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Erenshor is a game that seeks to condense the MMORPG experience into a fully single-player title. ( massivelyop.com )

Looks to be really interesting, similar to the Everquest or WoW private servers with bots, or FFXIV's NPC dungeons, but actually designed from the ground up to be a single player experience where the bots actually play with you. Sounds neat.

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I only just found out about it and wanted to share since I havent heard any dicussion around this style of game. It looks fun, but I havent had a chance to sink much time into it.

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I remember the very strange control scheme it had on PS4 I think it was? You couldn't bind your abilities to any button, just specific combinations like Square+Left, but not Square+Right, something like that. I wonder if they've changed that in the newer ones.

How much does it matter what type of harddisk i buy for my server?

Hello, I'm relatively new to self-hosting and recently started using Unraid, which I find fantastic! I'm now considering upgrading my storage capacity by purchasing either an 8TB or 10TB hard drive. I'm exploring both new and used options to find the best deal. However, I've noticed that prices vary based on the specific...

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Is this for hardware RAID controllers, or have you experience software RAID like LVM or ZFS exhibiting the same drop out behavior? I personally haven't but it be nice to look out for future drives.

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Right, I did hear about that lawsuit way back when, I just didn't know of these types of consequences. Very appreciated, especially the sources.

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Does Backblaze work for what you are doing? It been a bit since I've price compared them, but I think it was something around 5$ a month per TB?

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I'm reasonably sure that AV1 has better or at least similar size ratios. They also explicitly mentioned wanting to use libre codecs, which h265 is not.

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Have you ever heard of Bedrock Linux? Its an extremely interesting "meta-distro" that let's you run multiple different distros at the same time only marginally isolated. The whole premise is to merge the systems together instead of separating them with a container style workflow. Tons of stuff works cross distro to! Its extremely cool to have Debian AND Arch packages just installed the normal way on each distro. Its a beautiful and horrifying system, that warms my heart every time I remember it.

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Those are distinct distros, while Bedrock is a layer that sits on top of multiple different distros and actively merges them together. At a glance, vanilla doesnt look like they merge/manage other distros at all? So I'm not sure the comparison makes sense. BlendOS is a completely different approach by using containers to isolate the different systems. Bedrock wants to merge the different systems where ever possible. I wouldn't say either is better or worse as their goals appear to be entirely different.

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I've used 4k and 1440p monitors, and my TV is 4k as well. For desktop use, 4k isn't really a big difference because of the hardware needed to run it at a decent speed. However, once I got my hands on a 170hz 1440p monitor, I can't go back to anything less. It's extreme noticeable. The higher refresh rate, and the reasonable upgrade in pixel density makes text much clearer, especially in motion.

For content viewing though, 4k on a TV it depends on how much of your field of view is occupied by the TV. Most of time though, a high quality panel is worth much more than higher pixel density. There is a massive difference between a basic 4k big box store TV, and 4k LG oled. The color, even outside of HDR content is just so much better, and the true actual black color is fantastic. Resolution is nice, but honestly, oled color is so good.

Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together?

It seems like every other week a game studio is massively laying off employees; sometimes after years of development. What I'm reading is that it's a quick way to lower expenses and pad the investors' pockets, flooding the market with developers and reducing their value, to then hire them back a few months later at lower...

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The Venn diagram of game developers, who are also interested in/good at running a business has very little overlap. You need many different kinds of people to run a business, but a game developers is only one of those. In some rare cases it works out though.

SSH login without user name? ( docs.gitlab.com )

I was reading GitLab's documentation (see link) on how to write to a repository from within the CI pipeline and noticed something: The described Docker executor is able to authenticate e.g. against the Git repository with only a private SSH key, being told absolutely nothing about the user's name it is associated with....

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That means the corresponding public key that was uploaded to the git server is enough to authenticate and no username is required.

A username is required to authenticate with an SSH server. A public key alone is not enough.

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The post you originally replied to was misunderstanding how the username is located when authenticating with a server.

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The public key contains a user name/email address string, I’m aware, is the same information also encoded into the private key as well?

Your reply would be creating more confusion, because you implied that no username is required.

