NutinButNet
@NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com
- Comment on Would a cheap, used raspberry pi 3 make for a good test server for following random self hosted tutorials? 2 days ago:
Can confirm this. I experienced this on my Pi3 recently with a VPN. I mean, it wasn’t the end of the world. Just that the specific docker container I wanted to use wasn’t compatible because of ARM so I had to go with a different one.
It could be bad for specific things that are more obscure. But I use my Pi for PiHole adblocking and VPN and that’s it. My other stuff lives on another machine and the Pi is set up for redundancy and it’s more reliable if power outages happen since power in means power on by default.
If you can get one for cheap and just want it for the same reason, could be alright.
- Comment on New Community Rule: "No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports." 2 days ago:
What are some examples of low-effort posts? I’ve never felt that way about any posts I’ve seen here. Granted I’m not a heavy user in this community, just been a lurker, but I may be using this more as I grow my own home lab.
- Comment on Who shops at small businesses? 2 days ago:
Depends on what it is. Like for pizza, I do go to the big chains sometimes but I prefer the local pizza places more. But the prices are insane!
Pizza place down the road wants $30 for a simple large pepperoni pizza. But Dominos will only charge me around $12 for the same size pizza with more toppings.
A local Mexican restaurant does pizzas and I’ve been going there more because their pizzas are the absolute best I’ve ever tasted and they’re cheap at around $10 for a large. You simply cannot beat it any way you try.
But it’s hard because of this. Either local places are too expensive or just aren’t as convenient. I hate to say it, but it’s convenient to go into a place like Walmart and get both groceries and electronics and furniture all in the same trip, not to mention the cheaper prices. But there’s also other factors too like peace of mind. I bought some clothes from Target recently in another city and took them back for a refund to my local Target and had no grief. Also, if I don’t have the receipt, they have the ability to look up my card and find my purchase and refund. I also have peace of mind knowing they have blanket policies they follow. 90 days means 90 days for all their stores.
Whereas a local place may tell you 7 days, but is it really? Some places can be more lenient and go beyond the 7 days and some will pretend they never made such a promise. Such is the case for this place down the road from me that is a small, locally owned outlet place that resells stuff and they tell you 7 days and tell other people a different policy and then sometimes don’t honor it at all. Even if one of the Targets denies my return, I’ll go across town and try another Target and maybe get an employee who just doesn’t give a shit and get my stuff done. Happened to me with a bank and a manager who was doing some illegal shit and not letting me withdraw my money. I reported her and the bank and they did get investigated and eventually apologized to me for the manager, but that was months later. And the point was that I went across town and did my legal transaction without issues there. A local bank with one branch could have denied me and I’d have been out and waiting on the government or a lawyer to strongarm them into doing what they legally are supposed to do.
And another thing I realized years ago is that I as a minority may have issues in small towns where they don’t like people who look like me. Local restaurant legally can’t not serve me because they’re racist pricks but may do something like jack up the prices on me or be rude to me to discourage me from staying. But try that in a chain like Dennys and corporate will knock that shit off quick. They don’t want lawsuits and the negative publicity that comes with it all and will fire those racist pricks from representing their brand. I have peace of mind knowing that I can go into a Walmart and less likely to deal with discrimination. Though….the recent news about large chains wanting to make “personalized”/surge pricing is one of those downsides that a local place will likely never be able to do because they don’t have the technology for it or the manpower to maintain such a system.
Conclusion for me has been that I’m grateful both exist. But online retailers like Amazon I think are a bigger threat we should be worried about. Your local government can do something about both local and big businesses but can’t do much about online retailers fucking you over. And online retailers are causing brick and mortar to close at larger rates than ever before. It’s depressing seeing so many businesses, both small and big, close down and shopping malls become ghost towns.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 4 days ago:
Only in single player games and typically only when it’s too challenging like that mission/quest that is just really frustrating.
Or if I’ve already beaten the game and lost progress and just want to quickly get back to where I was.
Other than that, not really much. Maybe once in a while just to fuck around, but that’s about it for me. I don’t think it should be that big of a deal for single player offline games and you’re not trying to hit a leaderboard. It’s annoying seeing those on some games’ leaderboards and it’s obvious they’re there just because they cheated.
- Comment on Best way to browse and share files between hoarders? 4 days ago:
SFTP has been mentioned and is a good choice but this could also be done over torrents too. It’s the other most common legitimate use besides Linux distros.
- Comment on Solar Powered Wifi Camera with Wireguard 4 days ago:
Probably a direct link to the home network so the camera looks like it’s on the same network.
I’ve thought of and tried this for my VR headset to my home in a similar manner. The VR headset will only stream from my gaming PC if it’s on the same network and so I’d hope to use a VPN to tunnel into my network when not at home to play remotely. I’ve not gotten this to work, but this sounds like a similar hope for OP with a camera.
