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the_thunder_god, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

I've been playing on the Gamepass version (which was gifted to me by a friend). It's not spectacular performance on my 8th gen i7 and 6700K...but it's playable. I'm enjoying myself. I'm averaging around 25fps in game. Only setting I really modified is the Volumetric setting...set that to low. Playing at 1440p.

the_thunder_god, 8 months ago

Amazing lack of being welcoming of those who disagree with you. How about you like what you like, and I'll like what I like.

I liked Enterprise. It wasn't perfect, but it's premise fit its time period. I liked the frontier nature of it....they were still figuring things out. So yeah, it wasn't the perfect utopia of TNG. It didn't get a fair shake and felt very forced in some aspects towards the end. Absolutely hate the intro changeup midway through just like I hated it on DS9. I actually loved the initial intro.

Feel free to disagree. Don't care if you do.

the_thunder_god, 9 months ago

How about no...

the_thunder_god, 9 months ago

Once they get him stopped, get him out of the vehicle, and have his hands up, he's surrendering. He got multiple conflicting commands....and with the presence of the dog he was rightfully concerned they were going to have it tackle him...that's exactly what happened. So his concern about the dog probably caused him to ignore a command or two, because he was fearing the dog attacking him. Take the dog out of the equation and he probably surrenders peacefully and obeys commands. Conflicting commands and the presence of the dog are absolutely the problems here.

They will be put on paid leave and any lawsuit filed will be thrown out because of qualified immunity...even though the dog never should have come out of the holding vehicle. Could have a case of excessive force, but I doubt it. All of it will be excused as part of the police work, even the mauling.

the_thunder_god, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

For a while now I've had Grafana hooked up to InfluxDB and Telegraf. Using Telegraf I setup pings to ips along my route to the larger internet, major dns providers, and several large internet sites. I measure response time and packet loss. It has allowed me to cut through the Comcast BS when diagnosing problems with them. I can tell them for sure that the problem is inside their network and is the X hop from my router.

I recently started setting up Grafana over on a different server and I'm using Prometheus instead to monitor more than just the other server I was monitoring. I haven't yet set it up with that but it looks like something similar is possible with Prometheus based on the small amount of research I've done on it.

the_thunder_god, 9 months ago

Bridge mode on the ISP router is what you want. Then it just passes through the internet connection to the internal router on the edge of your network. It's what I do with Comcast.

the_thunder_god, 9 months ago

Shady browser continues to do shady stuff, news at 11. /s

the_thunder_god, 9 months ago

Same for me.
-It works well
-my dad (who has dementia) can use it
-It runs even when the net goes down (means my dad is happy)
-Can Transcode for our TV's with premiere (would rather not have to pay for that)

Have been thinking about Jellyfin...as I like the FOSS angle...and seems like it is gaining a lot of traction in the selfhost community. I host Emby Server on my Unraid server and our nVidia Shields play content great using the Emby app. Going to be investigating Jellyfin when I start to move the rest of my serivces off of Unraid.

the_thunder_god, 10 months ago

I disagree that the admin of an instance doesn't have the right to moderate it how they wish. By joining the server you agree to let that admin control what content you see on your instance. That's how instances work. It's still on you to agree/disagree with the admin and how they run the server. That's why other servers exist and you have the complete right to associate with who you wish, or even run your own instance and run it how you like.

I do not agree with the people wanting to control other servers by trying to force defederating from threads. Independent admins running their own server is what the Fediverse is built upon.

the_thunder_god, 10 months ago

I have confidence the mastodon instance I'm on, Fosstodon, as well as this instance of kbin, would choose the defederation at this point...as it's the point of meta becoming a walled garden. Fosstodon is all about free and open...so it goes against their very nature. They refused the invite to join the NDA bound discussion because that goes against their principles. Right now I feel like Ernest and the team running kbin.social feel very much the same way. If I turn out to be wrong about either....well that's the point I chose to find another instance. Step 3 is my own defederation point. The moment you start closing off your walled garden is the moment you lose a lot of the Fediverse.

the_thunder_god, 10 months ago

You do your own thing....defederate if you wish....but don't let Threads kill the Fediverse because you wanted to control an instance you're not on.

the_thunder_god, 10 months ago

In Progress, needs tweaking:
Making sure our AC only turns on when it can efficiently cool the house. Useful when we dip into the 50's for lows while it's 70's+ during the day. Basically switch the thermostat to heat only to avoid the AC coming on.

