swizzlestick
@swizzlestick@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Day 368 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 days ago:
There’s a world of difference between day 1 and the current build as well. Definitely take another look if you haven’t recently. Devs finally waking up haha.
Favourite part so far has been the lighting system & ragdolls. If you whip a car fast enough in reverse and hit a sweet spot on the swing around, you can send Z flying like baseballs.
- Comment on Day 368 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 days ago:
B42 multiplayer can’t come quick enough…
Have you tried unstable in SP yet?
- Comment on Blorp - A new front end! 4 days ago:
But there are tons of great Lemmy clients out there built by talented people.
Like yourself. You’ve obviously put a lot of graft into your work and it shows. I can appreciate that, regardless of where you are on the generational spectrum.
Wishing you the best :)
- Comment on Blorp - A new front end! 4 days ago:
Not for me I think. On desktop, seems to be much like Tesseract but a little less busy. Alexandrite is just about tolerable and the default frontend is acceptable with dark theming. Newer frontends seem to focus more on big images and spoon-feeding posts bit by bit in a scrolly, algo-friendly manner. I’m more of a reader, so lots of scrolling for comparatively little output won’t ever get along with me. It’s like having a restaurant menu read out to you at the table dish by dish, instead of just simply being given the menu to pick from.
Can’t comment for mobile, as a dedicated app will beat any web based frontend. There’s just no use case in a mobile frontend for me.
Favourite will always be mlmym; hoping it continues to be maintained in forks as it seems to be mostly abandoned by the original author. It puts the most info in the space available, while remaining spartan and uncluttered.
Alternatives are always good though, even when they don’t fit personal preference. I can see how others who have settled on the newer frontends up until now might appreciate Blorp a lot. I realise I am old, grumpy & in the minority on this one.
- Comment on WeTransfer updates T&Cs, allows it to use your data to train AI 1 week ago:
Use a different service, or encrypt your data before upload & share password separately. For anything remotely private, should be doing that already.
For chaotic good, upload LLM poison to fuck with the training data.
- Comment on There is no greater loss than that which is inflicted in the name of war. 2 weeks ago:
…Goddamnit.
- Comment on Does people doing things that upset others also upset you? 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, should have been clear. Lethal allergen tour = bad. Banning completely = also bad.
My main point was that there is a line between discomfort and danger. That line can move based on the situation, so it is awkward to abstract without getting down to specifics.
If say 5% of the population suddenly developed a tendency to go into anaphylactic shock on exposure to vanilla, then you could easily see it disappearing from fragrances altogether and becoming a non-problem in that regard. Yet it would still have culinary use and join many friends on the bolded ingredient lists on food.
There is a turnover point (that I cannot explicitly define) where the onus is on the afflicted to ensure their own safety, rather than the population at large going out of their way to ensure it.
I am fortunate to have no issues like this. In 5% Vanilla-Death-Land, the smell of the stuff would still give me pause, as I probably know someone who could well die from the idiot that just walked in the door honking of it.
If the same person instead just brought in a vanilla milkshake, I probably wouldn’t bat an eye.
- Comment on Does people doing things that upset others also upset you? 2 weeks ago:
Eating an allergen loaded sandwich to yourself - A-OK.
Coating yourself in allergens and going on tour - No.
Banning an allergen because a small fraction of the population suffer - Also No.
For matters of personal preference, I would invite the offended to suck it up and deal with it. For anything with consequences beyond offense, each individual situation is nuanced and common sense should apply. Maybe don’t eat that PB&J just before meeting a bunch of people for the first time.
- Comment on *Now you're playing with power!* 2 weeks ago:
See Derek of Vice Grip Garage on YouTube, picked it up from him :)
- Comment on *Now you're playing with power!* 2 weeks ago:
I loved that TV tuner cartridge.
Had a pair of NiCad battery packs in the end - folks got sick of buying the ‘good’ alkaline batteries for it. Always had one on boil while the other was draining.
- Comment on I think my server might nit be a fan of the upcoming heatwave 3 weeks ago:
Oh nee :((
It’s a Synology NAS so will work with the Synology DSM integration: www.home-assistant.io/integrations/synology_dsm
There’s definitely ways to poll the sensors of other devices though. I had some janky sensors set up before for monitoring a standard Linux box.
- Comment on I think my server might nit be a fan of the upcoming heatwave 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on When you work for a company owned by a A..hole 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update July 2025 3 weeks ago:
Shoutout to @gazby@lemmy.zip then, what a trooper :)
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update July 2025 3 weeks ago:
You’re early!
I’ll actually read this now :)
- Comment on Corporations are saving the planet! 3 weeks ago:
Exactly - some are perfectly fine. The cheap ones are terrible, crossthread too easily, get up in your face, dribble, or all of the above.
Sports style bottles solved the problem long before standard caps got in the game. They get disposed of together here either way, even if the cap gets yanked off for being stupid.
I don’t understand how they end up separate in disposal in the first place. The whole point is that you can reseal the bottle and move/store it without leaking. If you’re not actively using the bottle, it gets resealed to move or store. When you finish the bottle, you probably have the cap still in hand or very close by.
