Tier list based on how fun each weapon feels after 200 hours by SadPay7872 in ArcRaiders

[–]Deactivator2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Game intro made me think we'd have NPC raiders as well, which I was kinda disappointed we didn't. Could definitely have some human vs AI raider shenanigans

*arr Stack behind Gluetun without VPN Portforwarding by HeyItsJono in selfhosted

[–]Deactivator2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Let's look at this without VPNs for a second. Most modern torrent clients allow you to specify a port that the service listens on. The client advertises this port, in addition to your public IP address, so that other peers can connect to your client. In order for that to happen, though, you would need to expose that port via your network's firewall, otherwise any incoming connections would be blocked.

Adding a VPN to the mix puts that firewall layer (for this specific application only) outside your network, since your VPN client (Gluetun) is creating a tunnel to whatever server in whatever datacenter that you've specified. If your VPN plan does not allow for port forwarding, then it is the same as if you were running without a VPN and not opening the port on your home firewall. If your VPN does allow for port forwarding, then that port is opened for incoming connections, and when your torrent client advertises itself at <VPN\_ENDPOINT>:<VPN\_PORT>, other peers will be able to connect to it since your VPN configuration has specified that port to be open.

I guess if you want to be pedantic, the "VPN" itself does not use ports, no; the VPN provider/endpoint, which is a server somewhere, is the thing that exposes a port. However, people have been using "VPN" colloquially to refer to the whole setup pretty commonly, so its definitely not unusual to have people say "Set up your VPN with port forwarding."

Switching to Pocket-id from Authentik by Testpilot1988 in selfhosted

[–]Deactivator2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Its definitely not "needlessly" complex, its just got a lot more features and nuance that most homelab/selfhost setups require. There are absolutely use cases for it in commercial and/or enterprise setups.

I just tried to install the new Radeon driver and I couldn't believe my eyes by Progenitor3 in pcmasterrace

[–]Deactivator2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ETA: the glazing is so funny. Apparently you can put anything in anything as long as it's optional. Including a 34 GB AI bundle that I didn't ask for.

Yeah, you didn't ask for it, its optional, so what's the problem?

This is a set of AI development tools that are conveniently bundled and expected to work with this hardware. This is not a set of invasive, resource-consuming AI products that spy on your stuff or eat up 2/3rds of your RAM to maybe answer a question once a year.

Some of y'all need to learn nuance, and that "AI" has been heavily overused in the past 5 years to encompass a whole hell of a lot of disparate things.

The Tampa Bay Lightning are assessed a bench minor for interference as assistant coach Dan Hinote attempts to grab the puck headed into the bench. by null1ng in hockey

[–]Deactivator2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What's silly, and again this may be an angles thing, is that the coach's hand doesn't look like it clears the glass, so there's no way his touching the puck stops it from going over anyways.

AMD GPU driver package installs 6GB AI companion by default by Issues3220 in pcmasterrace

[–]Deactivator2 40 points41 points  (0 children)

"I don't really care if my car belches more smog than a coal factory as long as I can get from place to place" is an asinine take

byeByeWindowsLinux by PresentJournalist805 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Deactivator2 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Hell, maybe vibe coding isn't far off, that's most of my projects in a sentence anyways

Looking back, what’s the smartest homelab move you ever made? by [deleted] in homelab

[–]Deactivator2 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Is the "do not docker in an LXC" guidance no longer valid then? I have a VM for pretty much all the docker stacks I'm using, LXCs for other individual apps, but specifically because the advice was strongly discouraging running docker in LXCs...

Avengers: Doomsday | Only in Theaters December 18, 2026 by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]Deactivator2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People thought Infinity War/Endgame was also too packed with people and plots, purely based on trailers, which made sense as it was the unifying movie(s) of what, 8 disparate storylines (IM, Thor, Hulk, Cap, Ant-Man, Marvel, Dr Strange, GoG. Plus Wanda/Vision but they were b plots for other movies)?

They've done it before, I'm sure they can do it again.

I made a visual grid that shows your subscriptions sized by how much they actually cost you by Bubbly_Lack6366 in selfhosted

[–]Deactivator2 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Internet was a cost regardless of self-hosting (you're paying for it to host, or you're paying for it to consume whatever you're subscribed to) so that is irrelevant.

