noxypaws
@noxypaws@pawb.social
Furry (feral dhole), he/him, feet/(hind)paw worshipper, car appreciator, mechanical watch wearer, cloud engineer, thinkpad/pop!os!!/i3wm user, occasional synth/guitar/handpan player, car/track enthusiast
Avatar and banner artist: Heatherwolf
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 2 days ago:
the washlet on our main toilet looks aesthetically better with the lid down, so it’s always down even though we’re a house of two cis men
tho heated seat incentivizes sitting to pee anyways
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 2 weeks ago:
Is that actually on record somewhere, or just speculation?
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 2 weeks ago:
Safari is only available on Apple hardware and operating systems though
- Comment on This bedroom game is weird 2 weeks ago:
username kinda checks out
- Comment on This bedroom game is weird 2 weeks ago:
I genuinely don’t know much about puppy play other than knowing what pup hoods look like (and even then, for all I know the two things are entirely unrelated), but if you have to ask that question you probably should knot engage with or talk about puppy play
- Comment on How do you healthcheck your containers? 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t heard of Talos before, sounds like it’s not fully open source?
- Comment on 2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web 2 weeks ago:
still exists! I still scrobble, going on 20 years now
- Comment on How do you healthcheck your containers? 2 weeks ago:
maybe! three raspis and k3s have served me mostly well for years, tho with usb/sata adapters cuz the microsd was getting rather unreliable after awhile
- Comment on UK Wants All iPhones to Block Explicit Images Unless You Prove Age 2 weeks ago:
how the fuck more deranged can it get over there?? fuck’s sake the UK seems worse than even China now with this shit.
- Comment on Jimmy Carr on Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI 2 weeks ago:
he’s always been a piece of shit, he was just a broken clock sometimes.
- Comment on What are your gaming highlights of 2025? 2 weeks ago:
Honestly sounds and looks quite different at first glance, but if you enjoyed working a particular job and getting better at it over time, that’s for sure an itch that SS13/14 scratches well!
take botany for instance. can be as simple as planting seeds in hydroponic trays and harvesting fruit and veggies for the kitchen and for the chemistry department.
But one can go so much deeper than that - tired of onion plants only yielding two onions when harvested? well, cocoa trees drop six pods when harvesting, so you can rub a cotton swab on the cocoa tree and then rub it on the onion plant to deposit a random genetic trait from the cocoa tree, and if you’re lucky or if you repeat enough times the right way, you can end up with an onion plant that drops six each harvest! or, maybe just end up with onions that contain theobromine.
There’s also mutation of plants, which can add various traits (like offgassing tritium, or making the plant scream in pain when harvested, or making the produce so slippery that people slip and fall if they walk over it), and of course those traits can also get swabbed over to other plants.
there’s even an illegal “gatfruit” that produces a high powered revolver when eaten, tho those aren’t easy to come by
- Comment on What are your gaming highlights of 2025? 2 weeks ago:
Spectating is fun! I haven’t done much of it but recently I followed a musician avali for their whole shift, and it ended up being really interesting. They found a spear and were told to get a permit for it, which they did, but then someone stole the permit and they got arrested for carrying a weapon without a permit despite being issued one, despite the sec officer being told about the theft, and the thief standing right in front of the sec officer at the time.
then they later got arrested for the same thing by the same officer.
they eventually tried to sue the security department, and the trial was about to start, but was interrupted by the jury room getting bombed, and when they tried to hold the trial in the hallways of course chaos broke out and they had to evac, and didn’t bother trying the trial at centcomm.
- Comment on How do you healthcheck your containers? 2 weeks ago:
i just let kubernetes handle it for me. k3s specifically.
- Comment on What are your gaming highlights of 2025? 2 weeks ago:
14 is in a really good state right now, I think! Wizden, being the upstream/vanilla can seem a little sparse compared to, say, the Starlight fork which adds a lot, or the dozens of other forks out there.
I’ve spent probably most of my time as botanist, with cargo/salvage a close second and musician a close third.
Definitely play more, especially if it’s been some time since you last tried it, the development of it is quite active and ongoing. Hell, wizden’s test server has been trying out a complete rework of the medical system, so they’re definitely not afraid to throw some huge changes out there and see how well the community responds to it.
- Comment on What are your gaming highlights of 2025? 2 weeks ago:
Kinda sorta like if Rimworld was set on a space station, but players control a single pawn, and servers are in the 50, 80, 150+ player count depending on server and time of day. The vibe is pretty similar to Among Us, just vastly, vastly more deep and complex than Among Us.
You join a server, create a character, pick a job ranging from janitor, bartender, musician, botanist, cargo, medical, security, research, and so on, then you join and try to keep the space station running smoothly by focusing on your job and working with other departments.
Or, you can, if you want, get a chance at being an antagonist with various goals ranging from stealing stuff to killing specific people, becoming a zombie and spreading the infection, or even blowing up the whole station with a nuke.
It’s incredibly deep, and it being a highly social game with some degree of roleplay focus, it’s crazy and fun and nothing else out there is quite like it, aside from space station 13 which came before it.
- Comment on What are your gaming highlights of 2025? 2 weeks ago:
Space Station 14. The absolute best multiplayer experiences I’ve had since the heyday of Planetside 2 (not that the two games are even remotely similar, just thinking broadly about multiplayer enjoyment).
But it’s been a good year for other games too. Silent Hill 2 was excellent. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth was excellent. Monster Hunter Wilds had some damn good looking monsters (but was not excellent).
Still, SS14 has been my game of the year.
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 weeks ago:
my grandma had one! i’m pretty sure I tried to use it once
no idea what the damn thing is called tho
- Comment on I assume it's corn 3 weeks ago:
John Oliver’s lover
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 3 weeks ago:
20
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 3 weeks ago:
ooh wow, a company that’s worth less than most shitty houses in Seattle, I’m real impressed
- Comment on Ah, to have multiple console emulators in a single portable device 4 weeks ago:
Analogue Pocket and Steam Deck over here, got it all covered!
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 4 weeks ago:
Why do you say that?
- Comment on Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure 4 weeks ago:
Good thing this is a completely optional “feature” that I’d never pay for
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 4 weeks ago:
Nope
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 4 weeks ago:
Defens industry, law enforcement, and surveillance are all instant dealbreakers for me whenever a recruiter reaches out to me. And sadly that seems like the vast majority of positions for which recruiters are looking for candidates.
That or AI shit.
I’m so tired of the tech industry.
- Comment on The Reform-Backed Far-Right Street Patrols Coming to British School Gates 4 weeks ago:
Garbage country. Constantly competing with the USA for who can be worse, and frequently winning.
- Comment on Corvid-19 4 weeks ago:
I so agree. The whole bear thing in Baulder’s Gate 3 was pretty awesome. But I want more, and bolder.
Why the fuck aren’t there any quadrupedal species dating humanoids in Star Trek??
- Comment on Corvid-19 4 weeks ago:
sleeping with your arcanine: hot
- Comment on Pasta! FFS! 5 weeks ago:
Hopefully al dente for that superior beakfeel
- Comment on Gaming Laptop with Linux Preinstalled and 32GB+ RAM? 5 weeks ago:
I had a FW16 for about a year. I got fed up with the poor fit and finish, and utterly unreliable USB-A expansion modules.
System76 sure ain’t perfect either, at least my pangolin 15 leaves a lot to be desired between the shit trackpad, awful battery drain during suspend, and extremely limited BIOS config options. But it’s put together way better than a Framework 16 is