Tangentially, I’d love to see a Pfand type system here.
- Comment on What's a good instance to be on at the moment? 4 weeks ago:
We’ve opened a piefed instance too - early days yet though: piefed.zip
- Comment on Hosting virtualbox for my students 5 weeks ago:
Whatever way you go for setting up the systems themselves, I’ve found dwservice.net to be perfect for accessing systems with only a browser.
The host component is Mac, Windows and Linux compatible. The clients need only an account at DW. Hosts tied to your own account can be shared with others.
Depending on host OS, you get screen, terminal and fire transfer access. Sessions are logged if you need to review who’s accessed what.
Free. Donation optional.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Updated to Lemmy 0.19.12 5 weeks ago:
I almost worried. Actually used my alt for all of 5 minutes 😂
Nicely done and welcome back all.
- Comment on The hidden cost of self-hosting 5 weeks ago:
I condensed down from a power hungry tower server to a couple of thinkstations and a nas. Much nicer on the power.
- Comment on Scheduled Maintenance Tuesday 17th June 12:00 UTC 5 weeks ago:
Good luck 🤞
- Comment on Announcing: Piefed.zip - our new Piefed instance! 5 weeks ago:
At the very least, backups have been fire-tested. We were back up and running within a day when one of the recent upgrades went all to shit.
I have a non-zip alt that sits idle and hopefully will stay idle :)
- Comment on Announcing: Piefed.zip - our new Piefed instance! 5 weeks ago:
All sounds good. Piefed might not be my style, but pitching into .zip as a collective - whatever form it takes - certainly is.
Though I’m sure you will, please police your community sourced mods effectively.
Onwards and upwards, looking forward to seeing how it all develops :)
- Comment on Announcing: Piefed.zip - our new Piefed instance! 5 weeks ago:
Probably not for me, but can’t deny the popularity. Questions:
How distinct is this instance from piefed.zip? Running alongside on same hardware, different hardware at the same host or completely separate?
How will this affect the donation model? What separation or merging of funds do you have in mind? I’m happy either way, but it should be made clear sooner rather than later.
This instance is run by the same team as Lemmy.zip
this doesn’t affect our Lemmy instance in any way.
These two statements are at odds. If the same staff labour is now divided among two instances, then there is an effect. I worry about running into the lemm.ee problem of too few staff to deal with the load of an expanding ‘zippyverse’. I know we’ve added more staff (love you ♥️), but would not want to burn them out. More on the team soon or are you all currently ok with workload?
Best of luck!
- Comment on Bambu Lab Controversy Deepens: Firmware Update Sparks Backlash 5 weeks ago:
That is also a very good point. Not something I would ever allow.
Keep the target audience in mind though, who probably have Ring cameras and other ‘phoney-homey’ budget Chinese crap littered around. Still doesn’t really register on their radar.
- Comment on Bambu Lab Controversy Deepens: Firmware Update Sparks Backlash 5 weeks ago:
Release your models under a license that requires the printer that prints it to be open source.
That has about as much sway as me telling you what bowl you must eat your breakfast from. Completely unenforceable.
Restricting models in such a way would also in itself against core values.
Bambu make great printing appliances but that’s about it. It’s still a good recommendation for someone who just wants to print as a starting point, and unconcerned with much else. The same kind of people would buy OEM cartridges at 3-5x cost for their paper printers and simply don’t care. File goes in, model comes out. Vendor lock-in doesn’t matter to them.
Other options exist for those of us who want to tinker, learn a thing or two, or simply just be in control of their shit.
Still, there will always be a ‘but…’ when I’m mentioning the company to someone looking to start printing. Then they can decide based on their own values.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip 2nd Birthday Giveaway! 🍰 5 weeks ago:
Always welcome. Best of luck with it & be careful working with our around mains electricity. Get a sparky in if you’re at all unsure.
If you’re looking at making a start on smarting up a home, or just bringing a load of existing smart devices under a single point of control - I can’t recommend Homeassistant enough.
The hardware requirements are any old lump of junk (bust laptop, etc) recent enough to have UEFI. Or just run on your existing PC as a virtual machine - that’s how I started.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip 2nd Birthday Giveaway! 🍰 5 weeks ago:
You can usually pick them up from the usual suspects (jungle shop, fleabay etc) too.
Failing that Sonoff do a fairly decent one - MINIR2/3/4, they have updated the model a few times. I use one of their ZBMINI switches as ZigBee is preferred here over WiFi where possible.
This one also worked well in our setup. It’s switching a small dehumidifier here.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip 2nd Birthday Giveaway! 🍰 1 month ago:
No worries.
No garage for us so no personal experience setting up, but I know it from a few years of soaking up related info.
We use Homeassistant here & ratgdo is mentioned a lot when the subject comes up. There’s a whole thing about the manufacturers going to shit and locking down their remote options, hence that hack.
If yours is just a simple switch, something like a Shelly1 could do the job too. I’ve got one of those wired in parallel with our heating thermostat to control the boiler - either by user input or automatically based on other connected sensors :)
- Comment on Lemmy.zip 2nd Birthday Giveaway! 🍰 1 month ago:
ratgdo?
