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Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds announced!
  • They really haven't touched the home instancing much, I hope that homesteads will have a similar quality as mounts did when they released.

  • Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds announced!
  • ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Summoning hype train

    Housing is something I've wanted forever! It gives me something that I can truly call my own. I wonder if it will allow the use of guild decorations and if there is any outdoor space for a small roller beetle track. I am also curious if any achievements could reward us with decorations that are unique to that event, such as pieces of a world boss, or heads from smaller enemies(that are not unique).

    Spears! It's interesting, not sure yet how I really feel about them.

    I've never been into raids, I consider myself too casual, but I do enjoy open world events.

    Warclaw rework could be interesting, I wonder if we could see mounted combat.

    Releasing on Epic is also good, as it brings more players to the game.

  • Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts
  • That's interesting! I wonder if they are locking down factory installations.

    About a month ago I was able to do it with a fresh install of Pro in a VM, I'll do a quick test and see if it works on Home...and it works too. I had to disconnect the network and then run the OOBE\BYPASSNRO command, it rebooted and gave me the continue without network and limited setup options.

  • Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts
  • Unless I missed something, the article states as follows

    Another method of bypassing the account lockdown still exists. You simply have to enter OOBE\BYPASSNRO in the command prompt during the Windows 11 setup process, which allows you to skip the connection to the Internet and thus also the link to a Microsoft account.

  • Firefox to collect your (anonymized) search data
  • I agree. I am someone who values their privacy and often does not like opt-out style analytics however I also know opt-in skews analytics. The way the searches are only categorized, and they are using Oblivious HTTP keeping IP addresses private makes me A-OK with this.

  • Just booted fresh Debian install with 7900 XTX: Getting errors at boot
  • Yeah, Debian has older firmware found in the firmware-amd-graphics package which doesn't include the firmware. You'll need to download it from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/ I believe anything from linux-firmware-20231030 and newer should work.

    20231030 tag: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/amdgpu?h=20231030 or newest(20240410) tag: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/amdgpu?h=20240410

    These files need to be placed in /lib/firmware/amdgpu/

  • Do you encrypt your data drives?
  • It's a relatively low performance hit and it benefits me when having to replace a failing/old disk. I can just toss the drive without having to erase the data first, that is as long as the key is a secure length.

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  • Quickly skimming the readme, it states:

    • OAuth token spoofing: To circumvent rate limits imposed by Reddit, OAuth token spoofing is used to mimick the most common iOS and Android clients. While spoofing both iOS and Android clients was explored, only the Android client was chosen due to content restrictions when using an anonymous iOS client.
    • Token refreshing: The authentication token is refreshed every 24 hours, emulating the behavior of the official Android app.
    • HTTP header mimicking: Efforts are made to send along as many of the official app's headers as possible to reduce the likelihood of Reddit's crackdown on Redlib's requests.
  • Quad9 DNS in Pihole blocks catbox.moe
  • Quad9 doesn't report it as being blocked. https://quad9.net/result?url=catbox.moe

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    The largest campaign ever to stop publishers destroying games - Scott Ross (Accursed Farms)
  • Yeah, I originally was hoping for a singleplayer mode and realized that it didn't have any way to reset player progress. Ubisoft needs to realize that MMOs aren't meant to have sequals so often and are meant to support them for a long time and instead release expansions, look at Runescape, WoW, and Guild Wars 1 for examples.

  • 'Make a private hosted version of your game': Knockout City dev's top tip for studios shutting down a live service game is to give players the keys
  • Isn't that what they did? https://www.knockoutcity.com/private-server-edition#section-download

    From the article:

    There's one thing, however, that Harrison recommends studios do above all others when sunsetting a live service game: let players keep playing the game on their own servers. Before shutting down Knockout City, Velan released the game as a standalone Windows executable with private server support. It's still available to download.

  • This Week in Self-Hosted (22 March 2024)
  • It is very useful! It's also slightly customizable in that you can have it not save duplicate commands.

    More information can be found on the Arch Wiki or the man page

  • Btw
  • User got a $104K bill from hosting provider(Netlify): “I thought it was a joke”
  • Not that it helps but the CEO claims they forgive for this type of attack/event. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39521986

    Netlify CEO here.

