DarkMetatron
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- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up? 4 days ago:
I will look into that too, thank you for the suggestion
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up? 5 days ago:
A new homepage for the business of my wife.
I plan to use Hugo for it, I just wish the documentation would be better.
For the homepage I need a few additional “non-blog” pages and from the documentation I am not sure how to do that the best way.
- Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great? 1 week ago:
I have a Bambu P1S with an AMS after years of using a Ender 3 that was modified to high heavens both on hardware and on firmware level. It is a perfectly fine product and the AMS makes filament changes so much easier, it is a convenience that I personally love. My P1S is running in LAN mode and it works perfectly fine in combination with OrcaSlicer on my Linux machine. No data is send to the Bambu Cloud, everything is local.
Would I like the possibility to have a custom firmware on it? Sure, I always like options. But to be honest: My P1S runs better, smother, faster then my Ender 3 with his many mods and custom firmware ever did.
Is Bambu on my list of manufacturers for another printer purchase? Yes, but near the end after their anti consumer behavior lately.
- Comment on Maybe time travelers actually exist and this mess of a timeline is the result of their interference... 1 week ago:
To test this you need an external observer who can register every quantum outcome and therefore can see/measure in every quantum reality. How else would you get verifiable and reproducable data?
We are very far away from such a possibility, we don’t even know for sure if quantum theory (or which one of the many specific quantum theories) in general or the many worlds interpretation in speciality is even correct or not.
It is a nice thought experiment though.
- Comment on Do I really need a firewall for my server? 1 week ago:
I only bind applications to ports on the Internet facing network interfaces that need to be reachable from outside, and have all other ports closed because nothing is listening on them. A firewall in this case would bring me no further protection from external threats, because all those ports have to be open in the firewall too.
But Linux comes with a firewall build in, so I use it even if it is not strictly needed with my strict port management regime for my services. And a firewall has the added benefit to limit outgoing network traffic to only allowed ports/applications.
- Comment on If you are ever feeling like what you are doing is meaningless, remember that there are American lawyers and judges who have spent many years studying US constitutional law. 1 week ago:
Not everyone will be dead, because the villain himself lives and when he breaks the honor code he will be ashamed of himself for his hole life, always haunted by the memories of his disgrace and his lack of honor. Or any other bullshit explanation like that…
Yeah, the evil villain should be evil and ignore all the honor code rules.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 2 weeks ago:
Makes me feel like home 🥰
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 2 weeks ago:
Me, reading the topic while playing Morrowind: “Yeah, that seems correct!”
- Comment on The human hand is incredibly good at seeing what's inside your pocket 3 weeks ago:
Oh I was not questioning it, not at all. I was just shocked that I was again remembered that I am getting old(er).
- Comment on Normal people probably don't consider themselves normal. 3 weeks ago:
Normal people doesn’t exist, because people is a way to broad term to perform any kind of normalisation.
- Comment on The human hand is incredibly good at seeing what's inside your pocket 3 weeks ago:
Oh yes Se7en, such a great movie 🍿 It’s really nearly 30 years old, damn… I still vividly remember when the film was in cinema.
- Comment on The human hand is incredibly good at seeing what's inside your pocket 3 weeks ago:
It is a quote from Dune
Gaius Helen Mohiam: The test is simple. Remove your hand from the box, and you die. Paul Atreides: What’s in the box? Gaius Helen Mohiam: Pain.
- Comment on The human hand is incredibly good at seeing what's inside your pocket 3 weeks ago:
Pain!
- Comment on What host names do you use? 3 weeks ago:
Solar System objects for my local network and names of extra solar objects for my offside servers. With all the moons and named trans neptunian objects in the solar system I so far had no issues finding a hostname candidate.
- Comment on We are becoming the first digital grandparents 1 month ago:
There is no pre SNES Mario Kart era, the first Mario Kart was for the SNES…
- Comment on What do you regard as retro? 1 month ago:
It gets even worse, I more and more see the use of NeoRetro when “Games that looks and feel old” are referenced. We already have words for that, but the gaming scene seems to be fixated on the word Retro alone.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 2 months ago:
A modded version of Final Fantasy Tactics
- Comment on For me, Cyberpunk 2077 was uninteractive and has low replayablility value. 4 months ago:
Cyberpunk is a great game, it has a great story that is marvelous told. That is the games biggest strength and one of its biggest limitations too. Heavy story driven games like cyberpunk don’t mix very good with a open world with its many detractions and side quests. If a game has a strong story that will capture the player, making side quests and open world design a burden, or into something that gets ignored.
