NuXCOM_90Percent

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Avowed Director Leaves Obsidian For Netflix Games in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 days ago

Big sack of cash and a good mark on her CV. And Obsidian has been kind of a clusterfuck the past few years with Avowed having been more or less restarted from scratch like three times?

Netflix games is a sinking ship but so is... a lot of the games industry. Whereas working as a creative at Netflix is potentially a way to pivot out and away from games entirely. Carrie is also a writer (I think self published?) so that is a further way to seem like someone who can transition to a different department.

You can now use authenticator apps to keep your GOG account secure! in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

At a glance (haven't enabled yet, will later today), GoG uses the RFC standard TOTP model. This means you can use whatever app you want whether that is the google authenticator that ties it to your cloud account, something related to your password manager (e.g. keepass or bitwarden), or even just a python script you have in a random directory. It gives you control of your 2FA and protects you in the event you lose a device without properly de-authenticating it.

Valve use their own model that, to my knowledge, is only accessible through the Steam mobile app. Which is a huge nightmare if you ever have a device stolen/damaged (and is why you back up the recovery code)

Just enabled. Yup, bog standard TOTP and they even provide the plaintext key so that I don't have to extract it from a QR code.

I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip -1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

There are a few layers to it. I'll start with the legit reasons and hope the jackasses don't read too deep in:

  1. EGS was built around the idea of providing what people need/want rather than EVERYTHING. Some of that was truly asinine (no shopping cart for like 2 years?) and some was a conscious choice based on everyone saying they don't want their video game store to be a social media network. Unfortunately... people apparently DO want their video game store to be social media.
  2. Every store handles regional pricing and distribution differently and, allegedly, EGS had worse coverage in a few of the countries The Internet actually knows exists.
  3. Tim Sweney is a complete and utter dipshit and always has been and it is REALLY hard to not hate everything he touches.
  4. EGS rapidly entwined itself with Fortnite because Fortnite makes more than the GDP of some small nations. But we are hardcore gamers so we all hate Fortnite.
  5. Sweeney/Epic actually accidentally argued for consumer rights against Apple which, in turn, led to the full force of Apple running smear campaigns against Epic to make sure that we all realized how much we love walled gardens
  6. Sweeney/Epic ALSO kind of picked a fight with Steam by pointing out how little developers get from any given sale. Which... because we all love Valve means that Epic are assholes and developers all actively want to strive to get the negotiating power of a Call of Duty or Rockstar.
  7. Speaking of. EGS isn't Valve and any alternative is inherently evil because we all love Valve.

So what was a mediocre store with a lot of free games and a tendency to give developers a giant sack of money for one year of exclusivity became The Devil.

YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

Then whatever facebook nonsense you read doesn't apply? Because the heat never gets hot enough to even reach the smoke point?

YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Quick google puts Canola Oil's smoke point at 450-ish Fahrenheit. You can do the real good stir frying with that. Even the "get a pan ridiculously hot to sear some meat" is in the 300s and MAYBE capping around 500 which isn't great with canola but is still doable since the food will lower the pan temperature pretty quick anyway.

So if your pan is getting that hot then you are doing it wrong or are specifically trying to do restaraunt style sous vide and don't realize they use (char)broilers for that.

YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 11 points 6 days ago (5 children)

A soft (e.g. silicone) spatula is all you really need to avoid damaging a non-stick pan. And they are incredibly useful for other uses (a rubber flipper is awesome if you are perpetually impatient when it comes to flipping meat and don't want to damage the skin).

But yeah. They are inherently a consumable which is why nobody should ever spend more than 20-ish (pre-trump) USD on one. It is up to an individual to decide if they would use it enough to justify that.

YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Different oils have different temperature ranges with the "smoke point" what is commonly considered. As long as you are under that temperature, you are fine according to everyone that isn't facebook.

YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago (7 children)

For the majority of cooking? Yes, you don't need a non-stick pan. A properly used steel (or even aluminum) pan will work. Cast Iron is obviously loved but Carbon Steel is actually what most people want and has almost all of the same properties. But properly oiling your pan (and I actually love cooking sprays for dishes where I am using a neutral oil. Glug of "real" oil, get it up to temp, and then give a quick spritz just to make sure EVERYTHING is coated) and cooking at a high enough heat that your proteins can properly react and not "stick" to the pan will get you almost the entire way.

