NutinButNet

@NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right about that. This was meant for walls so probably would get nasty and gunky quick when on the floor since it wasn’t designed for that.

  It makes me wonder if someone developed a special putty for this purpose though. Somehow public places like banks and government buildings keep these down and don’t had to deal with stubborn corners!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard some people doing the water + cup method where you damp the corner with water and then leave a cup on it and it will reposition the corner to stay down. But that is only when the corner has actually come up and you want to fix it and it sounds like you want to be proactive and prevent it from coming up in the first place?

  Perhaps there is some other type of adhesive you can use to keep it down but bring up when needed? My mom used to use this blue gum like substance that would hold things to the walls in her classroom. It didn’t leave residue and would come off with little ease on your part but keep things held onto the wall. That may work here? She used to get it from office supplies stores and it legit looks like gum. Can’t remember the exact name of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is immersion to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Immersion for me is when you cross NPCs engaged in something that has either no relation or no involuntary relation to the playable character.

  I think of games like Elder Scrolls or Cyberpunk or Read Dead Redemption 1 & 2 where you can be walking somewhere and come across something in progress. Most immersive is when you can ignore the situation entirely if you choose to. Even more would be ignoring it and you never seeing it mentioned again in your playthrough. I’m not sure I can name any game that does this, in my experience. But I would love to play a game like that where I am on my way to something/somewhere and something interesting is happening and I have to make a choice to either experience this now before I never can ever again in this playthrough or keep going where I’m going. Kind of like real life and you see something crazy on the street going to work. If you don’t stop and look at that now, you will never see it again in your life unless it was recorded. You get a consequence of either missing out on work but seeing something crazy cool or the consequence of missing out on something crazy cool but making it on time for work.

  I also find myself most immersed when the devs create a world that feels lived in and with things that don’t have official explanations. I think RDR1 & 2 have done this so well. I’m a player who likes to go off the beaten path and explore anything and everything. Coming across a random hatch in the middle of a grassy meadow but is never explained in game is so fascinating to me and I’ll spend many minutes trying to find any clues about what this is in the area. Very much like the real world and walking through an alley and finding a burned out car or something that just doesn’t get seen often but gets you wondering about the backstory and checking the nearby area for clues to see what may explain how this got here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did something like this a few years ago. Not saving someone’s life, but not reading messages and deleting my Facebook account.

  I just got overloaded on it all and was going through a breakup at the time and didn’t want to keep talking to anyone. Nothing personal against anyone, I was just over it all and wanted out of Facebook, out of the addiction I felt to constantly check, and out of the privacy concerns of Facebook.

  Could be a similar reason?

  Also, was this Facebook or something else? Because if it was Facebook, it’s possible a privacy setting prevented the message from successfully going through.

  There was this girl who was the daughter of a popular figure I knew many years ago and we lost contact over the years. I tried reaching out to her once on there and she never read the message. She was very social so I know she would have read it if she got it. But there is or was a privacy setting that could hide messages depending on how Facebook viewed a message and relationship of the two accounts. In our case, we had no mutual friends and no contact before on that account of mine and no other commonalities so Facebook hides the message in some deep place most people don’t check because it’s treated like spam or an unwanted stalker. I found some messages from random people there a few times on my account too. So maybe that happened here too?

  Of course this is all assuming this is Facebook and they still have these measures in place all these years later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: House flies always launch backwards, no exceptions. Creep behind them and they'll jump into your crushing hand.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Was going to say the same. I’ve had a few of these over the years (they’re cheap plastic and break). But they are amazing.

  I have a moth problem right now but they are no match for this. The salt gets sprayed like a shotgun blast and will get them as long as you shot in their general area.

  I also use it on spiders. Every summer I have black widows around the house and this thing works wonders on them.

  Just try not to drop them or keep the salt loaded in them too long. Those two things seem to be what has killed my previous ones more often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people actually believe those "gurus" on the internet that supposedly "give advice"? These seems very sussy and feel scam-adjacent, isn't it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FOMO is a hell of a drug.

  Some people just have a “well what if they’re right? I might be missing out on $1 million!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to lem.ee?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lem.ee was relatively easy to join and IIRC, didn’t require approval like some others require, at least the 2 times I made accounts there. Where you sign up and wait for an acceptance if they accept you.

