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vettnerk ,

Because a well designed game does not include drudgery. “Work-simulators” focus on results and progress and gloss over many of the hours of outright boredom or physical exertion to get there.

For example, truck driving simulator does not include the pain in the ass and boring part of loading or unloading the truck. Farming simulator does not include the painstaking process of removing rocks from the field.

While I grew up on a farm, my first proper career was something called OBC seismic. What it is isn’t as important as the fact that it involved placing a 6km long sensor cable on the seabed with a winch and position it properly. To do this right requires practice, and as the principle is farly easy I wrote a small simulator that our trainees could try out. At first they found it interesting, and even the seniors from other departments enjoyed toying with it. The biggest lack of realism was that it didn’t involve doing it for 12 hours straight, only stopping to unscrew 25 meter sections and replacing them. Barring drudgery and repetitive boredom could’ve probably made it an interesting game similar to other work simulators.

vettnerk ,

Depends on the currency, though…

I have a spare lithium phone battery that got wet a couple months back- will it go boom if I try to use or charge it?

So at the beginning of summer I repurposed an old Android phone into a dedicated emulator. The phone’s old enough it has an honest to god user replaceable battery so I decided to get another one and keep it in my backpack to double my gaming time....

vettnerk ,

It’s probably fine. The batteries don’t care about moisture, as long as the pins don’t get shorted or corroded.

If they were wet enough to short, the symptoms are usually a completely dead battery or it seeming puffy, a.k.a. spicy pillow.

You can measure the voltage with a voltmeter if you want to check. It should read around 3.5 to 4V, depending on charge.

Source: I handle a lot of LiPo batteries at work.

vettnerk ,

You can test it in the phone and see if it has any juice in it, then. If I were in your shoes I’d feel safe in testing it that way.

vettnerk ,

No

vettnerk , (edited )

In 1999 when the entire town was on dialup, I set up this relatively small PC with FreeBSD 3.3 and eggdrop, and hid it in the school library. That way I had an IRC bot that worked while I was offline. After a while I also set it up to automatically grab files from FTP servers for me, but getting these out from the “server” offline was tricky due to 1.44MB floppies being the only removable storage I had available.

Back then internet carried dialup charges per minute for me, so this was a huge time and money saver.

vettnerk ,

I was thinking the same thing. Spanning tree is love. Spanning tree is life…when deployed correctly.

Alternatively I’m thinking noise, as I’ve seen that in 10gig connections a few times, which is why I prefer LC fiber where possible.

vettnerk , (edited )

Needs the addition of a blue variant 💙

vettnerk , (edited )

Because some of us remember how the internet was without moderators, and how it went to shit early 2000’s when “everyone” started using it.

20-25 years ago mods were rarely needed beyond booting a couple of spammers and getting rid of the occasional goatse and tubgirl. Now platform-wide efforts are needed to combat csam and gore.

vettnerk ,

Whenever I hear someone suggest “an algorithm” without elaborating further, I’m usually correct in presuming that it makes as much sense as “a wizard will use magic”. The other times it’s usually someone suggesting blockchain. Sometimes it’s both.

Or, hear me out, collaboration across networks. That’s what lemmy does. And it’s nothing new.

vettnerk ,

And I saw it. What’s your fix for botnets and brigading?

vettnerk ,

Yes, it would be very weird for server addresses to have the service name as a subdomain. Like a common prefix of web servers to signify that it’s serving world wide web.

On a more serious note, this used to be fairly common for many protocols to ensure loaf balancing between different protocols - you’d have one server for www, one for ftp, and so on.

Also, from an administrative point of view, it’s more manageable when you can, for example, add an entire (sub)domain to the firewall rules.

vettnerk ,

“Git is to github what porn is to pornhub”

vettnerk ,

Depends on your OS, but symlinks can do that for you - file exists once, but multiple “files” link to it. The application (torrent client) doesn’t care.

vettnerk ,

The what now?

vettnerk ,

You could always join NAFO

vettnerk ,

This is where i’d add a thumbs up emoji of approval, but I don’t know how.

vettnerk ,

Pardon me, I should’ve been more specific: I don’t care how either. Nor am I on windows, for that matter.

vettnerk ,

Pantera - Domination. Probably not your cup of tea, but it does pan the guitars like you describe. Towards the end, at least.

vettnerk ,

“I’m an oil man android”

vettnerk ,

So for the next 20 years all AAA game publishers will do the game equivalent of only releasing MCU/DC reboots, sequels and prequels?

vettnerk ,

In case someone else actually has to look this up: Yes, this is the guy you remember as “Puff Daddy”.

