Aganim
@Aganim@lemmy.world
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 1 week ago:
Linux being a kernel is hardly relevant though. The law lies the responsibility at the “operating system providers”, looking at the definition in the article that would be the developers/organisation behind the individual distributions. Politicians don’t care if each distro comes up with their own solution or gets built-in to the kernel.
But personally I think they all just give this law the finger, put a ‘not for use in California’ in their licenses and forget about this brainfart.
- Comment on Defender of the Fatherland Day 1 week ago:
It is the day for those who are ready to take up arms and go to
warspecial military operation.There, fixed that for you. Nothing screams ‘defending your fatherland’ by invading a neighbouring country because a fascist PoS needs to compensate for his tiny dick.
- Comment on allium gang rise up 🌰 2 weeks ago:
If only onions and the like didn’t give me such gutwrenching cramps, love the taste, but partaking in anything containing onions, leek or too much garlic just isn’t worth the aftermath. ☹️
- Comment on smoooooth 2 weeks ago:
“Life finds a way” is a threat, people just forgot that part. Life itself is unstoppable.
Don’t worry, our Sun will take care of life when it starts running out of fuel, expanding and boiling away everything on the surface of our planet.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 3 weeks ago:
This begs for a response by Robert Ricardo, offering an analgesic cream for those burns. 😂
- Comment on Is it feasible to run a TURN server behind NAT? 3 weeks ago:
Haha, don’t worry, no harm done. Maybe I was a bit too subtle in hindsight.
That’s Poe’s Law by the way.
- Comment on Is it feasible to run a TURN server behind NAT? 3 weeks ago:
It was meant tongue-in-cheek, you seem to be taking it much more serious than I intended it to be. 🙂
But in reality is not done because it simply doesn’t bring any benefit.
Fully agree that there is absolutely no benefit to NAT66, it only causes enormous headaches. In sincerely hope nobody uses it these days, this poor bastard however did manage to find a VPS provider that used NAT66 back in 2018: blog.apnic.net/2018/02/02/nat66-good-bad-ugly/ 🤢
- Comment on Is it feasible to run a TURN server behind NAT? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Start-up idea 4 weeks ago:
The plug on that thing is absolutely terrifying, super flimsy and so small you have to almost touch the prongs to plug it in.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the secret of building appliances that outlast their owners.
- Comment on Wing Commander III: "Isn't that the guy from Star Wars?" 4 weeks ago:
That’s from IV, and you’re almost correct, it’s “the price of freedom” instead of “peace”. But very memorable indeed!
- Comment on Wing Commander III: "Isn't that the guy from Star Wars?" 4 weeks ago:
Two actually, III and IV.
- Comment on I have these every where in my house 5 weeks ago:
I find this image extremely offensive. Flathead screws are a curse on humanity and need to die out.
- Comment on Twodaloo 5 weeks ago:
Who’s going to be king of the brown hill?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
… what a day to be literate. Enough internet for today.
- Comment on Hard to answer the question when you don't even understand the question 5 weeks ago:
Well, it did help that they used a simple serial connection back then and didn’t require any advanced electronics. Just a bunch of resistors and basic stuff like that. All relatively large components that are easy to solder with what I had back then. I’m not sure how easy it would be these days with USB.
- Comment on Hard to answer the question when you don't even understand the question 5 weeks ago:
Reminds me of highschool math. At some point you needed a graphical calculator, you could load programs into them but that required hooking them up to a computer with a crazy expensive data cable. So I found a schematic, ordered the components for a fraction of that price and learned to solder. It looked ugly AF, but it worked. Next step I wrote a program containing the formula’s I needed, uploaded it and installed a program which hid your program menu until you pressed a certain key combination. It could even simulate a hard reset, as you could get spot-checked and asked to do just that.
