IronKrill

@IronKrill@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  YouTube Premium Lite is Premium, it’s in the name. I presume the OP is saying the only reason people buy Premium is to be rid of ads, therefore Lite is pointless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just filled it out in case you still need answers. Small note, your education answers don’t include “none”. While uncommon, some people never finished school and there is no option for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owned (stocks)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad to have e-transfers for these transactions in Canada.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spread of sexual deepfake images created by generative AI growing in Japan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry buddy, send me a picture and I can do it for you, free of charge!

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

  And also, for some of us:

  • Boycott due to Mick Gordon’s treatment.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wait, that game is still playable online?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been on steep discount often, as recently as May 1st. Just gotta wait for the sale, it’ll go on again. isthereanydeal.com/game/…/history/

• ⁨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"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Having seen the tonal shift in the gameplay preview I’d actually expect better writing, or at least more bearable writing. Gameplay looked more fine tuned but mostly the same as 3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Declares Biden’s Digital Equity Act ‘Racist’ and ‘Unconstitutional’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  every accusation etc etc. getting tired of this BS every week

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  y’all keep saying this but playing 1 round of Valorant will make you realise pretty quick how easily people drop $80+ on a game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 - State of Play Deep Dive | PS5 Games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think 2 can also be used as an argument for why they should switch it up. After all, we switch playable characters each game to keep things fresh, so why not do the same with guns? A new planet should bring some new gun modifiers, and they could still bring back some of the old manufacturers as rare loot or legendaries to get even more variety. After 13 years and 4 entries, I’m just a little tired of reloading Tediore’s and throwing away all Hyperion and Torgue guns I pick up (exaggerating!).

  I somewhat agree with you on movement: it doesn’t have to be for combat or necessary. But you have to adjust the enemies to account for the extra player tools lest you make melee or slow projectiles trivial. That and I believe that the best games implement features to solve a problem. Take Doom Eternal for example: I wouldn’t have used half the tools in that game if they hadn’t provided challenges that were best overcome by using them. On medium-high difficulties you end up using everything at hand to get through the levels because otherwise you die, and that’s fulfilling! If I had the same tools at hand but the enemies were all .5x speed then it wouldn’t be very engaging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 - State of Play Deep Dive | PS5 Games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Censor Torgue? In what way do you mean, because he’s been bleeped out since his introduction in Borderlands 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 - State of Play Deep Dive | PS5 Games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m happy to see that it looks good! The return to a more serious style is welcome after 3 games of perhaps taking it too far.

  First impression is it seems a lot more Destiny-like: personal vehicles, quests you can pick up anywhere, dynamic events. I’m not complaining necessarily, but looks like they took some notes.

  The movement options seem nice but not sure they add that much really. If they don’t solve a challenge that the enemies provide then it’s kinda pointless. I almost never used slide or ground pound in combat in previous games because I was better off just shooting the enemies.

  And as much as I love my Jakobs weapons, I was hoping to see a manufacturer revamp. They even used the same companies in Tiny Tina’s with only minor tweaks. The heavy weapons sharing a slot with grenades looks to be a fantastic change though, very welcome.

  Also, no lip-sync on NPCs? Looks weird having Amara speaking but her character do nothing.

