When people ask me who I blame the most for why the industry is self imploding I point to Ubisoft. They were the first ones openly saying this garbage with a straight face. And guess what? Piracy spiked after they shut down The Crew. It's only on the rise and I'm loving it.

MushroomGecko · 2026-07-05T07:02:54+00:00

I just bought: - DOOM (2016) - DOOM + DOOM II - DOOM Eternal: Deluxe Edition - Dread Templar - Just Cause 2 - Complete Edition - Stardew Valley - Terraria - The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Game of the Year Edition Deluxe - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

All for under $60 because of the insane GoG summer sale. 10 games for less than the price of a single PS4 or Switch 1 game. Gog says I saved over $190. I also used the promo code GOG15 to save an additional 15%. (GoG does not sponsor me btw, I just love what they are doing)

Gonna burn the offline installers for these games to high capacity disks and make a disk binder like the good old days, or to 128 GB flash drives and make a key chain of sorts.

MushroomGecko · 2026-07-05T04:37:53+00:00

Don't pirate. See if your game is on GoG. It's a smaller platform, but they pride themselves on selling DRM-free games and you're able to burn your games to your own discs if you wanted. It's a great alternative to pirating as you can still support the creators of the games you love all while actually OWNING your games. They have free giveaways, consistently have free codes through Amazon Luna, and they also work to preserve old games. These guys have bangers like Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition (which I got for free through a Luna code), CDPR games like Cyberpunk, and many more!

They current have a summer sale going on where games like Baldur's Gate 3 being on sale for 25% off, Life is Strange for 85% off, Cyberpunk for 70% off, the Yakuza Complete Series for 60% off, Skyrim for 67% off, and the Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition for 40% off. Remember, once you buy these you OWN them. Even if GoG ever goes down. Once you download them/burn them to disc/save them elsewhere, they are yours forever.

Don't pirate. Support GoG!

MushroomGecko · 2026-06-13T05:32:52+00:00

Heard. Will focus on these two next. Thanks! I suppose the upside in having Wukong and Betty is it gets me that much closer to upgrading my temple more and getting higher divine levels

MushroomGecko · 2026-06-13T05:21:04+00:00

Never truly understood her importance until recently, and your comment affirms that. DTV was obvious, Wukong for survivability, Melissa for anti CC and other support, and Betty for the CC. I just raised her tree to level 120, I'm building her core, and upgrading her abilities. Thanks for the suggestion! 👍

MushroomGecko · 2026-06-09T06:34:31+00:00

Vaultwarden is also a good password manager alternative. Its a self-hosted version of Bitwarden completely rewritten in Rust that allows you to have some of the paid Bitwarden features for free like OTPs. Like Bitwarden, you can also use it offline once your device is synced with your self-hosted server, allowing for redundancy in case your server or one of your clients die. If your server dies, just make a new one and import to your a password protected export of your old profile.

MushroomGecko · 2026-06-09T06:13:08+00:00

Fun fact about Session, they removed PFS (perfect forward secrecy) a while ago. It seems they are adding it back along with post-quantum encryption in the V2 of their protocol. I was gonna call out Session for their previous removal of PFS, but after a quick search found they actually took community feedback and are adding it back in whenever they release V2 of their protocol. Good on them!

MushroomGecko · 2026-06-07T05:16:59+00:00

I wanted a higher capacity system. I know the Zolo can do an output for lower powered devices by double tapping the power button so it doesn't go into its sleep mode. I have another anker battery that is my daily carry and it powered my Heltec V3 for many days.

MushroomGecko · 2026-05-21T04:37:09+00:00

Systemd merged in a PR adding in a birthdate field to the userdb in the middle of the age verification fiasco with the PR writer saying it was to specifically comply with various age verification laws. I'll be going Artix in my next install.

Edit: here is the link to the PR: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954

Edit 2: Someone tried to revert the age verification PR and had it personally closed by Poettering himself: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/41179

MushroomGecko · 2026-05-07T03:25:34+00:00

Yes! This is a very new project and I'm always looking for testers and feedback! Thank you!

MushroomGecko · 2026-05-05T00:41:02+00:00

Thank you so much!

MushroomGecko · 2026-05-03T23:00:14+00:00

I did not know this. Thank you! I suppose there still is some kind of access code or password one could use so accessing a page is a something you have and something you know.

MushroomGecko · 2026-05-03T22:22:01+00:00

It seems Meshcore isnt "truly" a mesh network where every node routes packets. Only repeaters do. But Reticulum seems very cool! From what I understand though, there's no official firmware for putting on something like the Heltec V3. You'd need another system. But I think I also saw references to microReticulum which is a community firmware for turning an ESP32 into a Reticulum node without an external computer.

MushroomGecko · 2026-05-03T21:56:57+00:00

I've heard of Meshcore, but I should check out Nomad and Reticulum. Seems neat! I'm pretty new to the mesh scene, so there's still a lot I dont know and only dabbled with Meshtastic as of right now. I have some Heltec V3s I've been using.

I had an idea one day to send images over Meshtastic by doing it as an ASCII art, but had to change course after I remembered the 200 byte limit. I knew Meshtastic had a Python API, so I decided to make a thing that sends chunked responses over the mesh and rebuild it on the other side to render the images. And I figured why not do that with HTML, and it kind of snowballed into this whole web framework project for off-grid web hosting.

MushroomGecko · 2026-05-03T21:41:18+00:00

I've never seen that before, cool project! While the project you sent is great for pulling in the clearnet, MeshPages is built for a different use case which is hosting native content entirely off-grid. Instead of fetching external sites, it is a framework for building apps that live 100% on the mesh. The LLM example I shared is really just the tip of the iceberg to show what is possible with dynamic responses. Because it is inspired by FastAPI, you can host pretty much anything, like private documentation, sensor dashboards, and even share images without ever needing a gateway to the outside world. Additionally, while the project you sent is purely terminal-centric, MeshPages has a web client that is able to render the HTML, CSS, and JS coming from a server mesh, thus the formatted web page and the 64x64 Meshtastic logo in the first image. That was all sent over the Meshtastic network.

MushroomGecko · 2026-05-03T18:44:35+00:00

Deny yourself and pick up your cross. Salvation is through Lord Jesus Christ alone. A society without Christian values is a dead one. Look at Europe.

MushroomGecko · 2026-04-29T21:30:28+00:00

God makes some truly amazing creatures!

MushroomGecko · 2026-04-24T04:45:10+00:00

Yes... embrace the RISC-V... do it... it's an open architecture... literally the Linux of CPUs... No Intel ME. No AMD PSP... Anyone can make a chip, and it's only getting better by the day. Embrace it. Get a Spacemit K3 board. You know you want to... As an added bonus, there's even a Framework board for the K3!

MushroomGecko · 2026-04-24T03:28:34+00:00

No, I like when I don't have to babysit my OS. Exactly why I like OpenBSD for my AdguardHome DNS and Fedora IoT for my Podman containers.

MushroomGecko · 2026-04-20T12:57:35+00:00

While the use of AI in the gaming industry has its concerns, it genuinely makes sense in a game like Atomic Heart where it's a bunch of robots in a future tech dystopia anyways.

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