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That means the corresponding public key that was uploaded to the git server is enough to authenticate and no username is required.

I am just clarifying if the original poster read your comment and was led to believe they wouldn't need a username. It is, in fact, required. As you expressed, it's usually "git" when connecting to a a git server, but it doesn't have to be.

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Here's a link to an instance of radicle for Yuzu. It's a p2p git server implementation. I haven't looked too much into it yet, but the tech seems interesting.

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What do you mean by Mastodon selling out to Meta? Isn't Meta just building an ActivityPub based platform so we can talk to their users as far as I know. If they want to talk to us, then the onus is on Meta to stay compatible. If they aren't, then we just continue on as we have.

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I would love to host a mirror of the ecosystem once the fork is underway. I made a small attempt a little while ago to create a mirror of the Nix repos but the documentation on how to set it up was lacking. Hosting a Debian mirror is relatively easy, Nix appeared quite a bit more obfuscated.

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They are very diverged projects, but share the same philosophy. The Nix packages themselves aren't the problem, its the organization backing them. So this fork is attempting to create better governance and organization, so that the good underlying tech can keep going and progress.

For example, Flakes have been held back from truly flourishing because the governing body has purposefully held back changes to those systems for nontechnical problems, but rather political conflicts with their proprietary offerings.

Think of the fork the same way we had the Alma/Rocky forks off of CentOS. Its political rather than technical, so keeping the same base tech helps adoption. Over time we can improve or replace parts of the ecosystem as the needs of this new project grow.

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To be fair to them, they aren’t hosts. Its glaringly obvious they are not in-front-of-camera people. It does feel like its done on purpose to appeal emotionally.

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Possibly a hot take, but as I understand it, content creators of his size should be viewed that the viewer is the product, content creator is the seller, and the sponsor/advertiser is the buyer. It’s the content creators job to sell our eye balls and brain space. However, just as a fish resists being captured by a fisher, I resist being sold. Adblocking is my resistance as a product. So producers of said product need to work harder to get enough of their product to be profitable. Should their be a drought, or if my tools are not maintained properly, then is it stealing if my crops die? Did my wheat fields steal from me when they didn’t grow enough for me to be a profitable farmer? I am the product being sold, I don’t “owe” them anything for harvesting me. It’s up to THEM to make my eyes and data worth harvesting to be sold to advertisers.

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The deal being made here is obvious and you’re signing up to give them data in exchange for watching a video. You’re also signing up to view their ads.

I don’t buy this rhetoric. By your view, then if I don’t watch an ad, then I don’t get the content. Yet on YouTube I get the content inspite of declining to view the ad. Some websites do not let me see the content, unless I see their ads. That’s fine, I just go to a different site or spend my time doing something else. This rhetoric is to help businesses make money, which is fine, but I have no interest in furthering their narrative. If websites block me from using ad block, then it is entirely within their right to deny me access to their content. *

If you are not paying for a good or service, you are the product. That is my claim. The ad is not the price paid, it is the medium someone is using to collect my market value. Were I to walk to a store, and tell them I wanted something in exchange for seeing their billboard on the highway I’d be laughed out the building.

*Yes there are ways around this, but I think that is outside the scope of this discussion on ads.

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I don’t think you understand my position. I’ve no argument about piracy or not.

I’m more concerned about creators and other sites that use ads for revenue such as newspapers

If they don’t want me to view their content, then don’t allow me to. Netflix has no problem keeping me off their service, because I don’t pay the fee. Several other sites block me from viewing their site if I block their ads. That’s fine, I leave knowing they don’t want me consuming their content. 100% A okay by me. I pay for services I like, and creators I like.

So if you want to “pay” a site without money, don’t pirate their content.

My argument is that watching an ad, is not a form of payment. If it not a payment, it can’t be piracy. To take your movie analogy. Let’s say a park has a movie screen setup so that anyone can watch the movie, and before the movies starts, someone comes in front and tells everyone about the company sponsoring this public viewing. In the context of youtube, it is not a ticketed event. If I, in the audience, am typing on my phone with my headphones on so that I don’t see/hear their sponsor, did I pirate the movie? What if I purposely show up a few minutes late, knowing in advance they would have the sponsor at the start? Is that piracy? I would claim no, but as I understand you, you would say yes.

