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The Ramses mission would rendezvous with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its 2029 close approach to Earth.
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I set up a very straightforward Godot dev environment yesterday using toolbox which is built on top of rootless Podman.
- Create a new fedora toolbox
- Enter toolbox
- Install DotNet dependencies, git, etc with dnf
- Install Godot binary from release page
- Turns out there were other dependencies I needed
- Godot wanted a few Wayland libs on the container, so I installed Weston (maybe overkill)
- Godot wanted libxrandr so I added that too
- Godot just works (tm)
The nice thing about toolbox is that it uses my native host Wayland compositor. So whatever I have running in the toolbox can be interacted normally through sway (my host WM).
You can either distribute a container image with your given toolbox configured, or just document the setup steps.
I put in my 2 weeks the other day. It lasted less than 8 months but they were miserable ones.
I don't have any alternatives lined up yet, hoping to switch into something devops.
Just my luck: Their messenger ended up in the spam dungeon
I mostly like my LG tv, and it's nice that I can use it without agreeing to their T&C or logging in. It does really piss me off that if I wanted to change picture settings (brightness, color, etc) I'd have to turn their adware settings back on.
Nothing wrong with well water as long as it's clean. In the US, it's not like you're actually hauling/pumping it by hand. You dig the well deep enough and let natural pressure do the work or you install an electric pump.
You can host docker volumes over NFS, but the actual container images need to exist on a filesystem that supports overlay (which NFS does not) unless you want things to be slow as shit. And I really do mean miserably slow. A container image shared over NFS will take forever to spin up because it has to duplicate the entire container filesystem instead of using overlays, and then it'll blow up your disk usage by copying all these files around instead of overlaying them. It's truly unusable.
As someone who has seen Murnau's Nosferatu quite a few times, I appreciated Eggers' ending. The original really kinda ends when Hutter returns home. You get a couple of comedic scenes with Knock causing a ruckus in town, but basically the plague is a backdrop and Ellen just stumbles into discovering Orlock's defeat. Then it's over.
Meanwhile, Eggers added a real sense of dread and drama to Wisborg's plague. The physical + mental toll of the plague is reflected in a more interesting way.
I did get taken out of the moment briefly at the end:
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Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community
From that same discussion thread:
We plan on supporting any token/nft/coin for tipping, awards, curating, less captchas, etc. Each subplebbit owner should be able to create their own tokens or nfts to monetize their effort and incentivize their users to participate. Avatars will also be curated NFTs.
The protocol does not use blockchain for data, but the web service itself looks like it would use crypto and NFT to manage aspects of user identity, spam prevention, and monetary incentive.
There's a JTAG port in the base of the cortex for pushing firmware updates. Problem is, we lost the signing keys back in the neolithic. Thag got crushed by a mammoth before we had a chance to invent written language and write documentation.
A puffball won't blow you away in the taste department, but they have a good texture. Maybe good foragers can afford to pass them by, but I'm not a good forager.
Actually made me sad this summer: There was a big puffball growing on a neighbor's lawn. Knocked on the door to ask if we could take it, and they said to let it stay so they could see how large it got. Then they never picked it and I had to watch it rot away.
This is the way.
Sliced, breaded, and fried puffball makes an excellent fried chicken alternative for food like sandwiches or pasta dishes. I'm always a fan of puffball parm.
Sometimes the freeze might be in the display manager. Eg xorg or your wayland compositor has crashed.
In that case, you can use keyboard controls to change tty and fall back to a text interface. I think it's ctrl + alt + Fn$number, where $number will correspond to the tty you want. Most graphical sessions launch on tty2, so you would use crtl + alt + F1 to switch to tty1.
From there you can log in and use terminal commands to launch a new gui session, or to try and debug what went wrong. Generally, I've only had freezing issues on Linux when my GPU is dying. There was also a period where my work computer didn't have enough swap space. It would freeze whenever I tried to compile code during a video call.
I can go to China, buy a book full of propaganda, fly to the USA, and read it with no issue.
I can tune my radio to a shortwave broadcast from Mexico, and there's not a damn thing the FCC will do to stop me.
I don't even fucking like TikTok. It's an amalgam of all the worst dark patterns developed by corporate social media. Of course, nobody in government gives a fuck when Zuck does the exact same thing. I think it really comes down to the fact that as a foreign company, ByteDance can't play the same election fundraising games that American companies do.
'Es shot? Dump eet.
I used to browse certain subreddits for negativity bait. Eventually I decided that I didn't want to immerse myself in a negative mindset so often.
The trick for me was to recognize those moments when I was on auto-pilot and navigating to those spaces because I was bored and it was a reflex. I would remind myself that I know it's bad for me, and then force myself to do literally anything else. Go to some other website. Vacuum the floor. Put on some music and go for a walk. Eventually I lost that reflexive instinct, and now I have no desire to go back to those places.
I'm not going to pretend that what worked for me will work for anyone else, nor will I say that I'm now a better person for avoiding those spaces. I've probably replaced that habit with an equally pointless one, it's just nice to not always view things from the context of tearing others down.
