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massivelyop, to random
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The Daily Grind: Are there any small indie MMO projects youโ€™re cheering on?
๐Ÿ”— https://massivelyop.com/2024/05/22/the-daily-grind-are-there-any-small-indie-mmo-projects-youre-cheering-on

kevinbrill,
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@massivelyop mostly, since they're a small studio steadfastly doing their own thing. And interating. And really taking the community feedback to heart. I appreciate their passion and sticking with it.

And now just recently, . For much the same reason. I hope they're successful. Having more small players in the space is a nice thing!

scopique, to random
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Humble has a "woodworking" bundle and I am sorely tempted...

kevinbrill,
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@scopique A million years ago my high school chemistry teacher was also a cabinet maker. And he figurately looked just like this guy. So I would indeed vouch for this bundle. :lol:

massivelyop, to MMORPG
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The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the most generous login rewards?
๐Ÿ”— https://massivelyop.com/2024/05/07/the-daily-grind-which-mmorpg-offers-the-most-generous-login-rewards

kevinbrill, (edited )
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@scopique @massivelyop They have gone all out for their monthly rewards this year celebrating their anniversary! I also like that it feels like their strategy for rewards like pets or mounts or skins has shifted from twitch drops to login rewards. Which I appreciate. I think I can be in and out of ESO in under 30 seconds if all Iโ€™m doing is logging in for the daily reward.

massivelyop, to MMORPG
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The Daily Grind: What are the most underrated and underutilized weapon types in MMORPGs?
๐Ÿ”— https://massivelyop.com/2024/05/06/the-daily-grind-what-are-the-most-underrated-and-underutilized-weapon-types-in-mmorpgs

kevinbrill,
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@rogeredwards @massivelyop This answer is clearly the winner

jimmylittle, to random
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I generally use 2 web browsers. Chrome for work, and Safari for personal. I like keeping bookmarks/history/passwords/etc separate.

Iโ€™m going to switch to @arcinternet for the month of May for work stuff. Importing everything from Chrome was a breeze, and all the Chrome extensions I need work in Arc.

I will not switch my personal stuff from Safari, though. The iCloud-synced tabs, history, tab groups, Reading List, etc. are all part of my daily use, and canโ€™t be replicated yet.

kevinbrill,
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@jimmylittle @arcinternet Dunno if youโ€™ve tried firefox in a while, but it may be a good alternative. Iโ€™ve been using it both on ios and macos and stuff works pretty well. Itโ€™s a far cry from the old days where stuff just didnโ€™t work or rendered bizarrely.

kevinbrill,
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@jimmylittle @arcinternet Ahh okay! Then please feel free to disregard. Iโ€™ve see. A lot of folks having been shying away from chrome because of privacy changes so I assumed that you fell in that category.

While Iโ€™m all Apple for basically everything else, I havenโ€™t worked up the courage to take the plunge into safari yet. Maybe Iโ€™ll take this convo as a good challenge to try!

kevinbrill, to PostgreSQL
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sigh The #postgresql logical replication process that has been running for around 3 weeks failed upon completion last night.

ERROR: table copy could not finish transaction on publisher: FATAL: terminating connection due to idle-in-transaction timeout
SSL connection has been closed unexpectedly

Time for google I suppose and an email to our on-retainer postgres expert.

Moving billions of records from one database to another is a PITA yo.

kevinbrill,
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@ascherbaum @argv_minus_one Yeah. Weโ€™ve got 1.5 billion records that weโ€™re trying to move from one AWS RDS instance to another and the pub is v12 and the sub is v16. From what Iโ€™ve read having the pub be v12 limits us on the options and tooling we have at our disposal to reduce records to replicate.

FWIW I had created a user which is executing the replication and set the statement_timeout to 0. And I was wrong, I think this takes about 10 days to do.

kevinbrill,
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@ascherbaum @argv_minus_one Full disclosure: Iโ€™m not a DBA at all. Just a software eng trying my best!

massivelyop, to random
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World of Warcraft is retiring the Companion App as it looks forward to the Cataclysm Classic conversion
๐Ÿ”— https://massivelyop.com/2024/04/25/world-of-warcraft-is-retiring-the-companion-app-as-it-looks-forward-to-the-cataclysm-classic-conversion

kevinbrill,
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@massivelyop So, this coupled with the BlizzCon announcement leads me to believe weโ€™ve moved into the โ€œletโ€™s look at all your stuff and figure out what to cutโ€ point of the acquisition cycle.

wilhelm_arcturus, to random
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Every time I skip calling ahead for a pizza and go in to order in person I end up standing behind somebody who is just encountering the concept of pizza and is keen to explore the rich tapestry of options that pizza can encompass.

kevinbrill,
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@wilhelm_arcturus This is 100% our local boutique donut shop. Youโ€™ve already stood in line for a few minutes waiting for the people in front of you to order. Why are you just now looking at the case for the first time.