That said? Eggs and fish. Eggs very much are in that "nobody ever complained about too much butter" category but there is a lot to be said about a quick egg without any additional fats. And if you are cooking eggs these days, you can afford a 20 dollar specialty pan.... And fish in particular is the kind of food where it is very easy to overcook it while waiting for all the appropriate reactions to occur so you can cleanly flip it.

If I were to downsize my kitchen (which I hopefully will be doing in a few months...)? That shit goes in the appropriate bin. But if you have the space? A 20-ish dollar restaurant supply store non-stick pan is AMAZING. And cheap enough that you can afford to get rid of it the moment you see any scratching.

This is Martin Owens. He is a leading developer of Inkscape, a free open-source vector graphics editor. Adobe has lost millions of dollars because of his work. Thank you Martin 🫡 in c/pics@lemmy.world
[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 days ago
  1. Inkscape is awesome
  2. Much like Gimp, Inkscape is not at all a competitor to the adobe suite if you are a professional
  3. A hobbyist using hobbyist software is not loss of money for The most feature rich professional oriented software out there
HBO Go Max Now in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

HBO Max became Max which became HBO Max.

Please refer to the chart above.

HBO Go Max Now in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

In between they thought the HBO brand held some great prestige and wanted to protect it from stuff like live sports (that aren't boxing) and reality TV (that isn't Real Sex or Taxi Cab Diaries or Cathouse Some SHits) and so forth.

Then they realized nobody gave a shit AND it led to a lot of people wondering "what the hell is max?". So the HBO branding is back.

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Native Linux Games/Applications with HDR Support? (lemmy.zip)
 

So with newer wayland+wine/proton improving HDR support, I figured... I would actually try. And, rather than needing to debug everything all in one go, I'd rather take a few incremental steps.

So is anyone aware of games with native linux clients/binaries that support HDR? Preferably with a menu setting so I can determine if the capability is detected rather than "I guess that light looks bright?"

Indie Dev Who Pulled Game From Xbox In Solidarity With Palestinian-Led BDS Hopes Others Will Do The Same in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Open ended boycotts don't work. People MIGHT boycott until they see nothing changing and give up and companies are under no incentive to change anything because it won't make a difference. It is just a storm to be weathered.

Whereas a boycott with an actionable end state gives the company something to change if they don't want to try to outlast the outrage, as it were.

Its why the traditional protest call and response is "What do we want?" "X!" "When do we want it?" "Now!". It immediately makes it clear what will make the angry people go away.

For the BDS boycotts? Microsoft is sort of "Break these major contracts in ways that will make every single potential business partner wary going forward". The Disney boycott, from what I can gather, is basically "tell gal gadot et all to fuck off". Which... agreed. But you can also just look at the ongoing lawsuits from the last time they fired a chud for why there will be no public statement and the best we can hope for is to silently stop hiring zionists.

Which is my problem. Most of the BDS boycotts are effectively "burn down your entire company and then we'll give you money again". Which... yeah. I still try to support them to some degree (most of what I have settled on is "I'll grab what I want later so that I don't contribute to the big numbers on launch") but there is no end and it is just going to fade away as more and more people decide they want their shiny.

And, for what it is worth, I think at least some of the folk behind these boycotts understands that. The MS boycott discussion was particularly good about stuff like "If you can't stop using Teams of Office, consider changing to this business plan that is cheaper and turns off copilot". Which speaks to "We know you aren't going to drastically change your life but you were probably going to do this so you might as well do it and claim it is related to human rights"

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Current meta for direct download sites? (lemmy.zip)
 

So Amazon finally closed up the kindle 4 pc loophole (bah) and that means I need to learn how to find ebooks for the authors who insist on releasing exclusively on kindle.

Looks like ebook-hunter and the like are the way to go for that (and I set up a reminder to try to get an invite to myanonamouse and we'll see how that goes). But... that site uses tiny-files which is straight up cancer. Not the end of the world to click the same link and close the same blocked pop ups five times in a row for a one off but... yeah.

Back in the day we used apps like jdownloader to make this less painful but from checking out the flatpak... that might be actively malware at this point AND it wants me to install definitely malware browser plugins and the like.

So is there a better alternative? Preferably something I can run in a container on a random server.

