stewie410

stewie410 , 1 month ago to gaming in Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 19th

If you’d be interested in another souls-like, I can recommend Remnant 2 (or the previous title) – though, not the same combat style by any means.

stewie410 , 1 month ago to selfhosted in Selfhosted messenger/community software like discord

We ran RocketChat at work for a few years before migrating to Teams.

RC could be good, but maintaining it long-term was an enormous pain. Maybe it’s better now, certainly if you’re using docker… But a manual install was always a laborious task on upkeep for us. Also worth making sure you don’t need commercial features, as they’ve removed free features in the past to drive sales…

stewie410 , 2 months ago to programmerhumor in How to regex

My brief experience with LINQ has also taught me to prefer this type of thing as well; though I still use regex on a daily basis most of the time, given my environment.

stewie410 , 3 months ago to programmerhumor in How to regex

I don’t know all of the regex rules (look ahead/behind, etc); but it’s honestly not that bad. If you can learn the syntax for a programming language, you can learn the basics of regex…

stewie410 , 3 months ago to gaming in Anyone else addicted to Balatro right now?

I played the 2-3 demos before release, and have been continuing that trend since launch. “Nearly” at 100% achievements, though the remaining 3 are the big ones, so dunno how long it will take.

I have found that I enjoy the game more on low stakes (white/red), as the higher stakes are really just more annoying/RNG to me than anything.

Still, Stuntman will get me through.

stewie410 , 3 months ago to gaming in Best PS2 games?

Bit of a boring answer, but Gran Turismo 4 on the PS2 has stolen many hours off of my life.

Another honorable mention would be the rhythm game “Frequency”.

A third, which isn’t a game, is eJay Club World; though that’s more of a DAW than anything.

stewie410 , 3 months ago to programmerhumor in MySQL moment

I’m the sysadmin (and transitioning to DevOps) at work, but the DBs are 100% in control of our two devs (one of which being the head of IT).

Apparently we’re going to hire a third Dev, who will moonlight as our DBA – oh, and for 30K/yr.

I’m sure this will go well.

stewie410 , 3 months ago to android in Nothing Phone (2a): an exclusive first look

My parents recently got a new washer/dryer set; they had to buy commercial (though available to consumers) units to get non-smart units.

stewie410 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in virtualizing PFSense. What else works besides ESXi for virtual networking?

We’ve been running KVM on CentOS/Rocky hosts for our VM platforms; seems to work fine for our needs.

I’m not sure how ESXi would differ as I’ve never used it, but may be an option if you want to roll your own vs proxmox.

stewie410 , 4 months ago to programmer_humor in dotnet developer

Hey now, why don’t you join my work and use jboss-4.2.2.GA? (kill me)

stewie410 , 4 months ago to android in Outlook Calander Sync Issues

Just for additional context, are the Outlook connections Exchange, or standard IMAP/POP?

stewie410 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain

I’m sure we’ll keep using .intranet because why should we ever change?

stewie410 , 4 months ago to linux_gaming in Trying to install gzdoom on Manjaro but keep getting an error message. Any advice?

Looks like you need to manually install pkgbuild (mkpkg? Don’t remember off hand) & zmusic.

stewie410 , 5 months ago to android in Big Galaxy S24 leak reveals Samsung's strategy against Google's Pixel phone

I assume this has changed with the modern releases then? My S10 had a ton of non-removable apps, primarily those from Samsung.

There’s really only a couple of things I missed from the S10 on my P7:

• The edge panel (ended up using Panels
• A tile to toggle ringer/vibrate/silent in the notification shade
  • I’ve gotten used to it now, but still prefer the way it’s handled in OneUI

stewie410 , 6 months ago to programmerhumor in Too much detail in this error message from EA

I had the same problem with Fallen Order the first day; the workaround in that particular case was to launch the game’s executable directly; which let me play that one, single time. A few days later and both the original workaround (and others) & no-workarounds caused the game to launch in the background, with no way to force it to the foreground.

In Fallen Order’s case specifically; there appeared to be a launcher-specific wrapper executable, and the game itself. When the workaround stopped working, the launcher-specific wrapper is what was getting ran in the background; but the game itself never actually appeared. Additionally, reinstalling the game several times did not resolve any issue; nor other troubleshooting steps from EA.

Origin was also a pretty crap piece of software (compared to Steam, anyway); but this is a new low from EA, imo. Its a shame too, because I liked what I got to see in Fallen Order, especially recently getting into souls games.