MangoPenguin
@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
He/Him | Bi Furry Boy
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 2 days ago:
The performance issues are a major one for me, nothing worse than firing up a new game and getting 40fps with tons of stuttering along the way.
I feel like most newer games also have trouble with low/medium settings not really being that much better for performance, so there’s no fix for it.
I remember older games where low was like staring at a character made from 12 polygons and everything looked awful, but it would run on just about anything.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 4 days ago:
Zen is what I use, there’s also Waterfox.
- Comment on An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card 4 days ago:
Yeah stuff like that, but also the locally synced copy I would not trust no matter what as sync software can suddenly delete or corrupt files. Best to have at least 2 actual backups in place.
- Comment on An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card 5 days ago:
Absolutely, then people go and delete the other copies leaving just the cloud, and think that it’s somehow fine.
- Comment on Lightweight and flexible: Bitwarden lite self-host deployment is now generally available | Bitwarden 6 days ago:
Probably worth storing the key in another place as well, like keepass on your phone or just print it out on paper and store it.
- Comment on What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website? 6 days ago:
Not much you can do, if it’s on the internet it is public.
You can block some scrapers with PoW and that sort of thing, but you’ll never block all of them.
- Comment on Divinity - Cinematic Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
Well that was horrifying, a bit much.
- Comment on My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t be exposing any management consoles to the internet either way, too much risk with something that has docker socket access.
- Comment on My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025 1 week ago:
Komodo is the best portainer alt I’ve found, I read through the Arcane info but it doesnt seem as good. Komodos editor also works great.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly #149: A Few of My Favorite Things 1 week ago:
My favorite is ‘fast and lightweight’ followed by ‘RAM required >500MB’ for a some kind of basic server.
- Comment on selfh.st - dockcheck: A CLI Tool for Updating Container Images 1 week ago:
If you want automatic updates over major versions most containers will use the :latest tag for that.
- Comment on Docker security 1 week ago:
It doesnt actually bypass the firewall.
When you tell docker to expose a port on 0.0.0.0 its just doing what you ask of it.
If you don’t want ports exposed outside the machine then don’t add the config to do so!
- Comment on Earth needs more energy. Atlanta’s Super Soaker creator may have a solution. 1 week ago:
I can’t imagine we currently produce enough electricity for every car to be electric.
Plus all the production processes for the cars themselves, and the energy to power them puts off waste heat. Even solar panels benefit from running cooler by having heat removed from them.
- Comment on Is there a uBlock Origin filter or extension for LLM slop in search results 1 week ago:
If you use it with an account and have watch history its really quite good at recommending relevant stuff.
I think it also depends on what you’re searching for though, like if I search for a guide on changing fork seals on my motorcycle the results are pretty much fine.
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 1 week ago:
Thats how I describe Jellyfin, it works fine, its just inconvenient to use.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 3 weeks ago:
The most frustrating part of running Linux for me is the experience can vary so much for each person, slight hardware differences can cause odd bugs that other people don’t have, and solving them can be really time consuming because a fix that works for one distro or DE may not work on another.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
That plus so many games that are genuinely good and I have lots of hours into are in the $5-20 range.
- Comment on Rybbit - Open source Google Analytics replacement 4 weeks ago:
Its a docker compose deployment so should just work on any system with docker installed. Copy the docker compose file and env file if it has one, and run ‘docker compose up -d’ in that directory.
It can collect analytics from multiple places.
- Comment on Docker setup for debian 13 trixie Ansible Playbook 4 weeks ago:
It does but will be really out of date.
- Comment on Sigh 4 weeks ago:
Do you have it set to filter out ones with low seeder count?
- Comment on Why does this diagram on how CMOS switching show the ground voltage rising? 4 weeks ago:
Because of voltage drop, if you have a length of wire and run current through it, there is a drop in voltage, so the voltage is higher on one side and lower on the other.
So your voltage on the gnd pin of the IC relative to the other end where its connected to your supply will have a voltage difference that increases with current.
- Comment on New battery life record: This CPU makes the best known business laptop more efficient 4 weeks ago:
I’m just saying it absolutely will do most tasks without issue, since my 3700x doesnt struggle at all with any normal every day task.
- Comment on New battery life record: This CPU makes the best known business laptop more efficient 4 weeks ago:
I looked up the CPU and its faster than the R7 3700x I game and edit videos on in my desktop…
- Comment on Backups of Backups 5 weeks ago:
I do local backups to another drive, and online encrypted backups to cloud storage (I use backblaze B2)
- Comment on God ****** dammit, here we go again 5 weeks ago:
Yeah gotta make sure you never use the same password in multiple places, use a password manager.
- Comment on cheapest way to connect several SATA HDs via USB? 5 weeks ago:
The cheapest way I can think of is a used PCIe HBA card and some SATA power extension cables. Probably $50 or so to connect 8 drives this way.
If you’re set on USB you can often get 4 bay enclosures for around $100 or so, that would the way I’d do it. The downside of single USB adapters is the sheer amount of wires and power supplies you’ll have.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 5 weeks ago:
It is still keeping the battery warmer which degrades it faster regardless if its being charged or not.
- Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On 1 month ago:
I set up Plex/Jellyfin specifically to get away from having to manage media manually, it tracks watch states, gets subtitles, transcodes for me when I’m traveling, and does all of that for family too.
MPV is neat but its just a standard media player app like VLC, not really anywhere near the same concept as Jellyfin.
- Comment on Nextcloud -> Owncloud (ocis) 1 month ago:
The reason as I understand is better performance and reliability, by ditching PHP which is what causes most of Nextclouds problems.
- Comment on Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts 1 month ago:
For normal use like that 16GB is generally just fine. Some games can use enough that you’ll need to close Firefox and other RAM hungry programs though.
As far as needing more than that, people who do heavy design work or edit videos and that kind of thing generally do. For example 32GB running Fusion in Davinci Resolve can be a bit limiting sometimes with higher resolution or 10 bit footage.