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pixxelkick,

My understanding is risk is low on this one as we already have a prepared and tested vaccine, and we have a known medicative treatment.

So it’d suck if it spreads but we at least have the tools to fight it on hand.

pixxelkick,

The one thing that sucks is this doesn’t cover gear stored in the extra mog… whatever it was called storage you could pay extra for.

And you can’t pay just for that inventory, you have to pay for your account before you can pay to enable the storage.

And finally, if you had important shit stored in those bonus inventories, you can’t access it til you pay for it

Result: players that prior paid for and used the extra inventories basically can’t leverage the free login, they can login but can’t access their stuff unless they opt out of the free login and fully pay for the month + inventories…

RIP

pixxelkick,

Who tabled this bill, and who is supporting it?

pixxelkick,

… no? I was asking a serious question.

pixxelkick,

Lasse is the original maintainer of XZ, they have been placed back in their position as sole maintainer.

“Jia Tan” was the person who slipped the backdoor into XZ and is now banned.

Lasse has already fixed abd removed the backdoor.

XZ itself is critical software everyone uses (its one of the main compression/decompression programs used on linux)

Reproducing a Microsoft corporate environment on Linux.

Most companies I’ve worked at where employees had a Microsoft work computers. They were under heavy control, even with admin privileges. I was wondering, for a corporate environment, how employees’Linux desktops could be kept under control in a similar way. What would be an open source or Linux based alternative to the...

pixxelkick,

but the best way to avoid getting them is still to just avoiding stupid shit.

This is fine and dandy on a personal pc, but in a work environment you are now being actively targeted by malicious actors if your company is a good target.

Constantly.

So once you are in that zone you do need some fast acting reactive tools that keep watch for viruses.

pixxelkick,

Oh, Jesus, this is from January.

Yeah, we got issued an emergency alert to drop unnecessary power usage in Edmonton and there was a cool graph that epcor I believe posted later showing how edmontons power usage dropped a shit tonne as people got the alert.

I think only a couple specific areas had brown outs, we definitely didn’t get them in my area.

pixxelkick,

Odd, I’m in Edmonton and never got the emergency broadcast all day and night yesterday.

Never heard anything about brown outs, maybe my specific area didn’t get included in the rollouts?

Alberta still primarily uses gas for heating so unlike our southern friends, brown outs impact us a lot less.

pixxelkick,

For casual users I typically recommend using Cinnamon Desktop, it’s the most Windows-esque UI and will be the easiest for them to pick up and use.

I roll with Cinnamon on Ubuntu and it’s been extremely painless, very simple to get stuff do and shit just works.

pixxelkick,

If you haven’t played it yet, OP you may really like Ultros.

Classic feeling metroidvania, modern game engine, but it’s visuals are fucking amazing and the colors, oh man.

They went for this incredible psychedelic art style and it’s just gorgeous and vibrant.

youtu.be/AyGZAzHu1QQ?si=AdEjVo3pjHZ-MuFn

pixxelkick,

I have been using Reolink RC-522s outside in the harsh Canadian cold winters. Even at -40 they kept working and their quality hasn’t degraded.

I tried out q few options for NVR software, and I’ve settled on Frigate NVR, it was pretty painless to setup and “just worked”.

Shinobi I found worked at first but three times it shit the bed, silently failed one day, and just stopped working. I’d wipe and re-install and it’d just fail after awhile. Frigate has never had this issue so far.

I use Power over Ethernet for the cameras, so i only had to run 1 single cable (ethernet) to each camera outside, no need to run high voltage which makes it way easier to install.

I use a small mini itx PC as the NVR with a 960ti installed in it for transcoding.

I have a fancy managed 48 port gigabit poe switch which is overkill for just cameras (I have tonnes of other PoE devices on my network as well justifying it), but any “dumb” gigabit poe switch will work for you, as long as you have enough ports for your cameras.

I personally use kubernetes for my machines running self hosted apps, but for most folks that’s overkill abd you can just use docker compose!

pixxelkick,

It never really stopped this year with how dry it was. We had some wildfires in Dec and Jan, not as many but still, eesh.

Jan 1st many lawns in my neighborhood were still devoid of snow and dry dead grass was everywhere.

pixxelkick,

This by a long shot, I agree.

pixxelkick,

So far any use case I’ve solved with just SSH.

What specifically do you need to rdp in for?

pixxelkick,

What CLI tools do you find have install problems on Powershell?

Everything I’ve used can be installed “headless”, often using winget now.

But powershell just sucks and windows file system is cumbersome, so limux is still better.

pixxelkick,

I haven’t found a compelling reason to not just build a solid gaming pc, then buy a Chromecast and steam link to it.

Latency is quite low on a wired connection, I can stream 4k to my TV, and I can use an Xbox controller. You literally couldn’t tell me the difference most of the time.

I’m rocking an 11th gen Intel i9, 4060 ti, and gigabit network wired between PC <-> chromecast.

Just make sure you get the latest chromecast that can handle 4k streaming though!

Not to wire ethernet into a chromecast, you need a USB c adapter, those dongles that take in USB C power, ethernet, etc. It has a single fully functional USB c port, so you can also connect wired USB and all the jazz to it if needed.

pixxelkick,

This, my machine is in the basement inside my server rack lol.

pixxelkick,

try to keep the franchise on the road roughly in the same direction it has been going and avoid crashing into stuff.

Based on their last attempt they couldn’t even manage that. Have we already forgotten that as soon as Kojima left the company, Metal Gear Survive came out?

PS, Kojima has a really cool Instagram where he posts his thoughts and stuff he likes, if anyone is a big fan and wants to sub to him. Dude has some radical tastes lol

pixxelkick,

Closer to a week or two, speaking as an actual software dev.

You have to first include the investigation into “how do we do it? What our are best options?” which is a day or two

Then the couple meetings as you go over your findings and get the sign off and approval that you can go ahead with it.

Then a couple days to implement it, write some tests for the code.

Another day for all the documentation to be added to Confluence, detailing all the above.

Another day or two for the code review process back and forth.

Another day or two for the QA testers to validate things are working.

There’s many many steps involved in going from “Idea” to “Implemented, reviewed, and tested”, and the human element in the back and forth stretches it out as you wait for people to take their lunch breaks, join the zoom meeting, the usual “your mic is muted mate” “oh jeez sorry” back and forth, etc etc…

pixxelkick,

You have to be able to convey business value to get approval on anything corporate deems “extra”

At the end of the day, the project manager is going to have to be able to “prove” that color blind settings will translate to $$$ to the people above them, and not only that, but reliably more $$$ than it will cost to implement.

Which means first you need to know how much money it actually is likely to make, and we have actually very little data on what % of gamers that enjoy (genre) are colorblind.

So you’re already off to a pretty dang rough start.

Usually you only actually get these features when the CEO themself has buy in, like, “Oh yeah my cousin is colorblind and told me how much games suck about it, so make sure we include that feature”

Thats pretty much the only way you’ll be seeing that sort of inclusivity, when you have direct buy in to the movement of inclusivity coming from the very top at a company culture level.

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