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- Comment on YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon. 8 hours ago:
“You should know: [totally horrible political sexual abuse thing with absolutely no kind of warning on it at all]”
…no, I really, really didn’t need to know that, thanks
– Frost
- Comment on 8 hours ago:
I’m not straight or bi, but furry, and furry porn has none of that stuff (well, I’m sure it exists if you go looking for it, but it’s not like, plastered everywhere).
It’s weird hearing about the totally different norms of human porn!
– Frost
- Comment on I feel like half the time someone is accused of being a bot, the accuser is the bot. 10 hours ago:
Oh no, my cover’s blown!
– Frost
- Comment on wir suchen dich‼️‼️🗣️📢📢 2 days ago:
This is on the level of Fahrt jokes and I’m here for it. :3
– Frost
- Comment on Future Sony PlayStation games will use AI to imagine new frames 2 days ago:
Ah yes, “imagine” new frames.
There’s no imagining going on.
– Frost
- Comment on Hairy heart 2 days ago:
┌────┬─────────────────┬────┐ │ 🐺 │ Unicode is fun! │ ✨ │ ├────┴─────────────────┴────┤ │ Never heard of ASCII art? │ └────────────────┬──────────┤ │ -- Frost │ └──────────┘
- Comment on Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines 3 days ago:
Email might actually be one of the easiest to move off of, thankfully!
There’s plenty of stuff out there, both free and paid. You can even use your own domain if you have an extra $15 or so a year. A lot of the paid options let you use your domain with them (and then if you ever need to change providers, you can keep your email address). And you can use both webmail and actual mail apps.
Youtube though… yeah, there aren’t really any good alternatives for that.
– Frost
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 4 days ago:
Psst, you can keep your /home. Copy /home/username to a new partition before the install (just the username folder in the root of the new partition), do the install, and point it at your new partition as /home. Bam, it’s your new home.
Or you could copy out/copy back.
You’ll need to reinstall your apps, but you won’t need to redo all your settings for them.
– Frost
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
English, and trying to learn German! Haven’t gotten very far yet though. Did a tiny little bit of Japanese (before picking up German) but haven’t gotten very far in that either.
Yet.
– Frost
- Comment on Too weird for the normal people, too normal for the weird people... 6 days ago:
You just need to find the WEIRDER people.
They’re out there!
One of the really, really good things about the internet.
– Frost
- Comment on 8 characters? How about we make it 16? 1 week ago:
16 🙼🙼 16 🙼🙼 16
- Comment on 8 characters? How about we make it 16? 1 week ago:
Also relevant: xkcd.com/2318/ :3
- Comment on Nippon Ichi Software announces Nippon Ichi PC Games service 1 week ago:
Yeah DRM would definitely get weird.
70% of the point of it would be to bring back actually owning your games, so as long as the DRM travels with the disc and you can resell it and the recipient can use it without being an EEEEVIL PIRATE!!!, it’s good.
Though it would introduce the weird issue of having to swap discs like you do a console.
- Comment on Nippon Ichi Software announces Nippon Ichi PC Games service 1 week ago:
Ooh, that sounds cool!
It’d be really nice if it could include the actual game on disc or whatever, but, that probably isn’t a thing they can easily do. It’d be cool if it was, though.
- Comment on System76 on Age Verification Laws 2 weeks ago:
But also more generally, the whole attitude of “you’re just a Luddite who’s HOLDING US BACK!!”. See also systemd.
(I don’t like systemd for completely different reasons (political rather than technical) but the very similar “you just need to get with the times!!!” attitude is also a massive turnoff for basically the same reason.)
(Also see also Rust. Ditto.)
- Comment on System76 on Age Verification Laws 2 weeks ago:
Hah, yeah, you probably don’t have a CRT monitor!
Having custom resolution support is INCREDIBLY important for them, because they have no native resolution and you can just throw pretty much anything at them and it looks fantastic. It’s great for getting high refresh rates in games, especially since decreasing the resolution means you don’t have to work as hard for that framerate, without the nastiness of upscaling.
And also our monitor reports 1280x1024 as the highest resolution. Which… is the wrong aspect ratio. ??? So we NEED custom resolutions to even have a usable monitor.
KDE finally came out with support for this… in a version that’s not in Debian yet… like, one major release before dropping X11 support completely. And pretty much every other desktop on the planet is just out in the cold (except for all the window managers that base off of wlroots or something, I think it has an equivalent). Gnome? Good fucking luck.
Oh and screenshot tools. Those are tied to the DE now! Want to use a competing screenshot tool? You just… uh… can’t. I mean we’re on KDE and Spectacle is pretty great so it doesn’t really affect us, but if we didn’t like Spectacle, we’d be more or less screwed under Wayland.
Also scaling the screen. I don’t mean widget toolkit scaling. I mean e.g. integer scaling the screen pixels from 1920x1080 to 4K, a simple 2x2 for 4K TVs, or what-have-you. (Because 4K TVs don’t do this themselves even though they really should.) Or going the other way, rendering at 1280x960 and then downscaling to 640x480 so our CRT can get 120Hz. Easy on X11. Straight-up impossible on Wayland.
Oh yeah, and did I mention disabling our PS4 controller’s trackpad from working as a mouse, without disabling any other trackpad on the system, without disabling its ability to work as a button or whatever in Steam Input? That too.
Stuff like that.
- Comment on System76 on Age Verification Laws 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think anything defaulting to Wayland is guaranteed trash, but I also think there should be way more X11 pitchfork people. Or at least less hatred directed at them when they pop up.
“just get with the times it’s THE FUTURE and you’re not allowed to say no!” is… not cool. Especially when Wayland is unusable for anything outside of “the ordinary”, by design.
– Frost
- Comment on Switch emulator Eden is surviving life after Nintendo kicked it off GitHub 2 weeks ago:
It’d be really nice if it was like Wii, where you can have the emulated console do an online system update and bang, there’s your whole OS… or failing that, the entire system is on every game disc, just in case… but nooo can’t have that.
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 2 weeks ago:
Oooh lovely!! We’re uh, pre-12.5 I think.
A DVD won’t work, right, it’s gotta be a bluray? Because if we can do this with a DVD-R and not need another reader, that’d be great.
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 2 weeks ago:
Shoot, apparently it’s not open source. That’s not confidence-inspiring… but then again PS3 CFWs weren’t either (*sighs*)
Does that apply to PS4s running 11.something? I can’t remember what OS version our PS4 is on, but it’s new enough that a jailbreak only came out pretty recently. Needed a specific game disc to work.
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 2 weeks ago:
Oooh awesome. I figured normal burned discs wouldn’t work.
We don’t have a bluray burner (only a CD/DVD drive) but have been kinda wanting to get one.
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 2 weeks ago:
Wait, you can get jailbreak discs from aliexpress? That might be worth looking into…
(although, how do we know if it’s got malware on it?)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The UI is just way, way, WAY less obnoxious.
I do wish it had the niche communities though. Stuff for individual games, etc.
– Frost
- Comment on 'Let it Die' servers shutting down, but offering players a onetime purchase to keep it alive offline 2 weeks ago:
This is awesome. Should be the normal way to do things!
– Frost
- Comment on Some questions about how to structure my self-hosting 2 weeks ago:
The homeserver doesn’t have to be fancy. We’re running all our stuff off a Dell Vostro from 2012 we got for like $30 on Craigslist. (It did need another $30 replacement PSU though. And it has 8GB RAM and a 500GB SSD which is nothing to sneeze at for a machine that cheap and that old.)
- Comment on What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify? 2 weeks ago:
Whatever it is, it must flow.
- Comment on Just one more square bro 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s not at all an optimal waffle. It’s more a cool math meme waffle. ;3
– Frost
- Comment on What us the best way to add remote access to my servers? 2 weeks ago:
The moment you get a TLS cert, it’ll show up in Certificate Transparency logs and apparently the attack bots scan that for targets.
- Comment on Using VPS for remote access of my server - some questions 3 weeks ago:
You can totally do that yeah!
We have our stuff set up so inbound VPS traffic (for HTTPS) comes in on port 4430, while LAN traffic is on 443. It’s not done for firewall reasons, it’s so we can pass the client’s IP through with Nginx’s proxy_protocol feature, but you could just make your local-only services not listen on 4430. Boom, done.
Fail2Ban on the VPS is probably good. On the home server, it might just lock out the VPS (since everything comes from there).
Anyway yeah, I’ve got a whole guide on this sort of setup! …brightfur.net/…/selfhosting-with-a-bounce-vps-pa…
– Frost
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 3 weeks ago:
Look, between the “let’s not do anything at all” party and the “wants us, specifically, dead” party, I’ll take the “let’s not do anything at all” party.
You don’t have to 100% like everything a given party is doing to recognize that they’re the least bad option. Sure, they aren’t really actively good, but a vote for them is a vote against the people who want to kill us. (And voting third party is just tossing your vote in the garbage, unfortunately.)
– Frost