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- Comment on Sir Patrick Stewart is the only Star Trek actor to appear as his character and with himself on screen at the same time 3 days ago:
He worked on Star Trek: Picard but never got to meet Patrick Stewart?
- Comment on Star Trek Online Patrick Stewart tribute 3 days ago:
- Comment on Looking for a tool for browsing contents of unmounted cold storage 5 days ago:
Before unmounting:
$ tree -afx /PATH/TO/VOLUME > file_listing.txtLater, when you want to search:
$ grep PATTERN file_listing.txt - Comment on What’s your favourite Elder Scrolls game, and why? 5 days ago:
Morrowind, because it’s just modern enough to have a reasonable control scheme and proper 3D graphics, but old enough not to be dumbed-down for consoles in terms of game mechanics (magic effects and whatnot). Plus, it has by far the most interesting and unusual setting (compare netches to the normal animals you find in Oblivion and Skyrim) and also a fast-travel system that’s actually integrated into the setting in a realistic way.
I do wish the non-magic combat were a little more Skyrim-like with power attacks and finishing moves and whatnot, but lack of that is a small price to pay to gain the above.
I feel like Daggerfall, by reputation, might be even more interesting in terms of the scope of stuff you can do (e.g. climbing ladders), but the graphics and control scheme are just too primitive and I find it hard to get into.
- Comment on Pisses me off that the 'people' who bought and moved into my neighbours house is to easily dispatch tow trucks .. not to actually live in 1 week ago:
Report them to the city for illegally operating a business in a residential zone.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077's new dual wielding has already been modded to include shotguns and rifles, provided you're down to get "janky and wildly overpowered" 1 week ago:
janky and wildly overpowered
As a good single-player RPG should be!
[This comment brought to you by the Morrowind gang]
- Comment on "What if Larian had shut down after Divine Divinity?": Star Trek Online exec scorns publishers who close teams like BioWare in favour of "AAA veteran" start-ups and AI "magic beans" 1 week ago:
Well, that makes me feel better about the health/longevity of STO.
- Comment on GOG temporarily offline for maintenance 1 week ago:
“Tell me you use PHP without telling me you use PHP”
- Comment on Home server 2 weeks ago:
Neat, an Intel GPU.
- Comment on Can you please tell me all about your DIY router? 2 weeks ago:
I just put OpenWRT on a (at this point quite old) TP-Link non-DIY home router. The only thing wrong with it is that it isn’t a rack-mountable rectangle, which offends my perfectionism.
- Comment on How can self-hosted software make money without hurting the ecosystem? 3 weeks ago:
I would almost suggest some kind of system where you could set aside a certain amount of money, and it would donate automatically to all your installed packages, with some kind of weighting system I suppose.
Welp, now you know what Free Software project you should start!
- Comment on as a linux user... i am too lazy for this 3 weeks ago:
I became a programmer because I was too lazy to not automate.
- Comment on Trump's executive order on dyed diesel will offer little relief, farmers and truckers say 3 weeks ago:
The truckers who aren’t MAGA morons understand that tainting their trucks with dyed fuel (which persists for a long time even after being heavily diluted with non-dyed fuel) is likely to cause problems in the future, after Trump’s bullshit order gets struck down or rescinded.
And that problem is even more true for truck stop owners, who will be very unlikely to want to taint their underground tanks with the stuff. Therefore, even the dumbass truckers who want to use it would have to go out of their way to actually get it.
- Comment on How do you perform retro console maintenance? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve done nothing to mine and have no reason to not expect them to work if I unpacked them and plugged them in.
- Comment on Any selfhosted service to keep track of private tracker ? 4 weeks ago:
If we recommend you a tracker tracker, soon enough you’ll just be back asking for a tracker tracker tracker. When does it end?!
- Comment on Filling 3D prints with filler material 4 weeks ago:
Perhaps concrete but it can’t really dry inside a printed object right?
Concrete doesn’t dry; it hydrates and cures. It can harden underwater, let alone inside a container.
If anything, the potential problem with concrete is that curing is exothermic, so it might heat up and distort your part. It’d have to be a pretty big print for that to happen, though.
- Comment on We need a list of products we can buy without worrying about telemetry or advertising. 1 month ago:
Last I checked (which, admittedly, was a few years ago) I literally couldn’t find any security cameras that weren’t compromised in some way. The only options are basically:
- Consumer models tied to “cloud” services
- Generic Chinese ONVIF cameras that probably phone home to who knows where unless you firewall them off from the Internet
- ONVIF cameras that might have a slightly better reputation than the previous category but are only sold through security system installers, not normal retail channels
- Analog (not IP) cameras that you hook up via coaxial cable
- Building your own goddamn camera from scratch with a Raspberry Pi or something
It’s ridiculous!
