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- Comment on Linux help and actual pros and cons 1 day ago:
I generally recommend linux mint for beginners, mostly because it’s pretty great at working out of the box, and it pretty general purpose.
- Comment on How do some communities get like 50 members minutes after its creation? 2 days ago:
Yup, pretty much. I’ll lazypaste the response an instance admin made after I asked a similar question recently:
Probably the community follower bot which several instances subscribe to. It’s a way of automating new communities discovery
- Comment on I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game 2 days ago:
Ksp2 was severely botched by Take2… but if you’re into the genre you might want to check out Juno. In addition you might want to keep an eye out for KSA currently in early stages of development.
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 2 days ago:
Mysterious and important, I assume?
- Comment on Can I self host a VPN that sneakies through the China firewall? 4 days ago:
Yes. China’s great firewall mostly handles content filtering and deals with low hanging fruit. Getting around it is fairly simple, and the censorship is mostly focused on stuff that would otherwise be easily accessible.
VPN is your obvious choice here. CCP blocks most public VPN providers, so you’d have to roll your own.
You can set up a VPN concentrator somewhere in the world, and you would be able to reach it. As far as I’ve noticed, they don’t block VPN as a whole, and default port should work fine - the reason for this is probably that VPN has many commercial uses that they don’t want to harm.
Source: I run a (work-related) VPN accessible from inside china.
- Comment on I cannot hook an ethernet cable to a router because the router is using all the plugs. What is a backup to make a Lemmy instance with Yunohost? If there’s no other way, what else can I use? 1 week ago:
I recommend looking at businesses that are closing moving or upgrading. I have a literal stack of old switches retired from work. 48 ports, gigabit, and free.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 1 week ago:
Whichever method is approved by RFK Jr.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 1 week ago:
Contracting silicosis to own the libs. Then use some sort of donkey enema as a cure.
- Comment on Given how paintball guns work, could you swap paintballs for a waterballs? 1 week ago:
Freeze some water into suitably sized balls. I guess that technically fits the design spec.
- Comment on What are the best options for computers that explicitly support linux operating systems? 1 week ago:
Bought a brand new Lenovo Legion last fall. First thing I did was to nuke the harddrive and install linux Mint. Everything worked out of the box.
- Comment on Kitten Space Agency - A community for/about the game by the same name that aims to be the spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program 1 week ago:
Fair enough. I don’t share in your pessimism, though - They are well aware that many KSP fans are jaded by Take2 murdering the potential for a sequel, so they’re focusing on creating something viable before marketing. And I’ve seen the other games they’ve made - They seem to know what they’re doing, and with HarvesteR onboard (who actively participated in the previous townhall, so it’s not just for bragging rights) they seem to have quite a decent team put together.
- Comment on Kitten Space Agency - A community for/about the game by the same name that aims to be the spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program 1 week ago:
Well, this early in the process, trying to pick up what you can is really the only thing you can do. But I’m trying to condense as much confirmed info as I can in the “what we know so far” post.
As for steam, the distribution system is far from set in stone, other than them really wanting to avoid integrating the steam API in the game itself with the limitations this involves. It’s still possible it will be downloadable via steam, though. We’ll just have to wait and see.
- Comment on Kitten Space Agency - A community for/about the game by the same name that aims to be the spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program 1 week ago:
It’s still very early in development, so there isn’t much info beyond the occasional show-and-tell. No need to waste time setting up a website when it only contains info that is likely to change.
From the looks of it, they don’t focus on PR yet because they want to have something to allow players to test before they actually start looking at contributions. “The proof is in the eating, not in the pudding”.
In the most recent townhall they did there was a question whether the townhall would become a recurring thing to which they basically said “when we have something to show, we’ll show it.”
Some nuggets can be seen from time to time on the discord, but the fact of the matter is that setting up the core foundation onto which game mechanics can be later doesn’t result much PR worthy content.
- Comment on Kitten Space Agency - A community for/about the game by the same name that aims to be the spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program 1 week ago:
Long story short, Take2 botched it completely, ended up shutting down the dev studio behind it, and sold off the IPR. And it’s still for sale on steam as “Early Access” despite no development having been made for the past year.
