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  1. Comment on What is a lesser known upcoming game you're excited about? in ~games

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    Not quite lesser known, but A Hat In Time (AHIT) release for the Nintendo Switch. I was wishing for it ever since I bought my Switch, and it's finally becoming a reality. In case you're not...

    Not quite lesser known, but A Hat In Time (AHIT) release for the Nintendo Switch. I was wishing for it ever since I bought my Switch, and it's finally becoming a reality.

    In case you're not familiar with AHIT, here's the Steam description:

    A Hat in Time is a cute-as-heck 3D platformer featuring a little girl who stitches hats for wicked powers.

    That's quite accurate. It's like SMO with a decent story and a ton more cuteness. And it's on Steam, PS4, XB1 and is soon coming to Switch.

    8 votes

  2. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~comp

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    Are there any projects you wrote before that you look back and think "oof, that thing was a big mess of code"? If so those might use a rewrite. That's not always fun, but it's rather satisfying to...

    Are there any projects you wrote before that you look back and think "oof, that thing was a big mess of code"? If so those might use a rewrite. That's not always fun, but it's rather satisfying to see how much you improved since then.

    In addition, I always found it to be fun to work with game modding and console hacking (as long as you don't interact with the toxic communities). The techs you use and plan to use don't make this as easy, but if you're okay with learning C, C++, C#, Lua etc, you can get pretty far and have tons of fun.

    Perhaps look through your daily workflow and see if there's anything you can simplify. I noticed one today: Authy is great (esp with the backups to server and sync between devices), but it's not open source and doesn't support custom icons, search or folders. So I might make a project like that that solves my problems. If you want to make something like that, go ahead.

    3 votes

  3. Comment on Any homeserver operators out there? in ~tech

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    I have a DL380G5 running with a single E5420 and 10GB of ECC DDR2, though I'm considering getting an upgrade. I used Arch Linux before but I moved to Proxmox after bizarre systemd bugs that popped...

    I have a DL380G5 running with a single E5420 and 10GB of ECC DDR2, though I'm considering getting an upgrade. I used Arch Linux before but I moved to Proxmox after bizarre systemd bugs that popped up after a couple months on Arch.

    Right now I'm hosting:

    • Countless discord bots made by me or people around me
    • A Jenkins instance to build switch hacking related projects (called BSNX / BuildServNX)
    • An uptime tracking software we wrote
    • InfluxDB, Grafana

    I also used to host:

    • An XMPP server, but I later got a VPS for it due to uptime issues (at some point my ISP was having issues almost weekly).
    • Personal sites and backups of my old image hosts (which led to a drive failure after someone tried to scrape the image host to get doxx material).
    • BSNX's artifact files (scroll up for more info), which I moved it to a VPS after drive failure (as it was usually using up all my upload).
    • A plex instance (again, removed after drive failure)

    I'm considering building a cheap desktop to replace it.

    5 votes

  4. Comment on Any homeserver operators out there? in ~tech

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    Thirded! I use proxmox heavily and I love it.

    Thirded! I use proxmox heavily and I love it.

    4 votes

  5. Comment on Any homeserver operators out there? in ~tech

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    I messed with matrix before but saw some issues with implementation (not super fast, heavy on resources, painful to configure, doesn't have a capabilities info exchange between servers I believe,...

    I messed with matrix before but saw some issues with implementation (not super fast, heavy on resources, painful to configure, doesn't have a capabilities info exchange between servers I believe, does not scale well, not accounting for tech we have in 2018 like Cloudflare, weird AF cert thing).

    Later I tested XMPP (ejabberd) and honestly I'm in love with it, I even host a public XMPP server now. Fast, not as heavy as matrix, works under bad internet connections, scales well, relatively easy to configure, does proper cert stuffs. It's a bit dated and does not account for CF either, but I'm not complaining.

    2 votes

  6. Comment on Anybody here own cryptocurrency? in ~talk

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    I have $25 in BTC and I actually hate cryptocurrency with a passion (mostly due to the toxic community, but also due to technical issues). I only have it because someone wanted to donate and I...

    I have $25 in BTC and I actually hate cryptocurrency with a passion (mostly due to the toxic community, but also due to technical issues). I only have it because someone wanted to donate and I happened to have xapo installed.