Eh, maybe. Back during feudalism, emancipation of serfs was also considered theft from the nobles who owned the land (and thus the serfs who worked it).
Sometimes governments implemented programs to reimburse the nobles for losing "their" serfs, and sometimes not. Now that we're a couple centuries removed from that drama, we generally accept that the destruction of feudalism was a good thing, regardless of whether it was theft.
There used to be a similar bug in the Roku jellyfin app.
If you can recreate the subtitle issue using test file 5 from this repo, it might be worth submitting a bug report. https://github.com/ietf-wg-cellar/matroska-test-files
In modern parlance, it's called a D'k tahg
Just use docker/podman containers: They're way easier to use and correctly configure than jails.
Podman quadlets will even spin up containers as systemd services. You could automatically assign solitary confinement containers to new inmates on the fly.
Happy Vehk'sGiving
I'm thankful that despite being an outlander in a new town, I can trust my neighbors.
No. 404 media is written by people. I've personally been impressed by their reporting over the last year.
O.C.RE: Someone's project to implement Resident Evil using the OpenMW engine
Exploitation/underground animated films?
Anyone have recommendations for more films like Heavy Metal, or the stuff Ralph Bakshi made? There's a kind of sleaze to those low-budget animated movies that I find fun, but the art is also really compelling.
It doesn't have to be 70s/80s
Praise-post for OpenMW for android
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/18604056
I'm playing for the first time in my life now.
I've recently had my first kid, and as such, I need a game that I can quickly pick up and put down. Ideally, the game is also playable in long form as well.
Enter openmw for android. The only on screen controls that have ever been usable. Convenient quick save. Minimal load times.
I can hop on, play a little, and get off in a hurry if I need to. I thought I'd be stuck playing old Pokemon ROMs with save states until she hit an age of independence.
Some docker containers need manual start after host reboot
I generally let my server do its thing, but I run into an issue consistently when I install system updates and then reboot: Some docker containers come online, while others need to be started manually. All containers were running before the system shut down.
- My containers are managed with docker compose.
- Their compose files have
restart: always - It's not always the same containers that fail to come online
- Some of them depend on an NFS mount point being ready on the host, but not all
Host is running Ubuntu Noble
Most of these containers were migrated from my previous server, and this issue never manifested.
I wonder if anyone has ideas for what to look for?
SOLVED
The issue was that docker was starting before my NFS mount point was ready, and the containers which depended on it were crashing.
Symptoms:
journalctl -b0 -u docker showed the following log lines (-b0 means to limit logs to the most recent boot):
undefined
level=error msg="failed to start container" container=f
"Realtime" mods?
Anyone know of any realtime menu mods for OpenMW? Specifically, I'd like to have dialog take place in real time. It always feels strange that I can have a whole conversation with someone, but never recuperate my fatigue level.
Recommendation: Affordable soldering station for SMD work
I recently got a nice deal on a stereo microscope, and leapt at the chance. I've had a few projects in mind that would entail SMD soldering, and now all I need is a proper soldering station.
My current iron is pretty basic, but gets the job done for splicing wires and DIP work. Now I want something with temp control and a good supply of tips.
It seems like hobbyists are all talking about affordable Chinese T12 stations from brands like KSGER and Quecoo. There are just so many different models, it's hard to understand the features and differences. It also seems like there's a lot of "Reddit folk knowledge" where people just keep repeating what others have said. Eg: People say that some KSGER stations have no case grounding, but nobody says which models do or don't have the issue. All of them? Then people talk about the microcontrollers STM vs STC, but nobody says why it matters.
Changing coffee beans: What do you do when there aren't enough beans to make a final brew?
In our house, we generally go for variety in our coffee beans. That means when we are finishing one bag, we're going to open a different bag with totally different beans inside.
What do you do if there aren't enough old beans to make a full serving of coffee?
It may be heresey, but I mix the final old beans with a few beans from the new bag and call it my "bonus blend".
The quartermaster at SGC must hand it out like candy
Amateur radio IP networks. What's out there?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/20077977
What cool stuff is going on with IP over ham radio? I want to build simple services accessible to other hams in my area, and would love to learn about what's out there.
- New Packet Radio: This looks pretty cool, although until the FCC makes a decision on updated VHF/UHF bandwidth and symbol rate restrictions, I'll hold off on buying any dedicated hardware
- Broadband HamNet: I'm not sure if there's any existing network in my area. Since it's 802.11 with yagis and amplifiers, I feel like you'd need a good density of local users for anything cool to develop.
- AX.25 with TCP/IP: I might play around with this. It doesn't require equipment except a UHF/VHF radio, antenna, and a computer, so it might be easier to convince others to try it too. Obviously you're very limited in bitrate, but it would be fun to set up a gohper hole or a BBS.
