javiwhite
@javiwhite@feddit.uk
- Comment on New life 2 weeks ago:
ImageNice try, potato man.
- Comment on rules of the pirate code 2 weeks ago:
Spotify migration to self hosting:
1 - download spotdl, to download your Spotify songs.
2 - setup a navidrome docker container to host them on your own server.
3 - download ultrasonic on devices you want to stream from.Now you have a single place you need to upload your new music, and all devices will sync. Ultrasonic has local caching too, so no need for a constant connection. Enjoy.
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 3 weeks ago:
Unplayable? I bought the game at launch and it played absolutely fine.
Was it a barren wasteland with fuck all to do? Sure, but it worked perfectly fine, the last decade has seen HG turn NMS into one of if not the most comprehensive space adventure game.
Since 2016 they have added various additional stuff like VR support, alongside gameplay enhancements (IE: content like building your own fleet, bases, settlements, expeditions, animal taming etc). All for free.
Conversely, larian has repeatedly stated that they do not want to do additional content for BG3; with every patch release it’s “this is it, we’re done with this now”, and whenever quizzed on additional content, such as dlc, The studio claims the Devs were elated to cancel BG3 dlc in favour of making a different game entirely.
Personally, I don’t consider the latter to be an indication of a labour of love, but rather an obligation to their fans (because larian are a very good studio, who care for their fans).
I love both games, but BG3 absolutely did not deserve the labour of love category imo, there are simply far more obvious alternatives.
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 2 months ago:
Microsoft were already the dominant operating system in computing. Now they’re losing market share due to frequent bad decision making.
All they had to do was keep windows ticking over. But instead they looked to milk more revenue from their customer base in the form of advertising and telemetry data. That’s because shareholders demand ever increasing profits. Enshittification is always the result of a company going public… Never a question of if, only when; as soon as the passion has died in ownership (usually due to sale or change of management), the only drive becomes profit; and the user experience is stripped to accommodate. The same will be true one day for steam, unfortunately.
- Comment on Chaotic Evil 2 months ago:
- HDMI isn’t labeled.
- The third usb port is flipped
- HDMI port isn’t parallel with other ports.
- Comment on Fallout: London modders still have no plans to port it to next-gen Fallout 4, unless a console version becomes possible 3 months ago:
Friendly reminder that gog ship the suitable version of fallout 4 goty, as well as the folon mod. No need to run any downgraders or manually pull files from steam repos; just download the base game, then the folon mod; run it, and you’re good to go.
The fact that you’ll own the content rather than a license for it is a nice bonus too.
- Comment on What if we were *just a lil evil*? 3 months ago:
The sloppification will be televised (during increasingly regular ad intervals) !
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 3 months ago:
You think oxygen is your ally, but you merely adopted the oxygen. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see carbon dioxide until I was already a man!
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 4 months ago:
Glad to hear we’re not the only country with an imperial hangover! Our experience is pretty much the same. Bathroom scales, gym weights etc all have both kg and lb on them. Over time society here does seem to be shifting more toward metric; most people tend to know their height in both these days, whereas 20 years ago it would have been predominantly ft rather than cm.
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 4 months ago:
Do you think lbs change depending on what we’re measuring? A lb is a lb here too…
I’d argue a comprehension of both metric and imperial is superior, as well as provides insight into which the inferior measurement is, but you do you mate.
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 4 months ago:
Actually we use both. For example, body weight is (traditionally) stone and lbs, but parcel weight is usually kg.
The same is true for length; height in feet, but stuff like room measurements in cm.
I think the only area where we’re actually consistent is traveling distance? All signs and gauges are in Mph rather than Km/h. In fact the only time I can think of someone talking about distance in kilometres, is to do with sports (IE a 5k/10k running event).
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 4 months ago:
Soccer was only ever a nickname tbf, It stood for a(socc)iation football.
I guess an equivalent would be like calling your police the bobby force.
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 4 months ago:
Enshittification, in my kitchen?!
You have to be pretty naive to not have seen this one coming from a mile off. But hey, at least people can see what’s in their fridge without having to open the door, what a luxury.
- Comment on Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch 4 months ago:
Conversely, I’d imagine there are babysitters out there who at times wish they could just throw the baby away.
- Comment on Point taken 4 months ago:
Old people burning,
old people burning,
put your hands up.
- Comment on Finally setup nginx as a reverse proxy. 4 months ago:
Congrats! Out of the usual suspects, (nginx, traefik & caddy), id say nginx has the steepest learning curve, so it’s definitely something to crow about mate! I know professionals in the tech industry that have a hard time with nginx config, so an enthusiast getting it down is a bigger deal than you’re giving yourself credit for.
I host various services for friends and family; and here are a couple I think will be of particular interest to you:
- matrix server with element clients. (Self hosted discord/WhatsApp alternative which is open source unlike TS).