If YouTube blocks a video from playing because I blocked the ad, then I don’t watch the video. If it doesnt, then I can watch the video. My argument is specifically, that what is being sold is not the content. Content creators are creating audiences, with which to capture and sell to advertisers. Advertisers have spent uncountable amounts of money, and decades on propaganda to convince you of your current position, as I understand it, because it benefits them the most.

An advertiser is buying my time, that the content creator is selling. I am not paying a content creator by watching an ad. Full stop. I am paying an advertiser my time, then an advertiser pays the content creator. There is a complete fundamental difference between this relationship, and a simple pay a fee to watch a video, and that complexity is very profitable.

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Perhaps not quite as quest driven, but if you like open world combat, check out the Shadow of Mordor/Shadow of War games. Don’t take the story too seriously, but they are a fantastic good time.

Enemies that see how to approach them, and if you are too same-y they’ll adapt. Focus too much on stealth kills? Enemies have stealth pierceing guards. Tend to go direct melee combat? Big bruiser show up that force you to respect them and dodge. They are not perfect games, and they’re a bit older these days, but nothing beats the hunter turn hunted experience of that first play through. I’ve beaten it years ago, but once in a while I just let my castle fall and go on an orc hunting spree to mastermind a take over once again.

How is it fine for pirates to pay for a VPN to not pay for a service?

I only use free VPN extensions or apps and I fully aware of the limitation of this. I use shabby ones, which don’t protect and probably sell my data. It slow and I can’t have only a few location. But I can’t get around the idea that people can pay for a service to refuse to pay to a service. Please help me understand.

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VPN’s are useful in keeping the ISP’s out of your business from snooping on all your websites that you visit, and all the traffic coming and going from your PC

A VPN isn’t a miracle cure-all. You are just transferring all your traffic from your local ISP to another. Usually the new one is by choice, so there is a lot more competition and thus more likely a better service provided.

VPN’s allow pirates to download torrented media, without advertisements, to be enjoyed offline, which streaming doesn’t always do.

Just for clearity, its not the VPN that’s enables this. /Some/ VPNs allow for this, and you have to do your due diligence or else you could just be handing all your data straight into a honeypot. VPN providers are rife with paid shills and bad actors.

Not picking on you specifically, but I’d hate to see a fresh recruit find some rando VPN from a youtube ad and think they’re in international waters when they’re really standing on dry land.

How do you containerize stuff you install from source in a way that you can completely remove later?

I’m doing a bunch of AI stuff that needs compiling to try various unrelated apps. I’m making a mess of config files and extras. I’ve been using distrobox and conda. How could I do this better? Chroot? Different user logins for extra home directories? Groups? Most of the packages need access to CUDA and localhost. I would...

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You can use GUI stuff in docker as well, though it can be a bit fiddly to setup.

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Secureboot can use your own keys, which any distro can do regardless. Nix essentially (simplified) rebuilds your whole rootfs every time you do a config change so that every change is fully reproducable.

having a user owned directory folder mounted in root

Do you mean the /nix directory? Nixos doesn’t use the same FHS as most distros, so of course it would save its own data somewhere on root, since your actual rootfs is rebuilt declarativly when you request it. IMO it’s really elegant, and its hard to go back to files strewn all over the place and the headache of trying to have multiple versions of the same library installed.

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No worries, UEFI is definitely a “milage may vary” kinda standard.

I’ve personally only used NixOS and not Nix on a different distro by itself so I’m less familiar with that setup. No system is perfect for all use cases, but that’s sorta the point in Unix-land. I personally have been gripped by NixOS and having to go back to Fedora for some of my old servers has been a pain. They use it like a buzzword all the time, but declarative administration is so awesome. It does have a heck of a learning curve though.

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In my experience its mostly sane defaults and a mixed bag in terms of documentation. For anyone else reading this, search.nixos.org/options using this to search for all the built in options is usually a good enough starting point for installing something.