Are there other technologies or projects worth looking into? Even t
Amateur radio IP networks. What's out there?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/20077977
What cool stuff is going on with IP over ham radio? I want to build simple services accessible to other hams in my area, and would love to learn about what's out there.
- New Packet Radio: This looks pretty cool, although until the FCC makes a decision on updated VHF/UHF bandwidth and symbol rate restrictions, I'll hold off on buying any dedicated hardware
- Broadband HamNet: I'm not sure if there's any existing network in my area. Since it's 802.11 with yagis and amplifiers, I feel like you'd need a good density of local users for anything cool to develop.
- AX.25 with TCP/IP: I might play around with this. It doesn't require equipment except a UHF/VHF radio, antenna, and a computer, so it might be easier to convince others to try it too. Obviously you're very limited in bitrate, but it would be fun to set up a gohper hole or a BBS.
Are there other technologies or projects worth looking into? Even t
Amateur radio IP networks. What's out there?
What cool stuff is going on with IP over ham radio? I want to build simple services accessible to other hams in my area, and would love to learn about what's out there.
- New Packet Radio: This looks pretty cool, although until the FCC makes a decision on updated VHF/UHF bandwidth and symbol rate restrictions, I'll hold off on buying any dedicated hardware
- Broadband HamNet: I'm not sure if there's any existing network in my area. Since it's 802.11 with yagis and amplifiers, I feel like you'd need a good density of local users for anything cool to develop.
- AX.25 with TCP/IP: I might play around with this. It doesn't require equipment except a UHF/VHF radio, antenna, and a computer, so it might be easier to convince others to try it too. Obviously you're very limited in bitrate, but it would be fun to set up a gohper hole or a BBS.
Are there other technologies or projects worth looking into? Even though I'm not personally interested in buying new equipment for it, I'd still
Small animals dying in the window well of my basement
I work in a basement office. There is a below-grade egress window, with a 3-4ft ladder and a large plexiglass dome that you can push out of the way.
I noticed a terrible smell when I opened my window the other day, and it was because of a dead mouse that presumably couldn't get out of the recess. On inspection, I found the remains of several more dead rodents there, so this has been a problem in the past too.
Any ideas on how to prevent this? I both feel bad for the dead animals and am disgusted by the smell when they decay. The plexiglass dome has chicken wire for airflow, so I can't necessarily block those off. Maybe there's some method to repell them, or help them escape?
OpenMW Lua: Music playlist support merged
gitlab.com Dehardcode music (!3438) · Merge requests · OpenMW / openmw · GitLab
Moves playlist logic from C++ to Lua. Basically, it uses an approach from Skyrim - when you can have several active playlists in the same time...
The latest dev builds of OpenMW now support music playlists run from Lua. Mods could now create custom music playlists based on location, weather, combat status, or anything else that can be measured with Lua. The pull request includes a sample mod to play certain music when fighting muscrabs.
I look forward to all the new ambience mods that this will make possible!
Morrowind as my rock
Sounds a bit trite, but Morrowind represents a kind of comfy stability for me. I can always go to Vvardenfel any time, and it's always the same place.
Yesterday, I moved houses. The neighborhood is different, there are boxes everywhere, I can't find anything, and there's no internet. On top of that, I get very stressed out whenever even a small thing in my life changes. I try to focus on one task at a time, and that's all I can do.
However, all I need for Morrowind is to unpack my PC, monitor, mouse, and keyboard. Tonight, when the takeout food is gone, but I'm not ready to sleep (in a new room that smells weird), there will be Morrowind.
Lua mod showcase: AttendMe
Figured I'd share some of my favorite OpenMW mods. Today is AttendMe, a cool UI for monitoring your companions. It tracks health, stamina, magicka, as well as whatever spells/weapons they have equipped. I find it very useful for all the slave rescue quests, so I know who to heal.
Maggie Chow: What was her plan?
Played DX a few times, but the only part of the plot that never fully makes sense to me is Maggie Chow:
- She is an MJ12 plant who knows JC is Paul's brother, but doesn't know he's a fugitive? Or she does know he's a fugitive but doesn't call her MJ12 guards to take him out?
- She sends JC to the police station on a mission to steal information, but then the information incriminates her. Why? JC even asks her what she expected to happen.
Not so much a plot thing, but I also find it strange that she runs up to fight JC in Versalife with just a sword and no armor. It's the least threatening fight in the game. I know the people in Hong Kong say she used to do Kung Fu movies, it would have been cool if there was some allusion to that during the fight.
Not just for Morrowind: RWC is the first standalone game (demo) written for OpenMW that uses none of Bethesda's proprietary assets
Robo Wind Construct (RWC) is a standalone game demo for OpenMW that doesn't use any proprietary assets. It truly shows what can be possible with the OpenMW engine aside from reimplementing Gamebryo games.
https://modding-openmw.com/mods/rwc-robowind/
Following the RWC project in OpenMW discord has been interesting. There's symbiosis between development, where RWC might need a feature that ends up ported to OpenMW and becomes available to everyone! I hope they're able to eventually complete the game.