Thanks.

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So what ARE the current "good" VPN services? (lemmy.zip)
 

I've used proton for a year or two now and it is fine. Great for use on my phone when I want to use public/airport wifi and it sort of kind of works with gluetun (the rotating port is annoying but it still is a forwarded port).

But I've increasingly been annoyed with Proton as a company and am looking to migrate my email/domain to fastmail in the very near future. I COULD continue to just pay for the vpn (60 USD a year is pretty reasonable) but also feel like this is a good opportunity to "shop around"

Checked the wiki and other FAQs (which all basically crib from said wiki) and they all basically boil down to proton or mullivad... except that mullivad apparently stopped allowing port forwarding which is a bit of an issue for any torrents and the like.

So are there any other good options?

Thanks

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FBI launches Tesla threats task force: 'This is domestic terrorism' (www.cnbc.com)
 

No worries tesla owners of lemmy: your president is addressing your biggest concern

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Guide to Removing DRM From Amazon Kindle E-Books (lemmy.zip)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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This is a grey area for piracy since you need to own the ebook but... you also don't really "own" anything purchased in digital distribution and this is removing DRM from that. Suffice to say, if this were Nintendo they would try to sue you so it is probably more piracy than not.

Confirmed working as of a few minutes ago since I wanted to rebuild this with KVM.

Based on https://www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/comments/1c2ryfz/ and comments thereof.

  1. Create a new virtual machine. I recently used KVM directly but also had success with Virtual Box.
  2. Install Windows 10
  3. Disable internet access for the VM.
  4. Download and install Kindle 2.4.70904 (SHA256 2e2e4e5bb9fd585947244a4a62ce5baca47818c439d0213cc9a5a96f9a692119) from https://kindleforpc.s3.amazonaws.com/70904/KindleForPC-installer-2.4.70904.exe
  5. Run the Kindle app and disable updating (Tools > Options > General > disable "Automatically install updates..."). Optionally change the save path.
  6. Run the batch script disable_k4pc_download.bat (SHA256 656fbabfa9d1bb3fd1160100391fbf3886597633178e37cffcffe747d3b66567
    ) under step 2a at https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=361503 to ACTUALLY disable automatic upgrading
  7. Re-enable networking.
  8. Download and install Calibre. 7.13.0 from https://download.calibre-ebook.com/7.13.0/. This version is known working and all efforts I found used Windows so I went with the msi (SHA256 7c1b57b6f55076cc646a30eb6394ec00df18be373c3badf80d7ee39152ccffda
    ) since this install exists solely to strip DRM before I then add them to my Calibre-Web server.
  9. Launch Calibre and install the KFX Input plugin from the built in plugin manager
  10. Separately download the 10.0.9 version of the DeDRM plugin (newer may work but, again, lazy) from https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases/download/v10.0.9/DeDRM_tools_10.0.9.zip. SHA256 of d46e7ff94a46dc871eb9b7e639e6da1883823cd5a9d705d53f51bd9c251aabda
  11. Launch Kindle, login, and download whatever you want to strip DRM from. I did run into some weirdness where I had an exclamation point after logging in but restarting the k4pc app allowed me to download books.
  12. In Calibre, add all the books you downloaded by clicking and dragging the .azw file from Explorer to the Calibre window. You must do this from the downloaded directory as DeDRM is dependent on metadata in the same directory. This can be automated using a batch script pretty trivially.
  13. Then convert them to a non azw3 format (mobi if you are putting it back on a Kindle. epub otherwise).
  14. And then all the epub files in your Calibre library should have had DRM removed and be ready to import into your real Calibre library (or in a random folder on your computer)

Update (so someone tell that dipshit who steals guides to upload his copy):

Looks like Amazon have blocked sufficiently old versions of k4pc from downloading ebooks now. Unclear exactly what the criteria are. Some people think it is any book published after Apr 22 2025. Others (self included) have noticed it applies to purchases after that. My suspicion is that different publishers have different deals with Amazon and their cutoffs are based on that.

So either way: The above is mostly useless now. Yay.

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Good youtubers and blogs on VR? (lemmy.zip)
 

So I picked up a facebook quest 3 to get back into PCVR and to have some standalone fun too (also to force Valve's hand to release Deckard sooner than later because that is how things work).

