rozodru
@rozodru@pie.andmc.ca
Freelance/Consultant Web Dev, EVE Online Player, Linux/FOSS advocate.
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 1 hour ago:
yeah the battery life was horrible. it would eat 6 AA batteries like they were candy. I only ever used mine when it was either plugged into the wall or plugged in the cars cigarette lighter which my dad hated cause he smoked.
- Comment on AI country singer Breaking Rust tops Billboard with ‘Walk My Walk’ 22 hours ago:
sounds like one of those free use songs that youtube provides when you upload a video so you don’t get copy striked. people actually LIKE this drivel? wow.
- Comment on What personal dramas have you witnessed with/among your fellow players while gaming? 22 hours ago:
oh yeah it’s huge. As of right now Pandemic Horde have lost over 16,000 characters that have quit the alliance. they’re pretty much done. End of an era.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
What helped me when I was a kid were games like Quake 3 Arena, Worms, and Mechwarrior 2, 3, and 4.
Q3A was because of the speed. you had to be fast with the mouse if you hoped to compete. Add to the fact that the bots in Q3A, at the time anyways, were quite good. you can play it offline with bots or even over a local LAN.
Again going back to a LAN staple but Worms is also good. you need precision with the mouse on that one. lots of geometry at play.
Finally the Mechwarrior games which really emphasize the mouse and keyboard combination. Torso Twisting and Flicking, positioning of your legs in regards to your torso, etc. really helps with mouse coordination.
- Comment on What personal dramas have you witnessed with/among your fellow players while gaming? 1 day ago:
I play EVE Online soooooo this happens daily? multiple times a day?
The political dramas in that game could put actual real world political drama to shame. I mean take what’s currently happening in game right now. A massive alliance named Pandemic Horde decided to evacuate the space they held. fair enough, the issue? Leadership made the announcement they were leaving said space and then…leadership quit. in the same message. Thus all the regular members, literally hundreds of them if not well over 1000, were left on their own in hostile space with all their assets stuck in stations that were now actively being shot at and destroyed by opposing alliances. The players are essentially stuck because all the upper leadership of Pandemic Horde have the massive capital ships that they could have used to save their members by getting them out of system or aiding in destroying the attackers but they said nope, we’re not going to do that. It’s a cluster fuck.
- Comment on Day 480 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 days ago:
Loved the first game. I still have my Max Payne mouse pad that came with it. Second one was alright. I don’t think I ever finished the third.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
just upgraded my instance. pretty good, very smooth and yay animated profile avatars!
- Comment on New data shows companies are rehiring former employees as AI falls short of expectations 4 days ago:
yes if they want you back you NEED to demand higher pay. Many companies, even some of my clients, are trying to pull the “we need you back but we’re going to pay less than what we previously paid you” bullshit thinking devs will be desperate enough to take it.
- Comment on Bonfire Social 1.0 is here, back the community‑funded roadmap 5 days ago:
I don’t understand what exactly this is as it doesn’t go into great detail especially the whole “flavors” thing. There’s Ember, Social, Community, and Corporation so what’s the difference between each. in the documentation for installation it tells you to pick a flavor but again doesn’t describe what each “flavor” actually is.
So is this like meetup or some kind of neighborhood app/social group thing? I’d be willing to set up an instance on my server of it today but I don’t even know what this really is.
- Comment on Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games? 6 days ago:
Sins of a Solar Empire. It’s a space based strategy game that I’ve sunk hours into. years ago I used to have really shotty internet so it would go down all the time. I’d play that game for 8 hours a pop easily and the time would just fly by. I’m not even a big strategy gamer but I adored that game.
- Comment on Which year was the most stacked for game releases? 1 week ago:
2001 or 2011.
2001 easily had the most games that were highly rated and as others have said you some real classics. The PS2 was hitting it’s stride, the original Xbox Launched, and the Gamecube was right there.
2011 also had some damn amazing games: Arkham City, Portal 2, Skyrim, Skyward Sword, Minecraft, Mortal Kombat 9, Starcraft II, Bastion, Uncharted 3, Battlefield 3 to name a few.
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 1 week ago:
I tried it, paid for it, cancelled it. I tested it with the same queries with ddg, startpage, brave, and qwant via 4get. The results were essentially the same. Kagi did provide more context in the description of the results but it wasn’t anything I would pay a premium for. the majority of features I just didn’t use, the assistant and fastgpt were a waste, lenses were fine and having fediverse on by default is neat but nothing I’d call home about.
