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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Better music management⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I set this up since this reply and it’s phenomenal, what a difference compared to the old way. Thanks a ton for the rec

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screenshot of my current game! Lies of P⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  After trying Code Vein because of similar hype and dropping it 2 hours in, I expected the same from this game, but goddamn it’s phenomenal. Absolutely worth playing through. It feels like a love letter to Fromsoft, rather than trying to just do what they do - the inspiration is obvious, but it still feels like its own unique thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Better music management⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh shit I hadn’t heard of this one. Soularr feels kind of like a hack and is annoying to wrangle, so a direct integration would be huge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  TRUE, I knew I was forgetting something else

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Was thinking of BL4. Still pretty egregious though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft (and by extension id and Bethesda) are a priority target for the BDS boycotts against Israel

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s see

  • The game itself takes away a lot of pieces of the formula that made 2016 and Eternal so good
  • $80 price tag
  • BDS boycott

  I’m shocked that it’s not selling, absolutely shocked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Better music management⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried Jellyfin for music in addition to tv and movies, but ended up dropping that part. I set up Navidrome with beets - the adjustment is using album artist instead of just artist everywhere.

  Full stack:

  • Navidrome server
  • beets for management
  • Feishin client (local on my desktop, though I do have it hosted too for the hell of it)
  • Symfonium (mobile app, abour $6 but absolutely worth it)
  • Lidarr
  • slskd
  • Soularr (integrates the two above - it’s a bit hacky but it works fairly well)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In the wake of all the layoffs and such I don’t know if any former employees have (as vaguely as possible) discussed the codebase yet. It seems like such an absolute nightmare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wait, that game is still playable online?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  hold up link me the discord, I played the absolute fuck out of this game as a kid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alternatives to MZLA Pocket?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just set up Readeck today. I’ve never used pocket or anything of the sort but it’s already proving pretty useful. I tend to do a lot of 100%/platinum runs of various games and I’ve been tossing guide bookmarks in a folder for ages, this is a great way to sort those out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll gladly buy indies, breakout titles with huge reception (BG3, E33 etc), or games from well renowned studios that have yet to let me down. Anything else I’m fine waiting for a sale. With these $80 price tags I don’t see myself buying a AAA title again for a LONG time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Dragon Age writer says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 prove 'what's possible when a game is given time to cook'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s actually so funny about that one is it’s actually kind of a fun game? Like don’t get me wrong it’s dogshit, but it’s fun dogshit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a little bit of everything.

  I haven’t really dabbled with tech much outside of work since college. This year, I started on a huge journey to change that for a couple of reasons:

  • The ongoing technofascist shitshow was the biggest motivator. I want to move as far away from big tech as possible. I’m sick of passively supporting companies that supply and fund genocides, steal and cheat their way to billions, and shove AI bullshit into everything.
  • Regaining control and privacy. This goes hand-in-hand with the previous point. Complacency is part of how we got here.
  • On a personal note, I quit Twitch streaming last year after a decade, and frankly just needed a new hobby.
  • The Steam Deck showed me that gaming on Linux day-to-day is extremely viable after all these years. Last time I tried a Linux desktop, it was practically non-existent outside of Valve porting the Orange Box.
  • It just makes for some interesting projects

  I’ve done all of this in the past 5 months:

  • Got a new desktop (I just needed the upgrade in general), tweaked the hell out of Windows on it, but wanted more
  • Scrapped that plan and set up a CachyOS dual boot. I’ve touched Windows maybe 5 times since then. I keep it around just in case but I never use it.
  • Wiped my bloated phone and installed GrapheneOS
  • Started making some moves on the software side: finally bought a good VPN, moved off GMail to Tuta, started using LibreWolf and Fennec, etc etc.
  • In that process, I got a cheap VPS and set up NextCloud as a Drive replacement. No idea what I was doing, security nightmare I’m sure, and I ended up scrapping that and going the full selfhost route
  • Now I’m selfhosting 40ish services on a mini PC that not only replace big tech products I used to use, but also add so much more utility
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I grew out of just about everything in my old digital library so it’s been long gone, but I didn’t realize just how much stuff I had on my old bandcamp account already. Grabbed all of that, bought a bunch more, obtained everything else from my Tidal rotations and slapped it all into Navidrome.

