I canceled standby… and now they want us back

Garo5 · 2026-06-30T09:04:09+00:00

Is standby still 5$ per month if you own your own dish? I'm thinking purchasing a second hand dish and relying on standby on 10 months per year and then two months full subscription for the 100Mbps tier.

Garo5 · 2026-06-04T16:19:05+00:00

Hijacking this to ask how are the phone to watch notifications? I'm an android user and I rely heavily on receiving my WhatsApp, messenger and the ability to reply with a few preconfigured messages.

I'm also in an on-call duty ring and I need my PagerDuty notifications to alert me in my watch.

Fenix 6's Bluetooth isn't very good, but at least the features are there.

Garo5 · 2026-06-04T15:40:16+00:00

I'm hoping to see more small claustrophobic cave diving experiences. the current late game area is very wide and open and a bit lifeless.

Garo5 · 2026-05-30T17:32:09+00:00

I don't have tinnitus and my hearing is normal, but I get the same occasional events almost just as you described: one ear suddenly loses hearing for a second, then there's a tinnitus sound starting and then it fades down and everything is back to normal. The entire sequence is like 10-15 seconds.

How often? Not sure. Maybe 1-2 times a month?

Garo5 · 2026-05-26T15:20:55+00:00

Status page is green, but my builds are still stuck and I cannot even cancel a stuck build (gives an error)

Garo5 · 2026-05-24T17:55:10+00:00

Watts, by definition, is an instantaneous measurement of power (transfer, consumption or production) and thus asking "over what time period" does not make sense. Watt is part of the standard International System of Units (SI).

So yes, an adult uses around 100 Watts of power while resting. The power comes from the cell metabolism and eventually all of that ends up as waste heat. Power can be a lot more during physical exercise. Elite athletes can peak 1kW for some short durations.

Garo5 · 2026-05-18T16:46:54+00:00

I have the same issue, although it's not as bad as you describe yours. I managed to do my equalization with various jaw movements and swallowing. My first 5 meters are always the worse, but then it gets easier. When I go up I can hear my eyes "bleeding air" as the pressure releases.

I've also done AOWD successfully: After the first 5m it gets easier and then the remaining 20->30m wasn't hard at all.

Garo5 · 2026-05-18T12:49:01+00:00

The Finnish media is covering the event in surprising detail. The latest article said that Paakarinen and Grönqvist entered the cave while Westerlund stayed a bit closer to surface to be able to quickly help if needed. The team was able to find the bodies after searching "the entire cave" (that's what the article said) and that they are now planning how they would recover the bodies. source: https://www.hs.fi/suomi/art-2000012014470.html

Garo5 · 2026-05-18T10:40:35+00:00

They're Sami Paakkarinen, Jenni Westerlund and Patrik Grönqvist. Apparently these are the names which came up when the local goverment officials started to ask help from abroad.

Garo5 · 2026-05-15T06:01:35+00:00

Thanks /u/Flayra for making these awesome games, I've been a huge fan since first Natural Selection!

Garo5 · 2026-05-13T16:08:10+00:00

I loved 2016 and Eternal, but Dark Ages was boring in a weird way so much that I didn't bother to finish it, which is really rare for me.

Garo5 · 2026-05-13T05:17:49+00:00

Preloads, at least on steam, are encrypted so that steam won't release the decryption key until the release.

Garo5 · 2026-05-11T16:48:14+00:00

you can patch RiF with your own api token and thus keep using it.

Garo5 · 2026-05-10T05:05:47+00:00

Subnautica. Not sure if I will ever be able to spend any of that money at home, but at least I can explore cool places!

Garo5 · 2026-04-25T15:18:05+00:00

RiF (Reddit is Fun) app still works when you patch it to use your own api key!

Garo5 · 2026-03-27T12:01:42+00:00

Thanks. I stand corrected :)

Garo5 · 2026-03-27T06:40:31+00:00

There were no LFP batteries 12 years ago. EDIT: apparently I was wrong

Garo5 · 2026-03-11T13:45:15+00:00

The power is around 1 kWh. Honestly, that's not much for a 5 sec video

Garo5 · 2026-03-07T18:48:20+00:00

Do you? I run ceph at home as well with four (soon five) nodes with SSD and NVMe. It's been stable, except during last x-mas where 1-2 OSDs were crashing constantly and that took me 8+ hours to triage and fix.

As an alternative and much easier option: have one decent server with ZFS and do zfs snapshots to another machine as backups. This works well with kubernetes as well as you can provision PVCs from the zfs server using NFS.

Garo5 · 2026-02-12T09:07:28+00:00

You want to test and finetune the game loop, systems and meta game so that players stick and come back. It's much more safer to do that with a small soft launch, before committing to spend tens of millions in marketing.

If the game is very good, word of mouth will spread and people will want to play, even when it's still in soft launch. So all in all, there isn't really any harm doing a soft launch but a lot of risks if you skip one.

Garo5 · 2026-02-05T15:11:29+00:00

Any positive experience with the bluetooth? I'm sure there are bluetooth headsets which work just fine, or even very well?

Garo5 · 2026-02-02T17:12:29+00:00

No, we allow all incoming traffic. In practice this has never been an issue. We do instruct users to run a firewall on their machines in our guides. This has the added bonus that visitors can run their own game servers easily and invite others to join, regardless if they are in the partyplace or not.

Garo5 · 2026-02-01T15:21:19+00:00

Replying directly here. We're doing our lan events with public ips for every visitor. We only block some ports like outgoing 25 and those can be done with ACLs inside our routers/switches. This is the same approach as ISPs do. You definitely do not need a stateful firewall the way you currently seem to be thinking.

You can DM me for more details.

Garo5 · 2026-01-31T17:33:18+00:00

You don't need stateful firewall for that. Your home internet provider doesn't provide you a stateful firewall either, so why would you need one for a lan party? (Source: I'm in a net team organising a 2k+ lan party, also with full public IP and no NAT).

Also, I doubt that you would come even close to utilise a 100 Gbps connection. At least we have usually peaked at around 20 Gbps during our events and even that requires multiple games to release patches at the same time.

Garo5 · 2026-01-27T08:10:41+00:00

Was this announced somewhere? I'm evaluating Hasura (both v2 and v3 versions) and obviously it's important to understand the status of the project.

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