LazerFX

joined 1 year ago
[–] LazerFX 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, there was something special about the communities that built up around these games...

[–] LazerFX 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I was always a discworld mud player... Lots of time there. But I bounced around many :⁠-⁠P

[–] LazerFX 1 points 1 week ago

No... I don't mind the "Sorry, John" theme, but... not Calvin and Hobbes. It goes against everything they, and Bill Watterson, stood for...

Everyone else is free to enjoy, and this is probably the only time I'll post, but this makes me uncomfortable in a way I don't like. It's not even subversion, just... hollow. Sad. A bit pointless.

[–] LazerFX -1 points 1 week ago

You're using teams. Modern teams is built on Skype, which is why it's shit.

[–] LazerFX 6 points 2 weeks ago

Goodbye. Forever.

[–] LazerFX 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I got, "I'm sorry I can play hangman yet" in Gemini

[–] LazerFX 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah, the optical illusion approach. It's a sweet pic, thanks for sharing.

[–] LazerFX 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

OK, I'll bite - how did you not get reflected in the mirror at the end of the hallway?

[–] LazerFX 9 points 3 weeks ago

Actually, MythBusters proved that one couldn't happen, unless the bullets were sub-sonic or low-powered and the diver was within 1 or 2 foot of the surface... water's just too dense and depletes the power. And something higher power just made a big splash and bits of shrapnel that didn't have much penetrating power.

[–] LazerFX 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You mean 2^267,709^?

Funny... that's a phone number I know.

[–] LazerFX 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I went with floorp, because it allowed native title bar disabling, with task bar editing so I could inject a grab handle; vertical tabs in sidebery, and a clean, nearly-ui-free vertical.

[–] LazerFX 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You fight like a dairy farmer

 

So I'm looking for a new client, specifically mobile, that's FOSS, easy to use, allows for browsing communities on other instances easily (not just searching for instances, but actually viewing the list of instances, etc).

I'm a dev, so happy to put some legwork into it myself. So my question is - technically, is the UI tied to being run on an instance "directly", or could it be detached, electron- or atom-ified and put into an app?

I can do the work, but before starting I'd like to know :⁠-⁠)

 

I love this concept and think it really has legs as a fantastic RPG idea...

My comment on the original post: It takes the *humanity *out of *alien/foreign/different *races. If done properly, you can easily conceptualise different views of the world. Something like the sort of thing John Scalzi has done with his works - let’s work through how a different viewpoint actually works and then work out where the jagged edges are - all of a sudden, the different races are fighting with each other because they see the world diferently and don’t communicate properly so they assume all of the others think the same way (because they can’t concieve of anythign else without looking that far into it) and boom you’ve got a realistic world with in-built fracture lines…

 

So I'm looking to build my own CM4-based NAS appliance. I figure that I've got the time to build it, and it'll be cheaper, more powerful and more capable than an off-the-shelf appliance (such as a QNAP or Synology device).

I'm looking to use it for self-hosting, probably 2 - 4 SSD's to run it (Happy to spend the money on the drives, as I can spread that out over time)... will likely start with a relatively cheap 2tib 2.5" SSD like the Crucial BX500 and scale up as I go...

I'd like a relatively neat box - something like the Argon EON. I'd like to use the CM4 because it's got the PCI-E so you can use a relatively full-speed ACPI interface to the SATA ports, which rules out the Argon EON (Except, possibly, as a donor case). I don't have a 3D Printer, but I'd be happy to purchase a printed model from a makers group or similar. I'm happy to actually build up a unit (setting up fans, etc.) but I've no soldering experience whatsoever.

Software-wise, I've already got a RPI4 which I've been playing around with... Seems pretty good, and I had pi-hole running on it for a while (until SD card unreliability took it down).

Does anyone have any experience with a build like this? Any advice on what cases to use, what hats for the PCIE-to-SATA work best? Anything at all, really, that you'd advise?

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