“All About the Benjamins” and “I’ll be Missing You”, etc…

vettnerk ,

MySpace Tom comes to mind. Bless that guy.

vettnerk ,

Well, we could agree on those two things, at least…

vettnerk ,

Not a TV show, but one of the Matrix movies (the 2nd IIRC) has Trinity use nmap and a well known exploit at the time to hack into a system.

vettnerk ,

…and they’re gonna make the volcanoe pay for it.

Something about volcanoes not sending their best. Look at ehat happened to Pompeii

Question to those not in the USA, and who have lived outside the USA.

I’ve been thinking about something and want to check an assumption I have. I only hear directly from other people in the USA, and interract with the global community through memes. How are the gun regulations/laws different from yours in terms of strictness, and do you wish there was more or less where you live?...

vettnerk , (edited )

Norway - Similar to many European countries, owning a gun requires a certifiable reason to do so, which basically means hunting or target shooting. Loads of guns here, as there’s a lot of moose and deer. Obtaining and owning a hunting rifle requires skill tests and a theoretical exam, and you need to be part of a hunting group.

ARs are banned for obvious reasons. The only exception is for people who are army reservists who are (were?) allowed to store their service weapon at home, if they have proper secure storage options available. This may have changed since I was a reservist myself, but those were the rules in 2007 at least.

Pistols are legal for target shooting, but with strict background checks and so forth. Plus you have to be part of a target shooting club. Getting a pistol is generally harder than a rifle, as a means of preventing pistols from ending up on the streets. Gun voilence happens, but it is extremely rare, and mostly tied to gangs and/or organized crime. Except from this asshole in 2011.

Carrying permit for guns is pretty much none existent. To/from hunting or shooting range.

Self defense is not a valid reason for obtaining and carrying a gun. You don’t really need it either. The only exception is Svalbard where is is possible due to polar bears. And even then, you can’t be an idiot about it; a few years ago this dumbass got permanently banned from the Svalbard territory after intentionally provoking a polar bear, then shooting it, claiming self defense.

Switched to Linux, don't know what to do

Hello everyone, I just installed Linux (I’m new to it), in particular Linux Mint, with dual booted Windows for games. Tinkered with it a bit, loved the way it looked, loved how fast it is, but I really don’t want to stop on one option and stick with it for a while. I want to try new stuff, new distros (that’s how you call...

vettnerk ,

Install steam and test which of your games will run in mint. Some might require proton, but I’m sure you’ll find that you don’t need that many reboots.

In my opinion, the full potential of linux is gained via the command line. The GUI is just an abstraction layer, and various distros have various approaches to this abstraction. Comman line familiarity is far from a necessary step, but it sure is a useful one.

vettnerk ,

I have exactly zero experience in what work a law office does, but I would think it’s mostly paperwork and email? If so you can do that at no startup costs.

Pick a distro (pop, mint, whatever), and install libreoffice or one of its many variants for offfice integration.

A common misconception is that linux involves a lot of coding. Sure, it can if you want to - all the hooks for programatical access are there, for example if you want to build shell scripts for automation. But you don’t need to. It’s just an option many linux users, myself included, like to take advantage of.

When it comes to convincing you, all I can say is this: It costs you nothing to try.

ISP put me behind NAT

I’m connected via a 4G modem. Got this setup about 3 years ago. In the beginning it was enough to look for the public IP (what’s my IP). The modem showed some sort of private ip in the ui. I’m running stuff at home (Homeassistant, Gitea,) and bought a domain and pointed it to my home IP via Cloudflare. After some time...

vettnerk ,

Unless they’re willing to give you your own IP (dynamic, or maybe static for a fee), that’s a good reason for replacing your ISP imo.

vettnerk ,

Ouch, I was not aware of that. Here in scandinavialand we have a few local or regional ones in each area, plus a few big ones that cover the entire country.