In the planning stage:
Presence sensing in our bathroom to turn the light on for my dad in the middle of the night. Can't use PIR motion detection as my dad moves very slow these days and actually defeats the PIR sensor in our hallway night light. I'm thinking mmWave is the way to go. Might try presence sensing when someone is on the toilet, turn the fan on, again, because sometimes he forgets.

Just getting started really with automations right now.

the_thunder_god, 10 months ago

All I know is...I found a home here after leaving Reddit for good (as of yesterday my account is gone).

My initial move away was to Lemmy.world. But after finding some pretty glaring bugs including one that seemed to be a big security bug, I decided to delete my account there and try this out. I'm happy here. It's not perfect, but it's not broken as I found with my Lemmy experience.

I honestly don't care where people end up, so long as it's federated, open, and welcoming of everyone that have good intentions.

the_thunder_god, 10 months ago

No, I don't think it's like HD-DVD vs Blue-Ray. You don't have an industry which has to make the choice between one or the other and a larger industry that buys into one technology or the other for their content.

You have individual users making up their mind based on what software they like more and if they get enough out of what that software offers. If it were HD-DVD vs Bluray then the power would be in the end user's control....but it never was. The more people decide to use a piece of software, the more developers you have developing for that software. The more devs you have the better it gets and the more people you get liking the software and using it. There is room for people choosing to use different pieces of software, and it's made even easier by the fact that they interoperate due to federation.

I have both Bluray and HD-DVD. I have quite a few more Bluray than HD-DVD because of course that's the way the industry went. I had both pretty early on because I knew there would be a time when the industry decided the winner and the loser would go on clearance sales. I picked up a bunch of my HD-DVD collection in those clearance sales. To that industry comparison, I do not have a lemmy account, nor do I want one.

In the end my entire Bluray, HD-DVD, and DVD collection is all digital and on my media server now, along with a lot of streaming stuff. Don't really know how that'll relate to this move in social media platforms.

the_thunder_god, 10 months ago

Didn't give the billionaire my money so yeah it took like 10 minutes for me to get the rate exceeded message.

the_thunder_god, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Running the PDS fork with the 5 second cooldown right now to do editing of all my posts and comments. Will wait a few days before deleting my account to make sure they stay edited.

I wasn't that active over the last 12 years, but it's still taking a while. 3.3k karma here
Honestly hoped that they wouldn't go full idiot....but sadly...spez is in charge. He's an insult to the idiot community.

edit: took all night but 4k+ posts edited. Waiting a bit and checking occasionally to ensure they stay edited before deleting.

the_thunder_god, 10 months ago

PDS is a user script and it works fine so long as you use an edited version that adds a 5 second cooldown. Rate limiting is in effect so that is necessary to avoid that. The fork I'm using only has the timeout on editing...which is all I need it for. Currently working great

the_thunder_god, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

After I did my research on all the devs of the different Android and iOS apps...I discovered the app I had been using, BaconReader, was basically the only one backed by an Ad company (also somehow tied to Tmobile/Sprint). The rest of them are basically independent developers. So after learning that...not sorry to see it go. If there was some redemption arc by reddit I'd use another app. Good riddance.

edit: here's the fosstodon thread I posted about my research: https://fosstodon.org/@thundergod97/110554562902608839

edit2: I loved using BaconReader....I was a premium user....but this information drastically changed my opinion of it.

