kakes
@kakes@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Getting into Civ 6 10 hours ago:
Yeah, I find 6 takes a bit more micromanaging to be effective, at least for me. I like both games, but if I had to choose one I’d go with 5.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam 13 hours ago:
Oh absolutely, the best cardboard I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on 1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog 15 hours ago:
Finally tried it, and stress-tested it with an LTT video. It works!
- Comment on 1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog 15 hours ago:
I keep meaning to see if SponsorBlock works on mobile now.
Also, just to confirm in case anyone’s curious: did you mean uBlock Origin?
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 15 hours ago:
Yep, ban them.
Or…
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam 16 hours ago:
Last I played - forever ago - I was just disappointed that the random NPCs were nothing but decoration. Made the whole setting feel flat to me, sadly.
- Comment on EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again 1 day ago:
It’s honestly hard to explain just how cool it is. If you watch the trailer and think it’s a cool idea, just know that the game absolutely delivers on it 500%.
- Comment on EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again 1 day ago:
Oh man, I could go on lol. Here’s a few notable ones though:
Factorio
Noita
Stardew Valley
Terraria
Project Zomboid
FTL
(Etc.) - Comment on EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again 1 day ago:
A lot of people are having a lot of issues with video games these days, and I experience almost none of that pain, because I (generally) stick to indie titles. These days games have never been better, but publishers have never been worse.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 3 days ago:
Ahh, I didn’t know that was an option. I’ll give it a shot - thanks!
- Comment on TikTok sues U.S. government, saying potential ban violates First Amendment 4 days ago:
As much as I get what you are saying, the United States has continually expanded the rights of corporations to essentially be… people. So on that they seem to have some legal standing?
Afaik, the Citizens United case - which gave corporations First Amendment rights - was won based on the idea that the government can’t stop a corporation from publishing books. It’ll be interesting to see how this ruling goes when it’s not about books, but about an online media platform.
That said, I agree that the national security aspect will definitely come into play here. As a non-American, I’m curious to see how it goes.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 4 days ago:
“vampire.”
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 4 days ago:
Sadly, my current server is an old all-in-one, so adding a GPU will be difficult. My plan is to make due for now until I can get some proper hardware.
The current plan is - rather than bringing the hardware up to spec - I’ll try bringing the spec down to the hardware, by pre-encoding everything to something like H264. (While keeping originals, since I have the space.)
Thank you for the response and the resource, though! I’ll definitely check it out!
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 4 days ago:
Yeah, I’ve got a full *arr setup so far - just need to iron out a few kinks before I can consider it “done”. Mainly just dealing with my server computer being incredibly slow with - I assume - transcoding.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 4 days ago:
I’m busy with work lately, but I’m investing into setting up Jellyfin, and the moment that’s running, I’m canceling as well.
Would cancel sooner, but I’m not the one that actually uses it, so this was the compromise.
- Comment on Resin Printing: Good for a Beginner with Limited Space? 5 days ago:
Gonna second this. Unless you also install a 24/7 fume hood in your bedroom, the smell alone would be nauseating - not to mention toxic/carcinogenic.
Also, I don’t have an FDM printer, but I’ve heard even those aren’t good for bedroom use due to the fumes from the plastic.
- Comment on AI Computing on Pace to Consume More Energy Than India, Arm Says 5 days ago:
My take is that LLMs are absolutely incredible… for personal use and hobby projects. I can’t think of a single task I would trust an LLM to perform entirely unsupervised in a business context.
Of course, that’s just where LLMs are at today, though. They’ll improve.
- Comment on AI Computing on Pace to Consume More Energy Than India, Arm Says 5 days ago:
I don’t disagree that they should back up their claim, but it does intuitively make sense. AI - GPT LLMs in particular - are typically designed to push the limits of what modern hardware can provide - essentially eating whatever power you can throw at it.
Pair this with a huge AI boom and corporate hype cycle, and it wouldn’t surprise me if it was consuming an incredible amount of power. It’s reminiscent of Bitcoin, from a resource perspective.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 6 days ago:
“You guys actually want to play these things? Yeeesh.”
- Comment on Dynamic DNS vs Dedicated VPN IP 6 days ago:
Ahh okay, interesting. I’ll have to give this a try, then.
- Comment on Meta’s “set it and forget it” AI ad tools are misfiring and blowing through cash 6 days ago:
How is them making more money selling bogus ads “worse results” for them, though?
- Comment on Dynamic DNS vs Dedicated VPN IP 6 days ago:
True, these do sound like the best solutions honestly. I wanted to avoid something like Tailscale, since it just becomes another point for me to support/troubleshoot on the user end, but maybe I should reconsider. It’s a tradeoff, but it would also simplify a lot on my end.
- Comment on Dynamic DNS vs Dedicated VPN IP 6 days ago:
Sorry, yeah, “broadcasting” was a bad word choice. What I meant was that if I port-forward, it exposes that socket to potential bad actors searching for exposed services.
- Comment on Dynamic DNS vs Dedicated VPN IP 6 days ago:
Thanks, I’m only very vaguely familiar with NGINX, so I appreciate the clarification.
- Comment on Dynamic DNS vs Dedicated VPN IP 6 days ago:
Thank you for such an in-depth reply!
There’s a lot to take in here, but it sounds like I’ve got some work to do - not necessarily a bad thing. It’s honestly about time I took my network more seriously and set up some proper routing / firewalls.
- Comment on Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows 1 week ago:
I’m a millennial, but I don’t necessarily care if the person I’m watching exists or not.
That’s not to say there aren’t a bunch of other factors involved that would generally steer me away from artificial people (general corporate BS being the obvious one), but all else being equal, I’m totally fine with it.
- Comment on Men over 30, what do you keep in your bedside nightstand? 1 week ago:
My phone, a tarot deck, and waaay too many books.
- Comment on Dynamic DNS vs Dedicated VPN IP 1 week ago:
Yeah, thats definitely something I need to look into setting up.
- Comment on Dynamic DNS vs Dedicated VPN IP 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t this require any user to connect to the VPN though? I’m looking for something more publicly accessible - say like a website.
- Comment on Dynamic DNS vs Dedicated VPN IP 1 week ago:
Ahh okay, thanks for the clarification. Honestly I should use NGINX just for the sake of learning it, if nothing else.