The gamer group I'm part of recently launched a brand new Starbound server that uses a new, custom-curated modpack of 69 different mods that add an astonishing amount of content to the game. This includes Frackin, Arcana, Enhanced Storage, and a number of others that aim to give everyone lots of new story lines, quests, and ...
The image attached is a screenshot from our playthrough of Starbound, which shows a intricate station hovering above a massive city-planet.
weren't chucklefish the ones that strangled this game in the first place?
now take this with a big chunk of salt, I do not remember at all if this is any true but feel like I read it somewhere
We all migrate to smaller websites try not to post outside drawing attention just to hide from the "Ai" crawlers. The internet seems dead except for the few pockets we each know existed away from the clankers
thinking about this, wouldn't the best way to hide a modern websie be something along getting a wildcard domain cert (can be done with LE with DNS challenge), cnaming the wildcard to the root domain and then hosting the website on a random subdomain string ? am I missing something
Little bits and pieces but mostly bug fixes - I like my shit working but maintenance is not my strong suit, more of a traveling contributor or drive-thru fixer.
I believe I fixed calling in one electron messenger.com wrapper before - that was fun but these days I usually try to help the game BAR whenever I have extra time.
Edit: Keep forgetting but I am also maintaining few apps on AUR, nothing big except for maybe one helper tool/calculator for EVE online
In my relentless pursuit of trying to coax more performance out of my Lemmy instance I read that PostgreSQL heavily relies on the OSs disk cache for read performance. I've got 16 GB of RAM and two hdds in RAID 1. I've PostgreSQL configured to use 12 GB of RAM and I've zram swap set up with 8 GB. ...
Linux has kind of two forms of memory pages (entries in RAM), one is a file cache (page cache) and the other is "memory allocated by programs for work" (anonymous pages).
When you look at memory consumed by a process you are looking at RSS, page/file cache is part of kernel and for example in btop corresponds to Cached.
Page cache can never be moved into swap - that would be the same as duplicating the file from one place on a disk to another place on a (possibly different) disk.
If more memory is needed, page cache is evicted (written back into the respective file, if changed).
Only anonymous pages (not backed by anything permanent) can be moved into swap.
So what does "PostgreSQL heavily relies on the OSs disk cache" mean?
The more free memory there is, the more files can be kept cached in RAM and the faster postgres can then retrieve these files.
When you add zram, you dedicate part of actual RAM to a compressed swap device which, as I said above, will never contain page cache.
In theory this still increases the total available memory but in reality that is only true if you configure the kernel to aggressively "swap" anonymous pages into the zram backed swap.
Notes: I tried to simplify this a bit so it might not be exact, also if you look at a process, the memory consumed by it is called RSS and it contains multiple different things not just memory directly allocated by the code of the program.
Soo I'm working on a database that needs to support multiple languages (two for now, but who knows). I stumbled across this blog post that explains how to develop what it calls a "translation subschema" (haven't seen it called like this anywhere else so I don't know if it's actually how you'd call it), which seems like a very ...
Had to solve the same problem few months ago, user provided content and so, user provided translations.
We use postgres everywhere and we had to support 3 languages initially with one more eventually, so we decied to use json fields for anything that could be translated (which wasn't too much).
Mind you, this was basically a (temporarily permanent) prototype project but (fresh) postgres has a good support and operators for json so it worked alright.
EDIT: I remembered that hstore might be a good alternative too, I think it was slightly less "heavy" and had better operators for the kind of access we needed
Path Master / Path Maker are probably the most spot on here, though it is missing some spice .. how about Journey Master, just to phonetically spite wotc lol JM
Invest into an amd AM5 socket motherboard as a future-proof "core", reuse psu, verify that the pump in the water cooler still works(afaik water coolers are actually worse then classic air on durability).
AM5 mobo should give you longevity as AMD keeps same cpu sockets for a lot longer then intel, though mind that am5 is the latest socket and the second hand market might not be as favorable as for AM4.
If you have or go into am4 you will be better now but with no future upgrade path (but if you really don't have the money it will work too).
Get any second hand cpu and gpu.
I believe even gpus like the good old gtx 1080 would probably still work for rimworld and ONI as both are simulation games, though to err on the side, 2070 should be just fine, 3070 would be even better and give you performance to spare.
If you want something fresher the new intel arc gpus might work for you.
I don't remember any older but decent cpus, but if you do a bit of searching ("best cheap AMx cpu gaming”) you will get plenty of reddit posts to approximate from.
Edit: also, I would very much lean into getting better cpu then gpu - that is what makes or breaks the setup (and simulation games), gpus can be switched like socks anyway.
About RAM, if you can squeeze out even a single stick ddr5 it should work really well, but double stick ddr4 32g+ sum will work too.
What movie? I have a very good memory and there is no movie.
Jokes aside, I agree it's a good read.
