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Comment on What are your current pain points with Linux? in ~tech
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Comment on What are your current pain points with Linux? in ~tech
deathinactthree Link ParentI'll look into unraid, thanks!I'll look into unraid, thanks!
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Comment on What are your current pain points with Linux? in ~tech
deathinactthree Link ParentI have a spare PC sitting in my closet that I've been debating setting up as a Nextcloud home server but otherwise don't have an active server at the moment. I've done it in the past (setting up a...I have a spare PC sitting in my closet that I've been debating setting up as a Nextcloud home server but otherwise don't have an active server at the moment.
I've done it in the past (setting up a server I mean) but it's been a long time so I would have to refresh myself on the technical details. And at least for the moment, I feel like that's a non-trivial lift to get running that I don't have time for right now. Especially because it's been a long time since I've set up hardening on a server so I don't quite remember all of the details. I can learn them, but that's probably going to be more than a weekend project for me since it's been so long. I will probably end up doing it though.
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Comment on What are your current pain points with Linux? in ~tech
deathinactthree LinkFor me, who switched to full time about 5 years ago and dabbled with it since 2008, these days I only have two pain points: First, suspension sucks. Every time the PC goes to sleep, regardless of...For me, who switched to full time about 5 years ago and dabbled with it since 2008, these days I only have two pain points:
First, suspension sucks. Every time the PC goes to sleep, regardless of hardware or distro, I have to hard-reset, it just won't wake up. So I turn of automatic sleep in settings and then my PC's awake 24/7 because I don't want to turn it off and on every 24 hours because my normal work setup is four virtual desktops with about 15 programs open which I don't want to spend time rearranging. Which is not the end of the world in and of itself, and specific to me, but I don't love the power consumption.
Second, email sucks. There is no truly great FOSS version for IMAP except maybe Aeiron which breaks half the time. Even with a default setup you lose a lot of formatting in something like Thunderbird and God help you if you're in dark mode. Even the paid versions like BlueMail suck. It's all garbage. I'm using Outlook as a PWA and it works great for work emails but doesn't have a unified inbox so my personal account is eating shit.
I still don't regret moving at all but they're nontrivial concerns.
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Comment on What are your current pain points with Linux? in ~tech
deathinactthree Link ParentWant to quickly echo that OnlyOffice is an excellent suite that has pretty much 100% compatibility with Microsoft Office. The best thing that I can say about it is that I work in jobs where...Want to quickly echo that OnlyOffice is an excellent suite that has pretty much 100% compatibility with Microsoft Office.
The best thing that I can say about it is that I work in jobs where everyone uses Microsoft but I switched to OnlyOffice on my Linux machine not quite 5 years ago and literally no one has noticed the difference. Whatever files they give me, or files that I give them are going to look and act exactly the same (outside of the obvious VBA compatibility since Linux can't do that, but I don't need VBA for my work).
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Comment on Are others finding themselves spending less and less time online? in ~tech
deathinactthree LinkI have been gearing myself up to change my lifestyle to involve significantly less Internet. I've always been kind of Terminally Online as someone who grew up starting with BBSes and IRC in the...I have been gearing myself up to change my lifestyle to involve significantly less Internet. I've always been kind of Terminally Online as someone who grew up starting with BBSes and IRC in the early 90s and going on to have my entire 20+ year career based on the web. I find I'm getting bored with it, for all the same reasons others are saying in this thread so I don't need to belabor it, and finding myself wishing I could spend the time more productively...except I don't know what on.
I do have offline hobbies I engage in regularly--cooking, motorcycles, martial arts--but otherwise pretty much everything I do in a day is online, from work to leisure time. Two decades ago I would tell you it wasn't wasted time--reading news articles, following or participating in really interesting forum discussions on niche topics, enjoying the many popular webcomics of the time (and producing my own for a few years), meeting new people on social media such as Livejournal many of whom I'm still IRL friends with now and talk to every day. Getting exposed to new media and new, presumably less-agenda-ed perspectives. I did feel like it was enrichment in my enclosure, that enclosure being "small shitty conservative economically-depressed Southern hometown".
Now I'm just bored. Modern social media has no appeal to me, genuinely quality news sources are hard to find, everything is condensed to the five sites we all know (and four I do not use at all) that are herding pens for ad exposure and political agendas spewed by paid bot accounts. I do use Reddit admittedly, but I use Reddit Enhancement suite with Ublock Origin and have a narrow list of focused subs and rarely bother with stuff like /r/popular, so I do still get something out of it but that narrow focus means I'm pretty much caught up on everything I care about in an hour or so.
I like video games alright but as I get older it's something I find little desire to do except maybe an hour or two a week. There are plenty of other hobbies I could get into of course and that's what I'm trying to figure out instead of doing what I usually do and go find contract work (online of course) that I don't need just to feel busy. I definitely want to read more, and have started slowly reading books again after kind of not doing that for years, even though I was a voracious reader when I was young. I recently bought a new guitar to try to goad myself into playing music again but haven't touched it yet.
