?
- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 6 days ago:
The YouTube microphone situation is crazy…
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
Back when Randall Munroe released his “What if” in eBook format, it essentially was only available with DRM.
When I emailed him about it, asking for a place to buybit without DRM, he responded with DRM being mandatory by his publisher, and finished his email with a link to this comic of his:
xkcd.com/488/ - Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
I bought a kindle when amazon sold them for a special price of 25 Euro. It’s a cool device for reading books, but I found their UI horrendously cluttered and filled with “suggestions” instead of focusing on the content I already have. I have since jailbroken the device and am using koreader on the device to read my ebooks transfered as epubs via calibre.
That has the advantage that when I buy DRM-free books in epub format, I am not relying on amazon to properly convert the file to a kindle proprietary format.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Nintendo Switch 2 Version Delayed Indefinitely 1 week ago:
Borderlands 4 is better than Borderlands 4, but not even half as good as Borderlands 4.
Looking forward to the sequel, Borderlands 4.
- Comment on Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI ‘Superintelligence’ 2 weeks ago:
Yes, that is why I do it as well.
- Comment on Not even half a year left 2 weeks ago:
It is April already? Damn
- Comment on What are you guys using to sort and name music? 3 weeks ago:
My workflow is:
-Musicbrainz Picard to get all the information from an online database
-clean up the tags with kid3 (Linux), rename files and folders
-use mp3gain to “normalize” all songs to the same level, so I don’t have to constantly adjust the volume. - Comment on In a week dominated by Silksong and Borderlands, co-op roguelike Shape of Dreams still managed to launch on Steam as an instant top-seller 3 weeks ago:
I can’t find any info about a blanket ban on idle/clicker games, and quite frankly, I don’t see why valve would ban them.
For them, it’s free money:
- the developer has to pay a flat fee for the game to appear on the storefront
- the developer has to pay an additional fee to enable community items
- both the developer as well as valve receive a percentage cut of the sale price in the community marketplace
- Comment on In a week dominated by Silksong and Borderlands, co-op roguelike Shape of Dreams still managed to launch on Steam as an instant top-seller 3 weeks ago:
my guess is that a lot of people let the game idle in the background to farm items, that’s why it’s so “popular”. It’s not “active players”, it’s just a large number of people farming items in the hopes to get one they can sell for a larger sum.
Afaik it has been in the top charts for over a year. - Comment on In a week dominated by Silksong and Borderlands, co-op roguelike Shape of Dreams still managed to launch on Steam as an instant top-seller 3 weeks ago:
Banana (which I’ve never even heard of and I have no clue why it’s that popular).
It’s an idle/clicker game that drops steam items that can, theoretically, be sold for money. I can’t recommend it.
- Comment on Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74 3 weeks ago:
relevant xkcd:
xkcd.com/1683/ - Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 3 weeks ago:
chool shootings are the price for being able to own guns
Not just the price, but a worthy price. I find it ironic that he himself has now been victim of a school shooting.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 3 weeks ago:
The Bitrate part was a joke, yes. 96k is low, although I just remembered a special mp3 codec from NERO that allowed for such low bitrate, at the same perceived sound quality as 128kbps.
But obviously, all my CDs have been ripped as either V2, V0 or 320kbps - I personally have not noticed any difference to FLAC files with either of those qualities.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 3 weeks ago:
honestly, most of my CDs have been used once: Put in a PC and ripped (to 96kbps MP3s, of course!)
- Comment on Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification 4 weeks ago:
personally i read “Down and Out in the magic Kingdom” as well as the german translation “Backup”, which - while not masterpieces - were quite enjoyable.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification 4 weeks ago:
old man yells at cloud
- Comment on I want to go back 1 month ago:
NFS Most Wanted (2005) would like a word with you…
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 2 months ago:
I don’t think we can count the AUR repository as the “default package” because:
- AUR is a community driven project, for users, by users.
- Arch user needs to explicitely get out of their way to access and use AUR
- AUR repos are not even packages (usually). They are build-instructions. There are specific -bin repos that provide packaged binaries, but that was not the case here, because the emulators license doesn’t allow that.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #22 3 months ago:
First of all:
I hope your health improves. While I tend to not read the entirety of your writeups, I always skim them and then read the details on topics that are interesting. It would be a shame to not find your posts on lemmy anymore, as I prefer the interaction over a microblogging service like mastodon.as for your question
…have you picked up any games? What have you bought,
I have picked up:
- Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy for 3,99€
- Supermoves for 0,77€
- Mirage Feathers for 2,99€
- a bunch of DLC for Vampire Survivors.
Crash Bandicoot is at an all-time-low price, if you haven’t picked it up in a humblebundle years ago, now might be your chance.
Another game I can recommend is “Beyond: Two Souls”, which is available for 1,99€ on Steam. It’s a great story driven game, with multiple endings and great acting. You might also want to get “Detroit: Become Human”, a very similar title in terms of gameplay.
- Comment on Is sweat there different? 3 months ago:
Looks like 87% of people leaving votes understood the obvious sarcasm, even without the /s
- Comment on Is sweat there different? 3 months ago:
I did not, I deliberately left it out. It should be immediately clear that my comment is sarcasm.
- Comment on 43 pregnant men 3 months ago:
18 more wild cowboys out in the yard!
- Comment on Is sweat there different? 3 months ago:
maybe we should find another sollution than having women store money in their bras?
As a conservative, I propose women should no longer be allowed to handle money, when they go outside they need to be accompanied by their husband or father, who will handle their money for them. That way, women are also unable to spend money on useless shit like birth control, pads etc. and can use it to buy proper stuff, like beer and meat!
- Comment on Good ending 3 months ago:
I buy all my clothes at soup
- Comment on Please do not the horse 4 months ago:
I don’t know, I believe this footage might have been tampered with.
Why is the horses mane not moving?
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #17 4 months ago:
What have you been playing
My usual games: Tetris Effect, Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 (openRCT2), Mario Kart 8 Deluxe But also a few other games: Selfloss, Trans Neurotica and GTA V.
Allthough my Steam Deck will be out of service for a few days, I found a “spicy pillow” in my deck, have to wait for a replacement battery to show up :(
- Comment on Always your first reaction at work 4 months ago:
“we’re breaking up with you. It’s not you, it’s me. I’m leaving the company,”
- Comment on Inflation markers 4 months ago:
Jack Link’s is probably the cheapest beef jerky you can find in supermarkets in Germany. Its about 5€ per bag (~$5 USD), 3€ if it’s on sale.
Its absolute garbage though. Way too sweet.
I switched to making my own jerky at home, using a cheap food dehydrator. That comes out cheaper and tastes a lot better.
- Comment on Keeping me up at night 4 months ago:
sounds to me like resuscitation was successfull, then.
Thank you for your service o7