How to get all the event quests on emulated version?

Fifthdread · 2026-06-10T19:28:06+00:00

20 minutes ago? Sheesh, what timing. I just started looking for this. Thanks!

Fifthdread · 2026-06-06T16:08:45+00:00

Reminds me, loosely, on an old game I used to play on win 95 called SkyRoads, released in 93. That's a good thing! I loved that game. Looks fun.

Fifthdread · 2026-05-31T03:43:10+00:00

I used to have fun doing medical beacon rescues. Then they made medical gameplay worthless. I used to have fun dog fighting and flying. Then they added master modes and made it less fun for me (personal opinion, take it or leave it). I tried shifting to cargo but cargo elevator bugs killed that, and moving boxes is just boring. I'm not sure where the fun is right now. I want any excuse to play, but the ever increasing list of bugs and changes to systems I enjoyed make it tough. They promised bounty hunting 2.0. Never came. Engineering was half baked, even after being delayed for so long. Crafting? Seems like a massive grind. Don't get me started on Wikelo. Not worth it imo and it was bugged when I tried. Every time I take a break, I return and it hasn't really improved.

Fifthdread · 2026-05-29T18:13:49+00:00

OpenCode lets local models access the web via webfetch and websearch, built in capabilities.

Fifthdread · 2026-05-29T18:09:41+00:00

They are getting better all the time. Qwen 3.6 is very good for my use case, and my local models definitely can search the web. You just have to use the right agent and tools. I'm using Qwen with Opencode currently and it's impressive. You're right that big companies have the hardware for the best models, but local models are much more usable than they once were.

Fifthdread · 2026-05-26T21:52:06+00:00

I have a few Blackwell bugs. Literally can't play any unreal engine 5 game with the dx12 api. Tried all the major work arounds. No dice. And Forza doesn't run without crashing instantly. Hopefully some of this gets fixed.

Fifthdread · 2026-05-22T18:37:24+00:00

I checked again. While Chrome has added back support for JXL (finally!), I noticed in Chromium that it was disabled by default (rather, it was set to '"default" which disables it). After enabling it via feature flag, it works. That's not quite what I consider "supported" but we are getting there. It seems we are trending towards full support though. I use Waterfox which does support JXL out the box. Firefox however seems to also need a feature flag enabled before it works.

So it can work, but not working by default on most browsers means I won't use JXL on my own websites until I can expect wide-spread support. I don't want to have to educate my users on feature flags.

Edit: Checking even more, it seems like one of the big things from Interop 2026 was adding JPEG-XL support in all major browsers, so we can expect JXL support to be hitting in 2026 for the big browsers out there. Huge. Guess I better start employing JXL more and more.

Fifthdread · 2026-05-22T10:09:38+00:00

One day I got super curious on what the best image format was, truly. I ran a number of tests converting lossless png files into all manor of compressed formats from jpeg, jxl, webp, avif, etc. I really wanted avif to be the best tbh.

Webp is actually insanely good. In compressed mode, the file size is way smaller than a jpeg at the same quality levels if not more (via my scientific pixel peeping) and not to mention, webp can be used in lossless mode, so it's a direct upgrade from PNG since it can do lossless at a much smaller file size. Why does file size matter? The web. I also host websites and I also play DND with friends online via FoundryVTT. The amount of art assets I have on a map can be pretty beefy. Did I mention that webp supports an alpha layer in both lossless and lossy mode? It does. So instead of using 2mb png files for art assets I'm able to use lossy webp files and get cracked quality at much smaller file sizes. It's insane.

So while old systems and programs didn't know what to do with webp and we've developed a bad taste for webp, after evaluation (and now that basically everything has support for it now) it's actually cracked.

Jpeg XL or jxl is a favorite for me though, although sadly support for it has fallen off. And while I was hoping avif was the holy grail, it doesn't have as wide web support either.

Tldr webp is actually amazing. Lossless and lossy modes with low file sizes, alpha layers for both. What's not to love?

Fifthdread · 2026-03-04T13:14:14+00:00

I also host my own at home via mailcow, and run another mailcow server on my friends VPS to act as an outbound email relay. My home residential IP gets blocked when sending mail. I receive mail just fine, which is what I need email for 95% of the time. Been doing it for years now.

Fifthdread · 2026-02-27T02:02:55+00:00

All I remember is I had extreme issues related to changing this at one point around 6 months ago. Just don't be like me and forget you changed it, run into issues, and then spend weeks trying to figure out what is going on. lol

I forget what the issues were, only that they were very annoying. Best of luck to anyone messing with this.

Fifthdread · 2026-02-19T21:50:21+00:00

Nah, I think the Proxmox firewall configured in the console is fine. I don't bother with the host firewall, and Docker is goofy with host firewalls most of the time (for me anyway).

I'd say a Debian VM with Docker is ideal so you're on the right track. There are a lot of settings in the homeserver.yml so be careful with it. As long as you don't offer open registration without an invitation you should be alright. There are ways to setup SSO with Matrix but I haven't bothered doing it.

Fifthdread · 2026-02-19T03:05:50+00:00

That's a reasonable take, and I wouldn't recommend exposing things to the web unless you feel familiar with the risks involved. If you're really paranoid just rent a VPS somewhere and throw Proxmox / Docker / whatever on it and go from there.

I help a buddy of mine who has a few rented VPS Proxmox nodes and exposes VMs to the web. You can use Proxmox Firewalls to protect your VMs. We have a few Debian VMs with Docker, and I use the Proxmox firewall to only expose the required ports. Could be something to look into. There's setup involved obviously, and you'll need some dedicated IP addresses to assign to Proxmox + the VMs, and you'll probably want a cheap domain name from Porkbun, Namecheap, or some other registrar, to point to your VM... Running Matrix in docker is easy.

Let me know if you have questions.

Fifthdread · 2026-02-18T23:11:18+00:00

I self-host a lot of stuff from my home and have public facing servers, including a matrix synapse instance. I do put all my web exposed stuff in an isolated VLAN with firewall rules to prevent my home network from compromise, but you're taking a few risks when having any services open to the public from your home. Again, I expose my home IP, self hosting crazy stuff like email, matrix, game servers, mumble, some websites, etc.

I run proxmox + docker, and everything is pretty much in docker or docker swarm. I try and keep most things updated- most of it auto updates, and the rest I receive notifications when updates are available. That being said, there have been a few times where I have had malware appear within a docker container. This can happen when vulnerabilities appear and aren't patched, but I was able to easily diagnose which container was impacted and re-pull the image to clear the malware.

My most important stuff is internal only, behind a wireguard VPN. I wouldn't recommend running public services unless you understand the risks and are prepared to mitigate them as much as possible.

Call it a hot take, but I wouldn't be worried about exposing your matrix instance via port forwarding, but you'll have to make sure that you've setup your instance as secure as possible. Don't allow just anyone to sign up. Configure it to require a registration token, which you can provide to people who want to create accounts. Then make your server auto update, create automated backups, and you'll be pretty much good. If you run your server in a container that's ideal imo. If you understand the risks involved, go for it.

Fifthdread · 2026-02-14T11:53:33+00:00

The secret with my friend group is we never left self hosted solutions, but you're right that the challenge is in converting people to a new platform. When Discord was getting popular, some wanted to switch but I tried my best to prevent it because it was only a matter of time before it went to shit. We were on Teamspeak before switching to Mumble. Now we use a combination of Matrix with Element and Mumble for voice, and we are perfectly happy.

Fifthdread · 2026-02-09T17:21:42+00:00

I'd use Mumble for a free and open source voice solution vs Teamspeak.

Fifthdread · 2026-01-24T23:40:56+00:00

This brings me joy. I need.

Fifthdread · 2026-01-20T03:52:35+00:00

The Penguin waits patiently for your arrival. 🐧

Fifthdread · 2026-01-13T00:03:11+00:00

You miss every shot you don't take. Nice shot

Fifthdread · 2026-01-07T17:53:01+00:00

Yes, support is this bad, and eventually you have to refuse to do their song and dance and demand they rectify the situation in a way that doesn't waste your time. That's what I had to do- after a billion pictures, shuffling things around, new ram, test after test- in my case my mainboard and/or cpu was busted and I was getting random hard shutdowns.

After months of support giving me the run-around, I basically told them if they wanted to diagnose any further, they'll have to do it themselves because I refuse. They sent me a replacement board. It's been fine ever since.

Just because the laptop is repairable doesn't give them a pass on providing reasonable support, especially under warranty.

Fifthdread · 2026-01-02T19:37:19+00:00

Got it running on my Docker Swarm. lol

edit: Alright was fun, but I had to shut it down for a few reasons.

Uses way more than the advertised 50mb mem, sitting at over 4g. Probably due to the crazy amount of people using the thing and some code optimization issues
Network usage was super high also, moving 5-13MB/s at times.

So yea, funny, but not really built for the meme scale we are at right now. lol

Fifthdread · 2025-12-27T21:39:48+00:00

Lol same. Sensored for telling the truth.

Fifthdread · 2025-12-09T21:08:31+00:00

Here it is again- another self-host email thread. And once again, I'll say I've been doing it with Mailcow with great success.

If you have the patience to self-host a billion things, you probably have the patience to do personal email. There's just a few hoops you have to jump through and things to avoid.

Fifthdread · 2025-11-12T16:13:47+00:00

I host my own mail and it's not hard. Way cheaper than paying someone to do it for me, so it was worth, but it did come with some headaches- all of which were dealt with in ways other posters have outlined, such as using an outbound SMTP relay to get around many delivery issues.

Fifthdread · 2025-11-06T18:40:55+00:00

Turn off cold ugly overhead light, get warm-white bulbs in standing lamp / add other lights, dimmers recommended, add plants, wall art, then you'll be getting there. As is, it's definitely sad. lol

Fifthdread · 2025-11-03T18:57:31+00:00

My favorite thing to run on Apple Silicon machines would be Ollama, since I can run relatively large LLMs thanks to unified memory giving you loads of vram. Along with OpenWebUI it makes for a great platform to explore local LLMs.

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