  The initial setup is definitely a pain but the payoff has been tremendous. Not financially though - I spent more buying new shit from small artists than I would spend on a streaming service in a year. But that goes so much further for them than streaming does anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you document your Homelab?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife was mentioning the other day that if something happened to me she’d have absolutely no idea how to work any of this shit and that convinced me to actually start documenting it LMAO

  Good time to start doing it too. Aside from setting up a NAS this weekend, I’ve got this project right where I want it for a long while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m putting together a pretty simple one this week. Got a used HP Elitedesk G4 SSF for around $150, already have 2 8TB external drives lying around that are easy enough to shuck and slap into it. Should be pretty easy to just slap TrueNAS Scale onto it, set up a mirror with the 2 drives, and be good to go for a while.

  I’ll definitely need more space down the road and this thing can’t fit more than 2 drives without some modifications (3 is doable, but 4 will take some 3D printed parts which I believe someone’s still working on fine-tuning). But it’s good enough for me for now, still got 2.5TB I’m not using.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Grab the entire series, load it up on the tv, and let it rip all day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I started this about a month ago, absolutely no idea what I was doing, and in that short time this little box has grown a ton. Got the basics for cloud storage, jellyfin with the arr suite, navidrome to replace spotify/tidal, etc. Got my scanner going right into paperless, finally starting a budget planner with actualbudget, even set up homebox to maybe eventually keep track of my collections of random bullshit. Spent 3 days fighting with Wireguard and gluetun to make a single VPN connection that’ll hook me into my LAN but also output all my traffic through Mullvad, using pihole as my DNS - I should get Unbound set up at some point too but that’s a project for another day.

  Today I learned about homeassistant, and while I’m not one to care about IoT shit or whatever, just dabbling with NFC tags for the lights and such has been pretty neat.

  This week I’m getting a second machine in that I’m going to use exclusively as a NAS and stop relying on USB external hard drives.

  I really just wanted a little 24/7 Bob Ross box with a bit of cloud storage, and this project blew up a lot more than I thought it would LOL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what I’m currently doing, I use backblaze b2 for basically everything that’s not movies/shows/music/roms.

  My next plan is to get a big ass external HDD that I’ll update once a month and keep in my storage unit. Cloud storage gets pricy past the first couple TB.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOOM: The Dark Ages | Review Thread⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks incredible but reminder that Microsoft is currently a priority target of the BDS boycotts. This is my most anticipated game of the past few years and I’m holding off until they divest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo lawyers want to force Discord to reveal Pokémon Teraleak source⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah they’ll just jump ship to the next one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include the DLC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew it was over as soon as they said the tech demo is a paid title

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include the DLC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo’s really making it easier and easier to not buy the $500 Metroid Prime mouse control box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dual boot is the way for right now. Proton is huge, but there are still a good number of games with compatibility issues or rootkit anticheats. Personally I advise steering clear of the latter, but that’s neither here nor there.

  I use CachyOS as my daily driver and booted up the Windows partition maybe 3 times since setting this up back in February (and most of those times were just to play REPO because Elgato hardware with dual input and output has serious issues with Linux, but I’ve sorted that out now with a workaround)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah true. It’s generally better from what I’ve seen but nazi chuds really are everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sen. Schumer: 'My Job is to Keep the Left Pro-Israel'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Liberalism is a right-wing ideology, full stop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually so refreshing seeing upvoted comments here with the correct take, whereas the chuds would be all over this on the other site

  Fuck JKR and everything she stands for

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'You're a very long arm. You steal things. It's a comedy game,' explains developer of comedy game where you steal things with a very long arm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They live their entire lives pissed off at everything anyway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'You're a very long arm. You steal things. It's a comedy game,' explains developer of comedy game where you steal things with a very long arm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That explains it, I knew this art style looked extremely familiar but couldn’t place it