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- Comment on [Discussion] What is the best rated 18+ anime you've seen? 4 weeks ago:
I’m personally not familiar with AMV Hell but, going to cover this in spoiler to explain the exact scene from Golden Boy and give a summary of the show’s premise so you can compare:
Tap for spoiler
The whole Golden Boy anime is 5 episodes long and revolves around this guy, Kintaro, who is obsessed with women but he is also quite oblivious. The show follows him as he rides his bicycle around Japan doing odd jobs and meeting various women. In episode 4, Kintaro is riding his bicycle and a motorcycle passes him at a high speed and it turns out to be a very sexy woman riding the motorcycle. Kintaro follows her and eventually learns that she has a hideout where she keeps her motorcycle and she is, as literally as she can, having sex with her motorcycle. Well, more like getting off, sexually, to the motorcycle in an almost nude way, as she continually pulls the accelerator. She tells Kintaro that men just don’t do it for her like her motorcycle can.
- Comment on Stopping the scraper bot menace 4 weeks ago:
Thank you! It’s working now, wrote this on Voyager!
- Comment on Stopping the scraper bot menace 4 weeks ago:
I am noticing some issues on the third party app Voyager. I am currently accessing via my phone’s browser and I saw the Tollbot prompt for a second and then everything loaded up. But on the Voyager app, it loads for about 10 seconds and then fails. This is what it shows after that imgur.com/a/6oRTUVg trying to pull down and load again results in additional failures.
This just started this hour, not sure before that as the last time I was successfully on was when I made the previous comment and I didn’t have any issues at that time. Also on the same network as before, so I don’t believe it is my network that is causing this issue either.
- Comment on Stopping the scraper bot menace 4 weeks ago:
Have any other admins of other instances reported similar?
My first thought was more sinister considering how many other instances seem to hate this instance due to political disagreements and how some of them overlap with the types who dox people for their real identities.
- Comment on [Discussion] What is the best rated 18+ anime you've seen? 4 weeks ago:
Depends on what you’re looking for.
For me, I loved Golden Boy for the humor and stories. It’s not really like others with lots of fighting and violence. It’s 18 because of the mature sexually suggestive themes of the show. The second to last episode is the most sexually explicit with a woman doing stuff on a motorcycle and the first episode has tons of female body imagery that is very exaggerated.
So far everyone else here seems to share the anime that is more focused on fighting.
- Comment on What's the best way to ease getting back in shape after years of little to no exercise? 5 weeks ago:
It was hard for me to start too and still is, to be truthful.
But what I do is set a small goal and stick with it.
I reallllyyyyyy don’t want to go to the gym after work, but I force myself to go for just 30 minutes. When I first started, I would just ride the exercise bike at the gym for 30 minutes. That quickly turned into a competition, of sorts for me. Sure, I just hit 30 minutes, but I’m at 9.7 miles, why not stick around to hit 10 miles?! Oh I just hit 10 miles, but I’m at 34 minutes…might as well stay on for one more minute….etc.
I have a small bit of OCD (for lack of a better term) so I use that against me for my benefit in this way.
But even if you don’t have that OCD-like mentality, you can still go for 30 minutes and do something and then you might get into the zone and branch out to other exercises. Even if it’s not a gym, it can happen with other things. Go for a hike somewhere may have you thinking you should start biking and come back here for the trail that is perfect for biking. You go to the local park to walk and start seeing people doing other exercises that intrigue you. Etc.
I have moved from exercise bike to stairs now. I do 10 minutes and I am sweating and then go do some weights. I have the momentum at that point to actually lift and hit real goals, stretching beyond what I am comfortable with because now drenched in sweat and okay with pushing myself further to really extend that burn. Whereas before I would try lifting and I wouldn’t actually do much because I didn’t feel comfortable pushing myself too far. Something to do with sweating for me, I guess.
But as I said, I still have days where I don’t want to. And I will sometimes just go for 30 minutes. And that’s fine! Staying active and moving should be the goal to keeping out of being in the slumps.
Just get out there and do something and set a small goal for yourself to start.
- Comment on Good Halloween Games 5 weeks ago:
Rock and stone brutha!
- Comment on ‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’ 5 weeks ago:
Is he making a promise about promises?
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know about first, but she was one of the first I can remember
- Comment on Should We Do A, or Some type of recognition post for ppl who post a lot on HC? 1 month ago:
I think it may help drive some traffic and encourage more posts. But not all, some pale may not care much.
Also, it could be repetitive if it’s always the same person month after month, for example.
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- Comment on What's a song that grew on you? 1 month ago:
Most recently is Infinite Source by Deftones. Almost skipped it because I didn’t care for the guitar sound, but the last 2/3 pulled me in and now I’m obsessed.
