Kaldo

@ Kaldo @kbin.social

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2y ago

Let's discuss: Mass Effect
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Kaldo @kbin.social 2y ago
I remember being confused by the ending but tbh never to the extent it ruined the rest of the franchise retroactively. Not even Andromeda managed to so that! I still have fond memories of ME and I'm constantly tempted to replay it with the legendary edition, if only I had the time.

2y ago

How much maintenance do you find your self-hosting involves?

Oh I think i tried at one point and when the guide started talking about inventory, playbooks and hosts in the first step it broke me a little xd

2y ago

How much maintenance do you find your self-hosting involves?

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Kaldo @kbin.social 2y ago

Got any decent guides on how to do it? I guess a docker compose file can do most of the work there, not sure about volume backups and other dependencies in the OS.

2y ago

Why are there two different genres both called ARPG?

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Kaldo @kbin.social 2y ago

Wasn't that more for games like wizardry or the more modern example, legend of grimrock? It sounds more related to what a dnd party would do than just fighting hordes of enemies.

2y ago

Why are there two different genres both called ARPG?

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Kaldo @kbin.social 2y ago

Back in my days we called games like Diablo hack n slash RPGs

2y ago

Subset Games created two amazing games: FTL & Into The Breach

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Kaldo @kbin.social 2y ago

I adore FTL, can't believe nobody else tried to do something similar all these years.

2y ago

Midnight Suns devs 'absolutely' knew cards would be a controversial choice, but they were also 'absolutely the right fit for this game and our design goals'

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Kaldo @kbin.social 2y ago

Tbh I felt less at the mercy of RNG in Midnight Suns than I did in XCOM.

2y ago

“It‘s kind of depressing”: WB Discovery pulls indie game for “business changes”

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Kaldo @kbin.social 2y ago

Sounds like the original creators of these games should get the rights back for chump change.

When you’re working with purely digital products nothing is going to stay around for very long

Illuminating and very worrying statement in this context

2y ago

I can't believe people are still using GUMBIES when there are so many better alternatives.

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Kaldo @kbin.social 2y ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

2y ago

Beginner looking for NAS advice

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Kaldo @kbin.social 2y ago

Hmm, I bought a used laptop on which I wanted to tinker with linux and docker services, but I kinda wanted to separate the NAS into a separate advice to avoid the "all eggs in one basket" situation (also I can't really connect that many hard drives to it unless I buy some separately charged USB disk hubs or something, if those exist and are any good?)

However I do see the merit in your suggestion considering some of the suggestions here are driving me into temptation to get a $500 NAS and that's even without the drives... that's practically more than what my desktop is worth atm.

2y ago

Beginner looking for NAS advice

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Kaldo @kbin.social 2y ago

Could be a regional thing but Synology HDDs are around 30% more expensive than 'normal' WD/Seagate/Toshiba that I'm seeing at first glance. Maybe it does make it up for quality and longevity but afaik HDDs are pretty durable if they are maintained well, and I imagine them being in RAID1 should be good enough security measure?

Considering the price of the diskstation itself it's all quickly adding up to a price of a standalone PC so i'm trying to keep it simple since it's for a relatively low performance environment.

2y ago

Beginner looking for NAS advice

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Kaldo @kbin.social 2y ago

[email protected]Sorry, with 'docker drives' I meant 'docker volumes or bind mounts'. I dont have a lot of experience with it yet so I'm not sure if I'm going to run into problems by mapping them directly to a NAS, or if I should have local copies of data and then rsync / syncthing them into the NAS. I heard you can theoretically even run docker on the NAS but not sure if that's a good idea in terms of its longevity or performance.

Is the list of "approved HDDs" just a marketing/support thing or does it actually affect performance?

Thanks for the answers! The DS2xx series looks like something I could start with. DS223 is a bit cheaper and has 3 USB ports so that could be useful, I'd guess I don't need to focus on performance since it's mostly just for personal data storage and not some intensive professional work.

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Kaldo @kbin.social

2y ago

Beginner looking for NAS advice

2y ago

Even in this poorly made comparison shot I made you can tell the difference between streaming and "self hosting"

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Kaldo @kbin.social 2y ago

It could be a "boil the frog slowly" situation

2y ago

A fork of NewPipe that implements SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike

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Kaldo @kbin.social 2y ago

If its by the developer of NPxSB why not just update that one, or am I misunderstanding something in the title?

2y ago

Safest way to run pirated games?

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Kaldo @kbin.social 2y ago

It's a Dell laptop with an Nvidia GPU. I tried Linux Mint but I'm having constant OS-breaking freezes after gaming for a while and it's happening on 2 different games so far (completely unresponsive, and it's with steam games so no custom tinkering in lutris/wine). Thinking I'll just try a fresh install but with PopOS when I have time.

Thanks for the summary, it all does make a bit more sense to me now but first time I had to spend half an hour just to find BG3 saves in Heroic due to the seemingly duplicates of folder structures all over the place lol

2y ago

Safest way to run pirated games?

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Kaldo @kbin.social 2y ago

That's what I tried first but also had a lot of confusing experiences with its file hierarchy, prefixes, lutris/wine/proton and all of these. I was hoping bottles lives up to its promise of "one click installation with community install scripts" instead. This is my first real attempt at linux, I didn't even know what flatpak is until a week ago, I used the appimage for heroic which was also very confusing for a time. Starting to think I might be just too dumb/inpatient for it tbh, it's just one issue after another - even simple stuff like games ran from steam with proton have lots of issues that aren't reported on protondb.

2y ago

Safest way to run pirated games?

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Kaldo @kbin.social 2y ago

Got any good guides for bottles? I've tried it recently and then got stuck on literally step one: installing the gog launcher just throw errors, I tried the 2nd gog installer and that one just leads to a black screen when I run it. I'm not sure what to tinker with, whether I try a different bottle or where to even start

2y ago

Enshittification of GitHub?

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Kaldo @kbin.social 2y ago

Sure, but nothing is theoretically stopping them from documenting every single data source input into the training module and then crediting it later.

For some reason they didn't want to do that of course.

2y ago

GloriousEggroll announces new project to unify Proton runtimes

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Kaldo @kbin.social 2y ago

Valve's Proton is open source but is it also free to use and distribute in commercial software? Cuz if so, there'd be nothing stopping GOG or Epic from implementing it already, they don't need this project at all

2y ago

GloriousEggroll announces new project to unify Proton runtimes

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Kaldo @kbin.social 2y ago

Sounds like this would be easier to setup and use than Lutris though - dunno about everyone else but I'm always so very confused trying to get non-steam games running on linux, with all the custom paths, simulated folder structures and prefixes while steam apparently does it on its own out of the box.