klangcola

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Open World Games: yay or nay? in c/gaming@beehaw.org
[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'd argue Skyrim etc have an "open world" above ground in addition to many "linear worlds" , i.e. the caves and houses behind loading screens. Open world games let you choose where to go and how to get there, as opposed to linear "corridor" games like Half Life or Halo where you literally follow a single path from A to B as you progress from one level to the next.

Then there's games like original Fable which blurs the line, because technically you choose where to go and how to get there, but each loading area is so small, it doesn't feel like an open world at all. And also you can't go off the path.

Btw if you don't like loading screens, have you tried Space Engineers? You can literally travel from one full sized planet (~40km diameter) to another full sized without a single loading screen. While flying you can walk around the inside or outside of your spaceship, no loading screens.

I'm curious, which settings app layout do you prefer? in c/kde@lemmy.kde.social
[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

Behold! The power of search beckons you :P

I completely stopped caring about how the Systems Settings menu is organised after all the improvements they did to search a few years ago

Norway’s government announces proposed tourist tax of 3% in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

Also it's only a tax on overnight stays. Which some small towns and rural counties overwhelmed by day-travelers are not happy about.

A sticker I made in Inkscape in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago

And Iceland! More islands more better

Mapy.cz gradually transitioning to Mapy.com in c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 7 points 1 month ago

Never heard of them , but sounds like they're gaining traction.

They're also a financial supporter of open street map: https://blog.seznam.cz/en/2024/12/mapy-cz-now-financially-supports-the-openstreetmap-project-helping-to-contribute-to-its-operation-and-development/

Good distro for mostly gaming system? in c/linux@sopuli.xyz
[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

I haven't seen it mentioned here, so just an FIY: Linux Mint is a "regular" distro, while Bazzite is an immutable distro, meaning the root filesystem is read-only.

That means a lot of the "normal" ways of doing stuff you find online will need to be done differently. For example installing system level packages requires a reboot, to boot in to the new "system image". If something gets booked you can reboot in to an old system image to recover. Regular desktop (Flatpak) apps can be installed without rebooting.

Bazzite is based on Fedora, and very similar to Fedora SilverBlue (immutable version). So if you can't find answers when looking online "how to do X in Bazzite" try instead "how to do X in SilverBlue".

And FYI Linux Mint comes with an easy to use app Timeshift for system level backup and restore (by default it does not backup your documents etc in your HOME folder). Very handy to recover from a borked update or installing something you shouldn't have.

Buy European hardware and office supplies in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago

Ugh, me neither. Bought by Snap-On according to Wikipedia:

Bahco is a Swedish brand within the hand tool industry, which is now part of SNA Europe, part of Snap-on.

Buy European hardware and office supplies in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago

Same for Cocraft as far as I know (Clas Ohlson white label)

EuroStack – A European Alternative for Digital Sovereignty in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 7 points 1 month ago

No, full stack made in Europe. From silicon (microchips) upwards. Including cloud platforms, e-commerce, AI, and more.

Hopefully they'll funnel a lot of investment in to growing and adopting existing open source projects from Europe.
Image for example if all EU institutions used their Office 365 license fees and instead invested in LibreOffice development, and all adopted LibreOffice

Best web archiving software for complex sites and sites requiring logins? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

SingleFile is a browser addon to save a complete web page into a single HTML file. SingleFile is a Web Extension (and a CLI tool) compatible with Chrome, Firefox (Desktop and Mobile), Microsoft Edge, Safari, Vivaldi, Brave, Waterfox, Yandex browser, and Opera.

SingleFile can also be integrated with bookmark managers hoarder and linkding browser extensions. So your browser does the capture, which means you are already logged in, have dismissed the cookie banner, solved the capthas or whatever else annoyance is on the webpage.

ArchiveBox and I believe also Linkwarden use SingleFile (but as CLI from the server side) to capture web pages, as well as other tools and formats. This works well for simple/straightforward web pages, but not for annoying we pages with cookie banners, capthas, and other popups.