- Drop server and client setup (self hosted steam like experience).
Another thing I would strongly suggest doing, is setting up a single sign on Auth server. Something that will allow your friends and family to have one login for anything you setup. Personally I use keycloak. But there are other options like authentik and voidauth that are worth looking at too!
Congrats again on the progress mate! You’re smashing it so far.
- Comment on The duality of man 4 months ago:
When is it ever about anything else?
- Comment on No brainer 4 months ago:
Getting your tackle out; a war tradition almost as old as bonking someone on the head with a metal object.
Less practiced by armed militias and moreso ‘crackhead locals’ these days; it remains an incredibly effective tactic.
- Comment on Buying bread 4 months ago:
- Comment on YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators 4 months ago:
Yeah I can appreciate that take mate. The level of audacity they would need to think something like this wouldn’t be noticed is almost unimaginable. Lying by omission does feel like the best comparison to make regarding this.
Rest easy friend; there will be plenty more corporate nonsense for us all to jawdrop over tomorrow!
- Comment on YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators 4 months ago:
If you give a letter to a postman, and the recipient asks why you put “P.S: I love you” on an official piece of documentation, your first thought wouldn’t be “that damn postman, opening my mail to try and enhance it”.
The same is true for YouTube. People have been uploading videos for decades with them ending up on the platform the way they are uploaded, so it stands to reason that longtime users would expect this behaviour to continue, especially if there have been no Comms around any changes.
Of course Google isn’t to be trusted, and anyone trusting YouTube to be ethical clearly isn’t paying attention to anything. But that doesn’t change the fact that youtube have intentionally hidden this change from their user base. Sure, the result was public facing, but the cause was kept secret; and that’s the nuance you’re overlooking.
- Comment on Famous VPN company Mullvald says it will no longer use OpenVPN 5 months ago:
Damn you sir, you didn’t need to call me out with that last sentence.
No, I know it wasn’t my shoe, but look at how well it fits!
- Comment on What if Australia were Ukraine? Trump and Putin prove our strategy to trust the US is a roll of the dice 5 months ago:
Oh agreed,
We could roll a d20 with only 20 being the passing mark, everything else fails; which gives a 5% success chance… and that still seems optimistic when describing a relationship with America.
Basically, Aus, Canada, UK and every other American “allied” nation should have a magic 8 ball that only returns with “yeah you’re fucked” when asked anything about the relationship with America, it’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when.
- Comment on Change your profile to Clippy (call to action) 5 months ago:
Activism like this isn’t for people on Lemmy, who have already been exposed to the likes of decentralisation, open source Vs closed source etc… its predominantly for those that still think brand name = quality.
I don’t use social media these days, but i do have inactive accounts; I’m considering logging in and changing the pictures to clippy. It may have absolutely no effect, or it may be the 16th clippy PFP that someone sees, which may then prompt them to ask why everyone is changing their photo to clippy.
So whilst it won’t change anything in a large way, it can act as the catalyst for those who are still unaware to try and educate themselves on the subject, and hopefully lead to them leaving Microsoft products altogether like you’ve alluded to.
For example; I’m already not using any Microsoft products, so continuing to not use their products is less impactful than by changing my mainstream photos to clippy, even if it has no effect.
We can try to tell people about the evils of microsoft until we’re blue in the face… But if they “research” it themselves, it’s far more likely to stick.
- Comment on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo 5 months ago:
Oh I see what you’re talking about. I thought you meant the link to fffmpegs forgejo site rather than the crosspost link.
Maybe it’s just the app I’m using, but sync was able to redirect me to the Open source community that this was originally posted too. (It’s hosted on lemmy.ml, but the poster is from Lemmy.zip, which is why the post link is Lemmy.zip).
When I open via browser though, I see the OSA block that you’re referring too… An interesting difference for sure. But I suppose if all posts from lemmy.zip were blocked, we wouldn’t be seeing this one either, so I’m guessing it’s just post shares that won’t work?
- Comment on What if Australia were Ukraine? Trump and Putin prove our strategy to trust the US is a roll of the dice 5 months ago:
Most GMs just use a coin, but D2 dice do exist.
- Comment on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo 5 months ago:
You sure that the issue is geographical? I’m in the UK and was able to access the site without using a VPN or anything like that.
- Comment on Aspergers officinalis 5 months ago:
Somewhat related story; my middle name is Peter, and I had seemingly misheard it, as for the first 6 years of my life I thought my middle name was pizza.
- Comment on THIS is true wisdom 5 months ago:
Should crosspost this to !wiseposting@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on wypipo 5 months ago:
I questioned it a few years back on reddit and was told it’s an old American saying for white people, and its apparently from the sound a whip makes rather than the biscuit.
