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- Comment on Witcher 1&2 are probably worth playing 14 hours ago:
I really enjoyed the Witcher 1. What really sealed it for me was the questline
Vizima Confidential
The whole detective arc was very staisfying, and even if it got a little tedious, I felt like a real flatfoot running around the city chasing down leads. Hell, you can’t even solve the mystery by following the quest. IIRC it’s only by talking to the undertaker at the right time that you discover Raymond is a fake. ___
It beat the pants off of anything from Witcher 2. I also prefer the alchemy system from TW1.
I dislike that TW2 is basically half a game until you replay it and take a different path.
- Comment on YouTube Jewels look like they were ripped straight out of the Reddit Gold playbook 6 days ago:
I think this is probably more a copy of various East Asian social media services than anything Reddit-like. Pretty sure TikTok and a bunch of Chinese video streaming services already do this. I think the whole Money -> Gifts -> Rubies -> Money chain is intended to dance around money laundering legislation. The same way that Pachinko machines aren’t technically considered gambling in Japan.
- Submitted 1 week ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 4 comments
- Comment on Some docker containers need manual start after host reboot 3 weeks ago:
Yep, the problem was that docker started before the NFS mount. Adding the dependency to my systemd docker unit did the trick!
- Comment on How annoying is it to connect to VPN/use Tailscale instead of being able to access the service directly? 3 weeks ago:
isn’t it an annoyance having to connect to your home network all the time?
It’s less annoying than the gnawing fear that my network might be an easy target for attackers.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Submitted 1 month ago to askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de | 3 comments
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 1 month ago:
I’m very lucky to have an independent radio station in my area. It’s run by a nearby college, but they let anyone take training to become a host.
They don’t always play music I like (hell, they don’t always even play music) but I’ll deal with 30 minutes of buddhist chanting because the variety can’t be beaten. Also, they have no ad breaks.
- Comment on "YOU. THE ONE WHO IS MOVING NOW." 2 months ago:
Sounds like a pretty shit security feature. I wonder if it would keep the door open if I were to print a photo of the owner and wear it like a mask.
- Comment on Small VPN Access Device? 2 months ago:
Yes, OP I highly recommend a GL.iNet device. It’s pocket sized and always does the job.
- Comment on Why do radio stations all seem to go on commercial at the same time? 2 months ago:
- Study free materials available online.
- Take free practice tests.
- Look for license exams in your area, or take an online one. Exam fees in my experience have been ~$25 and go towards whichever club is proctoring.
- Pay the $35 FCC licensing fee and get your callsign.
Theoretically, that’s all you need. It’s possible to use certain internet linked amateur transmitters for no cost as long as you have a valid callsign. However, I promise it’s a lot more fun with a real transceiver. You can buy a bare minimum, highly hackable handheld VHF/UHF transceiver for as little as $20.
Or you can slowly give your soul to the moneypit of HF equipment…
- Comment on Fr fr 2 months ago:
Why’d ye spill yer memes, Winslow? Why’d ye spill yer memes?
- Comment on Just do it ✅ 2 months ago:
- Comment on Some hardware talk 3 months ago:
As someone who has owned enterprise servers for self-hosting, I agree with the previous comment that you should avoid owning one if you can. They might be cheap, but your longterm ownership costs are going to be higher. That’s because as the server breaks down, you’ll be competing with other people for a dwindling supply of compatible parts. Unlike consumer PCs, server hardware is incredibly vendor locked. Hell, my last Proliant would keep the fans ramped at 100% because I installed a HDD that the BIOS didn’t like. This was after I spent weeks tracking down a disk that would at least be recognized, and the only drives I could find were already heavily used.
My latest server is built with consumer parts fit into a 2U rack case, and I sleep so much easier knowing I can replace any of the parts myself with brand new alternatives.
Plus as others have said, a 1U can be really loud. I don’t care about the sound of my gaming computer, but that poweredge was so obnoxious that despite being in the basement, I had to smother it with blankets just so the fans didn’t annoy me when I was watching TV upstairs. I still have a 1U Dell Poweredge, but I specifically sought out the generation that still let you hack the fan speeds in IPMI. From all my research, no such hack exists for the Proliant line.
- Comment on Final update to Morrowind-like RPG Dread Delusion adds a big nautilus with a town built inside its shell 3 months ago:
For me, at least, all the “Morrowind-like” comparisons set me up for disappointment. I’d say that it has visual aspects inspired by Morrowind.
Maybe I didn’t play it enough. I got 2h in and then hit a bug where I kept falling through the environment, and then my save got corrupted. It didn’t feel Morrowindy enough for me to want to start over.
