empireOfLove2

empireOfLove2 , 2 days ago

They don't want anything preserved, because if it disappears, it can be "remastered" and resold like a brand new game with zero actual input capital.

empireOfLove2 , 3 days ago

I think the first thing I ever pirated was Cars. I was like 13, They didn't have a VHS for it at the library and our home internet at the time was too slow to even think about streaming, so I figured out how to torrent and it took like 6 days to get a complete copy of the movie.

I ended up sticking to pirating and pack packratting all the movie files locally specifically because our internet was so bad.

empireOfLove2 , 3 days ago

Per the legal US definition, almost every SUV is a "light truck", including my 1999 Subaru Forester...

empireOfLove2 , 3 days ago

The Forester up until 2008 was quite literally an Impreza/Legacy chassis that shares identical drivetrain components except for the body. It is unibody, Macpherson strut, symmetrical AWD and as far from a truck as you can get.

empireOfLove2 , 12 days ago

If its just for her, I don't really care what content I host for family unless it straight up nazi/gay hate shit. New age "found christian" movies are massive yuck, but innocuous otherwise. She's gonna consume them regardless of whether you host them or not.

Move it to its own library, make sure to rip in low quality (480p low bitrate) so you're not spending too much disk space in her, and let it be. It's not worth driving a rift in the family over.

empireOfLove2 , 18 days ago

Stop hosting all your shit on a corporate owned platform.

empireOfLove2 , 18 days ago

, can magnet strings be posted here?

Err on the side of caution, don't post it. This comm is already in hot water on multiple instances.

empireOfLove2 , 20 days ago

Oh yeah?? Whhelll my installation of Autodesk Inventor can build a case for one SBC in... all of six weeks!!! Take that!

empireOfLove2 , 20 days ago

It is, I'm being tongue in cheek I've been to busy to finish the models lol

empireOfLove2 , 20 days ago

The devices usually get some descriptor of what they look like...

For example I have:

• Flatboard - an old core2duo era Xeon bare tower server board I got on Craigslist for $20 that lives on a custom backplate and no case (thus, is flat)
• OrangeBox - an Orange Pi 5 in a aptly-colored orange case I custom modeled and 3d printed for it
• DumbBrick - my retired gaming PC built from a t30 dell tower server that is basically a nondescript black brick

empireOfLove2 , 25 days ago

Anna's Archive provides a lot of large format torrents covering large swaths of a virtual library as well as direct access to specific titles. If there's one thing or type of book in particular you are looking for idk how well the large format torrents cover those situations though.

empireOfLove2 , 25 days ago

Anna's torrents are mostly meant for archival not user access. You could probably piece together what books are where bases off their identifier but I haven't used it enough to really say yea or nay, I just know the site exists.

empireOfLove2 , 26 days ago

was just about to mention this, github literally has a vested interest in killing inconvenient open source projects whenever it sees fit

empireOfLove2 , 28 days ago

BOINC! Do some science. :)

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

someone is definitely cutting and running with all the cash in the bank

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

the answer is always "no get fucked lol updates resume"

empireOfLove2 OP , 1 month ago

the arbitration terms are explicitly stated to be US only. unfortunately the US is not a country with a functioning legal system

empireOfLove2 OP , 1 month ago

TeamSpeak has always been better tbh. For actual gaming voice chat discord actually sucks, it's low bitrate and very high latency. It's benefit was just easy coordination in larger servers without the need to constantly self-host and self-manage your own server like TS.

empireOfLove2 OP , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Sure, but you really expect that option to stay available for very long after 90% of users turn it off and ruin it's profitability?

empireOfLove2 OP , 1 month ago

ideally such changes to advertising and the ToS arbitration clause removing consumer rights will help give a lot of the open-source communities a gentle push to get off of discord. It's become far too central to too many communities and is impossible to search for knowledge.

empireOfLove2 OP , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

so this Revolt project is open source, which is nice, but still seems to rely on centralized servers. Does it use P2P for voice+video+fileshare so that the original devs aren't on the hook for insane bandwidth requirements? I can't see anything about their networking systems in the FAQ or info pages.