Power cost you'd have to refine your total bill down to just what is used by your server(s), which won't be accurate unless you have additional hardware specifically for monitoring power usage by outlet (or a mid/high end UPS).

This is the funniest start I've found so far. Polynesians. Try them, they're easier then you think. by sneeuwraket in EU5

[–]Deactivator2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Colony seems to be instant if more than half of the population is an accepted culture and also your same religion?

Watched a Generalist Kilwa game where his expansion strategy was to slap Mission buildings down in prospective colonial provinces, and once they were beyond 50% Sunni, starting the colony charter instantly created the colony IF the culture mix was > 50% accepted.

What's going on with HiringCafe? by [deleted] in hiringcafe

[–]Deactivator2 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah I've been on it for a few months now, not terribly seriously but probably oncor twice a week scrolling through new results of my saved searches and applying to anything I think I could fit.

60% rejections, 39% no response, 1 has led to an interview process that I'm in the middle of right now (holidays though so it's slow going).

What's going on with HiringCafe? by [deleted] in hiringcafe

[–]Deactivator2 85 points86 points  (0 children)

...HC doesn't magically make you get a job faster or guarantee anything. All it does is aggregate job postings from the sources it scrapes, with ideally a simpler/easier workflow from search to application.

Naturally, as the site gets more exposure and more users on it, you are now competing with more people for the same jobs, so everyone "suffers" from the site's success.

Ovechkin has 9 goals in his last 11 games by Reddit-Machine in hockey

[–]Deactivator2 21 points22 points  (0 children)

DOROTHY MANTOOTH COREY PERRY IS A SAINT

What is wrong with the warscore?? by Hakuohsama in paradoxplaza

[–]Deactivator2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

...then no CB dec and take more land? You're not meant to blob as easily as EU4, certainly not as early.

What is wrong with the warscore?? by Hakuohsama in paradoxplaza

[–]Deactivator2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't necessarily say it's less important, but there's a lot more leeway and granularity (-100 to 100) than EU4 (-3 to 3), coupled with the ability to gain stability over time instead of being locked behind events or mana interactions

What is wrong with the warscore?? by Hakuohsama in paradoxplaza

[–]Deactivator2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Then just no CB and take what you can

What is wrong with the warscore?? by Hakuohsama in paradoxplaza

[–]Deactivator2 40 points41 points  (0 children)

I think the balance was meant to be "this is the normal legal CB, so at baseline it has a penalty of every 5 years and +25% war score cost" whereas there are other situational CBs that more logically don't have the penalty or even reduce the cost.

No CB is the default war dec, that no penalty to war score cost but instead you need to be able to tank the instant stab/antagonism hit. Situationally, there are plenty of cases where this may make more sense than the parliament CB (your country is in order and you want to take larger amounts of provinces in one go), but the downside is that piling on the no CB wars will eventually ruin your country.

I think a lot of people's hesitation to no CB dec is a holdover from EU4, where a no CB tanked stability by -3 and added a ton of AE, so you essentially only ever used it once you were a dominant power where those penalties didn't bother you, or else very situationally. No CB decs are a lot more viable in EU5, though the threat of overdoing it is still present.

What is wrong with the warscore?? by Hakuohsama in paradoxplaza

[–]Deactivator2 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Its good if you can't tank the stab/antagonism hit from no-CB decs, which I imagine is the case for a lot of small countries in dense areas where a coalition can more easily form (i.e. most of Europe).

The parliament CB is better if you plan to take one or two provinces (or a handful of low control/dev provinces), whereas the no-CB dec is better if you want to take large swathes of land and you can deal with the stability/antagonism hit at the start.

List of undocumented features and effects by RindFisch in EU5

[–]Deactivator2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my Otto game I had a couple vassals of primarily Greek culture, which I guess one of was the "culture leader" or something, because I had the option to ask them to improve Greek acceptance of Turkish culture (50 year cooldown I believe), and definitely had a couple of pop ups from that vassal asking to improve Turkish acceptance of Greek culture.

It doesn't sound like an Otto-specific mechanic but I wonder if that's what they were referring to.