betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
I have a love hate relationship with this man. He has spearheaded some of my favorite games even if they came nowhere close to what was promised. It's so weird to come back to Fable and enjoy it more than I did when it came out.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
I did it for a few months and really enjoyed it. At the end of 3 months, I realized I could achieve nearly the same thing by turning off all notifications except messages and calls and uninstalling all social media. I realized... if I have the willpower to use a dumbphone I have the willpower to keep the distraction off my smartphone. Phone usage is now 100% intentional with the right setup.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
Just the type of mod I want!
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
Dad programming jokes are the finest there is.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
It's so nice to feel like tech isn't running your life anymore. If I'm in an app doing something, it's because I made the choice to do it. I still gotta work on that doom scrolling tho, YouTube being the biggest culprit. I think I might try setting some time limits.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
Everyone should try disabling ALL notifications and then working their way up to understand which alerts are worth getting interrupted for. Everything you do on your phone ends up becoming more intentional and your battery life goes up too because your screen isn't constantly getting turned on from the barrage of notifications. To date, I only have 1 notification turned on and it's when my significant other messages me.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
I think it's done like that on purpose so that their Canes sauce does a lot of the heavy lifting.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
There's this fast food fried chicken chain called Raising Canes, used to serve massive strips. Now the price is 50% more expensive and 50% less chicken. They're extremely tiny, never going back again... yet all the zombies who love that place are relentlessly spending their money there anyway.
Edit: grammar
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
There's one called the Light phone and the battery life is below average. The screen is definitely a hog but cell radios can just as easily chew through the battery.
Several have mentioned in the community that this is an MV. I thought to myself no way... then I found an [article from 2012](https://venturebeat.com/games/tomb-raider-preview/) where a Director from Crystal Dynamics mentions the word Metroidvania when asked what makes it different from the Uncharted series... > Regardless, tying Lara down to one island has a variety of interesting consequences for Tomb Raider, the most tantalizing being the additional freedom it affords. If Uncharted has a weakness, it’s the franchise’s love of the cinematic. Naughty Dog is out to tell a story, and they have no intention of allowing the player to interfere with the way that the story plays out. By contrast, Stewart utters a very interesting word in connection with Tomb Raider: Metroidvania. > A mashup of Super Metroid and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, the term “Metroidvania” describes games with sprawling worlds, lots of freedom to explore, and areas that can only be opened up with certain items. They are, as it happens, the complete opposite of a game like Uncharted. So when someone like Stewart throws out a term like Metroidvania in connection with Tomb Raider without prompting, it’s worth taking note. I've never played the game because I was never a huge fan of the on rails gameplay of Uncharted but it looks like I may have judged a book by it's cover. I'll be downloading this as soon as it goes on sale to see for myself!
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
Can this work with the "off the shelf" mesh routers.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 95%
Akira x Barbie, very cool.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
Please tell me ya'll actually talk to your ducks? Just me? Alright...
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 88%
Yeah but can it host PiHole?
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
We have so much computing power at home and the chances you have good reliable Internet at home are better than before. I revived 5 year old PCs and it's way too much computing power for my self host needs. I'd have to pay $200+ a month for the same compute power in the cloud. Even a Raspberry Pi with 8GB is capable of running quite a bit for fractions of a penny in electricity.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
There's so many services where I'm like, wow what am I even paying for? Email is one where I know exactly what I'm paying for.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 88%
Sync is $20 to remove ads no? Where is it $100?
Update: nevermind I see it here for sync ultra
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 98%
This one triggers the entire spectrum of human emotion.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
Does it support syncing photos from your phone? That's the only thing I need to get off Google Photos, I love how seamless it is.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
I didn't realize how broken SearX was until I switched to SearXNG.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
Does this game suffer from the alpha gamer?
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
Just... make... it... fun and I'll play and don't make me sign up for a service or give away my data.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
Likely because the apps need access to the host and the policies were likely blocking it since it's non-interactive.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
You can secure your tunnels using the Access menu and then adding an application. It should be somewhat straight-forward but you're basically looking to create an access policy and then adding the rules you want. For example a simple one is to add an allow rule for certain emails. When you enter your email an access code will be sent to you before you can access the application resource. That's just one of many ways to secure it using their application config and access policies.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
If you're comfortable with using Cloudflare, you can use their zero trust tunneling and setup an application layer that adds auth to those services. I have mine protected by my GitHub login.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
Python is not very good at this. TypeScript with prettier will very often add missing commas or semi colons for me. I never have to worry about whitespace before the formatter comes into play.
Python's whitespacing felt nice in the days when there wasn't a ton of tooling around auto formatting but now it feels like a burden.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
That's for idiots who don't look at the amount of interest they are paying... but sure, the monthly is lower.
