Toribor

Toribor , 6 months ago

When BG3 came out and was getting a lot of great reviews I hadn’t yet realized that it was made by Larian. I was talking to a friend about it and was like “Wait, the guys who made Divinity made a D&D game?”

Divinity is a lot of fun and is a great tactical in depth RPG. I particularly love the animals in it. Larian does a great job of giving them all big personalities and deep stories.

Toribor , 6 months ago

I started learning Linux in 2009/2010 and remember doing hacky weird things in X to get my displays working properly and hearing about how Wayland was going to replace it and make that all easier. I had no idea it was such an ordeal and would still be in a transition at this point.

Toribor , 6 months ago

I manage my own tiny insurance and it took long enough that I thought I broke something. I must need to turn up logging because the back end was completely silent except for “0.19.0” and I only knew something was happening because the database was busy.

Toribor , 6 months ago

Are you using disk storage or object storage for pict-rs? I need a better way to test updates but I’m trying to avoid having to duplicate my storage or risk breaking prod by pointing to my live object storage from a second instance.

Toribor , 6 months ago

Not anymore.

Toribor , 6 months ago

Yeah, I was using mine right up until they took it away from me. Now I use bluetooth or my chromecast, both which have their own problems.

Toribor , 6 months ago

Once I got to the point where I was running a ton of containers I’d occasionally have issues where a maintainer wouldn’t resolve issues fast enough for my liking so I started building more containers myself which was a lot easier than I’d anticipated.

Toribor , 6 months ago

When did ‘rootkit’ come to be a generic term for invasive software? Rootkits are a specific type of thing.

Toribor , 6 months ago

This seems fine. I don’t understand the desire to have an overarching chronology anyway. It’s pretty clear each game is its own world with little connection to the other series beyond recycling some of the same concepts.

It makes more sense lore-wise to just think of them as entirely separate universes with some direct sequels. Majora’s Mask is a direct sequel that takes place in a canonically different dimension anyway so they already introduced the concept.

Toribor , 6 months ago

Commit crimes in a smart way that doesn’t hurt other people. Don’t brag about your crimes publicly and don’t publicly announce that you’re going to commit more crimes after you’ve already been caught.

Freedom lies in the gray area between what is permitted and what is forbidden. Laws exist for a reason but there’s no sense in being a dumbass about it.

Toribor , 6 months ago

Ideally houses would have ceiling drops for Ethernet. Consumers are getting all these wireless mesh networks that cause more problems than they solve.

Toribor , 6 months ago

People managing their own users is super nice too. Easy self service password resets without me having to do it for them.

Toribor , 6 months ago

I think the big cost savings on PC come from a lack of subscription fees. Plus a huge variety of storefronts to choose from so prices tend to be low. Games get cheap fast if you wait a little bit.

It’s pretty easy to match console performance with a budget PC, but it definitely isn’t as easy. I can’t wait until I can pause/resume games on my desktop like I can on the Steam Deck. Huge quality of life feature.

Toribor , 6 months ago

On the Steam Deck, ‘game mode’ runs in exclusive fullscreen mode without the KDE desktop environment. I’m not an expert, but I think the gamemode desktop environment is specifically tuned to the Steam Deck hardware and isn’t something that you can just replicate on your own hardware.

I really want to test this though, I’d love to build a ‘Steam Console’ running on standard x86 desktop hardware running Linux that launches directly into Steam.

Toribor , 6 months ago

Pretty sure at least a million of those pets for Scratch are from me.

Toribor , 6 months ago

Having Generative AI make API calls on your behalf is a work in progress across pretty much every industry. It’ll make complex tasks across multiple services a lot easier but it’s definitely going to cause weird unpredictable behavior too.

Toribor , 6 months ago

Seamlessly syncing game saves between my Deck and my primary gaming PC is so nice. Before I travel I just make sure to wake up the deck long enough to get updates and sync saves.

For non steam games I use syncthing but that always requires just a little bit of work.

Toribor , 6 months ago

Upside is that this change would effectively consolidate small communities across instances so they aren’t so fragmented.

Downside is that there would be less control over what content is tied to each tag because I’m not sure how moderation would work. You can end up with issues where people maliciously flood a certain tag with junk.

Toribor , 6 months ago

Once a site gets too popular it gets normified and it just becomes nothing but reposts, in-jokes and low effort crap.

Toribor , 6 months ago

People complaining about a loss of users are the same people that will complain about performance issues next time there is a huge influx of users that stresses the infrastructure for popular instances.

Toribor , 6 months ago

Right now I export it periodically to an encrypted flash drive but I know that isn’t sufficient. I run Vaultwarden and back up all my docker volumes hourly and replicate to S3 nightly.

Theoretically I should be able to recover but I need some off those passwords to do so. Ideally local caching or one of my exports should be sufficient but I haven’t had time to actually test this.

Toribor , 6 months ago

I was kind of wondering if there might be threats like that where certain areas are flooded with lava periodically.

Toribor , 6 months ago

I’ll second this recommendation and add a bit more. I’d recommend using DuckDNS’s dynamic DNS service. It’s free (donate if you can!) and fairly simple to set up. I run it on my router since it supports it but it’s easy to run in a docker container too.

