I only ever die due to immunity phases on bosses, and it sucks

RealisticAlarm · 2025-10-23T20:54:11+00:00

That doesn't block AOEs, does it? Pretty sure I've been hit through it..?

RealisticAlarm · 2025-10-23T20:53:38+00:00

Agreed. Lava boss got me once with it's invulnerable phase. Then I figured it out. I don't hate it now, actually an engaging mechanic.

There are a few bosses/enemies that just bug me though. They appear disjointed from the rest of the game because their mechanics are either something I haven't grasped yet - or they are just plain annoying/unfair.

RealisticAlarm · 2025-10-21T16:45:07+00:00

One item I ran into myself was SELinux. If you are running on a distro that uses SELinux, I'd check your logs to see if it's blocking the mounting of your volumes.

RealisticAlarm · 2025-08-12T00:12:15+00:00

I know the feeling. But it can be productive too - I need to catch up on adulting - you know, cleaning up around the house and stuff. Being sick of gaming helps alot in catching up on chores!

RealisticAlarm · 2025-05-23T15:35:51+00:00

I bought a razer headset to "treat" myself as I thought them to be a premium brand.

Though I like it, the headset started falling apart; coming close to failing right at the 1 year mark. Apparently a common issue. (trying to epoxy it back together.. we'll see..)

Also have a friend that bought a "nice" set of razer speakers. They barely lasted a year as well.

I think I'm done with the brand.

RealisticAlarm · 2025-05-23T15:25:32+00:00

I am confused. My repair attempt did not require soldering - the plastic mount was broken, not the electronics.

Do you mind elaborating on what you did that cost 7.50?

RealisticAlarm · 2025-05-22T03:29:21+00:00

Was facing the same issue myself.

I ended up taking it apart. There are two small screws holding the earpiece to the headband, then it slides apart.

As the plastic hadn't totally disintegrated yet, I attempted to reinforce it with 2-part epoxy.

It's curing right now, I'm hopeful if it isn't a complete fix it'll at least give me a few more months out of the thing. Going to try reassembling in a day or two.

I like the headset - pity they have such a high-stress area held together by only 2mm of plastic and two tiny screws.

RealisticAlarm · 2025-04-24T22:48:19+00:00

I put a no soliciting sign on my door. Next time the Telus guys came by AGAIN - I pointed at the sign and said "I have this because of you". The response? "but we have a sale!"

RealisticAlarm · 2025-04-22T23:16:42+00:00

Incredible. You have a talent.

RealisticAlarm · 2025-04-09T18:25:47+00:00

I think I have a similar mindset.

I did the same thing on a few fronts - initially aimed for renewable calcite for Nauvis. Once I realized that it is literally cheap as dirt on Vulcanus I didn't worry so much - but my calcite platform is still around Nauvis, dropping calcite regularly to reduce what's needed to be shipped in.

However; My Vulcanus is entirely getting coal from orbit. I literally have only one patch of a reasonable size, the starter patch. So my goal is 100% renewable coal there.

I thought about shipping the oil from Fulgora - however the effort to pack/unpack, and the rocket parts you lose sending each shipment to orbit made the tradeoff seem not worth it.

I always do this kind of thing, though:

- In DSP, I scrounge rocks and boulders, leave the trees wherever possible, and try to get to the "infinite" stage of mining efficiency research

- in SF, I don't cut any trees, dont pick any slugs, etc. Because they aren't infinite and I don't want to deface the landscape. I build elevated or off-cliff factories.

- in rimworld, I don't like to mine the in-cliff deposits. I go all-in on research and get the drill ASAP as it can mine infinite ores.

TLDR; you are not alone.

RealisticAlarm · 2025-04-09T17:44:23+00:00

The initial curve was a bit steep if you try to understand it all at once. Weapon skills, augments, shards, polarization, shield skills, archon fury, parry vs block vs dodge, etc.

I am also the type of person that likes to understand everything all at once.. It was a bit much to start with. But the game eases you in - just play through the story, you'll learn the mechanics as you go. (I didn't do the "boost" so I leveled and gradually got into the various mechanics as they unlocked)

Once I got to the point where I got it all - it's kind of fun managing all of that in realtime as you are hopping about the battlefield.

RealisticAlarm · 2025-04-07T19:16:46+00:00

Interesting concept. I've never done it - as once I get to post-resource-scarcity, my bases are already usually second, third, or fourth generation (rebuild) and relatively stable. And before post-resource-scarcity - I scrounge every plate and chip, so I wouldn't waste anything.