Once the fiber is in the ground, “any” ISP can use them, regardless who buried it. I think it’s a remnant from 20ish years ago when the default was ADSL over copper, and the telecom cables were considered public infrastructure.

vettnerk , (edited )

I’ve had plenty of rants about Norwegian broadband (or lack thereof) over the past 25 years. It’s a bit of a long story, but the gist of it is that during the 90’s there was this one company (Telenor) which had practical monopoly on telecom (it was the private remnant of what used to be part of the government), and of course they didn’t want to develop broadband 8nfrastructure as the made shitloads of money by selling ISDN at the time. Broadband was available in the biggest cities only, and even there it was limited. And the punchline of that joke was that when I was on dialup I had to pay by the minute. During that time, hearing about not having to pay by the minute in the US sounded like paradise to me.

But luckily competition happened, and Telenor realized they had to allow modernization or be left out of the market entirely. Small communities could sign up to have broadband “delivered”, and once enough people had signed up for an ISP to considet it profitable, digging would start. Today, twenty years later, I’m pretty satisfied with how it turned out. I live practically in the middle of nowhere, in a tiny industrial town sqeezed to fit into the terrain, where three of the cardinal directions are blocked by mountains and the fourth being a fjord. And I have 1gbit both up and down.

vettnerk ,

Yr.no has an API that is free. developer.yr.no

vettnerk , (edited )

Awesome! I’m one of the guys peer pressuring you in the other thread, and I’m glad to see it worked.

It also just so happened that you went for the same distro that I use on my desktop.

What’s going to be the primary use of this laptop other than having linux installed? Any projects or use cases in mind? I’m asking because I found out some time around the turn of the century hat the best way to learn linux is to use it for something one would otherwise do in Windows.

vettnerk ,

It doesn’t have to be fancy as long as you have a practical use case. And it’s worth mentioning that the “fancy” stuff is often easier on linux than on windows.

vettnerk ,

Or migrate to blender

vettnerk ,

The pope, on the other hand…

vettnerk ,

Again: Reagan.

He fired pretty much all ATCs striking for a decent wage, and the industry never really recovered. Low wages result in low recruitment.

vettnerk ,

You should try it. It’s awesome, it’ll change your outlook on things. This is totally peer pressure, but hey, it could be drugs or smoking.

I’ve been a BSD and linux user for 25 years now, and I can quit whenever I want to. I just don’t want to.

Admittedly, my health has suffered from distro abuse; it landed me a well paying job, and I can now afford to eat bacon whenever I want to.

vettnerk ,

Psssst, hey, wanna try some drugs linux?

vettnerk ,

Factorio. Sure, it’s universally hailed as a great game, but I still call that underrated. Yes, I’m a cracktorio addict, how could you tell?

vettnerk ,

I’m not a fan of kink-shaming, but that is objectively funny. I choose to believe he was also into balloon-bestiality by sometimes going squiggee-fnurp-scratch-tadaa and producing balloon animals as part of the foreplay

vettnerk ,

Hi, Diane!

What would cause a hard drive's, in an enclosure, filesystem to not mount in PopOs?

Originally posted in the linux community but wanted to expand my results a bit. Hopefully this isnt considered tech support since the problem is already solved and I just want information. (Copy & pasted) Still new to linux hope its ok to ask here. I decided to replace one of my backup drives for the first time in 5ish years...

vettnerk ,

Linux is very picky when it comes to attached storage. Seeing as it’s an external drive, especially when it comes to ntfs, something linux will usually refuse to automount if the filesystem is detected as not being clean. Clean in this context means that it was unmounted properly last time it was use.

When a filesystem is mounted, a flag is set. This flag is then unset upon a proper unmount. When you yank the drive without unmounting first, this flag will remain, and the filesystem will therefore be considered as unclean, and will require manual intervention. This is a feature that has the potential to prevent dataloss if there are worse things at play.

Try to plug in the drive and run dmesg - It might tell you if an unclean filesystem was detected, or any other issues.

An unclean filesystem is usually fixed by running fsck.

vettnerk ,

Plus the dev-hours spent combating ad blockers are billable. My hours aren’t.

vettnerk , (edited )

Nothing radical, but I’ve used mplayer as default video player since FreeBSD 4.0, and that’s not changing any time soon. VLC is good and all, I just prefer mplayer.

Oh, and for general purpose storage partitions I use XFS, as it plays nice with beegfs.

vettnerk ,

When I worked on a ship, we coordinated with the other 12-hour shift so both of us got 30 minutes of the offending hour.

vettnerk ,

That’s OUR n-word. it’s offensive if someone else uses it.

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