  Overall though looks like a solid but not ground-breaking entry. The guns look just as fun as before and the art design is a step up (those bosses!) from before which I love to see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they have “lore”: a bunch of 2 minute animations, vague plot points, and character bios that give just enough of a reason for their seasonal events to occur and for fans to drool over. Just like every other live service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wario64: Borderlands 4 is moving its release date up to September 12th⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always found the respec fee so low as to be essentially free. The bigger barrier was remembering what skills I had specced into lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Apart from the key bind loss, which would be asinine to remove permanently, this looks like a straight upgrade. Better readability and more in line with the rest of the UI design.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fully self-hosted password manager options⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Bitwarden (as far as I know these are basically the same) and have had issues with the app too, from long delays before it autofills, to the popup jumping around the screen or vanishing after 1ms, to just never showing up on some screens. I would recommend trying some of the other autofill options they provide in settings to see if they work better for you. I have had much more luck with “inline autofill” than the accessibility-based autofill, but currently keep them all enabled and the experience is much smoother than it was a year ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sharing Jellyfin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we keep the “everybody who disagrees with me is a bot” gotcha-posting to Twitter? This place will be a lot better for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If I were to guess, I’d say they may get a discount but Lenovo could be reducing their margin to incentivize people away from Windows so they can stop paying out Windows licenses in the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t even a decade old… anyway, it got market share for a reason. It was immediately a big step up from other free offerings in ease of use, UI, and eventually in features too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do office workers actually do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Best response here, as this actually paints a picture of what people are doing all day and why they may be doing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do office workers actually do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What field?? Like what are you supposed to be doing instead of watching videos for 7 hours. It’s crazy to me that so much time can be wasted without a manager realising or caring…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is this something only introverts struggle with?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t an extrovert behaviour, it’s a rude behaviour. They aren’t linked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is 4chan dead forever? Where are the refugees going?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Aren’t there similar websites like 8chan that serve the same purpose? I may be out of the loop but won’t they migrate there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it worth migrating docker apps to truenas scale community apps?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have all my apps running in Docker under Jailmaker and I don’t intend on moving to TrueNAS apps unless I am forced to. Currently I could move this entire setup to any machine I want, set up my jail mount points, launch up Dockge and I’d be up and running (with the same static IP at that!). If I moved to TrueNAS apps I think the transition and handling of mount points would probably be painful. If they remove jailmaker support in 25.xx like I’ve heard I’ll look into Incus or other solutions before using their apps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t played Genshin in a couple of years but it’s definitely one of the better ones from what I’ve seen. I played through f2p until I had a sense of the game and was confident in the content and monetization model. After that I did spend whatever it was, five bucks(?), for the “battle pass” but honestly as long as you have the time to grind then Genshin is fairly non-invasive. That grind is why I quit though, the end game was a slog.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MAZANOKE update (image optimizer via browser): Batch upload and download⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I installed this after seeing your v1 post and already got use out of it resizing some images on mobile. The only thing I noticed as lacking was a multiple file selector, so this is a great first update!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm looking for a no frills, physical key EV. Am I looking for something that no longer exists?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything is an SUV now… :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting Sunday - What's up?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see it in the default WebUI, perhaps whatever app you’re using doesn’t support it? Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting Sunday - What's up?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I added a cheap PCI 4 slot NVMe expansion card and a couple of SSDs for a new pool and then migrated all the database-heavy stuff over to it. Required some use of local ZFS send/receive which I didn’t know was possible, but it has gone smooth so far. Very happy with it! It no longer sounds like my HDD pool is trying to escape from hell and some of the services are much snappier, especially Bitmagnet. I’d highly recommend it as an upgrade for anyone still running purely HDDs. I thought I could get away with it but ZFS speeds are no faster than single drives and the amount of stuff I had was hammering it non-stop.

  I also bought my own domain finally to escape the free-tier dynamic DNS woes and I can finally feel good about sharing links with other people. I slapped a file share container with disabled registrations on a sub domain. I put it all behind free tier Cloudflare to hide my server’s IP, it took a little bit of learning what the different records are but so far much easier than I thought.

  Oh, and the PI I’ve had running Pi-Hole v5 for god knows how long with no maintenance couldn’t run Tailscale, so I wiped the entire thing to start fresh and got it up and running with Pi-Hole v6, Tailscale, and Unbound. I like having these separated from my other services as they are more critical to have at all times and I have had 100% uptime with my Pi so far. Although I chose Dietpi for my OS on a whim because it looked interesting and am not sold on it. I like that it has easy software installs with sane defaults so I probably saved time overall, but the amount of time I spent debugging the weird choices Dietpi made for basic shit like networking options really threw me off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which non-US domain registrar to use?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just wish more of the non-US ones supported .ca domains. :(