- Comment on Server build for Family 4 months ago:
Assuming that the disk is of identical (or greater) capacity to the one being replaced, you can run
btrfs replace. - Comment on Server build for Family 4 months ago:
I’d recommend BTRFS in RAID1 over hardware or mdadm raid. You get FS snapshotting as a feature, which would be nice before running a system update.
For disk drives, I’d recommend new if you can afford them. You should look into shucking: It’s where you buy an external drive and then remove (shuck) the HDD from inside. You can get enterprise grade disks for cheaper than buying that same disk on its own. The website shucks.top tracks the price of various disk drives, letting you know when there are good deals.
- Comment on How to host a userbase 4 months ago:
Haven’t used it yet, but I’ve been researching authentik for my own SSO.
- Comment on Small animals dying in the window well of my basement 4 months ago:
Hmm, I can’t grow peppermint in the recess, but maybe around the dome would work?
Good point about the escape route possibly making things worse. There’s plenty of evidence that previous owners have dealt with rodent issues, so I wouldn’t want to reintroduce that possibility.
- Submitted 4 months ago to [deleted] | 4 comments
- Comment on Server for a boat 4 months ago:
BTRFS should be stable in the case of power loss. That is to say, (it ought to recover to a valid state)[unix.stackexchange.com/…/does-btrfs-guarantee-dat…]. I believe the only unstable modes are RAID 5/6.
I’d recommend BTRFS in RAID1 mode over mdadm RAID1 + ext4. You get checksumming and scrubs to detect drive failures and data corruptions. You also have snapshotting, in case you’re prone to the occasional fat-fingered
rm -rf. - Comment on Server for a boat 4 months ago:
For backup, maybe a blu-ray drive? I think you would want something that can withstand the salty environment, and maybe resist water. Thing is, even with BDXL discs, you only get a capacity of 100GiB each, so that’s a lot of disks.
What about an offsite backup? Your media library could live ashore (in a server at a friend’s house). You issue commands from your boat to download media, and then sync those files to your boat when it’s done. If you really need to recover from the backup, have your friend clone a disk and mail it to you.
Do you even need a backup? Would data redundancy be enough? Sure if your boat catches fire and sinks, your movies are gone, but that’s probably the least of your problems. If you just want to make sure that the salt and water doesn’t destroy your data, how about:
- A multi-disk filesystem which can tolerate at least 1 failure
- Regular utilities scanning for failure. BTRFS scrubs, for example.
- Backup fresh disks kept in a salt and water resistant container (original sealed packaging), to swap any failing disk, and replicate data from any good drives remaining.
- Documentation/practice to perform the aforementioned disk replacement, so you’re not googling manpages at sea.
This would probably be cheapest and have the least complexity.
- Comment on Starter Guide 4 months ago:
And the best tutorials are a blurry notepad window while this song plays
- Comment on What are your thoughts on exposing a tool like dockge to outside of your man? 4 months ago:
I wouldn’t trust anything like that to the open internet. It would be better to access the system over a VPN when you’re outside the network.
- Comment on 12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com 7 months ago:
Ooh! Thanks for the tip! Been looking for some affordable drives for my next system.
I bought a LFF Dell Poweredge back in the fall, and have been waiting on a good deal for 3.5" disks. My current machine is a SFF HP Proliant, and I hate how much a 2.5" drive with good capacity costs.
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 7 months ago:
A bridge in America collapsed after a cargo ship crashed into it.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games is a new campaign to stop developers making games unplayable 7 months ago:
The point of this campaign is not that it’s trying to stop a “bad business practice”. There’s a strong possibility that this is illegal in many countries. Just because America is a hellscape of terrible consumer protection rights doesn’t mean people in other countries don’t deserve the products they paid for.
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
Reverts work because users have equal write access to all the data. You can mess things up in the codebase, and even if you die of a heart attack 10m later, my revert is just as valid as your commit.
It’s not really the same when every user has “sovereignty” over their address in the ledger. A bad actor has to consent to pushing a revert transaction onto the chain, or they have to consent to using a blockchain system where 3rd-party reversion is possible (which exists on some systems, but also defeats the concept of true sovereignty over your address).
- Comment on I know what I would do 8 months ago:
It’s interesting that the glass is still full of beer. Presumably its contents must have all been accelerated at an identical rate, or else the contents would have spilled across the cosmos.
Did it emerge, fully-formed, from the primordial energies of the big bang, or is it a probe sent by alcohol-based life forms?
- Comment on Can someone explain why authors do this? 8 months ago:
Same as foo, bar, baz, bizzle, and bebop 😋
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