It's all making me realize that my real problem is having spent years training myself to the firehose of short-attention-span-based content. I don't use TikTok or YT Shorts, I've deliberately avoided them, but I still find I don't have the ability to focus on much beyond scanning headlines and reading the top-level comments to summarize that content, or doomscrolling jokes and bad news on Bluesky.
It's driving me insane, literally. It sounds like a joke but it is not: I put myself in therapy recently in an attempt to rewire my brain into being able to figure out what to do with my time if I pull the plug on the Internet and try to live most of my day offline. Can't say I have an answer yet.
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Comment on What is your Mandela effect moment? in ~movies
deathinactthree (edited )LinkI saw it in the theater and remember the same thing, and it is absolutely not just your imagination. EDIT: He even stubs the cigarette out in his own blood.I saw it in the theater and remember the same thing, and it is absolutely not just your imagination.
EDIT: He even stubs the cigarette out in his own blood.
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Comment on Epic Games Store will support Linux "soon" in ~games
deathinactthree Link ParentThey recently said they were going to look at porting Galaxy to Linux and "we're working on it". That said, I'm hanging in just fine with Heroic for GOG, Epic, and Amazon and it works fine. At...They recently said they were going to look at porting Galaxy to Linux and "we're working on it". That said, I'm hanging in just fine with Heroic for GOG, Epic, and Amazon and it works fine. At this point I'm not even sure what it would add beyond more reliable cloud save syncing but I want to be clear I'm for it regardless.
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Comment on What game are you terrible at? in ~games
deathinactthree Link ParentIt's interesting because I bought Bloodborne on release in 2016 and had a similar issue, just couldn't get the feel for the different style of combat. Put it down for literally 10 years--I picked...It's interesting because I bought Bloodborne on release in 2016 and had a similar issue, just couldn't get the feel for the different style of combat. Put it down for literally 10 years--I picked it back up this past February--and just blasted through it with a Skill build using the Saw Spear.
My hubris made me pick up Sekiro again right after that and I got completely humbled pretty much right away.
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Comment on What game are you terrible at? in ~games
deathinactthree Link ParentI finally twigged on to the "mash block" early on (vs holding block) but 1) not everything can be blocked and it's not always clear what can be and what can't and what needs a special counter, and...I finally twigged on to the "mash block" early on (vs holding block) but 1) not everything can be blocked and it's not always clear what can be and what can't and what needs a special counter, and 2) my fault is regardless I can't seem to get the timing down in any case.
I say that as someone who was an absolute Parry God in Dark Souls--Gwyn only takes 60 seconds because you only need like 3 parries total with a sufficiently upgraded weapon, which is trivial to land if you practice, and I was a beast with it in PVP. Not sure where I'm missing it here.
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Comment on What game are you terrible at? in ~games
deathinactthree Link ParentOh, that is good to know. I thought I was kind of on a rail and there weren't other options. Now I'm wondering where else I can go. Which means I'm probably going to beat my head against it yet...Oh, that is good to know. I thought I was kind of on a rail and there weren't other options. Now I'm wondering where else I can go. Which means I'm probably going to beat my head against it yet again soon.
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Comment on What game are you terrible at? in ~games
deathinactthree LinkSekiro. I've tried many times since it came out but I am a Souls vet and I just can't play it the same way. I have no idea how to not get dogwalked by trash mobs by the time I get to Hirata...Sekiro. I've tried many times since it came out but I am a Souls vet and I just can't play it the same way.
I have no idea how to not get dogwalked by trash mobs by the time I get to Hirata Estate. I've tried to start over a dozen times, watched YT vids, just can't make it happen.
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Comment on Any significant changes to Tildes are extremely unlikely in ~tildes.official
deathinactthree (edited )Link ParentI agree 100% with everything in this excellent comment, and the only thing I have to add is: I'll be honest, one of the reasons I love it here is that it feels "complete" rather than "stagnant",...I agree 100% with everything in this excellent comment, and the only thing I have to add is:
Seeing that the site's technical side is effectively in stasis does bring me a bit down, in part because I love it here and would love to see it keep improving
I'll be honest, one of the reasons I love it here is that it feels "complete" rather than "stagnant", both on the desktop side and the Three Cheers for Tildes mobile app (someone please remind me who built it so I can edit in some kudos).
[EDIT: @talklittle, your app is absolutely fire, hell yeah, thanks to those that reminded me]
What I mean is, to your point, the value of Tildes is primarily social. I'm only speaking for myself but compared to all the alternatives out there (and like many, I've looked) this site feels like it has everything it needs to have as a platform. There's not a single feature on this site that I wish it had but doesn't. The features it could have feel like they would eventually degrade everything you're praising. Some may disagree, but the things it doesn't have strike me as a feature, not a bug.
The only bummer for me personally is that it feels "final" in the sense that @Deimos making the post at all rhetorically implies that there's an expectation that the site will die "sooner rather than later", whatever that ends up meaning in practice. But I get why it was said.