I kind of grew up with this series so it holds a special place in my heart. Loved Inheritance, I remember being sad for days because of finishing it lol.
remove all wireless connections between you and the internet if you can
in terminal, run ping against few different targets (to your gateway IP, to some random website/IP) and watch for packet drops, if you see them you might have a hardware problem (mb eth card/port, cable, router) or your ISP is having problems
check that your cable/router has correctly negotiated the wire speeds: ethtool <your-internet-interface-name:eth0> | grep -A1 Speed this will show you the speed (at least 100Mb/s) and Duplex: Full
Recently I noticed when updating that pacman doesn't resume where I stopped it (a few minutes before) which is not nice since my internet is slow. After a lot of searching I found out every time I run pacman -Syu it makes a new folder in /var/cache/pacman/pkg named download-xxxxxx where the x's are randomized characters then it ...
I don't have an answer either but there is also checkupdates from pacman-contrib pkg, it optionally allows you to pre-DL the updated packages into the (global package) cache
it's good, the bad: beta maps are small so it's not exactly the BF experience of old, there should be bigger maps on release. Also no server browser, invasive antichet and EA, but it is good
For a couple weeks I've been struggling to get TLS over Caddy with DNS challenges. My ISP blocks incoming data on ports 80/443 and I was looking to use an uncommon port (5050) for my personal needs. ...
Thanks for sharing! yeah I do use the PB Encounter tracker but it does not work well with my setup and workflow - probably boils down to having 14" laptop screen.
With all the PCs, minions and NPCs in the tracker, I can't just scan it and see perceptions of all N/PCs, have to filter who is who and also scroll (which somehow sucks because half the time I scroll the whole page instead of the list).
I should try the offloading that is a good tip, though my players are bit meta/gamey - not to cheese but they are just not used to separating themselves from characters, instead playing their chars like pawns and taking all information given into account - so I tend to keep stuff secret.
The table is not small small, more like narrow so there is just enough space for 4 players and their tablets and dice trays.
We have erasable(?) grid map book in front of my side of the table (GM screen with laptop and dice tray behind, and that takes the whole width of the table).
We use miniatures (nothing fancy) to represent both PCs and NPCs but room boundaries are written on the grid with marker and that is about it, I do have some pane minis with stuff like rocks, pillars and trees but... reality is that my combats probably feel pretty barren when it comes to hiding/occlusion spots (now that I am thinking about this, I have probably not bothered because of this whole issue), I usually only sprinkle in stuff when it makes "logistical" sense to have it there.
Clipboard is actually really good idea for my setup, I can tuck it between the laptop and GM screen when not actively using and it is mostly out of the way for everything else.
I do like the init steps you take to resolve this, highest Perc DC vs lowest roll, if failed then note who sees who and go from there in the init order - to avoid longer pauses from me as GM.
I will probably return to your comment after we have to deal with stealth again lol.
yep, already noted, that's about the best I can do in my case I think
They do track things for their own characters (HPs, statuses etc) and I obviously track NPCs.
I am not sure about the init order, I use Pathbuilders Encounter builder thingy to do that and players do not have access to that, someone could absolutely do this once I build the order but I would have to change my workflow a bit to accommodate it.
My Linux mint pc just crashed because I was moving a lot of files from the home folder to the root directory. I got error that the drive is getting full. After clicking show error my pc rebooted and there was an error something like "can't create user journal no space left" I've been running mint for 4 years now. But arch for 2 ...
I dual boot with win 11, I do so for programming purposes, not gaming. I read online that the game straight up blocks Linux on all fronts (typical EA). So, I booted into win 11 and launched the beta. It still refused to start and complained that secure boot was "disabled". Booted into BIOS and it was enabled, but not active. I ...
For context the most recent post I had made was this vice article: https://www.vice.com/en/article/i-tried-not-to-cum-while-playing-the-adult-games-advertised-on-pornhub/
Brace yourself for a wild ride where music meets mayhem! Look Mum No Computertakes you to the quirky, pixel-art universe of Soldersworth in this twin-stick shooter action-RPG. Join Sam and his synthesizer sidekick, Kosmo, as you battle rogue machines and fix them from the inside — one electrifying beat at a time!
I'm moving away from Windows (yay!) and need to bring a few features with me. Microsoft added this auto complete feature to PowerShell recently and I need something similar: ...
The Online Safety Act came for my short story ( www.newstatesman.com )
[Objectionable words have been passwordified; they do not appear that way in the article] ...
GE-Proton10-26 Released ( github.com )
Github workflows: ...
Is my apt bugged?
I've been trying the COSMIC store and it looks like it killed my apt somehow. ...
Zlin City: Arch Moderna on Steam ( store.steampowered.com )
Looks like a cozy city builder inspired by the Czech city Zlín [zlean] ...
Searching for eBook reader solution
cross-posted from: ...
Starbound Fans: New Dedicated Server Open to Lemmy
The gamer group I'm part of recently launched a brand new Starbound server that uses a new, custom-curated modpack of 69 different mods that add an astonishing amount of content to the game. This includes Frackin, Arcana, Enhanced Storage, and a number of others that aim to give everyone lots of new story lines, quests, and ...