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- Comment on This Ratchet & Clank game from 2006 was almost lost to time 1 month ago:
Doom RPG was actually pretty fun. I’m really disappointed it never got updated to 64-bit so isn’t compatible with my iPhone anymore.
I think this was perfect because it wasn’t real time combat but turn based combat. I used to play it first on one of my first flip phones back in the day.
- Comment on What's a bad habit you use to have for a long time but finally fixed? 1 month ago:
Of course I do! I was OBSESSED with that set lol. It was a small one too, I wasn’t trying to be too demanding but I was big into collecting the RES-Q series. But I have checked on it a few times since then.
It was about $10 USD and now it’s worth about $50 USD set # 6445 www.brickeconomy.com/…/lego-res-q-emergency-evac
I used to get those little yellow catalogues and I’d sit there and stare at this set for hours on end.
- Comment on What's a bad habit you use to have for a long time but finally fixed? 1 month ago:
Biting my nails. I’m not even sure how or when I quit it.
I remember when I was younger and one of my mom’s cousins told me she would buy me anything I wanted if I stopped biting my nails. I think it was around that time I did but I’m not totally sure. I do remember that I didn’t see her often but the next time I saw her, I did stop and she didn’t buy me the LEGO set I asked her for lol
I see her every now and then (this is like 15-20 years later) and I’m always tempted to ask her about that old ass LEGO set she never got for me that I really wanted 😂
- Comment on SteamOS on my gaming PC? 1 month ago:
Bazzite is built very similarly to how SteamOS looks and works but there is also Pop!_OS which a lot of gamers use as the person you replied to said.
There is also Garuda Linux which is another gaming centered distro, but it can be a bit intimidating for newbies.
You might also check out CachyOS (what I’m currently using) and Nobara, which a lot of gamers are also using now.
CachyOS is similar to both SteamOS and Bazzite in having a dedicated mode for gaming much like is found on the Steam Deck. I personally have not tried it but saw it and thought it was interesting.
I personally use CachyOS as a desktop on my gaming PC and it’s been working pretty well with very limited setup on my part. As far as drivers, I haven’t actually done anything and everything was dedicated and playable. Versus when I was on KDE Neon, I needed to manually configure the driver for my RTX 4080 Super because my monitor’s refresh at 180 was not coming across until that fix happened. Didn’t need to do any of that on CachyOS.
The big thing about CachyOS that a lot of people like is the speed, as it does feel very fast and loads my games up very nicely. I personally have not done any testing, but gaming has felt good on this over the last month and a half of me using it.
It looks and feels a lot like Windows 10 does but that is mostly down to it using KDE Plasma. So whatever distro you use, I highly recommend going with KDE Plasma as your desktop since that’s what you’ve been most familiar with. You’ll notice when you go to different distro’s download pages that they’ll have stuff like a Gnome or Plasma distro option or they’ll ask you when you are installing it what desktop environment you want.
- Comment on How will Google enforce the new requirements for apps outside Play Store to register? will they implement it in Google Play Services or in Android itself? 2 months ago:
It’ll likely be in the Android kernel much like what Microsoft does with Windows S Mode which does the same thing in Windows.
We won’t know for sure until it’s implemented how it will work within Android.
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 2 months ago:
That sounds like a great idea but how is the ventilation on that setup? Does it have ventilation for letting in cool air and exhausting the hot air?
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 2 months ago:
I accepted and just didn’t buy it to begin with.
- Comment on How've you been ? 2 months ago:
Make sure to get your rest and take care of yourself!
I’m taking a full week off of work in a week just for this :D
- Comment on How've you been ? 2 months ago:
Pretty good, how about you?
- Comment on erotic scenes actors and actresses, how do you not get aroused while acting in those scenes? 2 months ago:
Could be a few things:
- one is clever cuts. Film one scene and film a scene at a different time. The time you see the actor looking at something erotic, you position the camera on them but they are looking at something that is not erotic so they don’t get aroused. But you give the illusion that the character is looking at it to the audience.
- masturbation. If you masturbate before the scene, then you are less likely to get visibly aroused.
- get an actor who isn’t aroused by that. If filming a scene with a man trying to seduce another man and he fails, then get a straight guy who won’t be aroused by the gay seduction.
- too many cuts. Many scenes you see on TV and movies have been filmed multiple times. Rare is it for them to do one cut and be done, even if it was perfect and got everything the director was hoping to see. After doing that scene a few times, the natural feelings get lost on you. It’s why a lot of funny scenes that make the audience burst out laughing uncontrollably can be filmed without the cast and crew doing that to ruin the scene. You’ve done it so much that you are now so tired and bothered, you don’t feel the natural urge to laugh or be aroused. Some directors will use this to their advantage in, what some may consider to be unethical, to agitate their actors into feeling emotions for a scene or so they don’t feel emotions for a scene.
