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  1. Comment on Generals Zero Hour vs Red Alert 2 in ~games

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    Zero Hour, solely because of Pure Pwnage.

    Zero Hour, solely because of Pure Pwnage.

  2. Comment on Explain Linux controversies to me in ~tech

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    archinstall is a thing now.

    archinstall is a thing now.

    2 votes

  3. Comment on E-bikes make your city smaller in ~transport

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    I have a pedal assist bike. Some of us like to pedal and work out, even if it's "cheating" in some way.

    I have a pedal assist bike. Some of us like to pedal and work out, even if it's "cheating" in some way.

    5 votes

  4. Comment on The Great Tildes Archipelago Randomizer - May 8th YAML thread in ~games

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    As seems to be tradition for Tildes community events (ffs), I'm probably going to drop out from this. I have to attend a destination wedding for about a week soon after this begins. If this is...

    As seems to be tradition for Tildes community events (ffs), I'm probably going to drop out from this. I have to attend a destination wedding for about a week soon after this begins. If this is expected to last longer than a week, I can pop in later, but I won't be able to participate for a good chunk of this.

    4 votes

  5. Comment on Canadian election: Liberals projected to form government in ~society

  6. Comment on Canadian election: Liberals projected to form government in ~society

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    It is currently too soon to say whether it will be a minority or majority government.

    It is currently too soon to say whether it will be a minority or majority government.

    4 votes

  8. Comment on [RESOLVED] Tech support request: my game stream is lagging every five minutes in ~tech

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    This doesn't look like it to me from the inxi output. Where are you seeing this?

    The 17 also seems to be under some hefty memory pressure. Things might be hitting swap.

    This doesn't look like it to me from the inxi output. Where are you seeing this?

    1 vote

  9. Comment on [RESOLVED] Tech support request: my game stream is lagging every five minutes in ~tech

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    Have you tried running htop or nethogs (Edit2: meant nethogs, not nettop) while the lag spike occurs? That could point to a specific process if something is causing it by itself. Failing that,...

    Have you tried running htop or nethogs (Edit2: meant nethogs, not nettop) while the lag spike occurs? That could point to a specific process if something is causing it by itself. Failing that, wireless drivers seem like a potential culprit.

    Edit: Just realized that Mint is a systemd-based distro. Have you checked the systemd timers on your system? Those aren't necessarily in the crontab file. systemctl list-timers --all

    5 votes

  10. Comment on The great Tildes Archipelago multiworld randomizer! Interest thread! in ~games

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    There's apparently an OpenRCT2 randomizer. It could be interesting. Failing that, I'd probably go with one of the two DOOM games.

    There's apparently an OpenRCT2 randomizer. It could be interesting. Failing that, I'd probably go with one of the two DOOM games.

    2 votes

  11. Comment on University of Texas has 'power stripped' as bill passes in ~society

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    Dear Texas, This has been all you for the past three elections. At least try not to repeatedly vote for actively dumping garbage in your state before trying to pawn off responsibility for litter...

    Dear Maryland and Canada,
    Please take your trash back with you, we don't like litter.

    Dear Texas,

    This has been all you for the past three elections. At least try not to repeatedly vote for actively dumping garbage in your state before trying to pawn off responsibility for litter onto others. We also have our own litter problem to deal with.

    Signed,

    Canada

    6 votes

  12. Comment on What are your top two strategy games you play competitively? in ~games

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    It depends on how you rank the games. Top by fun, by strategy, by depth? Zero Hour was definitely my jam when I was younger, I think I played it in high school until I hit university. Met a few...

    It depends on how you rank the games. Top by fun, by strategy, by depth?

    Zero Hour was definitely my jam when I was younger, I think I played it in high school until I hit university. Met a few friends through it, although I haven't stayed in contact with them much...

    I haven't played any RTS games competitively in a long time, but back in the day, I also used to play StarCraft and StarCraft 2 at a pretty decent level. I quit mostly because Dota 2 got its hooks into me not too long after.

    Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne was also fun and required a bit of thinking instead of just spamming units constantly. I think I eventually quit because I felt that the TTK was a little bit too high for my tastes.

    Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance is pretty fun as well, and pretty deep, although I strongly disliked the metagame at the higher levels back when I played as opposed to how I wanted to play. I eventually started defaulting to making comp stomp lobbies with some friends.

    Recently I also got sucked into playing Red Alert via OpenRA, but I wouldn't really consider that "competitive" and more "1v1 with some friends". I don't think I'm good enough to go anywhere close to a decent competitive level any more.

    5 votes

  13. Comment on Yuki Tsunoda set to replace Liam Lawson at Red Bull in ~sports.motorsports

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    At the rate things are going, we'll probably have Horner in the 2nd Red Bull seat by Silverstone.

    At the rate things are going, we'll probably have Horner in the 2nd Red Bull seat by Silverstone.