Wouldn't mind getting an actually comfortable headstrap and maybe checking out what games are worth looking at. But it is REALLY hard to figure out which outlets are worth listening to and which are just playing the SEO and "sponsored but not really" bullshit game.

So... any suggestions? Thanks.

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Model archiving and organization? (lemmy.zip)
 

Bit of a weird question but how do you store and organize your models/STL files?

I do most of my CAD in OnShape these days so I have The Cloud for all the convenience and future horror of that. And... when I grab stuff from one of the sites like thingiverse... I SHOULD save the model but I don't and it has only bothered me once when I lost my webcam cover. And I probably spent more time searching for a replacement than it took to just make my own.

But I want to get more into kickstarters (... I feel dirty) and buying cool models and those I DO want to archive and save.

Most likely I'll just make a folder structure and sync it to my NAS with syncthing. But are there any better/more elaborate solutions? One of those "have server, will spin up container" things but figured I would ask first.

Thanks.

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Preferred RSS/Newsfeed Reader Solutions? (lemmy.zip)
 

I've been using News for Nextcloud for the past year or so and love it. But it recently broke (refuses to pull any feeds) and reading the github issues... that app ain't gonna last much longer.

Briefly looked at the awesome selfhosting page and going to do a read through of those when my brain is a bit more sane. But any suggestions? My main requirement is that I need to have multiple android devices able to connect and sync even while off network (I can handle the anxiety that comes from tunnels).

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Sites For and Experiences With tabletop miniature STLs? (lemmy.zip)
 

Anyone know of any good sites for (good) STLs of the popular tabletop/wargaming miniatures?

And, more importantly, anyone have any good experiences with them? My gut would be that the vast majority are pointless in FDM and require the granularity of resin. But I have also seen some wild prints that take advantage of ridiculously thin layer sizes to have insane detail. And, if it isn't a complete fool's errand, this would be a fun set of projects to fine tune both my printing ability and my painting skills.

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What gamepad? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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So for the past couple of years (... coming on a decade?) I've liked the 8bitdo controllers a lot. Build consistency is a bit of a shitshow but you can tell almost instantly if you have one of the bad ones (and it is usually a matter of just loosening one screw unless the PCB itself is cracked). And the Ultimate Pro Whatever The Hell With Charging Dock is really nice and I love that I never have to worry about my controller needing new batteries when I am on my PC. In theory I can just plug it in but that gets into a mess with games that auto-detect what is connected and so forth. The charging dock that doubles as a receiver is delightful.

But when I switched to linux for fulltime gaming a while back... things got messier. 8bitdo has no linux support whatsoever. Mostly that is "fine" because the controller is a controller and I can use a phone app when I want to change what the rear buttons do. But I can't update firmwares. Which, again, is "fine" except I finally wanted to get back into Crosscode and have learned that shitshow of an html5 engine ONLY supports xinput on PC and apparently the functionality to tell the 8bitdo to present as an xinput might only be in a beta firmware? So all the joys of debugging but with very non-technical resources on google.

Not the end of the world (was mostly planning to moonlight to my xbox anyway) but kind of the straw that broke the camel's back as it were. Because Crosscode is a mess of a game technically that even the devs acknowledge was a mistake (AMAZING experience though) but what happens the next time I run up into a corner case? Not ready to throw this in the bin and rage purchase a new gamepad but very much ready to start browsing what my options are. Especially as (some) third parties are actually pretty good these days.

So what gamepads do you folk use?

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Selfhosted alternatives to Goodreads? (lemmy.zip)
 

So I finally broke down and made a very poor purchasing decision and ordered an e-ink writer to be a notepad/e-reader hybrid. Partially so that it is less of a hassle to read books I got from kickstarters and the like while still using the kindle app for the disturbing amounts of money I throw at Amazon.

Historically? I loved goodreads because theoretically I would get good recommendations based on what I liked. In practice, that has never happened but it is still nice to see if I read something in the past. And once I have multiple ebook ecosystems, it will be nice to actually check that rather than spend the first 100 pages wondering if this is familiar.

So any good recommendations? I suspect what I SHOULD do (and will likely start doing more as a self betterment thing) is just put a note in my personal nextcloud every time I finish a book with a quick summary and some thoughts. But having the big database is also really nice.

Thanks

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