Logically viewed everything that V would do after having Jonny implanted in his/her brain should be laser focused on the task to learn more about it and to find a cure or solution. There should be no driving around and playing mommy or daddy for some freaked out cabs or other side quests. Yes, doing side quests could be explained as a way to get resources for the main tasks, but as those side quests are completely optional there is nothing really backing that explanation up.
So you either have to ignore a life threatening condition to play side quests or ignore that huge part of the game and fixate on the main quest.
Cyberpunk has no real “sandbox” moment because the open world really only opens up after you get the world largest cyber brain virus implanted deeply.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 4 months ago:
There is so much to do and to see in the game, I have so many hours in and still find new stuff that I had not seen before.
25h is barely the main quest and there is so much else to see and do then the main quest. Faction quests, side quests, radiant quests, base building, ship building, new game plus, DLC, mods.
Starfield is packed full with stuff to discover, people just have to be open for the game. Yes it has lots of flaws, the awful temple puzzle was the first thing that I changed with mods, and yes the loading screens are not great. I can forgive the game it’s flaws, maybe because I never over hyped it as so much other did.
I am playing Bethesda games for over 20 years now, since Morrowind, and I have a very good idea what to expect from a Bethesda game and where the strength and limitations of the engine are. Due to this I never expected to be able to do atmospheric flights or to travel over huge parts of the planet in one go, or to have huge interplanetary or interstellar areas. The engine is not made for that kind of things, not at all, so I never expected the game to have those features and so my expectations for the game were very similar to the delivered product.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 4 months ago:
I still play Starfield, I really like the game but have it modded a lot now.
Never had any fun with No man’s sky, for me the story is boring and the rest of the game can’t hook me. In my eyes Starfield is a way better game, but I can see and understand why other think different about this.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 4 months ago:
In descending order: Skyrim Fallout 4 Starfield
Morrowind is a game that has extreme hours too, but not sure if it is 1000+ (yet).
- Comment on We are a lot more alike than we are different 4 months ago:
My comment was more in general for all of society, not only political parties.
But yes, for political parties that would be great!
- Comment on We are a lot more alike than we are different 4 months ago:
Yes, it gets problematic as soon as extreme positions and mentalities enter the equation. All extrem positions are toxic, extreme left, extreme right, extreme religious (any religion), extreme fans of a sports club, extreme anything doesn’t matter.
If we could find some kind of balance, some true middle ground without huge extremes, then the world would be a much nicer place.
- Comment on There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolation 4 months ago:
My socializing during the pandemic was more or less the same as before or after the pandemic. I am very sensitive to sound, a introvert, a huge nerd and don’t care for most of the topics “normal” people talk about like sport. I have no reason to go outside, I don’t like to be at places with many people and I don’t any knowledge in topic that can be used for smalltalk.
Due to this the biggest part of my social bubble is located all over the world and we communicate purely online. It was called lockdown but for me it was just a normal Tuesday.
- Comment on Warcraft 1 and 2 Remastered and the long-awaited 2.0 patch update for Warcraft 3: Reforged have just launched on PC for Warcraft's 30th anniversary 4 months ago:
There exist a few but I personally had the best results with Dune Legacy: sourceforge.net/projects/dunelegacy/
- Comment on Warcraft 1 and 2 Remastered and the long-awaited 2.0 patch update for Warcraft 3: Reforged have just launched on PC for Warcraft's 30th anniversary 4 months ago:
There are open source engine rebuilds for Dune 2 that offer lots of QoL/UX refinements so it is really great to play but at the same time those changes make the game way to easy.
Dune 2 was designed and balanced with the limitations in mind and removing them utterly breaks the difficulty.
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 5 months ago:
And with Gentoo you have to spin your own yarn before the knitting 😁
- Comment on Classic SNES RPG Illusion Of Gaia Gets Fresh Translation 30 Years After Its Western Release | Time Extension 5 months ago:
Not for emulators, but with Everdrives for example it is possible to play it on native hardware and there load times matter. So improving loading times is a great feature