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No Rest for the Wicked - The Crucible Update Trailer
  • I bought the game on release purely to support the studio and I would definitely recommend waiting.

    It's an excellent game being made but you can really tell that they didn't quite know where to go with this game. They pulled together mechanics from various genres that don't fit together that well.

    The waiting mechanics are a non-issue since you are usually playing "the real game" while side stuff is happening in your town.

    Graphics, art and music are all fantastic, as expected from a game by Moon studios, but performance is an issue. Greatly improved since launch but still not where it should be.

    They are listening to feedback though and I'm sure they can get everything in proper order in a year or so.

  • Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy will come to Game Pass on August 8 according to reliable source
  • Damn, it's 20 bucks now? You have to play a lot of different games to make that worth it.

  • Uses for local AI?
  • I'm thinking of Ripping my CD collection again. I'm researching a way to use a LLM to tidy up the metadata.

    If you ever figure out how to use AI to determine the genre(s) of a song, let me know. Have been looking for something like that for quite a while.

  • What would you like to change about Lemmy culture?
  • Android also encrypts the user data by default since Android 10 (2019).

    Android also has different permissions the apps need to ask for just like iOS. Including not allowing background apps to use the camera/GPS/mic by default.

  • New Visual for My Hero Academia Season 7
  • Yes, season 7 is currently running and has 10 more episodes remaining.

  • HDR Confusion
  • But why does it end up washing out colors unless I amplify them in kwin? Is just the brightness absolute in nits, but not the color?

    The desktop runs in SDR and the color space differs between SDR and HDR, meaning you will end up with washed out colors when you display SDR on HDR as is.

    When you increase the slider in KDE, you change the tone mapping but no tone mapping is perfect so you might want to leave it at the default 0% and use the HDR mode only for HDR content. In KDE for example, colors are blown out when you put the color intensity to 100%.

    Why does my screen block the brightness control in HDR mode but not contrast? And why does the contrast increase the brightness of highlights, instead of just split midtones towards brighter and darker shades?

    In SDR, your display is not sent an absolute value. Meaning you can pick what 100% is, which is your usual brightness slider.

    In HDR, your display is sent absolute values. If the content you're displaying requests a pixel with 1000 nits your display should display exactly 1000 nits if it can.

    Not sure about the contrast slider, I never really use it.

    Why is truehdr400 supposed to be better in dark rooms than peak1000 mode?

    Because 1000 nits is absurdly bright, almost painful to watch in the dark. I still usually use the 1000 mode and turn on a light in the room to compensate.

    Why is my average emission capped at 270nits, that seems ridiculously low even for normal SDR screens as comparison.

    Display technology limitations. OLED screens can only display the full brightness over a certain area (e.g. 10% for 400 nits and 1% for 1000 nits) before having to dim the screen. That makes the HDR mode mostly unuseable for desktop usage since your screen will dim/brighten when moving large white or black areas around the screen.

    OLED screens simply can't deliver the brightness of other display technologies but their benefits easily make it worth it.

  • What's been your favourite headset for gaming so far?
  • I would second getting a separate microphone/headphone instead of a combined headset.

    All the headsets I owned over the years were significantly worse in audio quality and broke after a few years, usually something related to the microphone.

    I went with a Sennheiser 598 with a Modmic for years, which was ok but switched to a beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro about 4 years ago.

    So far my favorite out of all the headphones I owned. Very clear sound, comfortable, actually "Made in Germany", and they still provide replacement parts on their website. Replaced my ear pads just a month ago or so.

    The Modmic is decent but there is a lot of room for improvement, I was never able to find a proper alternative though.

  • Tech support workers, what are your favorite stories from your time in the industry?
  • When I worked help desk, a coworker of mine took a call where someone called in because one of the thin clients was on fire. The user was advised to call 911.

    Well, did he try to turn it off and NOT back on again?

  • What's Some Tech That Was Better Than It Is Now?
  • And yet I do not think I will be using my Bosch in 25 years because some cheap internal plastic part will have broken down while the Makita would still run.

