We use their ‘B2’ thing (which is pay-per-GB), not their ‘personal backup’ thing (which is the one without Linux support and IIRC is ‘oh it’s unlimited! don’t use Too Much though! how much is too much? oh it’s unlimited!’). B2 is “S3 compatible” storage not a regular thing, so it’s kind of a hassle to work with, but some backup tools can back up to S3-style storage (we use restic for that).
– Frost
There’s also Matrix, but it kinda sucks. (We have both it and XMPP.) It handles encryption key management infinitely better than XMPP though.
(Haven’t used Deltachat.)
(If you’re selfhosting or trust your server, and the people you’re talking with are selfhosting or trust their server and you trust their server, you probably don’t need end to end encryption and XMPP without E2EE will work fine.)
– Frost
You can also tell Heroic “run a different executable than what the game says to”. Works fine.
I slipped with the salt shaker, oops.
– Ylfingr
Nah.
I look at the people letting LLMs do all their thinking for them and think “what the fuck are they even doing?”. I want none of that shit.
– Frost
I’ve said “feel free to infodump!!” many a time, I feel like that counts. :3
– Frost
General PSA that you can have nice bespoke websites written by paw that are fine on mobile! CSS has a lot of neat stuff these days, and also making things mobile-friendly doesn’t have to involve Awful Corporate Design Trends.
– Frost
Hell, you can even run PS2 games FROM DISC with pcsx2! Pop 'em into your desktop, hit play.
HDMI to composite adapter should have you covered (for the most part) connectionwise.
Actually, you’d be surprised! I thought all disc games still shipped with the game? You would be missing any patches, though.
We’ve bought a couple PS5-era PS4 games and they came on two discs.
– Frost
Microsoft’s .NET spies on you to some extent (“telemetry”, you can turn it off… in theory… with an environment variable of all things, and nothing else, AFAWK). So… yeah.
Might be safe. Might not.
Amateurtein.
– Topaz
Beans, beans, the magic legume! The more you eat the more you fume!
Oh GAH, RIGHT after posting this I found it. They’re next to the plants, in the advanced technology page!
facepaw.
– Frost
Yeah, this is why reincarnation tropes always creep me the fuck out. Amnesia tropes often do, too.
It’s not just you.
Fortunately I don’t think this is actually a thing that really happens, personally, so you don’t have to worry about that particular horror. Just regular nonexistence (which is also pretty terrifying, but still better than your corpse walking around and other people thinking it’s the same person…).
– Frost
That way lies means testing hell. UBI is better.
Ooh nice!!! Good luck out there!
– Frost
We should be taking a shower and eating. (Unfortunately we can’t do both of those at the same time but both have to get done.)
We are doing neither and also have to pee. So yeah, this is going well.
– Frost
We were born in America and literally have zero clue who you’re talking about. So, uh, yeah.
– Frost
16 🙼🙼 16 🙼🙼 16
(context: No Man’s Sky reference)