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- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 2 days ago:
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam — can Capcom turn it around? 5 days ago:
Also, it runs like absolute ass compared to World.
- Comment on how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days? 6 days ago:
I use Jellyfin with Finamp on Android/PC and the Jellyfin plugin for Kodi on my HTPC.
The Jellyfin plugin does movies/shows too and not just music but it handles music playback as well. For a dedicated music box I’m not sure if I would use Kodi for it.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 1 week ago:
The first paragraphs on endof10.org tell you why you should install Linux followed by telling you how to get in touch with someone who can explain things to you and even install it for you. Most of them do it free of charge. I’m not sure how you can improve on that.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 1 week ago:
Depending on which services you want to replace, Nextcloud might also be worth a look. There are quite a few hosted options available by Hetzner and others.
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 2 weeks ago:
Is it still possible to see those generated summaries somewhere? Would like to see what their model outputs for some articles, especially compared to the human written lead-in.
- Comment on Steam Next Fest has started once again. What good demos have you found? 2 weeks ago:
It looks like a lot of the complaining is about how it’s not like Patapon?
Most of it, but not all of it.
I played a little bit of the demo and was excited for a Patapon clone but it felt…off?
My main issues with it:
- Moving your own character does not really add anything to the game
- It’s really easy for the music to sound off-beat by narrowly missing the timing
- The metronome was replaced by a fixed Guitar Hero-like note display
- There is too much going on at times, mostly due to the more complex art style
- The beat between enemies and yourself does not match, making it impossible to counter some attacks
- You cannot cancel the beat by failing on purpose; If you fail, you have to wait until you can input the next command
I really hope they can improve things but right now I don’t really enjoy it.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 2 weeks ago:
You can install an application like Flatseal (flathub.org/apps/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal) to inspect the permissions for a flatpak.
How locked down a flatpak is depends entirely on the developer and what permissions they request. By default, they can’t really see much. For example, they can’t even see the processes running on your host or your user and system files.
Flatpak does not do anything about network access though, it can only do no access or full access, no in between. The data they can collect on Linux in a Flatpak is very limited but it does not prevent them from calling home.
- Comment on Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game 3 weeks ago:
They went pretty fast with performance improvements after launch and the first major update. There was a larger gap with the last update because they bought their publishing rights back and had to wait for all the legal stuff to settle.
So far they had one large update which added end-game content and another large update with a major balancing overhaul, which also reset character progress.
HLTB currently sets the game at 12.5 hours for the main story and 24 hours for main + side quests.
I’m planning to play it once co-op releases, the game seems to be in a good state and has enough content for me.
- Comment on No need to hurt me, GOG :( 5 weeks ago:
SOMA
I see you don’t only want people to feel old but also experience existential crisis.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 5 weeks ago:
Yep, old ChatGPT was much more blunt and factual.
Don’t really like the recent trend of every LLM talking to me like I’m in kindergarten.
- Comment on The Witcher III is currently on sale for 3€ until 25th May 5 weeks ago:
You don’t have to re-add the game but I think you have to start Heroic itself from time to time to check for updates.
- Comment on Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US 5 weeks ago:
Back feeding is legal here if it is connected to a micro inverter which can turn off immediately when disconnected and never outputs more than 800W.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 5 weeks ago:
ChatGPT won’t humiliate you for asking a question that someone else has already asked.
I don’t know, being told what a good question that was and what a good boy I am everytime I ask a stupid question feels pretty humiliating.
(Still better than SO)
- Comment on The Witcher III is currently on sale for 3€ until 25th May 5 weeks ago:
Heroic also has a handy “Add to Steam” shortcut for each game:
- Comment on Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US 5 weeks ago:
Balcony solar panels are dirt cheap, you can get them for 200-300€, including the micro inverter. You usually do not have batteries in these setups, you just use up the generated power while it is available by moving things like the dishwasher and dryer to that time.
To give some actual numbers, I pay 0.22€ per kWh right now. In the last 30 days (Apr 21 - May 20) the balcony solar panels generated 74.11kWh. The month was fairly average with an even mixture of sunny days and rainy days.
Assuming you can use up the 800W of peak power, you will have saved around 16€ in just those 30 days. I don’t have full data for the year yet since I only got mine a few months back but my current estimation is that it will have paid for itself after 2-4 years.
