BruisedMoose
@BruisedMoose@piefed.social
- Comment on Nintendo Lowers Pricepoint For Digital Versions of Switch 2 Games 1 week ago:
I’m not defending Nintendo, game pricing or whatever, but “begs the question why they’ll remain higher”? Really?
You can’t think of any reason why a physical product that has to be manufactured, shipped, unpacked, stocked, and sold by people would cost more than a download?
Game pricing has become obscene and there is no way on God’s great earth I’m dropping $80 on any game, but I think a $10 lower price point makes some sense. I’d love it to be more.
- Comment on What are your hallmark games? What games have shaped how you view games? 2 weeks ago:
But I mean aren’t our favorite games naturally the ones that have most influenced us and our views on gaming?
- Comment on What are your hallmark games? What games have shaped how you view games? 2 weeks ago:
I miss it so much. Last time I tried to fire it up again, it just wouldn’t even run under Windows. And I just haven’t ever found something that hits the same.
- Comment on What are your favorite low-footprint self-hosted services? 2 weeks ago:
Ha. Heard. I mostly don’t want to carry another device when I travel for work, so will use my phone to read.
- Comment on What are your hallmark games? What games have shaped how you view games? 2 weeks ago:
My Younger days:
- Legend of the Red Dragon
- Police Quest 1
- Anarchy Online
- Bard’s Tale (OG)
- Shadowgate
- Metroid
- Forgotten Worlds
- Super Mario World
- Paper Mario TTYD
- Guitar Hero
- Tony Hawk’s Underground
- Star Wars: KOTOR
More recently:
- Cave Noire
- AC: Odyssey
- Fallout 4
- Cloverpit
- Offline Games (Android)
Mostly tried to stick to a single release per platform for the earlier games. I’m sure I’ve missed some.
Newer games…I know the AC and Fallout titles aren’t most people’s favorites, but I love those worlds. Games are all about comfort for me.
- Comment on What are your favorite low-footprint self-hosted services? 2 weeks ago:
I moved all my books out of Amazon last year and host them for my family with Calibre Web. Jailbroke my Kindle and use KOreader exclusively, so I use Sync so that if I need to read while I’m out, I can just pick up on my phone.
- Comment on What are your favorite low-footprint self-hosted services? 2 weeks ago:
What’s the flow there? Receive link, copy, open MeTube, paste, download watch?
Tiktok and Instagram links are so frustrating when friends send them.
- Comment on What are your favorite low-footprint self-hosted services? 2 weeks ago:
KOreader Sync if you use KOreader. Easily pick up where you leave off on other devices!
I also run Wiki.js to (inconsistently) document what I’m doing with my apps and server.
- Comment on meat honey 3 weeks ago:
Every Good Boy Deserves Meat Honey
- Comment on Creating a new Community for Creatives/Tinkerers - (Plans to Federate) 1 month ago:
Maybe you’ve already looked into this, but my concern with your plan is the idea of packing up and moving to a new site and platform. What happens to existing users and post history? Building a community only to tell them they need to start all over could be detrimental.
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 1 month ago:
My project for the week is getting Matrix and Continuwuity set up. Half-hearted initial attempts have been unsuccessful with the Continuwuity container just in constant restarts.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I am unreasonably angry about the stretched icons.
- Comment on Best Mastodon App? 2 months ago:
I’ve been using Tusky for the last couple of years, but decided to give OpenVibe another go to keep Mastodon and Bluesky in one place.
OpenVibe is alright. Next to no customization, a little slow to load when first opening, and the scrolling animation is…I’m not even sure how to describe it. Artificial? It almost looks laggy even though it’s responsive.
- Comment on This Looks kinda cool, but does anyone have any experience at vetting a project like this? 2 months ago:
That’s not a terrible idea. I do the same with Christmas music and have been considering a separate library for live stuff as well.
