Interests: programming, video games, anime, music composition
I used to be on kbin as e0qdk@kbin.social before it broke down.
I run my NAS that way too. I just mount it and play videos with VLC if I want to watch something I have on it. The main reason I have a NAS is because I ran out of drive bays in my main system a few years ago… Works fine for my needs currently; no need to make it more complicated.
Yep. Just like how some sites try to recruit you if you open the JS terminal. Spam knows no limits.
You know, I’ve gotten job offers in Apache logs, but no one’s ever asked me out through referer/user-agent spam…
Historically, I don’t know, but personally, I prefer YYYY-MM-DD style dates since they sort naturally in basically all computer software without having to think about it.
I have a folding card table that currently serves as my desk. I don’t know how old it is – 1960s, maybe, based on the style of the brand/sales label on the back? It’s almost certainly older than I am, at least… Got it from my uncle back when I was in college and its still working well enough that I haven’t bothered to replace it.
“The easiest way to stop piracy… is to give those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.” -Gabe Newell
Yep – although even there, I have 5x as many games on GOG as Steam because they’re mine and I don’t have to worry about dealing with forced updates ever. That was a BIG deal for me when I had crappy internet access – a single game’s forced update could tank my entire month’s quota… I still get nervous putting Steam in online mode to this day even though I don’t have to deal with that shit any more.
Disagree with you on the BD issue, though. Much more capacity, higher quality video and audio, and drives are dirt cheap. I have a BDROM in an external enclosure, and it handles DVD and BD perfectly.
My complaint there’s about Blu-Ray’s DRM. Better quality video means nothing to me if I can’t actually get the damned thing to even play.
Whilst I agree, there’s (currently) nothing stopping you from buying the DVDs?
I have a ridiculous number of DVDs. (Blu-Ray on the other hand can fuck off and die.) A ton of content is just not practically available as DVDs.
Checking Amazon just now for some stuff that was absolutely impossible to find at all a few years ago when I was looking for it, there seem to be non-US releases now (e.g. region 2, region 4…) for some of them at not insane prices. Others want $300 for “only 1 in stock” from a nonsense bot account with a last purchase comment from ~2015… i.e. they probably aren’t real listings even if I was willing to pay that insane amount. A few others look like they might be commercial pirate offerings with only subsets of episodes and strange packaging. (I might just be OOTL on some marketing gimmick with those though.)
Honestly, I’ve largely given up on anime since COVID hit. I still like the art, but I don’t really watch new shows any more. The inability to get legit copies in a timely fashion is the main reason why. The shift to Blu-Ray really alienated me. Yes, I can work around its bullshit up a point. No, I am not going to pay ~$60 for half a show from years ago and then have to do quasi-illegal shit just to get it to maybe play on my computer – without menus. Fuck that.
I really wish someone would just set up “GOG for anime seasons” and let me buy and download MP4 files (or whatever) so I can have an offline collection legally.
I don’t know what anyone else intends to do, but if I can fix the issues I’m currently looking at – and no one else has stepped up in the interim – I’ll at least take a look at the 1.0 stuff. (I use mlmym and would like it to keep working…)
the thumbnails now are even more clearly 4-pixel potatoes
pictrs’s thumbnail parameter uses dumb raw pixel sampling – which leaves something to be desired… It has other sampling options implemented (with resize, according to the docs), but they don’t seem to accessible on my instance. You can remove thumbnail=96 if you want to get the image without that thumbnail sampling, at least.
make everything zoom 150%
I do this with my browser’s UI (ctrl-plus keyboard shortcut in FF-based browsers works for me).
e.g. right side bar
[...document.querySelectorAll(".side")].forEach(sidebar => sidebar.remove())
You could also just adblock the element with class side.
someone forks and maintains it.
MrKaplan already forked it and is keeping it on life support for lemmy.world. I’ve been trying to make enough sense of it to fix several issues that have been bugging me for a while, and will contribute my fixes there if I can figure them out.
I’ve only got a few hours each weekend where I have good concentration + enough free time to work on it, and don’t know the relevant languages (Go, Rust, TypeScript), so my progress is pretty slow… but I’m still poking at it.
Voting
You could support this by making vote buttons submit a form if JS isn’t enabled. (That’s what mlmym does.)
Can’t manually switch between dark and light mode
Hmm… There are some pretty nifty things you can do with a hidden checkbox, label, and some clever CSS (e.g. html:has(#element:checked) + CSS variables – though FYI :has is baseline 2023.)
Making it persistent would require some more effort – e.g. form + cookies + server side style sheet selection, most likely. mlmym lets users change their theme w/o JS by submiting a form on the setting page. I’d have to think a bit if there’s a good way to make it persistent across multiple requests for logged out users with a CDN caching things in between though…
only automatically based on browser settings
Doesn’t actually work for me in a FF138-based browser w/ JS blocked via NoScript – I always get light mode despite having a dark mode preference set. (Where do you have your prefers-color-scheme media query?)
Also, FYI I had to manually override font restriction – otherwise all your buttons end up as tofu characters. (I think NoScript is being kind of unreasonably strict there by blocking first party fonts.) That’s a papercut kind of issue, but figured I’d point it out in case it might save you some debugging time if you get confused NoScript users in the future.
Yuyushiki, maybe? It’s slice-of-life with three girls in a computer club instead of a music club. I liked K-On’s humor more, but I remember thinking they were similar when I watched it a long time ago.
This has only one type of puzzle that is repeated over and over again?
Not exactly. There’s a basic idea underlying the puzzles (click on a circle and draw a line to the end point) but the game takes that trivial mechanic and really pushes it as far as it can. The game doesn’t explicitly tell you what the symbols on the boards mean – you have to infer that yourself through experimentation to figure out valid solutions with puzzle sequences to help you grasp an idea. The game is basically a giant meditation on observation/perspective/inference/the scientific method/learning/etc. If that sounds intriguing, you might like the game; if that sounds pretentious and annoying, you probably won’t.
To the game’s credit, it has some genuinely neat ideas. I strongly advise not looking anything up about the game if you think you might enjoy playing it. It’s a game about discovery and some of the more interesting epiphanies you can have are easily spoiled…
And they want 37€ for this?
I got it for ~$10 from GOG a few years ago when it was on sale. 37€ is basically the launch price from almost a decade ago.
I found another thread here with a similar issue: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/issues/1016
There’s a comment at the bottom from noelmiller that says:
This issue has been plaguing us since the creation of the ISOs. We are aware of this issue and are actively working on a replacement effort for the existing install process. This is unfortunately an upstream issue with Anaconda and until we have a replacement ready, there is not a lot we can do.
Other posters in the thread have said sometimes they got it to work just by trying the process repeatedly. Problem probably isn’t you; seems like the installer just isn’t very good…
I assume you’ve probably already seen these pages – but in case not, and also for my own future reference, here are the installation and install troubleshooting pages:
The 2nd link there has a video of someone switching into terminal mode to work around a similar generic error with the installer.
Quick search for the command in the error message returns this github issue for a similar looking problem: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/issues/184
Have you already tried the suggestions there? (hook up an ethernet cable, redownload the installer in case it got corrupted, etc.)
You can just use the rendered fat as a cooking fat for anything that pairs with the spices you infused it with.
Fried rice might be nice!
I have an older version of TrueNAS on it from when it was still FreeBSD based (instead of Linux). I might replace it with Scale whenever I get around to doing maintenance on it next – or maybe just go to stock Debian or something since I don’t use most of the bells-and-whistles.