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vetehinen Vesipeto Vetehinen @lethallava.land

Interested in all things fedi, uspol at least for this year, technology. Loving Sharkey.

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Haiku OS is what Linux used to be.
  • Haiku is really very different from what Linux used to be, it's single user with one mandatory GUI and lots of fairly interesting features from BeOS. Not saying this to discourage anyone from using it, I quite like it, but Linux is Linux and Haiku is Haiku.

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  • Underground caves do exist on the Moon, radar observations confirm
  • This is great even from the standpoint of wanting to go to Mars since it means setting up camp in a cave is now possible to try out much closer to home first. Kinda like sleeping in a tent in your backyard first. Makes the moon that much more exciting to know there's caves too.

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  • House of the Dragon - S02E05 Post-Episode Discussion!
  • Felt like going back to business as usual in season 2 after a really good episode 4 in this series for me. There's some awkward dialogue and many scenes seem like meaningless filler or exposition that is put in to use more of the source material. This feels like it is done to fill in the blanks with whatever to get to the major story points from the book and really doesn't match GRRM's level of writing... weakest parts of the show in S2 for me but this definitely still is way better than the way GOT turned out in the later seasons that did not rely on the books.

    That said, it was still a reasonably good episode. Aftermath of the battle was interesting (they made it clear that dragons are like nukes), found it clever how they contrasted the way team black & green handled the prospect of a woman ruling. Also good to see Dragonstone finally work to gather some forces even if things are still quite shaky on that front it seems.

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  • Github advplyr/audiobookshelf v2.11.0
  • @[email protected] audiobookshelf is really good and one of the most important selfhosted platforms for me. I use it for both podcasts and audiobooks through my phone's browser and avoid the need for a platform-specific app and proprietary subscription-based services.

  • House of the Dragon S2E04 Explained
  • @[email protected] all kinds of House of the Dragon content coming in as the next episode is close to airing... Can't wait. E4 was so great that my hype levels are higher than at any other point this season!

  • 10 Reasons to Fight Cashless Contagion
  • @[email protected] only somewhat indirectly related to cryptocurrency in that it is just part of the broader trend of making it possible to track all monetary transactions but I definitely don't want to see this become a thing.

    Besides the privacy implications, I could see it meaning you need to own a non-rooted mobile phone using one of the major operating systems to pay for anything. We already see that kind of thing with other things so going cashless seems like it could easily lead to that becoming universal for all payments. #cashless #cryptocurrency

  • Discover Forums using the Discourse Software!
  • Are there any significant Discourse forums that federate with ActivityPub currently?

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  • Is @lemmy.ml ( https://lemmy.ml/c/houseofthedragon ) the only fediverse discussion group for House of the Dragon? Maybe there's one covering both Game of Thrones and HotD? #hotd

    Is @[email protected] ( https://lemmy.ml/c/houseofthedragon ) the only fediverse discussion group for House of the Dragon? Maybe there's one covering both Game of Thrones and HotD? #hotd #houseofthedragon #got #gameofthrones #lemmy

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    "Worshippers of Cthulhu" - Lovecraftian city builder
  • only ones I can think of are some pretty simple Lovecraft-themed games with XCOM-style turn-based tactical gameplay

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  • Self-Hosting to help a community?
  • Things like Freenet or ipfs where your node doesn't provide just networking but also storage.

    Could be too obvious to mention here but a fediverse instance of some sort, lots of different software you can run besides the usual suspects like Mastodon or Lemmy/Kbin ranging from the more niche microblog platforms like Misskey forks (writing this on a Sharkey instance) to things like Bookwyrm for tracking your reading habits and connecting with other book lovers.

    Distributed computing like distributed.net or Folding at Home.

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  • "Elite VR bundle": Swarm, Ragnarock, Wraith, Amid Evil...

    "Elite VR bundle": Swarm, Ragnarock, Wraith, Amid Evil...

    Was happy to see that Fanatical launched a new VR game bundle recently for a fairly good price and seems like it has games that haven't been bundled often before.

    This is a build your own bundle offer with these price tiers: 3 for 4.99€, 5 for 7.99€, 7 for 9.99€

    List of games you can pick: Fruit Ninja 2 Ragna Rock I Expect You To Die Swarm Audiotrip Warplanes: Battles Over Pacific Yupitergrad Fruit Ninja Karnage Chronicles Warplanes: WWI Fighters Down The Rabbit Hole Table of Tales: The Crooked Crown Amid Evil VR Wraith The Oblivion: Afterlife Visionarium 2: The Descent VR Furballs Demolition The Curious Tale of Stolen Pets Trickster VR Monster Showdown Dance Collider Mental Hospital VR: Child of Evil Pinball FX2 VR

    Bundle link: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-elite-vr-bundle

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    Which VR game would you like to play, but can't?
  • I guess the only one that I feel strongly about is Echo VR. Although I think it is possible to still play that through 3rd party workarounds? Can't imagine the community is there in the way it was before Meta decided to pull the plug on that one though.

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  • Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop
  • It's can be a useful server with a built-in UPS if there's any services you'd like to isolate from the rest that you're running. One example is backups as you want a backup system to be fairly well isolated but anything sensitive would qualify.

    You could also make use of it for purposes where the hardware can speed things up, I think that GPU could help with encoding etc.

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