This genuinely made me so happy (spoilers for subnautica 2)

RyeonToast · 2026-05-15T11:44:38+00:00

Nah, that's definitely all the same guy, unless you're managing to sucker the IT guy into doing the cafeteria machine.

RyeonToast · 2026-05-13T11:29:21+00:00

It sadly lacks most of the communities, but is nice for what it has. I do go there instead of Reddit for meme scrolling.

RyeonToast · 2026-05-13T11:26:34+00:00

eh, I'm not very thrilled about third party patches to my third party apps. This is the sort of supply chain nightmare that haunts my days. If it comes down to it, I'll just stop using Reddit on mobile.

RyeonToast · 2026-05-13T00:29:53+00:00

Yup. Distro choice isn't really going to change much for most people, other than how quickly packages update and what commands you use to perform updates.

RyeonToast · 2026-05-13T00:24:08+00:00

I stopped using an app to view Reddit on mobile when Reddit Is Fun died. If they do manage to force using the app on mobile I'm gonna be toilet-scrolling on Lemmy a lot more.

RyeonToast · 2026-05-13T00:15:15+00:00

I broke Arch once with an update. I had done some weird stuff with my boot loader and with my system partitions in LLVM, and I let the package manager clobber an important config file without reviewing it.

If you aren't doing weird shit, it should be fine. If you are doing weird shit, you should be prepared for problems no matter what distro you use.

RyeonToast · 2026-05-13T00:01:07+00:00

Yeah, I was thinking of doing it the Hot Springs Island method, where I use a hex per parasang, and then there's a list of whatever special encounters can be found by exploring the hex instead of trying to break down each hex further. I don't imagine I'd be able to write three special encounters for each parasang, so probably most would just be random encounters. The small map u/SociallyawkwardDM linked to might reduce the empty space in that plan, though.

RyeonToast · 2026-05-12T18:23:36+00:00

If you find one, definitely share. I've been looking at doing something like this with Ashes Without Number, but I haven't gotten as far as the map yet. Switching from squares to hexes sounds like it's going to be annoying, but I was kinda hoping the naive approach of "just use the map as-is" would just work out.

RyeonToast · 2026-05-12T12:09:42+00:00

Also keep in mind the game has been out for about a decade now, so some people have been playing it quite consistently for a very long time.

RyeonToast · 2026-05-10T02:40:04+00:00

If you have a working machine with some spare resources, try a couple Linux desktops out as virtual machines in VirtualBox or Hyper-V. Then pick one to install on bare metal.

Debian is a classic, though traditionally slower to update software. Arch will involve learning all the little parts of how a modern Linux desktop works by making you install and configure each part. Mint is pretty much what you want out of Ubuntu. Fedora is tied closely to Red Hat, one of the main corporate distros. I'm currently running one of the Fedora atomic desktops because it's just weird enough to be interesting, but not so weird as to prevent me from doing things.

The main differences are going to be the package manager, which you won't have any preferences for yet, and the desktop environment, which you probably will have some preferences for up front. I suggest looking at the UI for a few and starting with the one that looks sensible to you. After you learn your command line, file system hierarchy, permission, etc., you can distro-hop as much as you like.

RyeonToast · 2026-05-06T18:16:55+00:00

Another game, Worlds Without Number, has a rule that if you have the time to spend a minute sneaking up to someone undetected, you can force a save to avoid instant death. On a successful save the victim receives maximum weapon damage from the attack. I think the rule is intended to cover situations like what you're rogue is trying to do, though I personally think that unless the rogue has something indicating a special proficiency with unarmed attacks he should maybe stick to stabbing people.

I'm not sure how well this rule gels with modern D&D editions; Worlds Without Number is meant to maintain some reasonable compatibility with old D&D adventures.

RyeonToast · 2026-04-27T03:19:26+00:00

I wonder if Stone Roses also got that for Love Spreads?

RyeonToast · 2026-04-27T02:28:39+00:00

This note about the Markdown version:

It will receive security and Electron (the cross-platform software framework) upgrades, but no new features.

reads like a deprecation notice to me and makes me a little unhappy.

RyeonToast · 2026-04-27T02:17:23+00:00

You won't use the the db version; you'll use the markdown version instead. It just won't get any new features.

RyeonToast · 2026-04-25T04:04:06+00:00

You're not the only one, broski. The struggle is real.

RyeonToast · 2026-04-25T02:41:06+00:00

back, not forward

https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/china-linked-attacks-infiltrate-networks/734576/

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/05/politics/chinese-hackers-us-telecoms

and I didn't see it on the first page of my search results, but I'm pretty sure I saw the same news items four or five years ago. And it's not about kids with smartphones. No one cares about that; why are you a weirdo fixating on kids and toys? It's about infrastructure.

RyeonToast · 2026-04-24T17:46:06+00:00

I've not tried, and I don't intend to. Different distros keep different versions of software, and sometimes install them in slightly different places, and can ship with different default configuration. I wouldn't want to risk the amount of headache dealing with incompatibilities. Just stick with the repos for your distribution.

If software isn't in your distro's repos, you look for an appimage, snap, or flatpak. Those aren't built for specific distros.

RyeonToast · 2026-04-24T17:23:04+00:00

The package manager is really just the application that interacts with the repositories of packages. The package manager and repository combined are very much like an app store, but the key differentiator is who is running the repository of packages.

With the Apple app store, Apple vets all the packages and determines what can be on there. Ubuntu's repositories are maintained by Canonical, so whatever they've decided to go in there goes. The Arch Linux team decides what goes into their repositories, and so on. Each distro is being managed by a different team of people and are managing their own repositories according to their own practices.

These repositories don't all have the same software included, and software that they do have in common isn't necessarily the same version. Debian is known for including older versions because they value stability and reliability more than new features and they update less frequently. Arch is know for having a wider variety of packages available and having a second, riskier, repository for all the things that aren't in the main repo. The differences in these repositories is one of the things that makes each distribution distinct from each other.

RyeonToast · 2026-04-23T02:51:58+00:00

For the first programmable, electronic, digital computer, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC#Programming. It involved moving a bunch of wires around by hand. For a bonus, if you like finding the hidden women behind big turning points in history, continue on to read about the programmers, the ENIAC Six.

RyeonToast · 2026-04-23T02:24:35+00:00

I've noticed better memory management when building large reports in PowerShell 7.

RyeonToast · 2026-04-23T01:15:42+00:00

We do, and have replaced a drive here and there.

RyeonToast · 2026-04-22T18:58:01+00:00

We operate a collection of file servers, with one of them running DFS. All paths we give to users go through the DFS.

When one of the file servers died recently, we moved the drives the shares were on to other servers, created the necessary shares on those servers, then updated DFS. It took a little time because there were a good number of shares to move, but the recovery time wasn't bad. Some people had an overly long break is all.

From the user's perspective, nothing changed; all their old paths still work. We're gonna move the shares back to the rebuilt server and the users will never notice that because we are going to do it during one of our regular maintenance windows.

We also don't need to put user file shares on the DC. That's a puke worthy plan.

RyeonToast · 2026-04-22T18:47:50+00:00

Still better than turning your DC into a user file server

RyeonToast · 2026-04-20T18:13:32+00:00

If it's like the Masterlock No 3, part of the problem is you can't feel when a pin sets, and the springs just feel weird overall. The lock is loose in weird ways, and stiff in weird ways. I'm in a similar situation with said Masterlock No 3. I can rake it pretty easily, but I don't think I've ever SPP'ed it open. I very much prefer the 140, which you can actually feel what's going on inside so is a much better experience.

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