the_thunder_god, 10 months ago

Lack of a response to what was happening. I drew up this research in the middle of the protests...from them I saw nothing (expected something posted on their subreddit, I removed their app after finding nothing from them). It seemed like a lack of care. Because of that, this post by them seems disingenuous to me, it's in response to the adoring fans posting to their subreddit. How many of those people posting love in their subreddit know about who the owners of the app are. Put two and two together and you know this is who Spez was talking about when he said some were just not willing to talk. I asked the same question of everyone who was unwilling to talk....why. I found answers for some...some had their words misrepresented by Spez....some hadn't said anything that I found...such as BaconReader.

the_thunder_god, 10 months ago

I think on PC it was tolerable at launch. Definitely not perfect, but not a hot mess either. On consoles, I think I would agree with you though.
I got my fill before the first major patch hit....100%ing it and playing all paths of the main story I could find.

the_thunder_god, 10 months ago

I used Techno Tim's guide on how to do essentially the same thing with different tools: Cloudflare, Let's Encrypt, Traefik, and PiHole (for my DNS)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liV3c9m_OX8
https://docs.technotim.live/posts/traefik-portainer-ssl/

the_thunder_god, 10 months ago

Doing what the OP (same result, just different software) or I posted and assigning certificates to secure your local services means you can avoid the HTTPS warning that major browsers will pop up on an unsecure (HTTP) connection. Instead of going to an internal dns name without a certificate or direct to the ip....you assign a wildcard certificate to a domain name you've setup on your local dns. You then access that service via the HTTPS protected Domain name, with no warning.

the_thunder_god, 10 months ago

That's the consolidated feed I talk about. I have that defaulted already to my homepage...so instead of kbin.social I automatically go to kbin.social/sub. I was looking for something similar to https://kbin.social/u/the_thunder_god/subscriptions but in the main navigation bar always.

the_thunder_god, 10 months ago

Yeah I've been paying attention to KbinStyles. Already running a couple so far. That Subscribed button helps until we get something up top.

the_thunder_god, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I know I saw this thread before when I first joined lemmy.world, but I could never get it to come up again while I was there. Only found it again after switching to kbin.social.

That said, here's what I got running locally (though not all the games all the time, currently only running Satisfactory):

• Unraid on my File server, (purpose built AMD tower with 15 drive bays, only 5 filled for 24TB), gradually moving services off of this
  • Docker Containers:
    • DNS - Pihole
    • Media Center - Emby - Keep it stocked for my dad to enjoy. He has dementia and I'm his Caregiver.
    • Stats Dashboard - Grafana/InfluxDb/Telegraf
    • Wireshark
• Proxmox on my Compute Server (in 27U rack, used HP Proliant Dual Xeon)
  • VM - Ubuntu Server - Management Docker Host
    • Reverse Proxy - Traefik
    • Docker Management - Portainer
    • Huginn
  • VM - Ubuntu Server - Primary Docker host
    • Uptime Monitoring - UptimeKuma
    • Home Automation - Home Assistant
    • Wiki - Dokuwiki
    • Game Hosting - Pterodactyl - Panel
  • VM - Ubuntu Server - Game Docker host
    • Game Hosting - Pteodactyl - Wing
    • File Syncing - Syncthing - For external syncing when I need it
    • Games Hosted:
      • Ark Survival Evolved - Clustered: All Official Story Maps, Ragnarok, Crystal Isles, Fjordur. Cluster syncing is handled through a Pterodactyl Mount.
      • Conan Exiles - The Exiled Lands
      • Satisfactory
• Proxmox on my Old Gaming PC
  • VM - Windows 10
    • Space Engineers (had to have more single core performance)
    • American Truck Simulator Convoy
    • PlayOn Home

Have been in the process of moving stuff off of the Unraid server, in favor of rackmount servers. Right now I just have the one compute server which hosts most of my stuff. I'm working on setting up a new Zimaboard to act as my DNS server on battery backup, and will be moving Pihole off of Unraid sometime soon. I want to also move Traefik off to a lower power device. I used to have a setup where I could keep my Gaming PC online for about 20 mintues on battery backup, allowing me to shutdown gracefully, but due to the new power requirements of the Compute server, I can't really do that now. So I'm looking for ways to move to lower power devices to host my essential services.