- Comment on Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US 5 weeks ago:
The biggest advantage of balcony-mounted solar panels, at least where I live, is that you need 0 permits. You don’t need to ask your neighbors, you don’t need to ask your power company, you don’t need a building permit, you don’t need an electrician and you don’t need a solar company to install them for you.
They don’t replace large solar farms but if you incentivize people to DIY their solar installation you get tons of additional cheap and clean energy from a source that would be wasted otherwise.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 5 weeks ago:
If Doom Eternal is a rhythm game, what does that make Metal: Hellsinger aka “Doom but as a rhythm game”?
store.steampowered.com/app/…/Metal_Hellsinger/
(really great game btw)
- Comment on Bungie confirms it stole art once again, will undertake a 'thorough review' of Marathon assets 5 weeks ago:
TIL that Bungie is releasing a new game.
Although judging by this news and the first sentence on their Steam page being “…Bungie’s team-based extraction shooter.”, maybe it’s a good thing I can’t play their games.
- Comment on Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on Android 5 weeks ago:
Any reviews/feedback from current Nextcloud users? I do plan to eventually self host but would start off using storage included in the plan
If my Nextcloud stops working I’m done for.
My calendars are in there, my todo list, my notes, my contacts, all my savegames, backups, documents, invoices, photos, videos, everything.
It’s pretty heavy to host but it’s worth it if you make full use of their entire suite.
- Comment on Hacker advertises alleged database of 89 million Steam 2FA codes 1 month ago:
I once wrote the guy listed for their infrastructure that one of their mail servers is configured incorrectly.
He got back to me after 2 hours thanking me and telling me he fixed it.
Thought that was pretty impressive for a company of their size.
- Comment on Researchers discover new security vulnerability in Intel processors 1 month ago:
Intel has already deployed a fix for this in the 13th and 14th gen by permanently damaging the chip and crashing. Checkmate hackers.
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 1 month ago:
There is now source code for the ROM, which makes creating ports and mods significantly easier.
The initial goal of most decompilations is to produce a 1:1 match of the original ROM. That’s how they know they’ve got a perfect representation of the original code.
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 1 month ago:
Are you trying to run it on PC?
This is only the decompilation of the original for N64, the binaries it produces are for the N64 or an emulator. Making a PC port is the next step.
- Comment on Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game 1 month ago:
I bought the game on release mostly to support them. The folks at Moon Studios are seriously talented and deserve some support.
I played ~2 hours on release and thought the game was decent. The combat had some weight, the art style was excellent, the bosses were fun and challenging and the exploration was pretty neat. There were many performance issues which they have since mostly fixed but there were also a few systems taken from different genres that didn’t work that well together for me. I didn’t play for a while though, so maybe they improved things in that area.
Still, I’m also waiting for the coop, which is scheduled to release with the next major update.
I wouldn’t read too much into this news article. Their CEO has since clarified that he might have been a bit hyperbolic and didn’t expect the media to pick up on his random Discord post.
I don’t quite agree with his assessment of being “review bombed”. Most negative reviews come down to the game being released in early access: bad performance, many systems not working well together, being behind roadmap, missing coop on launch and more recently, difficulty. I do get their need for releasing in early access after Microsoft dropped them but it might have hurt them in the long run.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
I had the same issue in the late game of Blue Prince.
The RNG is pretty fun at first but it quickly becomes frustrating when you have specific layouts in your mind. You gain some control but not enough to make it fun to restart over and over again until you don’t get shafted.
My solution was simple: I cheated. I gave myself infinite dice and rerolled the rooms until I got the layout I was looking for. Much more enjoyable that way.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 1 month ago:
Sayonara Wild Hearts is such a good weekend game. Really cheap, really short, really good and with a soundtrack that you’re going to listen to long after finishing the game.
Highly recommend!
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 month ago:
I ran Emby for a while before switching to Jellyfin. Still running it today.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 month ago:
It has been a few years since I last used Plex but I always liked their interface, their tech stack is fairly modern, they have apps for pretty much every device, their title matching for content works really well and there was not much wrong with it back in the day other than it lacking local authentication.
I switched over long ago when they started pushing streaming services to my users that I couldn’t deactivate server side.
- Comment on Anker eufyMake E1 3D-texture UV printer now crowdfunding 1 month ago:
Heads up, I asked their support and it works neither on Linux nor without cloud.
Cool device though.