Toribor , 6 months ago

I’ve always meant to go back and play 2. 3 was my first experience with the series because I really liked Second Sight.

Toribor , 6 months ago

Fuel exists but is inconsequential

My theory is that they used to have actual fuel costs but they cut it late in production when they realized it wasn’t fun.

It would explain some of the loading screen tips that reference refueling.

Toribor , 6 months ago

This is slightly different than a time loop, but check out Coherence.

Toribor , 6 months ago

I get that the Simpsons are coded as white, but technically they are yellow.

Toribor , 6 months ago

It just works.

Toribor , 6 months ago

What you’re describing is broader in scope but has a lot in common with Kenshi.

Toribor , 6 months ago

The questions on AskReddit always seemed slightly horny.

Toribor , 6 months ago

Geocaching is great! I haven’t done it actively in a while but occasionally I’ll find a cache that someone else must have found and not understood what they had uncovered. I try to find the cache online and then rehide it.

Toribor , 7 months ago

This seems redundant. We already knew that the hackers were all furries.

Toribor , 7 months ago

I jumped into Tumbleweed recently and have really been liking it. Last time I used Linux with a desktop environment I was using Gnome and KDE was a lot unglier. Things have definitely changed.

Toribor , 7 months ago

3DFX

There is a name I haven’t heard in a long time.

Toribor , 7 months ago

Nintendo’s layout still trips me up. I have to switch my brain mode.

Toribor , 7 months ago

I have a mating pair of foxes that live right next to my house in a small unmaintained area. I spot them pretty regularly in the early morning and it’s kind of a fun treat. They nab a lot of bunnies from my yard.

Toribor , 7 months ago

Kangaroo. I’m sure they’d thrive and be a pain in the ass but they look cool.

Toribor , 7 months ago

Bloodborne is when the Souls games finally clicked for me. Damn is it brutal though.

Toribor , 7 months ago

It’s like looking through a telescope. Everything within the lens is clear and detailed, but anything on the periphery might as well not exist. Very useful state of mind for certain coding tasks.

Toribor , 7 months ago

You have to have one of their proprietary boxes hosting the protect software

This was the biggest bummer for me that convinced me not to get into the Unify ecosystem. I already have a robust storage solution at home, I just want to point the cameras to a docker container running on my host with all the storage.

Toribor , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

I use Ansible for all my deployments and just got a PXE boot set up with a preseed file to automate the install process and get the host ready to run playbooks.

I’ve been really pleased with this strategy overall. I think that Ansible works really well for programmatically generating config files which in turn makes moving applications between servers effortless. I control docker volume mounts with ansible variables and encrypt secrets with ansible vault so I can do everything all in one place.

Troubleshooting issues is a lot easier and recovering from a backup is faster and a requires less effort since I can just pull down the Ansible config from git and redeploy.

Toribor , 7 months ago

When I served in the King’s African Rifles, the local Zambezi tribesman called human flesh “long pig.”

Never much cared for it.

Toribor , 7 months ago

Check to see how many SATA power connections are available. My Optiplex 3620 only has four and I wasn’t confident that I could expand that without overwhelming the PSU. I bought a 24 to 8 pin adapter so I could use a normal non-proprietary power supply.

Consider those costs if you’re thinking you might install a lot of drives.

Toribor , 7 months ago

Pass phrases for the passwords you have to type by hand, automatically generated passwords for the things that can autofill from a password manager, MFA for everything that supports it.

Anything less or any password reuse is just asking for trouble.

Toribor , 7 months ago

Is HDR generally unavailable on Linux right now? I primarily game on a Windows desktop but I’m considering trying to make my next build in a few years the equivalent of a “Steam Deck Console” but I’ve been trying to anticipate issues that might make it too limited or frustrating to use.

Toribor , 7 months ago

If you live in town, even in a very rural area you typically going to have at least one, maybe two options for decent internet even if the cost might be absurd compared to areas with more competition. The further you stray out of town though, your options might disappear entirely leaving you with options like satellite internet or mobile hotspots.

When my mom was teaching through Covid she had at least 2 or 3 students in class (class size varying between 15-25 students) that either had no internet at home or their internet was not sufficient to handle a video call.

Toribor , 7 months ago

It’s worth it as a quarantine zone for MAGA losers. Though Twitter is determined to become the same right wing safe space.

Toribor , 7 months ago

I took the same course about ten years ago. The networking fundamentals I learned in that class are skills I use regularly but the Cisco-specific stuff I forgot almost immediately. I work on Cisco equipment every so often at work, but I manage by reading the documentation and using some Google-fu.

Mostly you need to know the basics. Can you look at an IP and subnet mask and figure out what IPs are in that range? A lot of junior engineers I work with struggle with these concepts and it makes it very difficult to troubleshoot problems.

For self hosting your home network should probably be simpler unless you want a real lab for learning Enterprise gear. I self host everything in Docker and Docker networking adds additional complexity, particularly if you use VLANs too. I wanted to set up wake-on-lan so I could remotely power on a server and it would have been a real struggle without knowing some networking basics to figure out how those packets would travel across those networks.

My advice is to really focus on learning the networking basics, you’ll use those everywhere. Don’t get too hung up on memorizing iOS commands or things like configuring BGP routing unless you’re planning to get certs or become a networking engineer.