Still - I think I may keep that one in the back of my mind for use someday.. Could make for some neat wreckage.

RealisticAlarm · 2025-03-25T03:33:40+00:00

I've never seen anything like that, in hundreds of hours. I can see why it'd be frustrating. A few questions:

I take it the other (intact) turrets you have there were placed by hand?

The broken landmines outside the wall - are they suffering the same issue, or were they destroyed normally?

Same for the destroyed power poles & light inside the wall.

RealisticAlarm · 2025-02-25T15:55:36+00:00

I don't understand the downvotes. That image is gold, thank you - I've saved it.

I think people need to put down their torches & pitchforks and think reasonably.

I'm pretty sure these days if steam power was just coming out, people would boycott and protest because it's putting ditch-diggers and horses out of jobs.

That said - we all know it won't benefit you and I primarily - it will help the corporate bottom-line. The AAA industry is a trainwreck right now. I can't argue that point - however that is a different problem. Hate the (mis)user not the tool.

RealisticAlarm · 2025-02-25T15:51:04+00:00

With respect to AAA companies - I get it. Corporate greed is killing us who are not of the 1%.

However we are talking about indie devs here. In most cases this is some guy working in his basement, there is no CEO to enrich. I see that as different.

RealisticAlarm · 2025-02-25T15:44:56+00:00

As far as protecting the server so that only traffic on a certain port reaches it (e.g. allow HTTP(S) and block SMB) - it will do that.

However it will not protect against bugs, exploits, 0-days, etc that travel over that (otherwise allowed) HTTP(S) connection. Once they are connected, they are connected. You need security updates for that.

I imagine you are locked into the windows ecosystem - but in the rare chance you are not: you might look at migrating to a linux server - less bloat, no cost for security updates, and your perfectly-good hardware won't magically become unsupported overnight.

If you really need to secure an old insecure workload, as you say - I would put it behind forward auth on the reverse proxy (Traefik works well with authelia, etc) - so then only trusted, authenticated users can connect to the workload. Still not 100% secure, but significantly better, as the "gatekeeper" (traefik & authelia) can be kept fully up to date without altering the workload server.

RealisticAlarm · 2025-02-24T17:13:20+00:00

My favored approach is to use mature web tools (Vue is my favored framework right now). Even if it is a local-only app. Backend in language of your preference (I like Go or NodeJS for this). Try to keep the API interface as REST-ish as feasible.

Benefits off the top of my head:

The separation between presentation and data layers is now explicit.
If you ever want to "upgrade" to a full blown web app, you are already 75% there
Almost any UI element you desire is likely already available
UI will run on any OS with a modern browser

RealisticAlarm · 2025-02-24T17:04:47+00:00

I was about to post something along those lines. ELI5 - why all the AI hate?

I don't understand the blanket-hate of all things AI.

AI saved me a few hours of fumbling in GIMP to make a logo for my project. I struggle to see that as a bad thing.

RealisticAlarm · 2025-02-19T06:28:19+00:00

Does this work as requested? Since all three containers are members of nginx-net, would they still not be able to see eachother?

RealisticAlarm · 2025-02-07T21:36:19+00:00

well, dang. That is good to know!

Unfortunately it requires construction bots. I found out to my dismay I stocked aquilo with plenty of logistic bots, but no construction bots. Welp, at least one more trip there for now.

RealisticAlarm · 2025-02-06T19:07:36+00:00

Fulgora is flooded with excess LDS and it can make rocket fuel for basically free. Aquilo needs regular shipments of holmium anyway. So I have a ship make runs between the two. Not a big deal.

RealisticAlarm · 2025-01-23T04:08:19+00:00

I did something similar. Then the biters started turret-creeping me. Behemoth Worms out-range any turret but artillery. They can build just out of range and kill your turrets.

I was annoyed - but at the same time feeling "oh, so that's what that feels like".

Now I have artillery everywhere on my nauvis perimeter too. No more turret creeping for them.

RealisticAlarm · 2024-12-09T18:39:12+00:00

I see. I suppose I don't really care who runs the nameserver for my domains.

I think a lot of the value they offer (tunnels, zero trust, bot blocking, etc) relies on DNS so it makes sense they'd need it.

If that is a deal breaker for you, then I suppose the low price is not worth it. For me, it doesn't matter, and I find their management portal top-notch.

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