  • Now I have 1 GBit fiber and can't benefit :-(
  • I don't think you can import pfSense configurations into OPNsense. I switched from a DIY pfSense box as well and redid the config.

    You can look for a converter or install pfSense onto it though.

  • Now I have 1 GBit fiber and can't benefit :-(
  • Because it's dope.

    Also, according to their website the 10 and 25 Gbit/s packages cost the same per month.

    Also, still cheaper than my 1 Gbit/s connection.

  • The Deprecation HTTP Header Field
  • The RFC you linked recommends that no new X- prefixed headers should be used.

    The paragraph you quoted does not say you should use the X- prefix, only comments on how it was used.

    See section 3 for the creation of new parameters: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6648#section-3

    I still work on software that extendively uses X- headers.

    I wouldn't worry too much about it. The reason they give is mostly that it is annoying if a X- header suddenly becomes standardized and you end up having to support X-Something and Something. Most likely a non-issue with real custom headers.

  • The Deprecation HTTP Header Field
  • We don't have many unit tests that test against live APIs, most use mock APIs for testing.

    The only use for this header would be if somebody sees it during development, at which point it would already be in the documentation or if you explicitly add a feature to look if the header is present. Which I don't see happening any time soon since we get mailed about deprecations as well.

  • What's Some Tech That Was Better Than It Is Now?
  • My dad has an old Makita cordless drill from 1995 which he used for everything from assembling Ikea furniture to drilling holes in cement walls. Complete metal innards, full metal case, battery that's big and heavy enough to bludgeon somebody to death with.

    Until one day I bought a fancy new Bosch cordless screwdriver with Li-ion battery, brushless motor and 1/4 the size and weight of the Makita.

    At first he laughed at me for buying a toy, then he tried it. He ordered one as well the week after and uses it pretty much exclusively since then.

    Still keeps the Makita box and drill around purely for the retro look but even with fresh batteries the amount of torque they put out is not even in the same league.

    Obviously that is the exception rather than the rule and most technological advances went into making companies more profits instead of building better products, but there are some advancements that made power tools better. Li-ion batteries and brushless motors being two of the big ones.

  • The Deprecation HTTP Header Field
  • I don't really get the purpose of a header like this, who is supposed to check it? It's not like developers casually check the headers returned by an API every week.

    Write them a mail if you see deprecated functions being used by a certain API key, probably much more likely to reach somebody that way.

    Also, TIL that the IETF deprecated the X- prefix more than 10 years ago. Seems like that one didn't pan out.

  • Now I have 1 GBit fiber and can't benefit :-(
  • They are expensive but I run a OPNsense DEC740 and have no issues with my Gigabit fiber, even without modem and the PPPoE overhead.

    You can still try playing with hardware offload on/off and if you use PPPoE, it runs on a single core by default.

  • Beastars Final Season New Visual
  • I really liked the first season, a much darker take on the usual cutesy anthropomorphic animal world.

    Not a huge fan of season two, felt really rushed. It had some great episodes and I'm definitely checking out the next season but I felt disappointed after the strong first season.

  • Fellas of Lemmy, what's your Every Day Carry (EDC)?
  • Found the Austrian. :) #tirolgehtanders

  • Full-text search proxy for Jellyfin
  • This integrates Meilisearch but without having to mess with the Jellyfin search code while Jellyfin is transitioning to EFCore.

  • Full-text search proxy for Jellyfin
  • FYI, you may need to change the logo. I didn’t think 3rd party tools are allowed to use the official logo, but someone who knows more about that will need to weigh in.

    Good point, I don't mind changing it if it's against their guidelines. It's more of a crutch until full-text search arrives in Jellyfin proper, no need for a fancy logo either way. :)

  • Full-text search proxy for Jellyfin

    gitlab.com Dominik / JellySearch · GitLab

    A fast full-text search proxy for Jellyfin

    Dominik / JellySearch · GitLab

    It's not really a well-kept secret that the search in Jellyfin needs a lot of work. It's slow, doesn't deal with typos and commas correctly and doesn't allow searching multiple fields at once.

