specseaweed
@specseaweed@lemmy.world
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 8 months ago:
My account has been locked up because my daughter has three separate BG3 games going with friends. Last week my son said we need to put a time limit on her because nobody else can play on Steam.
- Comment on Yeast strains for wine and cider 8 months ago:
KillerTofu got it right, I just wanted to post and agree rather than just upvote. Yeasts changed the flavor of my homebrewing pretty significantly as well.
- Comment on ICS/SCADA with/vs CCNP 9 months ago:
Engineering is the usual path into SCADA, but most firms require specialists and networking is certainly a needed specialty.
- Comment on Why docker 10 months ago:
I know enough to be dangerous. I know enough to follow faqs but dumb enough to not backup like I should.
So I’d be running my server on bare metal and have a couple services going and sooner or later, shit would get borked. Shit that was miles past my competence to fix. Sometimes I’d set up a DB wrong, or break it, or an update would screw it up, and then it would all fall apart and I’m there cursing and wiping and starting all over.
Docker fixes that completely. It’s not perfect, but it has drastically lowered my time working on my server.
My server used to be a hobby that I loved dumping hours into. Now, I just want shit to work.
- Comment on Any good RSS Feed service for self-hosting? 10 months ago:
Absolutely.
- Comment on Kagi is now partnering with Brave 10 months ago:
I’m not trying to convince. I’m trying to say use less words.
- Comment on Any good RSS Feed service for self-hosting? 10 months ago:
I used to use a self hosted nitter for FreshRSS too. I gave up completely. I pruned all the Xitter feeds and looked for other sources.
- Comment on Any good RSS Feed service for self-hosting? 10 months ago:
FreshRSS is great. Container is easy to run.
- Comment on Inhalable sensors could enable early lung cancer detection 10 months ago:
coughs between drags
yea prolly. fuck that.
- Comment on Kagi is now partnering with Brave 10 months ago:
Your entire comment can be boiled down to “I don’t find this “tenable” and the issue isn’t important to me relative to other issues”.
That’s fine. You can think that. Just go the brevity route next time. It respects the reader more than a wall of text.
- Comment on Kagi is now partnering with Brave 10 months ago:
That’s a really easy conclusion to come to when you weren’t the one being targeted.
And that’s a lot of words to say this isn’t your issue so you aren’t doing anything about it. Nobody needs the hand wringing. You can just say it.
- Comment on Kagi Search releases first version of a Lemmy/Kbin search lens 10 months ago:
He can still think it sucks though and nothing you said changes that.
Hey guys remember when Brave packed in a crypto miner and didn’t say anything?
- Comment on Do any of you have that one service that just breaks constantly? I'd love to love Nextcloud, but it sure makes that difficult at times 10 months ago:
For years, I had an unstable unraid server. I was fixing it every couple of days after a lockup. I had decided that unraid sucked. When it was up for a week I celebrated. Every one of my dockers was a suspect. I learned to hate all of them.
Then I shitcanned the next cloud docker.
Been up for months without a hiccup.
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 11 months ago:
All the browsers were complete shit though. That was iterative but it felt huge.
Imma let y’all finish but the Palm Pre was the GOAT
- Comment on Epic Win against Google 11 months ago:
This is a really boring direction of conversation. It’s boring to talk about the false equivalency regarding a decade old OS that the OS maker themselves don’t support vs Linux today. It’s boring to debate the finer points of continuing support in games. It’s boring to talk about Epic outsourcing work to Proton.
But I really hope you find someone that finds it interesting. Good luck.
- Comment on Epic Win against Google 11 months ago:
Sure. But in the context of Epic claiming that Google is a bad guy for telling Epic to pound sand, Epic telling video game owners who have owned a game for years to get fucked is a bad look.
- Comment on Epic Win against Google 11 months ago:
They bought Rocket League and discontinued the Linux version for seemingly no reason. It was a dick move for sure.
- Comment on 'Your Turn': United Auto Workers Launches Campaign to Unionize Tesla 11 months ago:
My first union had that reputation. I became a steward and was known as a reformer. Honestly, they weren’t particularly corrupt or self dealing, they were just really bad at messaging for the employees. Over time, it just became “common knowledge” that the leadership was secretive and self dealing.
I don’t mean that to say that yours wasn’t self dealing. Those existed and continue to exist. But I have also never been in a union where the labor body was involved and took it seriously and also had those kinds of problems. If there’s one takeaway I learned from unions, it’s that we get the union we deserve. When we’re in it and active as a body, those were always the best unions. When we have an apathetic labor body, we have an apathetic union.