- Comment on This Looks kinda cool, but does anyone have any experience at vetting a project like this? 2 months ago:
I understand recommendations, but I don’t want anything just auto inserting music into my library. I curate my library. I want to intentionally add to it. Half the joy in finding new artists is whatever led you to that moment.
This might just be an old man talking though.
- Comment on Music Assistant 2.7 - Taking over the airwaves 3 months ago:
So do you have just a bunch of random boolean tags? The Genre tag can hold multiple values, so you could have “Classical;Relaxing;String Quartet;Suites” if you wanted and each is identified separately.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly #149: A Few of My Favorite Things 3 months ago:
Thanks! Definitely going to spend some time with the media managers this weekend. Replacing 4 separate-but-connected-or-related apps into one would be amazing.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 4 months ago:
I’ve just finished ripping about 1300 CDs. I used Jellyfin for a bit since I already had it set up for my video library, but I wasn’t happy with the Android options and it was pretty basic.
Navidrome is a fucking TREAT. Paired with Symfonium, I’m finally enjoying my personal music collection regularly again.
As for tagging, OP, while I get why people like Picard, it doesn’t always work with how I like to do things. I put everything into a music folder on my desktop, use Mp3Tag to retrieve metadata, edit what I need, and make sure the artwork is decent and sized where I want it. Then I use the tag > filename to organize and move them to my NAS.
- Comment on Route outgoing traffic of a docker bridge network through VPN 5 months ago:
First off, take this for what it is: a guy who can follow instructions but does not understand all the inner workings of docker.
I use Gluetun and have a set of apps that I run through it. They are all in the same compose file. Each of the ports is defined in the Gluetun section and not with the individual app. Then each app’s network_mode is set to service:gluetun
This routes all the traffic for those apps through the VPN while maintaining my regular network for everything else.
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 5 months ago:
An “I Wish I Had …” addition to this: maybe start something like Wiki.js or Joplin that you will then use to document what you do as you go. Keep a record of your process so that you can work your way back if you need.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 5 months ago:
I take a hybrid approach. I’ll buy a movie from my local shop and then go sailing the seas for a digital copy. Much…grayer… but close enough.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 5 months ago:
Yeah, Navidrome does not alter your files by design. I use MP3tag to do all my editing. Operations are a bit slow when the files are on my server, but otherwise I have a decent flow down.
I don’t love Navidrome’s preference for Musicbrainz tags, but I know I can change that.
- Comment on Self Hosting Guide 6 months ago:
CasaOS in a similar vein. Casa is just an app that can be installed on Linux though.
When I started, I wanted something to obfuscate all the Dockishness because I didn’t get it and just wanted to get going. It helped me get familiar with common Docker things and while I’m very far from being any sort of expert, I’m comfortable enough in a compose file now.
I still have Casa running, though I rely on it less and less. At some point maybe I’ll move everything out.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 6 months ago:
Decided to pick up Final Fantasy VIII on sale for Xbox last weeiend, no I’m just getting started on that. The difference in character models from VII to VIII is crazy and almost hard to believe that it was the same hardware.
I know I owned this on PS1 at some point, but hell if I remember anything about it other than the frigging gun-sword.
- Comment on What are you guys using to sort and name music? 6 months ago:
You can move files to new folders with Mp3Tag, too. It's normally all I use for managing my files and metadata.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 8 months ago:
Oh, haha. I thought you were telling me I should rethink using a DNS adblocker.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 8 months ago:
Would you care to expand on that?
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 8 months ago:
Even better: system-wide DNS adblocking on Android. Get rid of in-app ads too.
- Comment on What are your VPN recommendations for accessing self-hosted applications from the outside? 8 months ago:
I'm in camp #2. Only my Gmail address can access my apps from outside my home. It's a little bit of a pain to configure the rules, but once it's done it's done. I've been happy with it.
You do need to have a domain name though.
- Comment on Jellyfin / Remote Access Help (windows) 11 months ago:
Once upon a time. But my understanding of this:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/updated-tos/
Is that so long as you don't use their CDN for your content, which is where the bypass cache rule comes in, you're okay.