    I made a quick and dirty proxy to enable a proper full-text search in Jellyfin while the dev team is working on the EFCore migration. It's not perfect but it's much better than what Jellyfin currently provides.

    If you are running Jellyfin inside of Docker and use a Traefik reverse proxy, check out the image/repo below.

    If you know what you're doing (this is Lemmy after all), the proxy is a simple ASP.NET application and works with pretty much every reverse proxy once configured.

    https://gitlab.com/DomiStyle/jellysearch

    https://hub.docker.com/r/domistyle/jellysearch

    If you tested with any Jellyfin client not in the README, feel free to let me know. If you used any other reverse proxy than Traefik, also let me know.

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    Plasma 6 - Turning off display after screen is locked

    Hey there,

    I used to have a command run 10 seconds after the screen is locked which turned all displays off. I can't find the option to run a command when the screen locks anymore.

    In Plasma 5 I used this:

    ! !

    This is what it looks like in Plasma 6:

    !

    Is there another place to do this now?

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    Dominik Wlazny, auch bekannt als Marco Pogo, hat heute in einer Pressekonferenz erklärt, mit seiner Bierpartei bei der kommenden Nationalratswahl antreten zu wollen. Um das zu schaffen, brauche es laut Wlazny aber vor allem finanzielle Mittel. Als Ziel gab er daher aus, bis Ende April 20.000 Mitglieder für die Bierpartei zu gewinnen.

    „Es geht darum, die Bierpartei fit fürs Parlament zu machen“, so Wlazny. In den letzten Monaten habe man am Aufbau von Strukturen gearbeitet. Großspender, um die nötigen finanziellen Mittel zu erreichen, wolle man dafür nicht. Zentrale Themen der Bierpartei seien Chancengleichheit und Bewältigung des Lebensalltags, so Wlazny.

    Wlazny, der bereits bei der Bundespräsidentschaftswahl 2022 hinter Alexander Van der Bellen und Walter Rosenkranz den dritten Platz belegt hatte, werden letzten Umfragen zufolge durchaus Chancen ausgerechnet, die Vierprozenthürde bei der Nationalratswahl zu nehmen.

    Die Bierpartei stellte sich bereits 2019 der Wahl zum Nationalrat, allerdings nur in Wien, und verfehlte damals den Einzug ins Parlament deutlich.

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    What are your favorite accidental skips?

    Doesn't matter if it happened to you, a friend or a streamer. Bonus points if you have a video of it.

    I know this is a fairly small community but let's see how this goes:

    I just started a multiplayer playthrough recently with somebody who was constantly asking if he could have found X before finding the info that points him to it, hence this post.

    My favorite skip:

    spoiler

    I had a friend stream the game who accidentally walked into the Ash Twin Project after walking away backwards from the oncoming sand and stepping on the teleporter platform. He never figured out how he managed to do it all the way until the end of his playthrough but it was an interesting watch since he had information players wouldn't normally have right from the start.

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    Spare Signals From The Outer Wilds vinyl

    I have a spare (unopened) Outer Wilds vinyl lying around which I'm willing to send to a non-scalper Outer Wilds fan for MSRP. The vinyl in question: https://www.iam8bit.com/products/outer-wilds-2xlp

    Before selling it on eBay I thought I would try here. The price I paid including shipping and import customs is 50€, shipping is on me.

    So if you live in the EU, have a record player and want it, just post a quick picture with your record player setup and your Lemmy username on a piece of paper so I can see that you can actually play it.

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    Episode discussions for Lemmy

    Since a bunch of new users are arriving from Reddit (including me) maybe it would make sense to port the /r/anime bot that creates episode discussions to Lemmy so there's regular content here?

    The bot is open source: https://github.com/r-anime/holo

    Looking at the source it should not be so difficult to add an option to post to Lemmy as well.

    Thoughts?

    Would something like this be allowed? @[email protected] @[email protected]

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