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- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, my main complaint with PoE 1 is the way it bludgeons you with lore. The writers are so excited to show off this massive world they’ve invented, they just aren’t very artful about it.
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 4 weeks ago:
The tone is much less dour than the first one, and I think it does a better job introducing the world. It’s still a lot to take in, but all of the text has links you can click on that explain anything you don’t recognize.
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been replaying Pillars of Eternity II - in fact I have the tavern music stuck in my head right now. Mostly I just need some CRPG gameplay, so I’m not doing anything wildly different with my character this time around. Maybe I should do an evil run…
Knowing how the ending works, I’m still not sure which faction to go with. - Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 2 months ago:
Well that’s a shame. I’m sort of half-assedly using syncthing to backup my photos from my phone to my server, but mostly I rely on immich. I never really got the hang of using syncthing with my phone.
- Comment on Request for CRPGs recs on the current Steam sale 2 months ago:
I’ll second Tyranny and Pillars 2.
Tyranny’s ending is… well… they tacked on some text - but it’s a great game otherwise.
PoE2 is more enjoyable than the first one, IMO, just for the lighter tone. They do a better job of explaining the world, too, because you aren’t bludgeoned with lore-dumps like in 1. - Comment on What do you prefer to selfhost? 5 months ago:
Masochism, paranoia.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Another vote for Debian, and I’ll suggest you go ahead and install Jellyfin directly rather than messing with Docker.
jellyfin.org/downloads/server
I’d been running JF under Docker on my NAS, but when I moved to a new server I decided to just install it directly and it hasn’t been any problem at all. You’ll get a notification when it needs to be updated and it’s just a few clicks to do so. You won’t have to fight with Docker to get hardware acceleration working - which isn’t to say it won’t be a PITA, but it’s one less layer of complication. - Comment on Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows 7 months ago:
Interesting. As much as I’m a Foobar2000 fan, it’s not open source. Looks like I’ll be giving Winamp another spin soon.
- Comment on Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO 8 months ago:
It’s a real dilemma.
- Comment on FCC bans cable TV industry’s favorite trick for hiding full cost of service 9 months ago:
Quick! Someone tell us why this isn’t a good thing because the government did it! Surely there’s some secret corruption at work!
- Comment on Scientific Journals Are Publishing Papers With AI-Generated Text 9 months ago:
It’s like a Sokal Hoax for STEM.
- Comment on Can you un-smart a smart tv? 9 months ago:
I’ve got a cable DVR and a Raspberry Pi running LibreElec plugged into it.
I’ve only experimented a little with gaming since I don’t own a console and my PC is in another room. I had the whatever the Steam software is installed on the Pi for awhile, so I could stream games from the PC. - Comment on Can you un-smart a smart tv? 9 months ago:
‘splurging’ on a dumb tv
This might not be the best advice if money is an object, but some LG OLEDs can be rooted simply by visiting a website:
rootmy.tv
So you get a top-quality screen and complete control over the software.
Personally, I’ve never connected my LG OLED to the internet and it works just great. - Comment on How to Figure Out What Your Car Knows About You (and Opt Out of Sharing When You Can) 9 months ago:
Looks like a lot of info is shared through the manufacturer’s app which interacts with the car. Easy to avoid if you don’t install the app.
What we’re all here looking to avoid is the car itself uploading data. The article isn’t as clear about that, I guess since it depends so much on your exact model of vehicle. - Comment on Mozilla Firefox is Working on a Tab Grouping Feature 9 months ago:
Especially since modern desktop environments will have a gesture or something to give you a preview of all your open windows. What’s annoying is that they all seem to shuffle the spatial order of the window previews whenever they feel like it.
- Comment on Mozilla Firefox is Working on a Tab Grouping Feature 9 months ago:
Right… I use multiple browser windows as tab groups. Tried tree tabs, but since I keep one window per topic I rarely get enough tabs open to need them.
- Comment on Desperate TikTok lobbying effort backfires on Capitol Hill 9 months ago:
Meta isn’t heavily influenced by a government adversarial to that of the US, so the risks to US security are not the same.
The mental health risk looks pretty similar, though. - Comment on What are some good games with *zero* replayability? 9 months ago:
There are actually speedruns of Brothers, so someone is replaying it.
- Comment on Now that Deus Ex has been cancelled, what other games scratch the Deus Ex itch? 10 months ago:
smacks forehead
Quite right. - Comment on Now that Deus Ex has been cancelled, what other games scratch the Deus Ex itch? 10 months ago:
I gave it a shot because Bioware, but I didn’t stick with it because dialog choices are timed. I can see why, I think, but I was being picky and put it down for the moment.
- Comment on DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses 10 months ago:
I hear pigeons aren’t too hard to breed.
- Comment on Nginx core developer quits project in security dispute, starts “freenginx” fork 10 months ago:
They should parse it the same way as “postgresql”.
- Comment on DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses 10 months ago:
Honest question: Assuming nation states have the all-powerful ability to install software on your networking gear, which country would you rather have? USA or Russia?
- Comment on Question of recommended home camera system 10 months ago:
I choose a Reolink camera. It works well with Surveillance Station on my Synology NAS, Home Assistant, the official Android client, and the official Mac client. I’ve never been able to get the official Windows client to work. It’s failed to work on two different computers.
The camera runs off Power Over Ethernet, so it’s just a single CAT6 cable and there are no batteries to manage.
The camera bounces your requests to stream through Reolink’s servers by default, but you can disable that feature if you’re only using the cameras locally. - Comment on Bluesky is now open for anyone to join | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
Depends on the kinds of accounts you follow. Mastodon is all technical users - so not many celebrities who aren’t in technical fields.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 10 months ago:
I had to update my BIOS a while ago and it set TPM back to disabled as default. Voila. No Windows 11 prompts because, as far as it can tell, I do not meet the requirements.
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 11 months ago:
Tyranny is so good, and I prefer it to the first Pillars of Eternity. Shame the ending is so abrupt.
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 11 months ago:
I love Steins Gate, but the choices you make are so wildly disconnected from the consequences that I don’t think it really counts. It’s such a strange system.
- Comment on How to Use Social Media as an Artist Without Destroying Your Soul - StayGrounded.online 11 months ago:
You should install Linux.
- Comment on Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing 11 months ago:
I’ll trade you my 3D TV for one.