Goronmon

@Goronmon@kbin.social
Goronmon,

You purchase your own domain through a provider like Porkbun or Namecheap, something like clover333.com

Then you pay for a service like Fastmail (you need at least the Standard plan for custom domains). And you setup Fastmail to use your custom domain as the address. There are various ways to handle this, but if you just do the simple approach and use Fastmail as the nameserver it's pretty straightforward.

Goronmon,

...I trust the privacy guarantees even more since I’m a paying customer.

How effective is this stance? While using a service for free basically guarantees there are privacy concerns, paying doesn't directly provide any assurances. They can both charge you money and sell your data.

But Kagi seems pretty expensive, and too reliant on Bing/Google search pricing to be a long-term solution.

Goronmon,

But after raising its SoftBank-led $170 million Series C round at a $1.17 billion valuation, the company’s internal troubles became more obvious.

I feel like every time I read one of these stories, there is a note about a huge investment from SoftBank.

Goronmon,

The underlying wccftech.com article reads like a Nvidia press release.

Goronmon,

Significantly increased the experience awarded for completing Nightmare Dungeons.
Significantly increased the experience gained from killing monsters in Nightmare Dungeons.
Players can now teleport to their Nightmare Dungeon directly through the map.

Fuck yes.

Goronmon,

Did nobody read the article?

Doesn't sound like it. Some people even admitted that straight up.

I don't see anywhere they are saying that they are getting rid of installed Windows, just providing a different avenue of Windows usage, something to compete with the ChromeOS type of uasge.

Goronmon,

The problem is if it is the only option available.

And I haven't seen anything in that article or others to suggest they would make it the only option.

Goronmon,

Cool, I've been looking for an excuse to move to Linux again.

What part of the article is making you want to change to Linux?

Goronmon,

Windows isn't moving to the cloud though.

Goronmon,

I didn't realize software companies pushing people to the newest version of their products was a controversial issue.

Since this article isn't about the next version of Windows I'm also confused why you think what you said is relevant.

Goronmon,

You did get screwed if you tried to play Skyrim on the PS3. The hardware limitations on the console caused obvious instability in the game that I don't think they ever fully resolved.

But I don't think most people played Skyrim on PS3 so they aren't going to have that same experience. I know I didn't.

Goronmon,

Except they released the game, in "enhanced" version, on the Switch, which is just old android phone hardware from several years back.

Specifics matter in this case.

My quick review of specs shows the Switch having a 4GB of RAM to work with. Not a lot, but enough that even with the OS, you shouldn't run into too many problems.

The PS3 had 512MB of RAM. But actually, 256MB was dedicated to video, so it only had 256MB for the game itself. Oh, and the OS used a chunk of that. So, the PS3 has less than 256MB of RAM that is usable by the game. And that's where you are running into issues, especially in a game like Skyrim that is heavily reliant on memory for the amount of state the game tries to keep track of.

The official Blizzard forums for Diablo 4 are toxic as hell (pun intended)

I wanted to get some tips on Rogue and hopefully some build ideas, and holy Tyrael, is that place a cesspool of toxicity. If you havent played the game, from the opinions of the locals you’d had thought this game is the worst thing since WW2, every class is basically unplayable and unless you can steamroll bosses 20+ higher...

Goronmon,

I think generally speaking game specific communities are toxic.

I wouldn't necessarily say that. What I would say is that online communities have a tendency to bias towards toxic without heavy-handed moderation.

The simple fact is that people who aren't toxic don't want to be around people who are. So if there aren't moderators keeping out the toxic people (or at least, stamping out the attitude specifically) then after a while the only people left in the community with be the toxic ones.

Goronmon,

This has definitely gotten better in recent years. You can almost date games by whether they have subtitles by default or if they provide some prompted settings for that sort of thing on first boot of the game.

Goronmon,

Well, they won't be able to get their news from "news outlets" specifically linked on Facebook. They will still be able to get their news from other sources on Facebook.

Not sure if that's actually an improvement though.

Goronmon,

Isn't this the opposite of what's happening? Facebook posts can't contain links to "actual sources" but can contain "random links"?

Goronmon,

How will Canada be better off?

Goronmon,

But they can still get news from Facebook, they just won't be getting it from "news outlets" specifically.

Goronmon,

"Further than that" meaning banning links in general?

Goronmon,

One of the better examples of form over function. I really disliked actually using this mouse whenever I had to.

Goronmon, (edited )

I ended up going with a smaller Synology as it was actually replacing a RaspberryPi + External drive setup that was failing.

At the end of the day, the Synology was much more expensive, but for me it was worth the trade-off to have a mostly plug and play setup. I can easily move files around in a GUI. I can setup torrents, even configure it to use a VPN and it all takes minutes instead of researching configurations and managing daemons and processes like I had to do previously.

Edit: Also, don't forget to take into account power consumption when reviewing options. There can be a big difference between running an old desktop 24/7 as a NAS versus a Raspberry Pi.

Goronmon,

Those saying version X was great, are simply wearing those rose-tinted glasses. The perfect operating system does not exist, simply because us users are such a varied bunch. So catering to us all at once will create friction and issues.

The simple answer is, if you're going to stick with Windows rather than move to Linux, then upgrade.

This accurately summarizes my thoughts on the issue. If you want Windows, just go for 11.

Goronmon,

Without the text of the email how does this news mean anything other than "one side of a legal battle believes they are in the right"?

And aside from the fact that I'm not sure how buying Activision would "eliminate" any gaming platform, how much does that differ from the stance any business has? Does anyone believe that Sony is not out to "eliminate" Microsoft, to borrow the term?

Goronmon,

My perspective is that it's supposed to be part of the "who is the real enemy" angle that was a part of the later half of the game. There was this constant back and forth as to whether we should focus on Lilith vs Mephisto as the one to destroy. That process culminates in how the ending plays out.

This part is just a reminder to the player that Mephisto is still a force of evil that can't be ignored or underestimated.

Goronmon,

I keep track of the games I own on Backloggery.

I know others are saying that having a backlog means treating gaming like a job you need to do.

But for me, it's about reminding myself that I don't always need to buy interesting games just because they are on sale or because I think I want to play them in the future.

There was period of time years back when I was buying dozens of games each year and not even playing half of them. Even if I'm buying games on sale that was hundreds of dollars a year I was spending on stuff I wasn't using.

I only have a limited time these days to play games, so I have even more of a reason to check my purchases. And sometimes I'll check my backlog and notice a game that I actually do want to play (or even play again).

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