Sanity check: am I crazy for wanting to wipe everything and do/learn from scratch? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 4 points 2 months ago

Lol, I'm just over a week in to learning NixOS and this feels so true 😂

I feel like I'm just starting on the incline, luckily I don't have any sturdy rope on hand 😂

You just gotta think different in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago

Wait what, why? I'm out of the loop. What's up with Proxmox and glib 2.0?

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Why use Named volume vs Anonymous volume in Docker? (reddthat.com)
 

What are the pros and cons of using Named vs Anonymous volumes in Docker for self-hosting?

I've always used "regular" Anonymous volumes, and that's what is usually in official docker-compose.yml examples for various apps:

volumes:
  - ./myAppDataFolder:/data

where myAppDataFolder/ is in the same folder as the docker-compose.yml file.

As a self-hoster I find this neat and tidy; my docker folder has a subfolder for each app. Each app folder has a docker-compose.yml, .env and one or more data-folders. I version-control the compose files, and back up the data folders.

However some apps have docker-compose.yml examples using named volumes:

services:
  mealie:
    volumes:
      - mealie-data:/app/data/
volumes:
  mealie-data:

I had to google documentation https://docs.docker.com/engine/storage/volumes/ to find that the volume is actually called mealie_mealie-data

$ docker volume ls
DRIVER    VOLUME NAME
...
local     mealie_mealie-data

and it is stored in /var/lib/docker/volumes/mealie_mealie-data/_data

$ docker volume inspect mealie_mealie-data
...
  "Mountpoint": "/var/lib/docker/volumes/mealie_mealie-data/_data",
...

I tried googling the why of named volumes, but most answers were talking about things that sounded very enterprise'y, docker swarms, and how all state information should be stored in "the database" so you shouldnt need to ever touch the actual files backing the volume for any container.

So to summarize: Named volumes, why? Or why not? What are your preferences? Given the context that we are self-hosting, and not running huge enterprise clusters.

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YouTuber Smii7y discovers the way of Rock and Stone (youtube.com)
 

The joys of discovering DRG for the first time and gleefully learning all the mechanics. Extra props for the careful and methodical test to verify if the game has Friendly Fire

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r/kde will go dark on 12/06 until further notice (www.reddit.com)
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Downvoting disabled, federated voting (reddthat.com)
 

Some instances disable downvoting. Is this intended to be for communities on that instance or users on that instance, or both?

I noticed while reading Memes@lemmy.ml ( https://reddthat.com/post/2053 ) that some commenters were talking about being downvoted, but I have no downvote button. Because downvoting is disabled on my instance?

How does it work the opposite way? Are users from lemmy.ml allowed to downvote on posts for example beehaw (who also has disabled downvoting)

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How does "language" selection work in Lemmy? (reddthat.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by klangcola@reddthat.com to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
6 comments fedilink
 

Many instances say to keep language settings as "undetermined" otherwise you won't see most posts Example: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/59161 Example: https://reddthat.com/settings

Yet when I try to post a comment it will fail with language_not_allowed because initially there is no language selected. So I need to click on the "Select language" drop-down and choose English (the only option)

Actually in the Lemmy web interface (at least on my instance reddthat.com) the Post button will spin endlessly with no indication of what's wrong. Using the Jerboa Android app there's is the very brief error message language_not_allowed, and the comment disappears so I have to type it out again! On the Jerboa app there's also no option to select the language for the comment, so I can't use it to comment at all.

I experienced this language_not_allowed error while commentating on gaming@beehaw.org and lemmy_support@lemmy.ml , both English language communities

So how is this language setting supposed to work?

Is the language selected for posting comments the same setting as the profile setting, which the links recommend to keep as "undetermined" to be able to see (English language) posts?

Have i encountered a bug? Specific to my instance or Lemmy in general?

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