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Comment on What are your favourite anime and/or manga? in ~anime
deathinactthree LinkFull Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Combination of light and heavy, a lot of jokes but when it's real it's real. It's my favorite blend of "lol" and 'oh God, fuck, oh no"Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Combination of light and heavy, a lot of jokes but when it's real it's real. It's my favorite blend of "lol" and 'oh God, fuck, oh no"
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Comment on Games at the press of a button: The Rip-O-Bot (1989) in ~games
deathinactthree Link ParentHell yeah. I think there's going to be a future moment where this is true but you would definitely know better than me on when that is. But I'm really looking forward to it.Hell yeah.
I think there's going to be a future moment where this is true but you would definitely know better than me on when that is. But I'm really looking forward to it.
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Comment on Games at the press of a button: The Rip-O-Bot (1989) in ~games
deathinactthree LinkThis hits hard. The question of the current digital age of AI slop, and AAA studios trying to go all-in. For the record I do think an indie revival will happen (if it hasn't already) but it's...When ordinary game designers are laid off en masse thanks to the arrival of the “Rip-O-Bot”—when that happens, will you still have enough drive and originality left in you to beat robots like those?
This hits hard. The question of the current digital age of AI slop, and AAA studios trying to go all-in.
For the record I do think an indie revival will happen (if it hasn't already) but it's going to be worse before it gets better. "Shorter games with worse graphics by better paid developers" (-Mattie Lubchansky) is gonna be a thing but it's gonna take some time to shake out.
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Comment on What pre-NES games do you still recommend today? in ~games
deathinactthree LinkSomeone already mentioned Joust and I have to echo that it's a legitimately fun game as it is. Would also vote for River Raid, an endless vertical shooter on the Atari 2600 that gets increasingly...Someone already mentioned Joust and I have to echo that it's a legitimately fun game as it is.
Would also vote for River Raid, an endless vertical shooter on the Atari 2600 that gets increasingly frantic the farther you get. I don't think you'd quite call it a bullet-hell but you can kinda see it from there once you get past a certain point. But it's incredibly fun to kill time with.
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Comment on What are your favourite fragrances, and why? in ~talk
deathinactthree Link ParentAs someone who lives in Seattle and loves water scents and also the smell of basalt, I have to check this out immediately! (The Hermes I mean)As someone who lives in Seattle and loves water scents and also the smell of basalt, I have to check this out immediately! (The Hermes I mean)
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Comment on What’s something that didn’t work for you? in ~talk
deathinactthree Link ParentFollowing up on this to say I did finally get the machine. I'm only two nights in but my snoring/apnea has been reduced to absolutely zero according to my spouse. For now, I can't say my sleep...Following up on this to say I did finally get the machine. I'm only two nights in but my snoring/apnea has been reduced to absolutely zero according to my spouse.
For now, I can't say my sleep quality is hugely better because I'm still getting used to having something on my face so it keeps waking me up whenever any adjustment in position causes an air leak, which has been often, but even the second night was better than the first. I will probably look at switching masks because I went with the "easier" under-nose version and I probably need the full-nose to account for my unconscious shifts, but I'll give it a fair shake first as I have 90 days to change it.
But it is good to be able to not keep waking myself (or my partner) up by snoring, I think this is a net positive even now, and will probably only get better.
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Comment on Consequences of advertising and enshittification on the Internet in ~tech
deathinactthree Link ParentFull disclosure, I work in e-commerce advertising, though I do not work for or with any of the platforms mentioned in the thread. I have, but refuse to anymore, for reasons I'll probably get into...Full disclosure, I work in e-commerce advertising, though I do not work for or with any of the platforms mentioned in the thread. I have, but refuse to anymore, for reasons I'll probably get into in some other comments as they're not germane here.
The statistical reality, for better or worse, is that two things are as true as they are counterintuitive to people like us, because I also prefer my ad load to be zero and go to great lengths to keep it that way. (I assure you the irony is not lost on me.)
First, most people actually do view advertising as a net benefit to expose them to new products and services. You'd think it'd be a minority but it isn't according to multiple studies. Importantly, this is true only as long as the advertisements are both relevant and not stupid like what we call "chum bucket" ads ("Click here for the #1 weight loss secret doctors don't want you to know") so it depends on good creative and good targeting algorithms, which aren't guaranteed.
Second, something people often complain about regardless of platform is seeing the same ads over and over again, even for things they just bought! Unfortunately every study on the subject (again, barring irrelevance or stupidity) shows that repetition will result in higher conversion over time. It doesn't make intuitive sense, but it works. You can argue it's manipulative, or if the algorithm is actually doing its job, you can argue that it's just keeping the balloon in the air until the customer is in the right frame of mind to buy.
Is this a great state of affairs? Who knows. But it's why in meat space billboards and seeing the same commercial on TV every ad break has existed for nearly a century. It seems wild even to me that this is what people seem to want, but if it didn't work, no one would do it.
Note this has nothing to do with the OP's premise about class separation on platforms or Dead Internet Theory, I'm only responding to the idea of why people actually like ads.
I have used my personal Linux computer for work for about 5 years as mentioned, between now 2 full-time jobs at executive-level roles without telling anyone.
Both jobs since I switched gave me laptops and I was like "nah I'm good". I like it better and otherwise no one's asked about it. The work shows up the same.
It's kinda wild that I can get away with it.