It's totally a matter of age. Kids these days have no idea how good they have it, and don't realize they need to get off my lawn. Shakes cain in the air /s
We're working on promoting that Stem Bolt. It recently got an excellent recommendation from Admiral Janeway.
I was always a PC gamer, and think the old, often modded, independently run servers were much more fun than the soul-less matchmaking I see on most modern games.
Absolutely. If one was lucky enough to have a buddy with a server setup, that was by far the coolest option.
Indeed. Lactose tolerance is a powerful mutation. The rest of us should fear them for their superior genes.
Edit: Queue rocking 90s X-Men cartoon theme song.
I can imagine it would be hard to maintain lactose tolerance with a dairy allergy.
Yeah. The quotes around 'giant' in the title aren't rated for carrying this much euphemism. They're going to collapse under the strain of our disappointment. I was promsied giant arctic worms, darn it. That's a CR13 monster in D&D!
"millionaires tax" is such a ludicrous misnomer.
This is a tax on people with over $1 million income annually. It's very hard to sink as low as becoming a mere "millionaire" on $1 million annual income.
A person making $1 million in income would need mutliple expensive hobbies, multiple nasty drug habits and to recklessly sink a few yachts, just to drop as low in net worth as a humble jeans-wearing crime-avoiding salt-of-the-earth "millionaire".
An average chap who spent 40 years owning a small lawn mowing business is a millionaire. This tax doesn't touch his money, at all.
I guess "multimillionaire" and "decamillionaire" don't roll off the tongue, in headlines, though.
There's a lot of gamers in this thread too young to remember how overloaded and miserable the free console game servers were.
Microsoft was like "chuck us like ~$5 per month and we will put up enough servers so the games are actually playable". At the time, it was the best deal available for console gaming.
Honestly an argument could be made it was the most economical way to play online, in general, at the time. The console cost was subsidized, and the online servers were arguably at-cost, and you really only needed to buy one copy of Halo to join the fun.
"Follow my path and you'll be fine."
Later, at a Republic Tribunal:
"... and obviously no sane pilot on a training mission would ever consider attempting to navigate those obstactles without weeks of study in advance. And so I exhort the jury not to consider leniency, but to find the defendant guilty of first degree premeditated murder of their wingman pilot in training. The prosecution rests this - quite frankly open-and-shut - case."
"When... This song... Is gone...!"
And a Python developer is born!
Source: I moved on from an abusive relationship with JavaScript to a healthy not-at-all-controlling equal partner relationship with Python. And four spaces makes perfect sense, once I really considered Python's point of view...
Have you ever been to PowerShell Summit? It's the only nerd conference I've ever attended where only about half the attendees actually realized they are nerds at a nerd conference. I love the vibe. It's got style and pizzazz.
That said, the added entry for PowerShell would still be: "You are a nerd."
I think my favorite tale from this book is the one with the two belligerent assholes (who confront Luke and then ObiWan), being various forms of belligerent and assholes in other contexts. It's surreal, but fitting.
It's beautiful. Now I'm picturing this on a throw pillow, paired with "You're out of your element!"
Was reading this to my SO, and was given a correction for Quark: gets Rom to pay Quark for the privilege of returning Quarks cart.
My apologies if my search skills missed this.
Is there a list of Lemmy (and/or Mastodon) Instances that have already committed to blocking and/or defederating from Threads?
Thanks!
Let's have a quick support thread for folks whose hearts were broken by Bernard Cribbin's final performance on Doctor Who.
Rest in Peace, sir. You made our stars twinkle a bit brighter.
Let's talk about the new pocket Evercade: The HyperMegaTech Super Pocket.
Anyone else get one?
I was pleasantly surprised by several aspects of mine:
- I knew from early reviews, and the specs that the screen would be good. But somehow I didn't expect the screen to be this good.
- The sound stays muted between reboots. Many devices in this size and price don't remember their sound setting, and so make a boot sound every time.
- Most (all?) Evercade games save to the cart, not to the system. So I can resume my progress started on my Evercade VS.
- The built in games on the Taito model are all bangers.
- There's a lot of Evercade titles that really shine for playing for a few minutes while waiting in a doctor's office lobby or something. So much if this game collection shines in pocket form. Particularly Indie Heroes and Oliver Twins.
Disappointing:
- There's not a lot of Evercade games that use L1 through R2, but I am, so far, not enjoying the placement of those buttons. I'm happy to have the buttons there at all, at this price, but I hope future versions might move them up a bit for a more relaxed grip.
- The available cases for it spoil it fitting into a pocket. I'll probably add a screen protector instead.
- The included Taito games would be absolutely worth it to rebuy for playing on Evercade VS. I hope they get a cartridge release.
Overall:
I wanted this for it's pocket convenience, and it surpassed my expectations.
I got a Synology Network Attached Storage (NAS) device, and a week later I'm using it for photo backup, shared Excel files with my spouse, and to run some home security cameras.
Since the NAS is on my home network z I'm realizing I'm going to miss being able to access these services out and about, like I could when I was using cloud services.
Does anyone have experience sharing Synology NAS functionality on the broader Internet?
For some context, I know enough not to do anything really foolish.
But what I don't know is what ways have worked best for others to access their Synology remotely?
Anyone using their Synology behind an inbound Virtual Private Network (VPN)? Anyone just making it routable with strong passwords over IPV6? Maybe with a simple Web Application Firewall (WAF) to limit traffic to what is expected? Anyone using Synology's cloud for this stuff?
I would like to setup something, and would love to benefit from your experiences.
Edit: Tailscale turned out to be a bit more than I need, so I ended up using Synology's built-in support for OpenVPN combined with Synolgoy's built-in support for Dynamic DNS (DDNS). I did have to do some pinhole routing, which I understand would not have been needed with Tailscale.
For those of us running GrapheneOS, Beware that the latest update to the Target store app for Android requires Google Services Framework (GSF) and does not work properly on GrapheneOS, even, apparently, with the compatibility layer enabled.
Fluff piece confirming the app was rewritten
If you use Aurora app store, you can download the previous, still functional, version using this version code:
versionCode 1906002333
This version can only be installed via Aurora after uninstalling the newer version.
Update: The un-updated app no longer functions for me. That was fast (2 weeks).
So we're at 8 users per month and 2 total posts. I've joined other introvert communities with less committed introverts.
I'm kind of joking, but also kind of just sincerely think it's pretty great. And I feel like the 7 of you will understand and appreciate that.
I've grown fond of not talking with all of you daily. I'll go back to leaving you all alone now.
I've been revisiting some classic Playstation 1 games, and many of them hold up.
I didn't have access to the larger gamer community when I first played these games, so it's been fun to re-discover them through the eyes of the gamer community.
I've learned secrets, strategies and stories about how these games are developed.
I've also learned - apparently many of you hated Twisted Metal III.
While I don't argue against Twisted Metal II as the high water mark, here's my hot take: Twisted Metal III was a perfectly serviceable sequel and provided more fun for those of us who overplayed II so much that we even beat the game as Grasshopper and Roadkill.
So I'm curious - is it just vocal minority or most of you who felt let down by Twisted Metal III?