    3 votes

  14. Comment on Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix 2025 - Results in ~sports.motorsports

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    Absolutely wild race. Definitely an entertaining start to the season. Honestly, the contest for "best radio message" already has a potential frontrunner for the year with Leclerc/Ferrari.

    Absolutely wild race. Definitely an entertaining start to the season.

    Honestly, the contest for "best radio message" already has a potential frontrunner for the year with Leclerc/Ferrari.

    "Is there a leakage?"

    "A leakage of what?"

    "I have the seat full of water! Like, full of water!"

    "Must be the water"

    "Let's add that to the words of wisdom"

    14 votes

  15. Comment on Framework 13 chassis available for $400 in ~tech

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    I've had a Framework since mid-2022 (Edit, a 1260p processor, 12th gen Intel). I've got a bunch of stuff to say about them. Overall, as a Linux user, there's a hefty premium, but if you believe in...

    I've had a Framework since mid-2022 (Edit, a 1260p processor, 12th gen Intel). I've got a bunch of stuff to say about them. Overall, as a Linux user, there's a hefty premium, but if you believe in repairability and maintenance, it's worth buying a Framework. I've had a replacement webcam shipped to me (which I proceeded to trivially replace) when I contacted support saying that it was busted. Overall, the battery life is worse than comparable options, and I believe that eventually Asahi Linux will be the best option for laptops, but it's good enough compared to the alternatives, based solely on the fact that you can replace stuff (like the aforementioned webcam) with little trouble.

    Is the build quality there?

    Nope. I've got several flaws from Framework after only 2ish years of use, not even dependant on their subcontracted stuff. Basically, if you're not keeping it stationary, expect stuff like chassis bending after a few years.

    Is the long term support for the hardware there?

    I've heard messages saying that you can upgrade the motherboard if you want to, so at least there's that. Not exactly cheap, but it's an option.

    Are there any obvious downsides?

    Battery life is pretty meh. Other than that, I'd say there's not much to report compared to other x86 processors.

    4 votes

  16. Comment on Looking to get into indycar in ~sports.motorsports

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    Had to look this up. Will Buxton?

    With my favorite F1 commentator joining the indycar crew

    Had to look this up. Will Buxton?

    2 votes

  17. Comment on 1,156 questions censored by DeepSeek in ~tech

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    The strawberry test for AI is simple: all you have to do is ask "how many r's are in the word strawberry?" Famously, most LLMs think there are only 2, despite multiple attempts at correcting it....

    The strawberry test for AI is simple: all you have to do is ask "how many r's are in the word strawberry?" Famously, most LLMs think there are only 2, despite multiple attempts at correcting it. It was such a huge and simple fuckup for many models that it became famous.

    OpenAI tried to paper over the publicity of the strawberry test by releasing a "model" called Strawberry, trying to hide it in search results. Reportedly, a lot of people were banned after trying that after said model was released, since they argued that people are trying to expose how the Strawberry model works and is thus against TOS. Wes linked the article to that in their comment.

    22 votes

  18. Comment on Should I self-host my blog? in ~tech

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    My ISP blocks inbound requests to ports 80 and 443, among a few others. Technically you can set up a site on something like port 81, but that becomes slightly inconvenient and ugly.

    My ISP blocks inbound requests to ports 80 and 443, among a few others. Technically you can set up a site on something like port 81, but that becomes slightly inconvenient and ugly.

    3 votes

  19. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Heck yeah, home servers. How/where did you acquire the R730xd, and what else are you using it for? Also, how did you get 50 million images? Are they from certain datasets or something? I'm having...

    Heck yeah, home servers. How/where did you acquire the R730xd, and what else are you using it for?

    Also, how did you get 50 million images? Are they from certain datasets or something? I'm having a hard time believing they're just something like photos straight from your cellphone or something.

    2 votes

  20. Comment on Best way to set up NAS? in ~tech

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    It's basically how NFS works, unfortunately. The reason it happens is because your Nextcloud instance is attempting to connect to the NAS, the NFS link is down, and the Nextcloud instance blocks...

    Why is this an issue? it causes my nextcloud to freeze up as the files it is supposed to share are no longer available. necessitates me restarting my NUC to get the connection going again.

    It's basically how NFS works, unfortunately. The reason it happens is because your Nextcloud instance is attempting to connect to the NAS, the NFS link is down, and the Nextcloud instance blocks because of the attempts to retry, thinking that it's just taking a long time to read.

    There are a few workarounds for that, but if you're insistent on using NFS, I'd look into using autofs to mount it.

    I'm unsure of what the failure mode is of Nextcloud trying to access a share that suddenly doesn't exist, though, as opposed to one that hangs when attempting to access a share.

    My question to you is, why is the Nextcloud instance on the NUC and not on the NAS?

    1 vote