I may consider getting my friends to switch sooner or later if it's more P2P based. But I don't really want something that runs ALL traffic through central servers, because the bandwidth costs will inevitably just lead to the same situation that Discord is now in.

empireOfLove2 OP , 1 month ago

well that's no different than Discord already, so net zero change

running webapps in chrome or Electron containers simplifies a lot of development, i don't like their resource requirements or dependency on Chromium, but I do understand needing to streamline development so devs can work on more important backend stuff.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I know the last time this came up there was a lot of user resistance to the torrent scheme. I'd be willing to seed 200-500gb but having minimum torrent archive sizes of like 1.5TB and larger really limits the number of people willing to give up that storage, as well as defeats a lot of the resiliency of torrents with how bloody long it takes to get a complete copy. I know that 1.5TB takes a massive chunk out of my already pretty full NAS, and I passed on seeding the first time for that reason.

It feels like they didn't really subdivide the database as much as they should have...

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Almost all the small torrents that I see pop up are already seeded relatively good (~10 seeders) though, which reinforces the fact that A. the torrents most desperately needing seeders are the older, largest ones and B. large torrents don't attract seeders because of unreasonable space requirements.

Admittedly, newer torrents seem to be split into 300gb or less pieces, which is good, but there's still a lot of monster torrents in that list.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

The preloaded spyware OS is half baked, horribly unfinished, and also locked to the hardware. You can work around it to install your own OS but they provide zero support and explicitly say it is not supposed to be allowed by ToS while intentionally making it as hard as possible by making the BIOS inaccessible and digitally signed to their own OS. Fuck that.

The crowdfunding fundraiser (where there are zero penalties if things are shipped broken, incomplete or not at all) is super fishy and the non-discount price is astronomical. While the hardware looks nice... Hard, hard pass right now, stinks of vendor lockin and illegal data vacuuming. Do not buy.

Source video: https://youtu.be/Y_MgY7wgII8

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

He's never seen it,, 'cause SNL comes on after his bed time.

empireOfLove2 , 2 months ago

average lemmy.world moment

being the biggest has it's problems

empireOfLove2 , 2 months ago

Denuvo unveils new tech that reinforces my zero desire to pay for ANY game that uses it.

empireOfLove2 OP , 2 months ago

yeah they literally outright said "it didn't deviate from expected behavior"

empireOfLove2 OP , 2 months ago

Absolutely. RWBY set the standard for quality when it came to nontraditionally produced shows online and really spawned a new era of independent media.

empireOfLove2 OP , 2 months ago

yeah, if Rooster Teeth is providing the resources for it it's gonna be nixed.

empireOfLove2 OP , 2 months ago

Most of the old classics have been, tbh. Life moves on and corporations come for their piece of the pie.

empireOfLove2 OP , 2 months ago

Ooh thanks. I'll add that to my watch list once I finish finals...

empireOfLove2 OP , 2 months ago

always sad to see a piece of internet history go down the drain.

empireOfLove2 , 2 months ago

literal predatory behavior against society's most vulnerable members. God, disgusting.

Calling out this company that produces the e-motion, Alber GmbH. FUCK them.

empireOfLove2 , 2 months ago

Because they have money, and the independents don't. And they sure fucking know it.

Fuck Nintendo, never give them a cent.

empireOfLove2 , 2 months ago

their claim is that the emulator can’t be used for anything meaningful besides piracy,

Which, mind you, the filed brief is explicit about calling ALL emulators as nothing more than piracy tools... Says the company whose own hardware (Switch) is running emulator software to play older games. There is no technical difference except the manner in which the ROMs were loaded. They shouldn't be able to have their cake and eat it too.

empireOfLove2 , 2 months ago

100% is lan only cause my isp is a cunt

empireOfLove2 , 2 months ago

NAT to extremes.... it's Starlink so I think I'm almost completely obfuscated from the internet entirely.

quite frankly i don't really host anything that needs to be accessible from the general Internet so I never bothered with workarounds.

empireOfLove2 , 3 months ago

i got the random Dell SFF optiplex with 16gb of upgraded ram and a i5-4690 sitting at the girlfriend's house because she's the only one with an ISP that still allows public ip's.
It runs Minecraft.

at home i have my old 9yo retired gaming desktop doing seedbox work and mostly just running BOINC to donate compute power to science... and also keep my feet warm lol

yeah. that's it. i really don't do shit even though i totally could.

empireOfLove2 , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Trump's so narcissistic he can't stand the media talking about ANYONE else. So he has to spin up more crap just to make sure he's front and center, like a three year old realizing his parents aren't hyper focused on him.

empireOfLove2 , 3 months ago

real pro strat is to buy an ATSC tuner card for your PC and record or stream that shit too

empireOfLove2 , 3 months ago

Yes they do. The block is intermittent on Reddit, but it does occur frequently enough to be obvious they are trying to keep their user dta drsgnet uninterrupted under the guise of "stopping bots".