brygphilomena
@brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 7 hours ago:
I really like the soundtrack to Suikoden. Maybe it’s nostalgia, but it’s one of the better ones for me.
And lunar silver star story is pretty good too.
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 3 days ago:
Giving their son a sex toy, whatever, not common, but it can help have a normal conversation about sex and realistic expectations.
For his birthday, kind of weird. I don’t think it should so formal a thing. Just so it and have the conversation about safe sex and how porn isn’t like real sex.
For his 18th, uhhhh little late to the party.
- Comment on US | FCC to Appoint a Babysitter to Make Sure CBS Isn't Anti-Trump 1 week ago:
Ministry of propaganda.
They could restore the fairness doctrine instead, but that would hurt fox, newsmax, and oan so much they won’t even consider it.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 1 week ago:
Privacy is something that I think needs to be actively encouraged. It is a right, and thinks like location tracking are creeping their way into daily life and eroding that right.
No one should have the ability to violate that. And we shouldn’t be making it easier to.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 1 week ago:
Yep. This is one of those hard lines for me. And I feel like it’s a red flag for anyone who demands it from a partner.
I trust my partner and they trust me. I actively encourage them to do things without me, because I want them to be an independent person. I want them to have friends that I don’t hang out with.
- Comment on What are the ramifications of letting an old domain that was used for email go back into the market? 2 weeks ago:
I let a domain expire once and even though I had changed the email to something else. One of my accounts still used it and support didn’t help. I ended up having to rebuy the domain to get back into my account.
Keep it until you are 100% sure that NOTHING is tied to it. Just set up forwarding from the old domain to the new one.
- Comment on How big is your media library? 3 weeks ago:
What did you lose?
And there are plenty of shows that I’ve had to manually recover at times. And plenty more that I can’t find a copy of at all. I don’t get too attached to much, and those I’ll usually be seeding on multiple machines myself at that point.
- Comment on People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good people 3 weeks ago:
I really don’t know how to convince people they should care about others.
I don’t know how to teach empathy.
- Comment on How big is your media library? 3 weeks ago:
Haha. Thanks. I really didn’t want to pay Netflix or any other streaming service. But it might have been cheaper than hdds and electricity.
This is something I’ve been building for over 10 years at this point. I’ve gone through so many iterations of servers and storage architecture. I’ve lost my entire TV and movie library multiple times. (I don’t back it up because a. It’s expensive at this scale and b. this data is easy to rebuild over time.)
It’s been a part of learning about hosting and data management that I’ve brought to/from my work.
- Comment on How big is your media library? 3 weeks ago:
13200 movies 1200 shows
Over a 1/4 PB of data.
- Comment on As of 30 minutes ago at the time of posting, the NYPD has detained two young Black men after they refused to show ID without explanation or cause. 4 weeks ago:
They are
lyingthreatening to influence the election - Comment on My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN... 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App 4 weeks ago:
No, no, no. They painted the targets on themselves.
This app is telling people where to avoid. Not where to go.
- Comment on Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App 4 weeks ago:
Ntfy.sh
There are ways around that
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 5 weeks ago:
Lego games are great for just putting on and playing. So very little intro tutorials and learning. They just are fun.
I’m in the same boat where I don’t want anything that takes too long to get into. I don’t have the time to learn complex mechanics anymore.
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 5 weeks ago:
And the diplomacy and politics.
And scams. Or baits, escalations, and war strategies.
I ran my small alliance for a bit. The organization skills corralling 200 active people for an op is insane. Spending days prepping and doing logistics moving tons of ships. Making arrangements and mutual defense agreements. It was arduous work.
Then to have the fight not happen. Or the target not to drop. And having to manage the morale of everyone who devoted the time for it or purposely made sure they were free.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 1 month ago:
advanced reasoning
If it’s so advanced, it should be able to reason out that all human knowledge is standing in the shoulders of others and how errors have prompted us to explore other areas and learn things we never would have otherwise.
- Comment on Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports 1 month ago:
It also somewhat helped curb alts. You couldn’t just have an alt that did a thing in day.
But the isk and resource faucets were a problem from day one. It’s a resource hoarding game and it became too safe.
That era to me was also filled with clever scams and IMO as CCP made it safer for people it took a lot of magic out of the game. You used to have to be smart and attentive to play. Now it throws warnings at you for all sorts of things. Or got rid of some very fun mechanics (like pos bowling and lofty wars)
I also used to love spending 2m to war dec a corp. I would have dozens of wars going. And it wasn’t like small corps. It was fun to war dec all the big alliances at once with your little 5 man corp.
- Comment on Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports 1 month ago:
Oh man. I had some good times with bomber bar. Both joining them and baiting them.
I loved taking a rorq out with a massive tank and a full rack of smart bombs. Blowing up an entire fleet at once was so satisfying.
- Comment on Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports 1 month ago:
Or really knew how to manage their one game. They did something really cool, and then it reached its end game and had no idea what to do when that happened.
They add more ships, over and over, but more ships became harder and harder to balance. They changed resource allocation so it was less necessary to fight for space. They changed mechanics so people lost less. But it’s largely a game of wealth acquisition and when people don’t lose as much you have inflation and everyone had the end game toys.
They added a half dozen different currencies for different things. They added daily quests. They added login rewards.
Their end game was people fighting each other for space they controlled. But they never were able to deal with when everyone just sort of… Made pacts and stopped fighting over space. They never really, truly dealt with n+1 being the solution. They only made it where that became the necessity.
I’ve played for over a decade and while I haven’t logged in in a while, I still have an account.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
We put cameras in birds nests. Houses don’t make us not wild.
- Comment on The hidden cost of self-hosting 1 month ago:
When I got a new phone, immich was weird about the photos that came over when I transferred my phone data. After I confirmed they were all backed up (in like 3 places) I just nuked the copies pictures and videos from my phone.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 month ago:
Some people don’t care about their cars at all. They will damage their own just to spite another driver.
I’ve driven big 30ft box trucks that are governed at 60mph and daily a 2 seater sports car. There is nothing worth fucking up my day just to win an argument on who gets to go first.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 month ago:
Oh yea. I’ll watch the wheels, their head, and if I can see them reposition their hands, I’ll look for that.
I don’t trust anyone when I’m on the road.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 month ago:
Up and down arrows? Up is away from you and down is towards you.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 month ago:
< and > for turns. X for brakes.
Honestly, we should focus on functionality rather than aesthetic.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 month ago:
I cannot stand how in some vehicles if I turn on the signal to indicate I am planning to change lanes, it will beep at me that there is a car there. I’m indicating I plan on it. Not that I’m turning the wheel right this second. I know there is a car to my side, I’m going to change lanes behind it, but am indicating mostly to the car behind them.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 month ago:
It’s possible. Red really is only supposed to be on the back to indicate the rear of the vehicle.
It’s why on stretches of road where passing in oncoming lanes is legal, they tell you to turn on your headlights. Its so that there is a distinguishing feature between the front and rear of the car.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 month ago:
As someone with ADHD, it is relaxing. And it is super enjoyable. I like thinking about how the weight of my car shifts going around corners. I like trying to be as smooth as possible shifting gears. There is a lot of information and the focus on it all quiets the noise normally in my head.
Leave early enough you aren’t stressed about being late.
Just let the asshole aggressive driver in.
Leave more than enough space that you have time to react.
Don’t treat it as a competition and it’s a pleasurable experience.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 month ago:
Is love then to know when someone is slowing down to turn when I’m trying to pull out. So few use turn signals, and even those I don’t really trust until the car is noticably getting slower.