Nix does dependencies very differently, since every program and everything it needs are put into their own checksummed directory, then linked into your PATH as requested in your config. So far I’ve never needed to do anything other than nixos-rebuild --upgrade switch and only needed to reboot for kernel updates.

I mostly work in container spaces, so building things from source, or out-of-repo pkgs, while rare, are done in containers with podman. For example, running Automatic1111’s stable diffusion works perfectly for me in a container with an AMD GPU no less. Eventually I’d like to get into flakes, but their still marked experimental so I haven’t looked too much into it.

Overall the learning experience is figuring out the overall structure of the system, then taking advantage of all the super powerful tooling and consistency those tools offer.

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They are literally reverse engineering hardware. Every hardware revision will be sewhat different and require even more work. This is not at all a fast or easy process. That fact this works at all to me is incredible.

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A QEMU VM running ARM would probably be a better experience for testing cross compiled code, than a reverse engineered distro on unsupported hardware.

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While I don’t play the actual game, I am a massive fan of the Escape from Tarkov inventory system. Its extremely detailed; a totally unreasonably detailed system for how every item fits into or on every other item. I’ve watched a few dozen hours of the game just looking for how people manage bags within bags within bags, within bags. I love how simulator-y the inventory is. Normally I hate that, I like sortable menus and proper categories for lists of my items, but wow is EfT’s inventory something that has really captured my brain.

Greg Rutkowski Was Removed From Stable Diffusion, But AI Artists Brought Him Back - Decrypt ( decrypt.co )

Greg Rutkowski, a digital artist known for his surreal style, opposes AI art but his name and style have been frequently used by AI art generators without his consent. In response, Stable Diffusion removed his work from their dataset in version 2.0. However, the community has now created a tool to emulate Rutkowski’s style...

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Breaking Copyright is a contract/license violation, not theft. Depending on where you live, breach of contract is handled very differently than theft in most jurisdictions.

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Some game anti-cheat can detect VMs and will still block you. Dual booting is the highest compatibility path if that’s what you value the most. Your choice of distro here doesn’t matter too much, if you do go the VM route.

As far as distro choice for day to day needs, I’m a big fan of NixOS. Setup your whole system with a config file, track it with a VCS and you have an extremely consistent and flexible OS that let’s you build nearly any environment you want without messing with the rest of your system.

Why is Linux so frustrating for some people?

Don’t get me wrong. I love Linux and FOSS. I have been using and installing distros on my own since I was 12. Now that I’m working in tech-related positions, after the Reddit migration happened, etc. I recovered my interest in all the Linux environment. I use Ubuntu as my main operating system in my Desktop, but I always end...

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Does proton support wireguard? That has first-class support on Linux.

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I personally recommend against using Debian Testing for anything other than testing the next Debian release. It gets slower security updates, and breakages get fixed slower than just using Sid directly. Since Sid has its own securirt team and since it moves faster, breakages are fixed sooner. Even in the official documentation Debian doesn’t not suggest using Testing for the same reasons.

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If you don’t recommend Sid, then Testing is out of the question. Testing is Sid, but less secure. Testing also has package freezing during the last stages of the release cycle. If you want a stable, and managed Debian, then the latest stable is the answer. If you want an cutting edge, semi-rolling release Debian, then you want Sid. Being in the middle has no advantages to the end user, and only invites complications. If something is broken in Testing, you have to wait for it to be fixed in Sid first, then trickle down to Testing at an absolute minimum. Why add an extra delay for nothing?

EDIT: offcial documentation www.debian.org/doc/manuals/…/choosing.en.html#s3.…

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While you are always free to make your own choices, this is very bad advice for someone looking to try another distro.

wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Don.27t_make_a_Fr…Official documentation again does not recommend mixing multiple releases like this. You would be much better off just running Sid, or Stable then using the Firefox flatpak/snap/appimage for the latest release. Debian is a long term stable distro, so if you want newer packages you are advised by the developers of said distro to just use Sid.

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This is functionally what PIHole does. Though you can do this with any DNS you control, such as Unbound or Bind.

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Thank you for this very easy digestable graph. Very appreciated.

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There are a lot of reasons not to give them your money. They’re assholes to the maker community and they openly talk shit on a lot of their customer base.