For TVs, there used to be the option of Sceptre dumb TVs, but even those have disappeared from the market in the last year or so.
I’ve been looking for a smartwatch/fitness tracker (and a bike computer, which is kind of a similar category) and the pickings seem very slim there, too. There’s the Pebble and the PineTime, which are open but maybe lack some of the sensors one might want in a fitness tracker, and there’s stuff that’s intended to be proprietary but supported by Gadgetbridge (e.g. iGPSPORT bike computers) . There might be others, but I don’t know about them.
- Comment on We need a list of products we can buy without worrying about telemetry or advertising. 1 month ago:
The Slate EV also doesn’t actually exist yet.
- Comment on We need a list of products we can buy without worrying about telemetry or advertising. 1 month ago:
How is “a closed variant of klipper” not a GPL violation?
- Comment on How "secure" is your setup? 1 month ago:
I’ve tried to use ZeroTier because Tailscale still has centralized servers for starting the connection, but had trouble getting it to work. Maybe I should stop letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.
- Comment on How "secure" is your setup? 1 month ago:
My stuff is only accessible from my lab (because I haven’t figured out how to set up a tunnel or reverse proxy yet).
- Comment on “Oopsies!” FreeBSD Devs Say There’s Still GPL in the Kernel - FOSS Force 1 month ago:
Good. Permissive licensing is for chumps who want to get tivoized and enshittified anyway.
- Comment on Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils - OMG! Ubuntu 1 month ago:
I’m all for rewriting C code in Rust, but moving away from the GNU Project and (especially) GPLv3 in favor of mere permissive licensing feels like a trap of a different kind.
- Comment on Ikea created a mod for Skyrim. Kallax Storageborn! 1 month ago:
It’s shelving, not luggage.
- Comment on Was anyone able to catch the 4K remasters in theaters for the 60th anniversary? 1 month ago:
I was planning to see The Voyage Home, but I was so frazzled by the end of Dragon Con that I thought it was on Tuesday, not Monday, and missed it. 🙁
- Comment on GOG expand their Preservation Program with more games and now 3D scans of box art too 1 month ago:
3D in the sense of applying 2D scans to the surface of a rectangular prism, or 3D in the sense of handling things like bump-mapped embossing or strangely-shaped boxes?
- Comment on Lead by example 2 months ago:
Their life expectancy wasn’t that great anyway compared to now
Low life expectancy has always been caused mostly by high infant and child mortality, not adults dying young of natural causes. Augustus and Tiberius lived well into their 70s, for example.
Duck.ai-generated list, if anybody wants to see it
Roman Born Died Approx. age Cause Augustus 63 BC AD 14 75–76 Natural causes, probably illness Agrippa 63 BC 12 BC About 50 Natural causes, probably illness Maecenas c. 70 BC 8 BC About 62 Natural causes Tiberius 42 BC AD 37 77–78 Probably natural causes, though ancient sources alleged foul play Vespasian AD 9 AD 79 69–70 Natural illness Titus AD 39 AD 81 41–42 Natural illness Trajan AD 53 AD 117 63–64 Natural illness, possibly a stroke Hadrian AD 76 AD 138 About 62 Natural illness Marcus Aurelius AD 121 AD 180 58–59 Natural illness, probably infection Constantine the Great AD 272 AD 337 About 65 Natural illness Virgil 70 BC 19 BC 50–51 Natural illness Ovid 43 BC AD 17 About 59–60 Probably natural causes Galen AD 129 c. AD 216 About 87 Probably natural causes Excluded: Julius Caesar, Pompey, Cicero, Caligula, Domitian, Commodus, and others who were assassinated, executed, killed in battle, or died by suicide. Claudius is also excluded because he was probably poisoned, and Pliny the Elder died during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
- Comment on What is a man? 2 months ago:
Because it’s a spoof of the “think, Mark, think” meme from Invincible.
Also, ironically, Plato would’ve been the muscular one. ("Plato” was his wrestling nickname, given because of his broad shoulders.)
- Comment on Ranma ½ 2 months ago:
It’s almost as if the politicization of trans people is an entirely manufactured controversy.
- Comment on Any tips on plastic adhesives? Trying to repair headphones 2 months ago:
If you’re trying to be true to the “solarpunk ethos,” do you really think this is the last repair you’ll ever do?
I, for one, have never regretted letting a ‘one time’ project be an excuse to get a new type of tool.