Thinking about diving back into Bluray and am looking for suggestions on a compact player.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
I went the unmedicated route. I read a book that changed everything for me and taught me to think differently about my anxiety. It basically destigmatizes the idea that anxiety is a bad thing which actually made my anxiety return to manageable levels. Eventually I stopped worrying about my anxiety and things just kept getting better and better. Every now and then I'll have a bout where I'm more anxious but I'll just remember that it's normal and it never escalates beyond that. I feel like I have a healthy perspective about anxiety now.
Check out the book Dare and see if it clicks with you.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
I just tried arctic char for the first time because they were out of salmon and I actually prefer it to salmon now.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
I've got acronyms!
In the clip Clooney and Farmiga brag about their credit card perks... Also thanks to the mods for creating this community, was missing this one from Reddit!
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
No apologies needed! Cheers!
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
Are you comfortable in command line? There's psql or there's https://www.pgadmin.org/
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
Oh yeah, not meaning to hate on your suggestion, just giving a fair warning to those who are looking to take the plunge. I consider myself advanced and librewolf drove me crazy for a few days but stuck with it and found a balance of settings that I like.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
The biggest example of this is YouTube. Sometimes it runs fine but sometimes videos just don't load or freeze.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
The default settings of librewolf would drive the average user crazy. I'm not a fan of Firefox and use Librewolf myself but Firefox has sensible defaults for an average user that would be a net positive coming from Chrome. Just an FYI thinking of making the switch.
For additional context of those curious, Librewolf is very hardened by default. When you close your browser all site data is wiped (this can be turned off). Most people don't mess with their browser settings though... there's also a lot of little things that are disabled by default that will make people think the browser is broken e.g. canvas requests are silently denied by default, it's just not realistic for most people to use librewolf.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
I closed my laptop when it asked for the Wordle of the day.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
Have you tried logging in with a simple postgres client?
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 66%
Damn just when I was about to try it out. Is there another game engine that's open source and simple to use for beginners?
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
Look under the Zero Trust category and then once there you'll see another menu item called Access. There you'll find Tunnels, in addition to Tunnels you can add an Application in the same Access menu to create policies that only allow certain clients to connect.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
If you only need public access to things like HTTP or SSH you don’t necessarily need to run dynamic ip and just setup Cloudflare Tunnels. So far I haven’t needed to put anything public that doesn’t run on the provided tunnels.
betternotbigger 1 year ago • 100%
This is how I got a career in Software Engineering, literally had a strong motivation to build a clan website for my Counter-Strike 1.6 crew and I just ended up learning by maintaining self-hosted websites, forums, and voip. Kept doing it over and over by building other projects and then realized people pay for this skill...
Simple, reply with your top 3 MVs, and feel free to edit it as time goes on! I'll pin this to the channel until it becomes difficult to parse! Example: 1. Super Metroid 2. Metroid Dread 3. Symphony of the Night (these aren't my top 3) Feel free to elaborate on why or keep it simple! My top 3 changes quite frequently.
I am debt-free thanks to YNAB and now when I buy something big, I really feel it. Before I buy something I always go to YNAB and see what it feels like to empty a category or move money away. If it doesn't feel good, I'll usually sleep on it a few nights until I feel comfortable making the purchase. A lot of times I've just outright skipped the purchase!
I've never had so much fun self-hosting. A decade or so ago I was hosting things on Linode and running all kinds of servers for myself but with the rise of cloud services, I favored just giving everything to Google. I noticed how popular this community was on Reddit/Lemmy and now it's my new addiction. I'm a software engineer and have plenty of experience deploying to AWS/GCP so my head has been buried in the sand with these cloud providers. Now that I'm looking around there are things like NextCloud, Pihole, and Portainer all set up with Cloudflare Zero Trust... I feel like I'm living the dream of having the convenience to deploy my own services with proper authentication and it's so much fun. Reviving old hardware to act as local infra is so badass it feels great turning on old machines that were collecting dust. I'm now trying to convince my brother to participate in doing hard-drive swaps on a monthly basis so I have some backup redundancy off-site without needing to back up to the cloud. Sorry if this feels ranty but I just can't get over how awesome this is and I feel like a kid again. Cheers to this awesome community! EDIT: Just also found Fission, selfhosted serverless functions, I'm jumping with joy right now! https://github.com/fission/fission
I dusted off my RPI4 and started tinkering with self-hosting things and it's sparked a fire. Suddenly I have 7 docker containers running and I need more RAM, more space and I want something reliable with room to grow. I like small form factors but it doesn't need to be RPI small. Any recs for your favorite hardware under $500?
Some will say it's too short or too easy. I think they're both correct depending on your gaming experience but I think it's one of the more cohesive MVs that doesn't feel like there's filler. The controls also feel really good and I really enjoyed the music and atmosphere. It's battling for my top 3 MVs right now.
It's my favorite gaming genre by far. I'm currently finishing a run in Lone Fungus which has become a surprise hit for me. What are you playing? Note to Reddit /r/metroidvania mods: I noticed there was no metroidvania community here yet so I decided to create one. If the original mods of that community want to join send me a message. I do not want to be a mod, I just wanted to see my favorite community on Lemmy.