There will always be factions like every other human activity. People will often be tribal to the detriment of the whole. But at the same time, in my experience, those most against “unions” were almost always the people least involved or not involved at all.
- Comment on 'Your Turn': United Auto Workers Launches Campaign to Unionize Tesla 11 months ago:
This is a very exciting time. I’ve been a union guy for 25 years and I will go to my grave not understanding the fierce resistance to unions by my X gen and the boomers. When they would say unions were bad, I’d say let’s make ours amazing and… they just refused.
I never thought I would see the resurgence of American labor unions. This is an absolute joy to see.
- Comment on If forced to choose one retro console forever what would you choose and why? 11 months ago:
Original NES. Mario 1, 2, 3. Just about every 1st party game was legendary, but the sports games were great too. There have never been better arcade versions of their sports than Tecmo Bowl and Baseball Stars. Then there was the amazing 3rd party support. Everything from Jaws to Jackal to Top Gun to Maniac Mansion. Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, and on and on.
No brained. NES.
- Comment on Heat-pump water heaters are a winner for the climate — and your wallet 11 months ago:
I have a Sanco2 heat pump water heater. The heat pump is located outside the house, with the tank in the basement. It is so absurdly efficient that I thought I was measuring the power draw wrong. Its expensive up front, but a big fat govt tax credit sure helped and the monthly power cost is about the same as my coffee maker.
The tank inside is 83 gallons. I can run the dishwasher, two showers, and anything else I can imagine and it handles it like a champ. The heat pump heats the water so fast that it refills it in minutes, not hours.
And since there’s no element or anything in the tank, there’s virtually nothing to break or fix in it.
- Comment on My Time at Sandrock - Fully Released from Early Access (Steam) 1 year ago:
Portia was huge in my house, but my daughter was so hooked it’s going to end up being one of her favs of all time. We preordered and then waited forever for Sandrock, and then she didn’t like it. She disliked it so much it put me off it. I’ll have to give it a shot.
Multiplayer feels good?
- Comment on Hello brewers of Lemmy! Just sharing what I'm doing 1 year ago:
Amazing setup. Thanks for posting. Love to see it.
- Comment on Tesla misses estimates for quarterly deliveries; shares fall 1 year ago:
Because its terrifying to drop $50k on a car whose future is tied to someone who is so obviously unhinged. Many companies are led by weirdos, but its a real problem when you don’t know if your car is going to work right based on the whims of said weirdo.
Also, Musk has absolutely lied his ass off for years about the capability of the car.
I owned a 2018 Model 3 LR and it was nothing but trouble. I couldn’t even use the cruise control because it would randomly smash the brakes on the freeway, even when there were no other cars around. My door panel would catch on the other panels when it opened, causing a decent sized dent. The trunk leaked. They would do updates that moved everything around and suddenly you can’t find the screen that opened the glove box. But it did make fart sounds hurr durr.
No thanks.
- Comment on Giving up on selfhosted email / Any sane email setups? 1 year ago:
Same here. Gave up and went fastmail. Love em.
- Comment on How long does a propane tank last you? 1 year ago:
A 5lb tank was usually good for 3 crawfish boils for me, which is basically the same setup as a beer boil. I think you could expect 5 or so?
- Comment on 25 States Agree To Quadruple Number Of Heat Pumps In America 1 year ago:
I was renting a place while rehabbing my home. We completely removed the natural gas from our house and went induction range, electric oven, heat pump water heater and air conditioner/furnace. The place we were renting was about 3 blocks away. It had an old but not terribly old gas furnace, standard gas range and oven, gas water heater, and no air conditioner. It turned out to be a really great way to compare the two setups. One mostly gas, somewhat inefficient (which is standard out there), the other ultra modern power saving equipment throughout the house.
My last bill gas + electric at the old place was $210. My first full month bill at the new place was $90, and that includes an AC running at the new place that didn’t exist at the old place.
It is a shocking level of savings, and we aren’t even in winter yet where my gas bills at the inefficient place would regularly hit $200.
- Comment on Jill Biden: US first lady tests positive for Covid-19 1 year ago:
At PAX this weekend, my wife said that she overheard two people talking about how weird it was that they had lost their sense of taste and smell. Completely unironically. No masks on either of them.
Its back, folks.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 10-08-2023 1 year ago:
One of my kids is playing Joust on the Atari and the other is on the last dungeon in NES Legend of Zelda. They play Grounded on PC together. And my daughter is really into Crusader Kings 3. And my son will never stop playing Minecraft with his buddies.
You could never touch a game from the 2020’s ever and still never run out of great games.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 10-08-2023 1 year ago:
BG3 with the wife, Diablo 4 with my brother, Hades by myself. It’s the golden age of gaming, friends.