  Because of that is why a lot of shit came through and I imagine that was something he didn’t want to change. It was probably a dealbreaker, either his instance has this or it doesn’t exist. But because of that, you’re going to get more spammers and bad actors, unfortunately.

  It was also on the front page of Lemmy for a while, so that probably attracted more people for that reason alone. I know because it was the first instance I joined with because I didn’t know there were other instances to join.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to deal with agression?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Start by recognizing the three states: passive, assertive, and aggressive and learn how to maintain that balance in being assertive.

  You don’t want to be aggressive, which is when you are on the offensive and is overtly rude/disrespectful and hostile.

  You also don’t want to be passive, which is when you let people run you over and railroad everything you do. You let people disrespect you.

  You want to be assertive. You are honest and upfront about your wants/needs in a respectful and calm manner. You make compromises when appropriate and necessary. You aren’t railroading others nor allowing others to railroad you. You understand that others exist and ensure others remember that you exist as well.

  The difficulty, at least for me, is that assertive can sometimes come off as aggressive. But standing up for yourself in a reasonable manner is not, no matter what people may think or say. Sometimes someone may think that because you speak up for yourself, that’s aggressive behavior, but it’s really not. Simply telling someone else, “That hurt my feelings and I’d like for you not to do that again” on its own is not an aggressive reaction but assertive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I find enjoyment in some of them, but not all. I can’t find entertainment in watching someone else play a game. I often wonder if a lot of the people doing this on sites like Twitch are the “younger siblings” who always watched someone else play and now that’s their thing?

  I do find enjoyment in watching a musician listen to music I like, but more so for their commentary like picking up on things I never paid attention to or explaining something and how it compares to other music. Or seeing how they react and if they have the same reactions I do to my favorite parts of a song. I don’t know why, but I get a kick out of seeing reactions like that.

  And on the reaction video side, a very rare time I can see it is like watching some old person watch GTA gameplay and seeing their reaction to it. Even then, it’s going to be for the most extreme of reactions like them really going all out crazy over it and having a hilarious response.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This was prior to the RAM rising, but Valve stated that the Steam Frame would be cheaper than the Index which was at $999 USD.

  That could change now after RAM pricing, but nothing has been said yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it depends on what you’re talking about.

  Most of my conversations are about computers and technology, so shorting to 25 from 2025 is obvious since 1925, 1825, etc. didn’t have technology involving an iPhone, Linux, etc.

  But if we’re talking something like cars, you probably need to be specific. You won’t be able to say something like “I bought a ‘20 Ford” because that could be at least two different years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why make 250GB m.2 disks instead of 1TB⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s actually what I went with. A Samsung Pro Endurance and specifically for the reason you cited since it’ll be on 24/7. But 128GB was the smallest my local store had. It was only $20 USD.

  I’m sure Amazon has them in smaller varieties, but I rather go to brick and mortar.

  I feel I could have gone much lower for capacity and cost and it would have been a better choice for this purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why make 250GB m.2 disks instead of 1TB⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. Was looking for a micro SD for my Raspberry Pi and can’t find anything in local retail stores beneath 128GB which seems like overkill for my use-case.

  And same for bootable flash drives. I hate having to use 64GB instead of a 8GB which are no longer easy to find in local retail stores. I’d settle for 16GB at this point!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's kind of funny how many late 90s games had at least one drum and bass track⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Snowboarding games always seemed to have mostly drum and bass music like SSX and Transworld. And then you had games like Sonic that had a ton of it plus some great rock from Crush 40.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you want to get into handheld gaming, but don't want to spend a lot, buy one of these.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you already have a Xbox/PlayStation/Switch controller, you can also use that. There are very cheap mounts you can buy for each of these controllers for ~$10 USD that will allow you to hook up to your phone seated on top of the controller.

  It’s not nearly as comfortable as this is (though you could say it is because the controller, itself feels better in the hands, but I’m talking viewing angle) but it’s a lot cheaper and doesn’t require buying a new, dedicated controller.

  Not knocking your suggestion, OP. Just providing a secondary alternative too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would a cheap, used raspberry pi 3 make for a good test server for following random self hosted tutorials?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

• How does "DNS" work on the dark web?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] What is the best rated 18+ anime you've seen?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you! It’s working now, wrote this on Voyager!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stopping the scraper bot menace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is he making a promise about promises?