    Our support team has reached out to the user from the thread to let them know they're not getting charged for this.

    It's currently our policy to not shut down free sites during traffic spikes that doesn't match attack patterns, but instead forgiving any bills from legitimate mistakes after the fact.

    Apologies that this didn't come through in the initial support reply.

    And later they were asked if they would have responded if it didn't go viral. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39522029

    Question:

    There are only two questions everyone have:

    1. Would Netlify forgive the bill if this didn't go viral?

    2. How do you plan to address this issue so that it never happens again?

    Everyone here knew someone from Netlify would come and say OP wouldn't have to pay. That was a given. Now we want to know the important answers.

    Answer by CEO:

    1. Yes. We've forgiven lots and lots of bills over the last 9 years and they haven't gone viral

    2. While I've always favored erring towards keeping people's sites up we are currently working on changing the default behavior to never let free sites incur overages

  • Lemmings, what's your self hosted server power usage?
  • ~53 W

    • Server:

      • AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
      • 4x16 GB DDR4 3200 Mhz
      • 256 GB NVMe as boot-disk
      • 2x256 GB Samsung SSDs for VMs
      • 2x2 TB WD Red Plus HDDs
    • Mini PC: Beelink S12 N95

      • 16 GB DDR4
      • 256 GB NVMe
    • 8 port unmanaged TP Link switch

    I would like to expand my storage, however I don't have any available SATA ports and I believe adding an HBA would increase the idle draw about 8 W. I might just upgrade the SSDs and split the storage between the HDDs and SSDs.

  • New home server: what hypervisor/OS?
  • I recently switched from Proxmox to Debian Bookworm with Incus(LXD fork) as my primary setup, it's been a pleasant experience. I also like the idea of using something like Cockpit to manage VMs though haven't come to a need yet for a VM over a container. I'll also point out that Incus can handle VMs as well.

    Stéphane Graber, Project leader of Linux Containers is also on the fediverse and responds to questions often.

  • SOLVED. Has anyone installed Shotshare using docker-compose ?
  • You're welcome! Also thanks for asking this question, I hadn't seen ShotShare before, it looks useful.

  • SOLVED. Has anyone installed Shotshare using docker-compose ?
  • No, since you are using the bind mount, you do not need to use the volume.

  • Is bit rot really a threat that I should worry about?

    I have recently become interested in mini PCs, but one thing that is stopping me is a feeling that bit rot could cause me to lose data.

    Is bit rot something to worry about when storing data for services such as Git, or Samba. I have another PC right now that is setup with btrfs raid1 and backups locally and to the cloud, however was thinking about downsizing for the benefit of size and power usage.

    I know many people use the mini PCs such as ThinkCentres, Optiplex, EliteDesks and others, I am curious if I should be worried about losing data due to bit rot, or is bit rot a really rare occurrence?

    Let's say I have backups with a year of retention, wouldn't it be possible that the data becomes corrupt and that it isn't noticed until after a year? for example archived data that I don't look at often but might need in the future.

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    Is now the right time to switch to Linux?

    Experience: I have a bit of experience with Linux. I started around 2008, distro-hopped weekly, decided on Debian until around 2011, when I switched to Windows as I started getting interested in gaming. Tried switching back around 2015, this time using Arch Linux for about a month, but had some bad experiences with gaming and switched back to Windows. I have had a Debian and Arch VM in Virtual Box since then for testing different applications and a more coherent environment to work with servers.

    Understanding: Which brings me to now, I am really interested in using Linux for gaming, I know there is Proton from Valve and that they have been really pushing Linux gaming forward with it.

    Thoughts: I have been contemplating dual booting by installing Debian to an SSD and simply using the UEFI boot menu to choose instead of having to install to the EFI of Windows.

    I guess, I should just do it, as it won't affect my Windows installation, and I could test different games and if all works well, move over. This would also allow me to try different distributions, though my heart is for Debian, I even like Debian Unstable.

    Note: I am sorry for the wall of text, I am just kind of anxious I guess.

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