I recommend looking up ShadowZone on YouTube, as he has a few pretty good videos on what happened, both publicly and behind the scenes.
- Kitten Space Agency - A community for/about the game by the same name that aims to be the spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Programsh.itjust.works ↗Submitted 1 week ago to newcommunities@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on Is there still an effort to move technical help threads from Redshit to here? 1 week ago:
Go away, spez
- Comment on Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits 1 week ago:
For some reason they didn’t reach out to me after I received my doctorate in Geopsychology at Abide University…
- Comment on How do you handle absolutely critical alerts on your Android phone? 1 week ago:
I hear the API for alpha centauri development is pretty far behind its peer.
- Comment on Airport face scans could replace boarding passes and check-in as soon as 2028 1 week ago:
The only reason why US agencies have my fingerprint and biometrics is because of visa and TWIC applications. I still prefer doing things the analog way when entering.
Being a foreigner crossing the border is annoying enough, even if I’m the “right” skin color entering legally. No need to have a shitty AI conclude “daymn he ugly” and deport me on a whim.
- Comment on It always seems like its time to move to linux 1 week ago:
I used FreeBSD desktop around 20 years ago. It was alright. It just took some time setting everything up from source.
- Comment on It always seems like its time to move to linux 1 week ago:
Unironically: Every year is the year of the linux desktop.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 week ago:
I don’t drive a BMW, so yes.
- Comment on Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare? 1 week ago:
Left vs Right depends entirely on where the centre lies. Even our (norway) most right-leaning loon party is for public health care.
- Comment on If the USA and China goes to war, how likely will Chinese-Americans end up in "internment camps" like what happened to Japanese-Americans during WW2? 1 week ago:
Technically true, though. The connotation paints a wildly incorrect picture, but Japan does consist of islands in the pacific…
- Comment on Off-grid hosting 2 weeks ago:
Nite: I have not done any research, but I’m just theorizing based on what I already know, and it’s an interesting excersice.
Obviously the biggest problems will be uplink and power. Solar and a battery bank is the obvious choice, but other methods of powers can also work, such as a small generator in a river, etc.
Lead acid batteries are relatively cheap, and building a 12V bank out of car batteries makes sense as there is plenty of off the shelf hardware available to invert or transform 12V into whatever you need. Charging it from solar will be inefficient, but it will work, and there is also plenty of hardware for this (tip: boat-related shops can help you out here)
As for hosting hardware we’re of course dealing with the constraints of load vs power consumption. If you can go for something like a raspberry pi zero, you can run for days off of a single car battery with those cheap 5v cigarette-pkug chargers. If you need something more powerful, you need to scale up power accordingly.
As for uplink, the question is “How much” off grid we’re talking. I will assume that there’s at least GPRS coverage that you can connect to with a 4G modem, even if you don’t get 4G speeds. Plenty of off-the-shelf hardware available here. If not applicable, just substitute with whatever is available, be it CDMA, packet radio, starlink (eww), or anything else.
- Comment on How much are additional lemmy instances needed/wanted beyond what we have at present? 2 weeks ago:
Do you mean communities? I’m a certified technocrat myself, so I’m all in favor of more knowledgefight, but my question is more about instances/servers. Decentralization is always good, but I was just wondering if Lemmy is already centralized “enough” based on its current usage stats.
- Comment on How much are additional lemmy instances needed/wanted beyond what we have at present? 2 weeks ago:
Yes. European, to be specific.
- Comment on How much are additional lemmy instances needed/wanted beyond what we have at present? 2 weeks ago:
Interesting point. I’ll take .onion into consideration.
- Comment on How much are additional lemmy instances needed/wanted beyond what we have at present? 2 weeks ago:
I know. I’m seriously considering making it invite-only, or adk nicely via Matrix. No e-mail needed, but joining won’t be easy either.
And with two rules:
- Don’t behave in a way that results in a ban.
- Common sense applies.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 15 comments