What's if instead of a dead internet we end up with a dark forest internet
We all migrate to smaller websites try not to post outside drawing attention just to hide from the "Ai" crawlers. The internet seems dead except for the few pockets we each know existed away from the clankers
Technical debt is probably one of the best dramatic tropes
It has a long story and a lot of better explanations, but in short ...
Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal ( windowsreport.com )
Erosion is a voxel open world shooter in which deaths cost decades, and you can win the Wild West with armies of cats ( www.rockpapershotgun.com )
Someone ran a modern Linux OS on a 30-year-old CPU, and it's surprisingly usable ( www.xda-developers.com )
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Firefox's New Profile Manager Goes Live For Everyone Next Week ( www.omgubuntu.co.uk )
Elixir v1.19 released: enhanced type checking, broader type inference, and up to 4x faster compilation for large projects ( elixir-lang.org )
cross-posted from: ...
Disney Reportedly Pulls the Plug on TRON 4 After TRON: ARES Crashes at the Box Office, Is Jared Leto to Blame? ( geektyrant.com )
what are your biggest contributions to open source software?
you can be vague on the details if don't want to be doxxed
48 BC
The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees
18+ FoundryVTT development
Does anyone here knows how to develop a module and or system? ...
Does zram impede disk cache?
In my relentless pursuit of trying to coax more performance out of my Lemmy instance I read that PostgreSQL heavily relies on the OSs disk cache for read performance. I've got 16 GB of RAM and two hdds in RAID 1. I've PostgreSQL configured to use 12 GB of RAM and I've zram swap set up with 8 GB. ...
How do I design a multi-language database?
Soo I'm working on a database that needs to support multiple languages (two for now, but who knows). I stumbled across this blog post that explains how to develop what it calls a "translation subschema" (haven't seen it called like this anywhere else so I don't know if it's actually how you'd call it), which seems like a very ...
Revanced Team gets DMCA from Spotify ( revanced.app )
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37289075 ...
If Pathfinder had a brand-specific term for "Gamemaster", what would it be?
cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/1840902 ...
my youtube algorithm kinda sucks rn, recommend me some
Min requirements to run well
Greetings friendly psychopaths! ...
ISO TKL keyboards?
Hi fediverse. ...
Is the Inheritance (Eragon) series worth reading?
Hi all, ...
Should we remove XSLT from the web platform? ( github.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/555312 ...
[Help] Counter Strike 2 extreme jitter
Hi everyone ...
Microsoft Issues Free Update Offer To Millions Of Windows Users (ads in windows update menu) ( www.forbes.com )
Make pacman not put downloads in download-xxxxxx directory
Recently I noticed when updating that pacman doesn't resume where I stopped it (a few minutes before) which is not nice since my internet is slow. After a lot of searching I found out every time I run pacman -Syu it makes a new folder in /var/cache/pacman/pkg named download-xxxxxx where the x's are randomized characters then it ...
Has anyone else played the Battlefield 6 beta? What are your thoughts on it?
Caddy + DeSEC.io + DNS Challenge [Solved]
For a couple weeks I've been struggling to get TLS over Caddy with DNS challenges. My ISP blocks incoming data on ports 80/443 and I was looking to use an uncommon port (5050) for my personal needs. ...
How to handle stealth & detection without bogging it down?
Considering the last few posts are about stealth and detection I might as well kick this off: ...
Never saw this screen before
My Linux mint pc just crashed because I was moving a lot of files from the home folder to the root directory. I got error that the drive is getting full. After clicking show error my pc rebooted and there was an error something like "can't create user journal no space left" I've been running mint for 4 years now. But arch for 2 ...
YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround ( www.tomsguide.com )
Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 ( youtu.be )
Battlefield 6 requires secure boot to be enabled and active
I dual boot with win 11, I do so for programming purposes, not gaming. I read online that the game straight up blocks Linux on all fronts (typical EA). So, I booted into win 11 and launched the beta. It still refused to start and complained that secure boot was "disabled". Booted into BIOS and it was enabled, but not active. I ...
Sandustry by Lantto (Powder Toy x Factorio) ( lanttogames.itch.io )
Sandustry is a mining and automation game with pixel-based physics. ...
Banned (now unbanned) from nottheonion for "porn spam".
For context the most recent post I had made was this vice article: https://www.vice.com/en/article/i-tried-not-to-cum-while-playing-the-adult-games-advertised-on-pornhub/
Look Mum No Computer ( www.gog.com )
Brace yourself for a wild ride where music meets mayhem! Look Mum No Computertakes you to the quirky, pixel-art universe of Soldersworth in this twin-stick shooter action-RPG. Join Sam and his synthesizer sidekick, Kosmo, as you battle rogue machines and fix them from the inside — one electrifying beat at a time!
Linux shell "auto complete"?
I'm moving away from Windows (yay!) and need to bring a few features with me. Microsoft added this auto complete feature to PowerShell recently and I need something similar: ...