I could also have memorised the formula’s, but that wouldn’t have been fun. And unlike all those formula’s I still use my soldering and programming skills. 😋
- Comment on We can't even pump fuel anymore without holding a digital billboard (Netherlands) 5 weeks ago:
Really glad I haven’t encountered these so far, my local pump hasn’t dared adding these so far, despite their low prices. Benefits of living near the German border I guess, we can always take our money there. Currently the price difference comes down to spending time and 2 euros of gas to save 4 euros on a full tank, so not really worth the effort. But if push comes to shove I’ll happily trade some time in order to save a bit of money and not having to support this rancid business case.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 5 weeks ago:
Take care of yourself and do what you think is right. Judging the other posts of the person your replied to they’re just there to spread division. Don’t feed the trolls, they’re probably getting fed enough on the Russian troll farm already.
- Comment on it's right there 😖 1 month ago:
It was in a poor / underdeveloped country.
Damn, I would have thought even the US would have bolsters with a basic retention mechanism by now.
- Comment on Might as well be the same thing 1 month ago:
Come over and you can add STD to the list of three letter words you have!
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 1 month ago:
Less if you were sensible and included an error correction scheme to combat the unreadable sectors that were bound to pop up after a while. I can be quite nostalgic, but if there is one thing I don’t miss it’s the ‘reliability’ of floppies.
- Comment on Priorities 2 months ago:
Most problems are caused on the longer term and that damage can be quite insidious. N~2~O deactivates vitamine B12, which ultimately causes nerve damage, especially for heavy users. Symptoms can be stuff like tingling extremities, muscle weakness and paralysis and can become irreversible with continued usage. The problem is that the early symptoms can be easily disregarded, while the damage is slowly building up.
- Comment on We'll probably never see a Grand Theft Auto set in a futuristic city like GTA 2 because the team "hated it": "People didn’t connect with the game or its city" 2 months ago:
The gang wars mechanic put me off SA, same as the friends in GTA IV that keep demanding you go bowling with them while you are in a car chase with the police. It felt forced and screwed with the flow of the game by forcing you to stop whatever you were enjoying at that moment or deal with the consequences.
Vice City is also my favourite, great selection of music tracks, great 80’s vibes and it wouldn’t forcefully try to pull you out of your flow at random intervals.
- Comment on Ross's Game Dungeon: Normality 2 months ago:
Omg, that’s a blast from the past Norm!
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 2 months ago:
Skewed telemetry probably, as most users that are aware you can move the taskbar are also aware you can just disable the phone home crap and will therefore not show up in the statistics.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 2 months ago:
Yeah, RAM prices are crazy. When I built my current system I threw in 64GB so I could mess around with stuff like Kubernetes and virtual machines without worrying about memory shortage. Memory was cheap enough that it was a no-brainer. I feel like a millionaire when I look at how much that would set me back now. 😅
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 2 months ago:
Ah, yeah, that’s a design decision that sucks. Those games I’ll pick up in few years when I have a card that’s capable of RT at an acceptable framerate. I get that tech becomes mandatory at some point, same as happened with OpenGL/DirectX and the various pixel shading versions back in the day. But in my opinion enforcing ray tracing came way too early, seeing how it eats performance.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 2 months ago:
It does depend on the game, Satisfactory for example uses UE5 (5.3.2) and runs perfectly fine for me without framegen at 5120x1440. Admittedly I run it on an RX 6900, so not an average card. But at the other hand it’s already an older one and that resolution approaches 4K.
Unless something changed fairly recently the game also doesn’t use Lumen by default, let alone raytracing. Was this made mandatory in later UE5 versions? Because it’s definitely not mandatory for every UE5 version.
UE5 is by no means a lightweight engine, but I do wonder how many of the issues are caused by lack of optimisation.
- Comment on What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment? 2 months ago:
Yeah, that’s definitely a concern. My first installation shredded its SD card in no time due to each request getting logged and stored on disk. Turning off long term query logging mitigated that issue, for my home network I don’t care about that history anyway.
- Comment on What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment? 2 months ago:
Anybody got the feeling some games may be negatively affected by a PiHole ?
My RPi 2 has been happily running PiHole in my network for about 8 years now and with a mumber of pretty strict block lists, personally I never had any issues with games.