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- Comment on The Crew from Ubisoft gets revived thanks to the The Crew Unlimited project 1 hour ago:
You don’t think they’re going to anyway?
- Comment on Have you tried self-hosting your own email recently? 1 day ago:
My hosting company has an outgoing mail server that I can use and as long as they’re doing the external DNS of the domain in question it works perfectly well.
Mostly though, from my own domain I am only sending automated messages from applications I host like NextCloud or Grafana from a “no-reply” address. There would almost certainly be privacy implications if I were to use it for personal mail.
So, if yoy are looking for a simple way to get email notifications from automated processes, this ain’t a bad way to go about it. If you want more, I would consider who can ready your outgoing mail and if you are ok with that.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 3 days ago:
No, they made a lot of working shit worse and a lot of new, invasive shit required.
- Comment on Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer 3 days ago:
As much as we like to shit on Nintendo now for how expensive they are; they are still the cheapest console. By a lot.
No way they can create a quality VR experience and keep the price below everyone else.
- Comment on Brainrot Tiktoker at the Kirk shooting 3 days ago:
Bro is going to jail for tampering with a crime scene lol
- Comment on Is a gooner the same thing as a wanker? 5 days ago:
Gooner is more obsessive.
- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 5 days ago:
There is software (I think it comes with Adobe stuff) that allows you subtly morph/crossfade instead of jumpcut, so if the speaker pauses and flubs a line you can remove it without an obvious, distracting jump.
I think that’s probably what we’re seeing here.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
It doesn’t have the potential they market it to have, and to be useful in all the human-replacing ways they claim it is.
That’s what is bad about it.
- Comment on Atlassian goes cloud-only, customers face integration issues 6 days ago:
My company recently migrated from on-premise to AWS to “save money”; in the first month we now have test environment instances which we shut down outside of business hours because of high cost.
Great, so work gets done slower AND we pay more? Fucking genius.
Cloud is a sick joke to capture revenue.
- Comment on If I had realized how shitty the sound was in the MRI headphones I would not have asked for one of my favorite bands when they asked me what music I wanted 1 week ago:
Even though Second Bad Vilbel sounds like a CAT scan, I still love it
- Comment on Awooga 1 week ago:
I got this new anime plot. Basically, there’s this high school girl except she’s got huge boobs, I mean some serious honkers. A real set of badonkers. Packin’ some dobonhonkeros. Massive dohoonkabhankoloos Big ol’ tonhongerekoogers. ‘What happens next?!’ you ask? Transfer student shows up one day with even bigger bonkhonagahoogs. Humungous hungolomghnonoloughongous.
- Comment on The time has come! 1 week ago:
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 week ago:
Thanks for the reassurance. I was starting to do just that, but I’ve only had about 6 hours in game so far and of that I feel like I’m moving pretty slow. So perhaps there is hope yet!
- Comment on Proxmox or Docker? 1 week ago:
That’s unfortunate. I know they do change some things for both security hardening as well as for convinience of the platform, it’s a double-edged sword apparently.
- Comment on Proxmox or Docker? 1 week ago:
VMs on a server are great fun, and there are some use cases where you’d absolutely need them (as parent said, running Windows on a Linux server, etc). I virtualized my whole-network router using virtualized OPNSense which is BSD based.
If you aren’t into spending time (and, eventually , money) on a setup that does “everything”, you don’t need Proxmox.
But it’s fucking AWESOME for tinkering. I think the question to ask yourself is, do you want a homelab, or do you want to just set-it-and-forget-it?
If you want services to be there without spending time on it, keep it simple. If you want the power that added complexity brings, and you have the means (time/energy/maybe money for upgrades etc) then by all means take the leap. It’s fun as hell, if you’re into it.
- Comment on Proxmox or Docker? 1 week ago:
Docker in LXC can be a pain, especially when using backups as the Overlay2 filesystems don’t really jive with the way Proxmox does backups. And forget about running Docker in an unprivileged LXC.
Running in a VM is perfectly fine though; not sure what issues anyone has there. I ran on big beefy servers with 24 cores and tons of RAM though.
It was nice to be able to move my services between machines using a live migration while doing updates though; but again you have to be set up for that. My entire network was managed with twin OPNSense routers as VMs in Proxmox; they handled their own failover and so I could just shut down one at a time to run updates, even to Proxmox itself, and when it came back up then I could work on the other one. But, I wanted to learn all that and have zero downtime so the wife wouldn’t get mad every time I botched something (which, especially in the beginning, was often)
If you don’t have the money or time and just have one server box with a normal amount of RAM and disk; Proxmox is probably overkill unless you want to experiment with VMs or Linux containers. It’s an awesome product and I will sing its praises all day, but if you just want some docker containers you can make a far simpler setup; although I will say that the “overhead” is way less than you might think.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 week ago:
The problem with “old difficulty” was that in arcades especially, and even on consoles by way of the industry being smaller and the same people working on both, were designed around quarter-munching.
Stuff was hard to get people to pay up.
I would have preferred modern ideas like bosses are hard because you have to learn their patterns- and to be clear, this is also present - but also the feeling that I’m not strong enough to do anything more than chip damage is a bit annoying.
I think there’s validity in all the arguments I’ve seen people making; but at the same time I’m glad the game’s not easy. I just don’t know if it always needs to be punishing through frustration.
(The thing that pisses me off the most are those
Tap for spoiler
Red flower buds you need to pogo off of. Do they REALLY need to be over spikes every time? Does my downward thrust really need to be at an angle to bounce off them?? I started out being ok with that movement and I’ve never regressed so fast or so hard at anything in a game before. I swear I’ve lost more lives and to that than bosses; and by the game’s very nature that means a run back every time! Ugh!
So that’s why I say there’s a difference between “tricky” hard and “annoying” hard.
- Comment on I might teach a class about this and have the lesson get steadily worse and worse. 1 week ago:
PiHole or AdGuardHome; then set up a VPN on that same box and on your phone. You’re secure and on your own home network everywhere.
- Comment on The time has come! 1 week ago:
We still recycling jerky boys content with a new twist on it back in edge town?
- Comment on A conundrum 1 week ago:
An ancient conundrum of you think anyone’s mortgage payment is £500, in any country
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 1 week ago:
No, as soon as you ask the government to send a site a token verifying you, you’ve given up your privacy to the government.
Also, how are smaller sites going to pay for this service? This is the tech bros using the religious nuts to pull the ladder up behind them. Locking in the monopoly. The only answer is the freedom we’ve had for the last 35 years.
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 1 week ago:
Don’t worry, soon enough all the SMUT will be eliminated and only the good word of the LORD will be on-line. The solution to all our problems!
(/s if it wasn’t obvious)
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 1 week ago:
I mean, eventually I would have but it was kinda disappointing and also amazing to see this happen. Steam has handled big releases just fine before.
- Comment on Lots to unpack ha ha! 1 week ago:
The look on this man’s face says “Holy shit the libtard was right! You really CAN see Donald Trump in the Epstein Files from all the way up here!”
- Comment on 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using 1 week ago:
SQLite has made huge performance improvements in the last like 3-5 years.
I wouldn’t spin up an enterprise NextCloud with it but for a home NAS serving up to maybe a dozen people it’s more than enough.
- Comment on 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using 1 week ago:
SQLite actually has incredible performance these days. But I get your point :)
- Comment on 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using 1 week ago:
You can install NextCloud with
snap. - Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 1 week ago:
2 hours and 10 minutes in and I can’t even get to the payment method screen
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 1 week ago:
Sometimes that doesn’t even matter anymore; they’ll refuse to work now without a network set up.
- Comment on Value Age verification 2 weeks ago:
