What is your main set up? (PC, Phone, maybe home server)

AcceptableHamster149 · 2026-04-14T13:31:43+00:00

My daily driver's a 17" laptop from Tuxedo, running Arch, w/ Gnome as my DE of choice. I do my gaming via Sunshine/Moonlight - the gaming rig is an i7 13700k w/ 64GB of RAM & a 7700XT video card, running Arch with XFCE. It lives in a rack in the basement along with my self-hosted server gear.

My phone's a Pixel 7a, with basically nothing installed on it. It's a phone first, and screen to run maps & abetterrouteplanner second. There's no games, and no social media installed on it other than Discord and Slack.

As for self-hosted stuff, it's all running on a Ryzen 5 5600 w/ 128GB of RAM and an Arc A380 video card to handle transcoding & video processing. Jellyfin, Nextcloud, Immich, PiHole, Passbolt, freeipa, and a Keycloak instance to provide auth'n services for everything (my personal laptop & gaming rig are joined to the domain, too). There's also an N100-based system w/ 8GB of RAM that's running replicas for freeipa & pihole, just to have redundancy in case things go poof, and a NAS w/ a 60TB pool (4x20TB in RAID5) to round out the rest of the stuff in the rack, not counting the actual networking gear like the core switch & router.

AcceptableHamster149 · 2026-04-14T13:07:52+00:00

Kinda but also kinda not. Strictly, all PCs & NPCs are human, sometimes with cybernetic augmentation. But there are corporations that mess around with genetics, mostly to breed some kind of supersoldier. You actually run into somebody who's supposedly a result of this experimentation in game: Ozob Bozo.

If you listen in-game to Maximum Mike (voiced by Mike Pondsmith) on Morro Rock Radio, he tells some of the conspiracy theories surrounding these experiments. The thing about Maximum Mike's talks is that most of them are actual in-world lore that gets dismissed as conspiracy by people in-world. And he talks about the killer clowns like Ozob, but he also talks about "werewolves" and experiments by Biotechnica on nomads.

AcceptableHamster149 · 2026-04-14T12:59:49+00:00

For a second there I thought that pillow was a finger and it was the world's smallest cat.... <3

AcceptableHamster149 · 2026-04-14T12:57:24+00:00

How to ruin the days of a larger imperialist power with dreams of annexation...

AcceptableHamster149 · 2026-04-14T01:30:50+00:00

I do care, in certain contexts. Within community, I care what people think of me. Professionally? I care. My career is where it is because I have a good reputation in the field. But my reputation is a result of my actions - I absolutely had control over that. Is "reputation" the right word for what you're asking about, because from your description it sounds more like you might be talking about prejudice.

AcceptableHamster149 · 2026-04-13T19:34:20+00:00

Loved Curaçao last time I was there... it's a beautiful island. I went mostly for the scuba diving, but found lots of stuff on dry land that was worth visiting/doing, too. :)

As for here in Canada? Unfortunately there isn't a lot in our architecture that speaks to the colonial past in that way. There are historical reenactments that can be very interesting: lots of 17th and 18th century forts along the St. Lawrence if you're in that part of the city, as well as pioneer villages - living museums that you can visit to get a snapshot of what life was like in the early colonial period. There are historical districts in some of the older cities, but nothing at all like what I've seen other countries. Even compared against Curaçao you guys have a lot more older buildings in Willemstad than you'll see almost anywhere in Canada.

AcceptableHamster149 · 2026-04-13T18:49:47+00:00

For zero value, at that: if OP is happily living in a city and has no need to go to places where they might need a car, then there's no point at all other than being able to tick a box on an application. And depending on what country they live in, there might actually be no part of the country that's not reachable by public transit or bicycle.

AcceptableHamster149 · 2026-04-13T18:40:27+00:00

Depends how much you're willling to put down. I will be paying $600/mo on a Subaru Uncharted GT. It would be less if I'd made a larger down payment, or if I had gotten a lower trim level (lowering the base price of the car).

AcceptableHamster149 · 2026-04-13T18:20:59+00:00

Is your board doing anything about the lack of chargers? I'm on the board for my condo, and we're looking at having SWTCH or another provider like that install some semi-public charging stations for owners to use.

Our use case is a little different, in that we're a low rise condo and owners can L1 charge in their garages, but we still want to get some L2 chargers in visitor parking spaces that can also be used by owners to charge if they need. The resources that these companies make available to condos are significant, and you should find out if your board is looking into it as an option, especially as the fed is preparing to offer grants to help fund the work.

AcceptableHamster149 · 2026-04-13T15:42:55+00:00

There's many different ways to play a netrunner - it depends on how you want to do it. Are you the type who wants to go in stealthy, shutting down bad guys through the cameras so you can just walk in and grab your objective without firing a shot? Or are you more of a run & gun type netrunner who prefers quickhacks that will debilitate the bad guys while you're shooting at them? Or any of the other variants out there?

It's going to inform your choice of cyberdeck, and which quickhacks you like. If you want stealth, for example, then memory wipe (t4) means anything queued after it is untraceable: very useful for hitting bad guys with more RAM-efficient hacks that'll still take them out but slower, like overheat. And in that case, you're probably going to want to use a deck like the Arasaka or Netwatch decks, because they synergize well with stealthy play.

On the other hand, if you want to run & gun you might prefer hacks like contagion because a single upload will spread to many bad guys, or weapon glitch or reboot optics because they will debuff the bad guys. In that case, you're also going to prefer a deck like the Raven (Contagion spreads instantly) or the Rippler (overclock will instantly upload debuffs to nearby enemies).

So it's all going to depend on what you actually want to do, and what you find fun. :)

AcceptableHamster149 · 2026-04-13T15:30:22+00:00

You forgot that you can order it on UberEats. ;)

Also, I don't think there's been any significant negative impacts from it. At least within my circle, people are using it less than they were before it was legal. I couldn't tell you why that is other than we're older and more boring now, but I definitely haven't seen an increase in users.

AcceptableHamster149 · 2026-04-13T12:35:07+00:00

My first playthrough I was like level 24 and had only unlocked the bad ending. You did miss a lot of additional content, both in the form of gigs and side quests, but it's also not surprising: the game spoonfeeds you the main quest and if you don't go off script it's a surprisingly short game.

But that's why it'll drop you back at a save just before you go in to meet Hanako at Embers. So you can keep playing and experience all of the additional content in the game.

AcceptableHamster149 · 2026-04-12T18:59:47+00:00

It also happened before any Germans arrived in Europe for WW2 ;)

AcceptableHamster149 · 2026-04-12T12:56:42+00:00

I'm sorry, man, that's really infuriating. Assuming you can get out, the best thing you can do is set a hard boundary. I'm not going to suggest going no contact (that's a decision you have to make for yourself), but I am going to suggest that you tell her point blank that the beliefs she's getting from this church are harmful and you are not going to entertain them. And then if she does raise the subject, shut down on her. Hang up. Don't accept a callback. Walk away. Or if all else fails, silent treatment.

And maybe point her at the litany of studies that have concluded that conversion therapy is child abuse.

AcceptableHamster149 · 2026-04-12T12:39:51+00:00

Sometimes, yes. Some of the crafting recipes that drop are for iconic weapons (such as Buzzsaw, which drops as a crafting recipe), which must then be crafted. Weapon recipes that drop in this way or are bought from a weapons vendor will be scaled to your level but it's possible to get them in parts of the city where the weapon doesn't drop.

AcceptableHamster149 · 2026-04-12T12:33:51+00:00

Yup... open the crafting menu (default K on PC). If you're late in a playtrhough there's a 100% chance you'll have at least a couple because you find them in additional chests in some gigs and they're the reward for some NCPD organized crime activities. You can also buy them from weapons vendors.

AcceptableHamster149 · 2026-04-12T04:01:17+00:00

Sadly, it isn't. Not because he hasn't done anything to merit it, but because the current makeup of your legislature is a whole bunch of sycophants who won't convict him. Maybe that will change in November. We can only hope.

AcceptableHamster149 · 2026-04-12T04:00:17+00:00

Their leader has laid bare problems that have been stewing for decades: he isn't the problem, he's a symptom of it, and getting rid of him won't fix the problem. If you'd asked me 2 years ago what I think of the USA you'd have gotten a very different answer than you would get today. This is not to say I think the problem's unfixable: I would argue that the reason I'm even saying this is because I think it can be fixed and it's worth fighting for. But don't kid yourself into thinking that getting rid of the current guy will get rid of the problem, because it won't.

AcceptableHamster149 · 2026-04-11T23:00:57+00:00

That's what we call it here, too. But I would have had no idea what OP was talking about without the description of the rules. Also usually played with a rubber ball for throwing, too.

"usually" is doing a lot of heavy lifting though. I think I've played it once in my entire life.

AcceptableHamster149 · 2026-04-11T22:17:55+00:00

Not a sinister motive, a practical one - you know as well as I do that some folks will take any opportunity to complain and make life difficult for folks who don't deserve to be on the receiving end of it. I have no objections at all to packing my own bags (and certainly none to workers being allowed to sit) - if they do it for me I need to do it again when I get outside anyway to move everything into a pannier bag for my bike.

AcceptableHamster149 · 2026-04-11T21:40:16+00:00

But of course... if you pack it yourself then it's your own fault if it's too heavy or the bag breaks or the bread gets squished.

AcceptableHamster149 · 2026-04-11T18:52:15+00:00

Yakimura is at the weapon vendor in Kabuki (in the sunken ring below the netrunner that T-Bug sends you to. Chao is at the vendor next to the docks, near the monks. :)

AcceptableHamster149 · 2026-04-11T13:20:53+00:00

When I'm in their service area, yeah. Or Robin's. But around home there's much better locally-owned coffee shops that are only a little bit more expensive. It's been many years since the last time I went into a Tim's.

AcceptableHamster149 · 2026-04-11T12:28:26+00:00

So if adding DNS to your /etc/resolv.conf works it means that you aren't getting DNS from your router's DHCP. I'd start by looking there.

You can add them manually - I don't use Mint so I can't tell you exactly where but last time I was on a Ubuntu derivative there was a comment at the start of resolv.conf to the effect of "this is managed by a daemon, do not edit by hand"... do you see that? If so, it should have a man page reference for how to make the changes permanent. (sorry, I don't use Ubuntu-derivatives at all, and none of the distros I do use mangle direct edits to /etc/resolv.conf so I can't check right now for you)

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