If it were cheaper sure, I might stick with it but I can’t justify the price to anyone wanting to use a search engine. $5 for 300 searches a month is a joke. I also don’t like the fact that if you want to pay with something other than a credit card (paypal, venmo, etc) you get charged extra cause Kagi doesn’t want to eat the fees. Also there’s zero option to opt out of paying for the “AI” features, you can turn them off sure…but you’re still going to pay for them.
If your internet usage consists of constant searching and LLM use for searching then sure, you’re going to be paying $10+ a month and be happy with it. But there was nothing Kagi offered that knocked my socks off. if anything, felt like I was getting scammed.
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 1 week ago:
Up until a few weeks ago I was running my own private SearXNG instance and it’s not just you, even I noticed on my OWN instance that it had progressively gotten worse. Initially it was great so I just left it be but then the performance and results just became horrible. It was hit or miss if the thing would even load or not when other instances on my server like my akkoma, piefed, redlib, forgejo, etc all ran smooth as silk.
Eventually I ditched SearXNG and switched to 4get which much better and faster results. thing never goes down and the search results have been fantastic.
- Comment on I am curious about hosting my own lemmy/mastodon server 1 week ago:
honestly it’s better to just host your own private instance as if you want a lemmy and mastodon instance that others can also set up you not only have to admin it you also have to moderate it.
Also keep in mind it’s NOT just actual people signing up but you also have to deal with all the bots which WILL register en masse to your instances. a lot of people won’t mention this. bots flock to this stuff like flies on shit. It’s not worth it unless you plan on really dedicating the time to actively admin your instances.
I run Akkoma instead of Mastodon and Piefed instead of lemmy. both of which were easier to setup than mastodon/lemmy and less resource heavy.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 1 week ago:
it’s always disappointing when people all about FOSS and shit suggest Proton to people looking to switch from google. no, don’t do that. use Tuta or self host or ANYTHING other than Proton. it’s such a shit company that does not deserve the praise they receive.
- Comment on Is the Atari Jaguar worth playing in 2025 !? 1 week ago:
I haven’t messed around with the Audio Visualizer but I do have Tempest 2000 and honestly it gives me a headache. the UI is absolutely dreadful and it’s constantly in your face with exploding text that takes up the entire screen. Playing the Jaguar for too long is like playing the Virtual Boy for too long. you’ll end up being bored with headache.
- Comment on Italy will be the latest country to require age verification for porn sites 1 week ago:
yes you’re right but you and I both know they aren’t concerned about that because going back to your first sentence that’s what this is really about but masked as a “won’t anyone think of the children” so it’s easier to swallow (no pun intended)
- Comment on US | SNAP benefits cut off during shutdown, driving long lines at food pantries 1 week ago:
Oh they CAN afford to feed their own people, they CAN afford to house the homeless, they just don’t want to.
- Comment on Bluesky experiments with dislikes and 'social proximity' to improve conversations 1 week ago:
your last point is key. Bluesky has notoriously horrible moderation and a CEO that refuses to acknowledge it and mocks users that do.
This reeks of Bluesky letting “the babies have their bottles” so to speak but I feel it’s a waste of time. Bluesky users already heavily depend on lists to build their own communities in a way. It’s almost to the point on there where if something you dislike shows up in your feed well that’s your fault and the communities as a whole for not almost shadow banning an account via the god knows how many block lists users have created. “disliking” a post isn’t going to do anything. it’s stupid.
Hell Bluesky users have been trying to get some transphobic journalist banned from the platform for well over a year now and the CEO of Bluesky has essentially said “lol, nope, you all suck. don’t like it? stop posting in protest.” When Bluesky users are offered an alternative with better moderation that THEY can control i.e. Mastodon they tut their tongues and roll their eyes saying “eww the linux of social media”.
so again, let the babies have their bottles. it’s not going to do anything because Bluesky has clearly said they don’t want to do anything.
