I’ve been noticing a lot more definitely-AI-generated “blogposts” and full-on ads in my Mastodon hashtag feeds.

It’s a fairly new thing.

75% of the accounts I’ve had to ban in the roughly-two-years since I spun up my instance have been AI slopfaucets that popped up in the last 2 weeks.

Hey, you do you.

This sounds like the kind of stuff that breaks Steam Deck software after random system updates, though.

I wonder whose decision it was to make a bunch of former Titanfall 2 devs make yet another live service game.

Because that person probably put all of those TF2 devs out of a job.

I believe the last time I had to do a Windows re-install, I was nagged THREE times to enable OneDrive. Each time, the opt out button was increasingly difficult to locate, and the verbiage more & more resembling “you’re an idiot if you don’t enable this”.

Even after refusing to use it x3, once Windows was installed, OneDrive was still sitting down in the system tray, ready to fuck shit up.

Since I run in Game Mode, the reboot is pretty much baked into the update process.

Go to Settings. See update. Apply update. Reboot when it says it’s ready.

Aside from that, the PC just chills in Sleep when not being used.

It’s not Let’s Encrypt, but I’ve been happy with this Cloudflare-flavored ACME through Caddy.

https://github.com/CaddyBuilds/caddy-cloudflare

I really only use it for my local-hosted stuff that I don’t expose to the web. So, when I’m at home, https://radarr/.[mydomain].com resolves to 192.168.1.145:7878. That sort of thing…

It could quite simply be that Sony already knew Bluepoint was on the chopping block when they made the request.

So they just brushed them off with a deflecting “nah, FromSoft doesn’t want to do that” response.

My Bazzite PC lives in a cabinet under my living room TV, next to my PS5.

I put it to sleep when not in use, so I can wake it with my 8bitdo controller.

It’s basically a second gaming console.

Seriously, we need to convince him that all of the AI companies are saying mean things about him. Then maybe we might be able to afford RAM.

I really like Audiobookshelf for audiobooks.

But it breaks my brain that it still hasn’t implemented some sort of automatic queueing of new podcast episodes. Every time you finish a podcast episode, you need to manually go into the app and find the next episode to play. Not ideal for when you’re driving…

Personally, my ISP (T-Mobile 5G) has CGNAT and blocks all incoming traffic. I can’t simply Wireguard into my network. Tailscale has been my intermediary to get remote access.

I guess it’s time to figure how how to host an alternative on a VPS (I see Headscale mentioned in these comments).

[insert “you haven’t thought of the smell!” Always Sunny meme]

People raging about videogames being woke

VERSUS

People raging about people raging about videogames being woke.

…FIGHT!!!

You see the screenshot.

Now assume your Angry Internet Gamer position…

Get in the comments, and FIGHT!

I knew WB’s HD-DVDs (remember those?) were a timebomb. I didn’t realize regular DVDs were, too.

I’ve always used Transmission, since there’s a Docker container I use that bakes in your VPN-of-choice & a killswitch.

https://haugene.github.io/docker-transmission-openvpn/

That said, it looks like it hasn’t been updated in over a year… I wonder if there’s anything else out there that does the same thing as this. (EDIT: Yes. Google brings up plenty of choices.)

This is an EVEN BIGGER opportunity than AMD had with Intel to have a “Ryzen moment”.

With trash uplifts (5070 may not even beat the 4070Super) and blatantly swapping of the names of their GPUs (the 5080 is XX70-level hardware – at best)… Nvidia has effectively doubled the price of GPUs in a few short years.

If AMD decided to finally not just-follow-Nvidia, I would RUN to buy a $550-600 RX9070XT with RTX5080 performance.

“$550-600? That’s unrealistic, Brad, you fuckin’ idiot!”

Fuck off. $1,000 RTX5080 performance is twice what the $500 two-gens-old RTX3070 had. And also…

• The $599 RTX4070 Super had twice the performance of the two-gens-old $499 RTX2070 Super
• The $499 RTX3070 had twice the performance of the two-gens-old $379 GTX1070
• The $499 RTX2070 Super had twice the performance of the two-gens-old $329 GTX970
• The $379 GTX1070 had twice the performance of the two-gens-old $399 GTX770

Saying nginx with a “hard g” can get you into some real trouble…

The sad truth is that the vast majority of people WANT an algorithm to tell them what they like.

Mastodon requires you to actually have your own opinions going in, and follow material based on that.

My concern is basically the usual “Nvidia hates Linux”.

Also:

https://docs.bazzite.gg/Gaming/Hardware_compatibility_for_gaming/

Nvidia GPUs are currently in beta with major caveats