wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Sleeve to protect your Flock camera from the elements by covering the lens 5 days ago:
Do you really not understand that this is meant to be an easy tool to disable them, so that someone could do anything (or nothing) else to them safely?
- Comment on Wisdom from Benjamin Franklin 5 days ago:
Holy shit #5. “And now my love, it is time for you to don the coital basket”
- Comment on 8 player PC games 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure there’s a specific Bomberman console release you can emulate with 8 players.
You could also emulate Smash Bros Ultimate, as it has 8 player support. Might be boring to just play a Switch game many people have though. Maybe look into mods for it?
And you can always use co-optimus to search for stuff. Just set At least 8 players, couch co-op in the filters: www.co-optimus.com/system/4/pc.html
- Comment on "POSSIBLE DATA LOSS" (Excel reports, when you save a CSV) 1 week ago:
It loses a lot more than just formatting. Formulas, any graphics, graphs/charts, it only saves the active sheet. And formatting can be super important with date values.
- Comment on GTA 6 footage once again appears to leak online, this time because of a group that wants games like The Crew to have offline modes and the end of digital preorders 1 week ago:
That seems like an awfully convenient way to smear the stop killing games movement.
- Comment on Gurren Lagann fans: What exactly is "spiral power"? 2 weeks ago:
It’s mostly a metaphor for humanity’s ability to self improve, evolve, and exponentially reproduce. There’s some minor things here and there also drawing a line between spiral power and the “spiral” of DNA.
Series spoilers as I get into more detail
Bear in mind that all the animal folk are artificial beings engineered by the big bad of the first half, and that is the main reason why they can’t tap into spiral energy. I believe at one point it’s stated that they can’t reproduce. Viral is the only one the eventually gets access to some spiral power, but he was given the special gift of immortality and also spent a shit ton of time with the humans and trying to better himself. There is a small undercurrent theme, mostly shown through Rossieu (fuck if I know the spelling) regarding the danger of spiral power, that is, unrestrained uncontrolled evolution growth expansion and reproduction against the limited resources of reality. This is also part of why the end hits so damn hard, as it basically says “Fuck resource scarcity, we’ll find a way. We’ll fucking find a way to rewrite reality if we need to, but we’re never going to stop trying to keep growing and moving forward”
- Comment on XBOX PC and Game Pass coming to Linux with the 'Xodus' project 2 weeks ago:
First off, please no. Second off, I’m curious to how they plan to lock it down like they did on Windows. On Windows they own the OS, so wacky folders that you can’t touch even with the highest admin rights isn’t a stretch, but good luck with that on Linux.
- Comment on How do you filter out ai slop on Youtube? 1 month ago:
Invidious is a third party web frontend for YouTube, and NewPipe (or one of its forks like Pipepipe) are third party Android apps for YouTube.
Also, if I remember right, you can get RSS feeds of channels and keep up with their new videos that way.
- Comment on Storage?! In this economy!? 1 month ago:
Wish my company allowed that. Everything goes to a licensed secure destruction service that literally puts them through an industrial shredder. Awesome to watch, but wasteful as all hell.
- Comment on Top-down PvE extraction shooter ZERO Sievert is getting a co-op sequel 1 month ago:
ONE Sievert
- Comment on Dinosaurs have arrived in the latest Dwarf Fortress update 1 month ago:
We’re gonna need a bigger asteroid
- Comment on ‘Cyberpunk: Edgerunners’ Season 2 - Character Visuals 2 months ago:
It still made by Studio Trigger and CD Project, so the only thing Netflix could bungle is the release, imo
- Comment on How the Rapa Nui pulled off one of the funniest/saddest historical jokes. 2 months ago:
try this Rick Roll (actual Rick Roll, not the link)
- Comment on "Hell or high water": the System Shock remake's co-director on the sneaky step taken to get the game made 2 months ago:
What a substanceless article. Like two whole sentences of meaning.
They ran out of funding in 2018, and some of the devs focused on getting more funding while a different group focused on actually building the game.
Additionally, the dev who modeled out the station had no previous experience with Unreal Engine 4, which is what they used to make it.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 11 months ago:
Exchange Server is effectively dead mid October too. Technically they have Exchange Server SE as an option, but it’s clearly not how they want people using Exchange anymore. They don’t even want hybrid setups.
Which is extra annoying because if you have Azure AD (I guess it’s Entra ID now) syncing from an on prem AD forest, half of the mailbox management shit in Exchange Online just doesn’t work and forces you to make the changes on-prem anyway.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 11 months ago:
Yep, was literally made as a marketing stunt.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 11 months ago:
Windows Server is less of a general use server, and more of just a staging platform for Microsoft’s other specific server based software installs. And even a lot of those don’t co-mingle on the same server well.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 11 months ago:
Have fun with that then. Sorry about your balls.
If you’re competent and technologically saavy enough to use a Linux distro as your daily driver, you can learn to make Windows work for you too.
Waste of effort if you don’t need to interact with any Windows environments for school or work, but definitely possible.
For me? I’m happy to get paid to automate shit using PowerShell that should have been basic built in functionality from the start. PowerShell is just the most convenient scripting language due to being packed-in with most Windows installs, and tons of built in functionality for interfacing with other Microsoft products. So as long as Microsoft keeps sucking, I’ve got a comfy paycheck.
And if the year of the Linux desktop ever finally happens? I’m ready, I’ll be cheering, and I’ll be ready to get paid helping companies to make the switch.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 11 months ago:
I’m usually a Windows “shill” or at least a casual defender of it, as I work in a Windows environment and it’s not as bad as people pretend it is. No shade against Linux, I love it and Windows is bad. Just not like “I’d rather self-castrate” bad.
Anyway…
But for a home server? Either be super lazy and set up samba shares from your Windows desktop for the drives (avoid having a server at all) or bite the bullet and use Linux. You’ll get so much more out of a Linux server that it’s not even funny.