- Comment on Is the Atari Jaguar worth playing in 2025 !? 1 week ago:
about 20+ years ago I decided to start collecting videogames. In hindsight it was a good time to start as the prices for the retro stuff was still dirt cheap. I had all the consoles. mastersystem, nes, snes, genesis, 3DO, NeoGeo, etc. A few japanese only stuff like the Wonderswan and what have you. Again via ebay and thriftstores it was all cheap.
The Jaguar for whatever reason took awhile to find at a decent price but I finally found one at a electronics thriftstore in the city. bought a few games for it also. some even still had the overlay for the controller.
all the games were bad. all of them. I bought like 10 games or so and they all sucked. My collection initially focused on collecting consoles and the “best” games for each which would progress to just trying to get as close to complete collections as possible. With the Jaguar I didn’t even bother after those 10 games. I had more games for the 3DO and PC-i compared to the Jaguar. Plus Jaguar stuff was just hard to find and I kinda figured that people didn’t bother trading them in or trying to resell them but because they sucked so much I bet you most people just tossed them.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
considering the data is from 2018 and the report published in 2020 it’s probably not a “little” higher but a hell of a lot higher.
At this point it’s more likely bots are advertising/pushing agendas to other bots.
- Comment on We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one 1 week ago:
Well the Wachowskis have said in the past that The Matrix Online is canon as they wanted to hand the story of The Matrix over to the fans/players to do with it as they wished. They approved of Morpheus’ death in the game so I suppose that’s why it’s kinda vague in Resurrections as to how he died. Either because of the events of the game where he was killed by an assassin or simply from old age.
As far as how he was reborn in the movie he was basically “coded in” to a “Matrix Modal” by Neo and the Machines. Resurrections Morpheus was like a hybrid of Morpheus and Agent Smith. The whole explanation was the machines needed Neo to kind of remember but not quite fully remember that he was the One because it generated a lot of power for them combined with keeping Trinity in close proximity. So the Machines were kind of constantly dangling a carrot in front of Neos face. They also had to keep constantly changing his DSI (Digital Self Image) so the humans would have a hard time finding him.
So the Morpheus in Resurrections wasn’t the “real” morpheus but a program that had Morpheus’ “code”. that’s why he didn’t have a body in the real world because unlike Neo and Trinity there was no body to put him in.
- Comment on King Charles strips Andrew of royal titles, Windsor home 1 week ago:
woah wait what he was STILL living with Sarah Ferguson!? I had no idea. what the actual fuck. and SHE potentially also gets to live somewhere else free of charge? what the actual fuck.
If I were a UK citizen I’d be rioting on the streets over this bullshit. Why do these douchenozzles get to live somewhere free of charge on the tax payers dime doing jack all? Imagine getting all this free stuff for simply existing.
- Comment on Resident Evil 0 and Resident Evil Remaster, now on GOG 1 week ago:
I don’t care what anyone says RE0 is still my favourite in the series.
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 2 weeks ago:
utilizing things like ReviOS or something, by passing the forced account creation, etc.
- Comment on Zorin OS Breaks Download Record as Windows 10 Users Seek Alternatives 2 weeks ago:
I’m not a fan of Zorin, I don’t like the fact that one of their features for the paid version is a bunch of KDE Plasma themes you can download for free from the KDE store but for someone migrating from Windows I get it. I believe the access to one on one tech support is worth the price of admission alone for these users.
- Comment on Fedora Linux project agrees to allow AI-assisted contributions with a new policy 2 weeks ago:
for assistance with contributions? fine, let the babies have their bottles.
But to also utilize LLM’s for the review process of said contributions? yeah good luck with that Fedora.
Don’t get me wrong I like fedora, it’s a good “noob” linux distro but some of the decisions these dudes make just make me scratch my head. Look at some of the spins for example, especially the Sway spin and you can’t help but think “why would they do that?”
- Comment on Amazon cutting thousands of corporate roles [including video games] 2 weeks ago:
The layoffs also hit Twitch which has had a notorious bot problem for years. So now they’re going to use bots to fight bots?
Honestly the best thing Amazon could do is just shut down twitch completely. It’s become a dumpster fire of its former self. It used to be about people playing games and now it’s about which streamer is sexually assaulting which other streamer and dudes putting shock collars on dogs.
- Comment on ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media 2 weeks ago:
“Ah - I see the problem now! you’re trying to detain people of color and those spreading political dissent!”
- Comment on Mr. Bones Wild Ride 2 weeks ago: