vinnymac
@vinnymac@lemmy.world
- Comment on 15,000 Retro Gamers Voted And Chose The Best Retro Handheld Of All Time 2 weeks ago:
Phat DS can play them too, don’t forget about my thicc boi
- Comment on Blocking releasegroups from Sonarr/Radarr 3 weeks ago:
I agree, for folks that don’t align with common use cases something like Trash is great. But there are always common configs, in all things that the masses would benefit from. For example, with blocklists you often have users who want to block all ads, porn, only ads from large companies but not small businesses, politics, etc. Different strokes for different folks.
Same is true with Sonarr & Radarr, where you have users who prefer different things, like foreign content, subtitled content, audio quality, specific video formats, etc. Chances are there is a configuration that would strike a balance for the masses and make most users happy. Just like most users are happy with a general ad blocklist without having to think much about what it is or isn’t blocking.
- Comment on Blocking releasegroups from Sonarr/Radarr 3 weeks ago:
I appreciate the advice, but I’m not solely referring to the customization of filtering, of course it has the ability to do that, almost every comment in this thread is about that. The feature I am raising is about syncing community maintained txt blobs, Trash tells us exactly how to sync the guide with Sonarr/Radarr, but not without additional software or manual effort.
Trash may offer excellent filters, but they are incomplete, and do not promote community involvement. A URL pointed at a single source of truth inherently would, this is a popular approach with blocklists all over the web. If a user wants to modify the list, and has to post to a single moderated source, everyone benefits. But currently as a user you either setup syncing orchestration or you manually copy Trash. Neither of which lends itself toward keeping the community up to date.
If you are aware of a way to have Sonarr/Radarr pull directly from a single source of truth and update itself, that would be great though.
- Comment on Blocking releasegroups from Sonarr/Radarr 3 weeks ago:
I am familiar, thanks though
- Comment on Blocking releasegroups from Sonarr/Radarr 3 weeks ago:
Honestly we should just start a list we maintain, and then ask Sonarr/Radarr to offer a feature to pull from a URL of our choosing periodically. That way we can curate the blocklists as a collective rather than this manual bullshit.
- Comment on Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions 3 weeks ago:
I took one of the broken ones from my office, repaired it, and now it allows my dnd campaign to see the DM and all the other players reactions when playing remotely.
- Comment on Why is the name of the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 hard-coded into the Bluetooth drivers? 5 weeks ago:
While I don’t know this is the case, I can say from experience that in large enterprise organizations compliance departments will and do actively prevent the release of features and even commits if they don’t comply.
While that’s not an excuse for challenging them, I could definitely see a stressed out mid level just trying to make there manager happy and move on with life.
- Comment on Homarr - A modern and easy to use dashboard. 30+ integrations. 10K+ icons built in. Authentication out of the box. No YAML, drag and drop configuration. 2 months ago:
Yea, this is a deal breaker imo. My code tends to be 10 to 1 comments to lines of code ratio. Configuration even more so.
jsonc exists for this use case, but few tools actually use it, yaml is far more popular
- Comment on AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day 2 months ago:
Do you remember what you guys were using to burn millions of CDs at the time? Genuinely curious how it was done at that scale, as I think it was one of the biggest CD campaigns.
- Comment on The Prototype: One Step Closer To Fusion Power 3 months ago:
I was curious about this, so I tried to find out what the record for KSTAR was to date. In my research I found that it ran for 48 seconds in ‘24. The goal is to able to run it for 300 seconds by ‘26, but have not attempted this.
Although for Plasma generation we’ve achieved much longer run times in both the east (1,066s) and west (1,337s)
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 4 months ago:
What the tech is being marketed as and what it’s capable of are not the same, and likely never will be. In fact all things are very rarely marketed how they truly behave, intentionally.
Everyone is still trying to figure out what these Large Reasoning Models and Large Language Models are even capable of; Apple, one of the largest companies in the world just released a white paper this past week describing the “illusion of reasoning”. If it takes a scientific paper to understand what these models are and are not capable of, I assure you they’ll be selling snake oil for years after we fully understand every nuance of their capabilities.
TL;DR Rich folks want them to be everything, so they’ll be sold as capable of everything until we repeatedly refute they are able to do so.
- Comment on Hands-On: EufyMake E1 UV Printer 5 months ago:
Adam Savage has a video where they use the eufy to print onto glass (and many other materials). The result was pretty incredible, so I hope we see this become easier and easier.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 5 months ago:
It’s simply easier to exert control over society through private corporations than in the light of day with public goods and services. Especially when what you desire is of minority opinion.
- Comment on Spottarr: A modern spotnet client and index for your *arr apps. 5 months ago:
A spot includes a downloadable file and accompanying metadata and is intended to be shared with other users. A spot can be compared to a traditional search engine index entry. However, the difference is that it is user-generated and is intended to help people identify, organize, and share content.
- Comment on Spottarr: A modern spotnet client and index for your *arr apps. 5 months ago:
For those who are unfamiliar with the Spotweb client for Spotnet:
Spotweb is a Spotnet implementation in PHP. Spotnet only shows actual Spots - spots are manually created by humans which categorize them and provide an image and description for the spot. You cannot compare Spotweb with for example Newznab or other such systems as its a moderated and curated system with manual intervention.
This makes Spotweb slightly slower for new content but should most likely raise the bar on quality - depending on the Spotters.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
This is why I only upload incriminating files. No one needs to be convinced to backup my data.
- Comment on If we are in a simulation, maybe yawning is an animation glitch. 6 months ago:
But my pets yawn when I yawn
- Comment on Self hosted alternative to Calendly 6 months ago:
I’ve been using this for the last year, works great for me.
- Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio 6 months ago:
Most notably the Zenith Space Command
- Comment on FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado 6 months ago:
As am I. They don’t realize we are also fond of guns on this side of the street, and are much more thrilled by the sight of dead Nazis.
- Comment on FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado 6 months ago:
In good conscience I can’t recommend visiting the site or lowering yourself to read their blubbering nonsense, but if you do happen to find yourself reviewing the perspectives over on that other site in r/Conservative, you’ll find them infighting, and doing mental gymnastics to make sense of it all. Praising him, while simultaneously being upset he wants a third term, or ashamed of his imperialist plans. The blind leading the blind, but apparently at least some of them are bothered by some of the unconstitutional actions.
- Comment on New Xbox 360 Recompilation Tool Will Give Lost Classics Another Chance To Shine | Time Extension 7 months ago:
You might enjoy this then: marbleblastultra.randomityguy.me
- Comment on Amazon shuts down Chime, its Zoom alternative 8 months ago:
I don’t know of any personally, but if someone was to develop it, the North Star should be Around imo.
It’s one of the best video conferencing apps I’ve ever used. I’ve used them all, even obscure ones you’ve probably never heard of. Miro Labs is unfortunately shutting Around down in a month though after acquiring it and folding whatever bits they wanted into their own software.
- Comment on Amazon shuts down Chime, its Zoom alternative 8 months ago:
They made you use it if you ever had to talk to enterprise support for Amazon web services. It had similar vibes to WebEx conferencing. They have been dog fooding it internally for years, but Amazon doesn’t know UI/UX so this isn’t shocking to me.
- Comment on If God's in charge, He's in the process of shutting down the operation 8 months ago:
Could also be pirate space monkeys came and saved all the fish and then returned them after. It’s really fun to make up situations where the fish didn’t die in the story. We can even give Noah a staff and special powers as long they justify our view of the world.
- Comment on Defaults are crucial for good UX and getting more users on the Fediverse 8 months ago:
I agree, a gateway drug is what we are looking for. Imagine trying to learn how to run before you learned how to walk. We are asking a lot of the masses if we want to see user growth here without a simple and easy to understand starting place.
I think the hardest concept for beginners to grok is that they can’t login with one account to all instances. If we were to improve the UX around that experience solely, we would see greater adoption.
- Comment on The ridiculous Steam Brick just makes me want a proper Steam Machine 8 months ago:
I have a pc part picker list for a Steam Machine that’s already done for years now.
It is built around this case: louqe.com/products/ghost-s1-mkiii
But there are several great alternative cases as well, if the all black aesthetic isn’t for you. Just building a small computer is the most affordable way to go here.
- Comment on Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell 11 months ago:
If you are concerned by fascism, I recommend calling your representatives and even writing letters to them.
In the case above, a sensible well written letter sent by an individual that was put in power to defend the interests of the American people is not fascism.
It’s important to understand what Fascism looks like. Such as every billionaire bending the knee when a politician gains power, or what we see with Musk in an invented cabinet position. The merger of government and corporate powers which will directly hurt the interests of the people in a state.
- Comment on Archinstall 3.0 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Is Here with a Revamped Interface - 9to5Linux 11 months ago:
Short of a live usb, I think archinstall might be the fastest way to get started on Linux. From beginning to end it took me ~3min the other day.
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 11 months ago:
I have a metal dual USB A & C microSD card reader on my keychain. It lets me swap out cards easily, and should it ever be damaged, the chances are slimmer that the tiny microSD will be destroyed.