โ€œHmmโ€ฆ.they all look so good! How fruity is the strawberry lemonade?โ€

FML

If you canโ€™t rattle off your order in under 15 seconds, then gtfo.

kevinbrill,
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@scopique @wilhelm_arcturus I appreciate that lots of restaurants now have dedicated shelves for pickup orders, so you can happily skip standing by while someone digs for change to pay.

scopique, to Software
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Style-sheets Versus Styled Components
I had a panic attack about styled components versus plain CSS, but after writing about it, I'm not sure it was warranted.
https://scopique.com/2024/04/23/style-sheets-versus-styled-components/

kevinbrill,
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@scopique I use and like classnames (https://www.npmjs.com/package/classnames). IMO it gets you a good mixture of the two. You can define your styles in a common css file so thereโ€™s one location for it. Then you can style your individual components using classnames and weave in any conditionals that may affect the rendering of the component. And you can push it classNames as a prop have a parent override the default styling of a child.

Might be worth taking a look at!

massivelyop, to LotRO
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LOTRO Legendarium: Looking back and ahead at LOTROโ€™s 17th birthday
๐Ÿ”— https://massivelyop.com/2024/04/20/lotro-legendarium-looking-back-and-ahead-at-lotros-17th-birthday

kevinbrill,
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@skro @FibroJedi @massivelyop Hereโ€™s a fun thought too. What if weโ€™re so far from the Shire that we donโ€™t hear about it until after the Scouring? Thatโ€™d give us time to wander around all sorts of unheard places.

Then when it is time to sunset everything, we head back and assist in cleaning up the aftermath, doing more hobbit-y activities, and seeing everyone off to Gray Havens. What if the game ends with our characters sailing to the West as well?

scopique, to random
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Three hours EDT until Fallout. This is your three hour warning.

kevinbrill,
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@scopique Oh nice! Something to watch during the while while I wait for a new Discovery episode!

kevinbrill, to random
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Wasnโ€™t perfect but the clouds thinned a bit for us here in Western New York. Real cool to have a celestial event at the little city where I grew up.

kevinbrill, to random
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Heaven help me, Iโ€™m about to run docker-compose up on the airplane wifiโ€ฆ

kevinbrill,
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@scopique Thank goodness for layer caching!

Nimgimli, to random
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Was talking to a neighbor today.. (I was going to say "an older lady" but she is probably younger than me!) & she asked me what she needed to do to prepare for the eclipse. She (or maybe her grown kids) had been seeing online that she should stock up on canned goods, water and flashlight batteries because it was going to cause some kind of disaster.

I hate the Internet some days. The funny thing is, the last eclipse wasn't that long ago so why do people fall for this nonsense?

kevinbrill,
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@scopique @Nimgimli Sometimes I miss the pre-internet, where the outlet for crazy people was niche AM radio shows and self printed manifestos.

andyn, to random
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Dear folks, whatโ€™s the best way to learn what I should be doing in M+โ€™s? Iโ€™m basically a solo player and healed one of my first M5 and M8s this morning but whilst healing I kept being told to โ€˜deal with the spiritsโ€™ and I had no idea what they were asking me to do. The healing was stressful enough. Iโ€™m ilvl 453ish I think but donโ€™t seem to be getting drops that improve this anywhere.

kevinbrill,
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@andyn Iโ€™m a healer myself too scared to take the jump into m+ :lol: But check icy-veins for your class. Hereโ€™s the page that they have for priests, and they detail how to handle the different affixes. https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/holy-priest-pve-healing-mythic-plus-tips

kevinbrill,
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@andyn Ahhh, sorry NA here. But good luck to you my fellow โ€œgreen bars go upโ€ compatriot! What class are you healing on?

massivelyop, to tes
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Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online celebrates its 10th anniversary in Orc-land
๐Ÿ”— https://massivelyop.com/2024/03/29/tamriel-infinium-elder-scrolls-online-celebrates-its-10th-anniversary-in-orc-land

kevinbrill,
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@massivelyop Everyone focused on and , while quietly produces high quality content on a consistent basis. Yeah the animations aren't the greatest, and the colors are washed out, but there's always good stories to be had, unique things to do, and content that (IMO) is worth the money paid.

kevinbrill, to linux
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Anyone have any good suggestions for rebinding keys system wide on to behave like ? I'm so used to coding on a mac keyboard layout that attempting to do the same thing on linux has my brain and fingers all outta whack.

I've seen a few packages out there but am hoping for some real recommendations from all my fedi-friends.

scopique, to random
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Bonus arrived! It was intended to fund the new PC.

Was.

Now I have to buy a new heater for the basement, because the current one has died.

Man, I wish we had just gone with a condo.

kevinbrill,
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@scopique I feel this! One year my wife and I had to spend our bonus taking out 5 50โ€™ pines that pine beetles had killed.

scopique, to random
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Great. Home network is doing that "can't download large files" thing again.

kevinbrill,
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@scopique Bah, good luck. Networking admin is my least favorite home sysadmin job.

I feel like we live in some kind of wifi dampening zone. We reset the wifi nodes nightly overnight, and thereโ€™s still some mornings when working that I need to reset them because weโ€™re getting dial-up speeds.

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