Citation needed, Pi’s are just a single member of the broader SBC market. They are great for a lot of projects, especially for beginners who are their primary market, or those unfamiliar with Linux systems.

It’s just not a spectacular option for hosting. In order to get a Rpi competitive with even the shittiest laptop from 7 years ago, you’re going to end up spending more than you would spend on a decent laptop from 7 years ago.

Citation needed, currently for what I use my Pi’s for, they are massive overkill. A laptop has WAY more breakable, and less repairable parts. A pi is a SBC, nothing I don’t need. I don’t want a screen, I don’t want a keyboard, I don’t want an ancient battery that is probably bloated from being plugged in all the time, and I absolutely do not want a fan. Honestly the Pi zero is overkill for most of my stuff, I just do actually want a wired network port. Your measure of “competitive” is extremely flawed, because you assume the only thing a Pi is useful for is it’s raw number crunching power when that’s not at all what they are marketed towards. In all honesty, I’d love to see a laptop that was even 50% as good a a Pi, but for that weight and size you’re looking almost entirely at used phones, whose OS is significantly more locked down. Can’t exactly run Docker on Android, let alone dealing with running servers over wifi.

If it is a computer that turns on, it will likely function orders of magnitude better than an Rpi and won’t bind you to ARM architecture. My entire hosting setup was pulled out of a recycling pile for free. Install ubuntu/ubuntu server and enjoy yourself.

How could I mount a laptop to my garage door for presence detection of which car is coming and going? Would be kind of an eyesore wouldn’t you think, without even mentioning the weight problems. Laptops are massive compared to a Pi. For your point on ARM specifically, that’s a feature my friend. Alternative cpu architectures are pretty interesting, and I personally have been an avid RISC-V follower for years now, and am absolutely thrilled to bits waiting for a standardized RV solution like the Pi. How lucky of you to just be given everything for free, thanks for taking e-waste out of the landfills for a little while I guess. Most of us have to buy the products we use, maybe getting something from a friend once in a while.

If you intend on spending any amount of money on this hobby, I cannot express enough how much I recommend against any of that money going toward a Raspberry Pi.

What do you recommend instead?

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Friends! Mixed architectures are always exciting, I cannot wait for something as standardized as the Pi for RISC-V.

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Arduinos can’t really handle video encoding and presence detection on board. A laptop is extreme overkill, as I said in my post. Don’t want a battery, screen, keyboard, hinges, and fans are a deal breaker. Old laptops are bulky, heavy, have proprietary power bricks that are never cross compatible with each other. A laptop and a SBC are just totally different markets, and are used for totally different things.

One Small step, a giant leap for Fediverse but...

Day 2 here, and I can see the growth already. Personally I really like the notion of how its gonna shape up in the future but at the same time I really feel for the average user as of now its too complex to understand the working and how the cross servers thing is working. I mean yes still early days, UI will improve further...

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The instance you sign up on doesn’t really matter. For technical people, the server you sign in on, can be important, but for the average user it doesn’t. In fact, you could make an account on mastodon.social and comment on this very thread. That’s pretty much the goal of federation.

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Entirely fair, we are in the midst of significant drama between the reddit burndown, and the infancy of the lemmy platform as a whole. For someone wanting to talk to people, and get their feet wet in the fediverse, I think its reasonable to say that the server doesn’t matter. Once you have used the platform, and know what you want then exploring the options is highly encouraged. The exact circumstances of server federation will absolutely change, probably a lot, in the near future.

I treat it akin to someone saying “I want to learn how to play guitar.” I think reasoanble advice is get a cheap used guitar and start learning cords. Once you know if you plan on sticking with it more than a few weeks, go right ahead and start looking at better equipment. I don’t think expecting someone at this stage to start taking musical theory is the best advice. Maybe that is a weak argument, but I don’t think its entirely wrong.

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But if a post is receiving discussion, then it IS active. Back in the olden days we would waylay people for not using the search to find previous posts rather than make a new one. If a thread is active and relevant, its age shouldnt just blast it out of existence.

The constant churn of “only new posts are relevant, anything older than a day is functionally archived” of the modern internet landscape is a bad thing in my opinion.

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