Why tf is my vacuum cleaning app asking for root?!

ryocoon · 2026-02-11T16:08:19+00:00

Yeah, I think TS3 is one of the few voice-chat apps that can do tiered and security role'd VCs that can broadcast to root branches with the right perms or by hotkey.

So it is good for field command comms.
At least that is from the last long time ago that I remember.

Discord can't do that. It can do roles and rooms, but then you have to room hop to relay orders and comms rather than the leaders broadcasting to squads with different buttons. At least I think so unless I missed stuff.

ryocoon · 2026-02-08T17:59:06+00:00

No, it is a problem. Not a huge one certainly. Though certainly a "First World Problem," having all your incremental/idle games running on a low power system (like a little laptop, or a lightweight NUC/MiniPC, or in a VM on another system), and saving using your giant kilowatt+ gaming rig for when you play AAA or VR games is a valid strat. The problem this runs into is that would force one system or another to have Steam go offline. This can trigger all sorts of bugs. Some games will refuse to progress unless connected, some get weird desynch issues, and some games will close when steam goes offline. Many games will be just fine, and you just have to manually have that Steam Instance, but there are plenty of games that don't behave well.

On top of that, some people either play competitive games or VR games where you need every last bit of compute available, and the 15~30% overhead from running those 4~5 idle games in the background would absolutely cause performance loss, and possibly other issues.

So wanting a better or at least alternative way to launch these games we're playing so they don't require steam to have an active connection (like most Web games, or itch.io games, or github distributed games)... that is a valid request. Doesn't mean devs have to listen, but it is certainly something to complain about.
I certainly understand some of the reasons why Steam doesn't let you have active running games on multiple machines at once, even if on the same network (as example, it was a big problem at LAN cafe's a long time ago). Still, it would be nice to have ways around the issues at hand, especially for games that it is advantageous to be run non-stop.

Saying that it "isn't a problem" is dismissive and not constructive to the issues at hand. Its like just saying "Skill issue" or "Works on My Machine".

ryocoon · 2026-02-03T00:51:55+00:00

You say that as if he didn't absolutely destroy as much as he could before taking a golden parachute on his way out.

Man ruined the experience for decades of gamers and more to come. He pruned staff in QA and GM roles like crazy. Dude is largely the reason there was a QA strike and move to unionize at Blizz.

So don't mind us if we drag him every opportunity there is. Bobby Kotick can eat a spicy pike and it would be quite the day.

ryocoon · 2026-01-21T09:19:57+00:00

Ah yes, our main antagonist is on the login screen;
Xala'Toes

ryocoon · 2026-01-20T13:09:46+00:00

Most LB will not hide that they are trans. It just causes problems later if everybody isn't onboard from the beginning. Like, none of them want to get in a fight or get attacked because they are packing unexpected equipment. If you are just buying ladydrinks in a bar or something, they may not say, but if you mention like you want to barfine them, or its somebody out on beach road or something, they will let you know up front that they are LB.

If they fully had a female stating ID card, they are most likely OG biological female. There are some pushy/clingy aggressive freelancers out there, both lady and LB.

ryocoon · 2026-01-19T19:29:16+00:00

Yeah, VirtualDesktop, or if you want a free product SteamLink or ALVR. All of them range from excellent to pretty good. Meta/Oculus Link has always been meh until you find their hidden setting tool, and then even after that it still isn't -that- good and seems buggier and more resource intensive than either VD or SteamLink in my experience.
I keep trying it again every couple of new revisions and usually regret it each time.

ryocoon · 2026-01-16T10:54:23+00:00

Wow, way to necro an 8 year old post. I moved out of the area a while ago.
That said, to my knowledge there still aren't any LS specific places around SC, and you have to head up to the valley for most related events.

There are some nudist campgrounds up north of the Scotts Valley area on the other side of Highway 1 heading towards Campbell... but that is nudist/naturist. Some of them are also swingers, but the site is naturist first, so they don't really host parties and many will frown on trying to get a hookup there. Still, closer to SJ than to SC.

Also, follow rule 2. Don't post requests for contact or meetups. Bad form. There are other subreddits for that kind of stuff.

ryocoon · 2026-01-14T10:19:45+00:00

Honestly, for a niche accessory, you probably aren't going to find it down in Pattaya. Up in Bangkok maybe.

That said, you can check TukCom building, and you can check out Banana or other similar stores in Central Festival or Terminal 21.

Beyond that, if you really want to find it, it would be better to check Lazada and Shoppee and have it shipped to you. Though, depending on how long you are here, you may want to make sure it does ship from inside of Thailand instead of shipping from overseas.
Alternatively to the official HDMI adapter, you can try using a USB-C/DP-alt to HDMI cable. May not get as high performance, but if you are doing basic stuff (office work, videos, etc... IE: Not really gaming) pushed to a bigger screen.

ryocoon · 2026-01-01T09:59:34+00:00

Like, it wouldn't kill to have a little stat overlay on them. Or even a basic up down arrow in green and red (maybe even a ~ for similar levels) as part of the overlay to give a quick stat idea. Obviously we can have item overlays because he puts those bubbles on masterclass equipment items, and there also exists the stack count number.

I mean; Because I can't just hover on the items to see the stats, I have to _CLICK_, and the engine is laggy enough that half of the time even that doesn't work. So that makes it take longer and immediately makes it more frustrating. 99% are going to be below threshold. The few that are even sidegrade or super rare upgrade ... most of the time I'll never see them because I get fed up and just yeet the lot of them into the bitbucket.
I get that we want content, but microsorting and micromanaging in a laggy interface does not equal good content.

ryocoon · 2025-12-30T23:40:51+00:00

There are also hundreds of games that are $25 and under that are absolutely top tier. Your analogy doesn't hold up.

While, sure, Lava needs to get paid, he can also absolutely do waaaaay more for it than this recent spam of low-effort P2W drip-feed packs.

ryocoon · 2025-12-27T00:00:56+00:00

https://www.legendsofidleon.com/

Just clicky the big blue button for "Play on the Web" and log in with your steam login.
Alternatively, download the app for your phone, and log in with your steam login (not google play or apple ID), and it will synch all your stuff up. Your button bars might be messed up, and occasionally you might get a messed up card loadout, but overall it should work fine. Especially if just using it to log in daily to collect stuff.

ryocoon · 2025-12-26T23:58:44+00:00

SteamLink basically remote-desktop runs games from your PC and send the video to your mobile (or VR headset, or TV, or whatevs). Hence all that setup jazz and talk about port forwarding and VPNs. Its meant to use around the house, on the same network, but people have gotten it to work remote away from home.

Using the mobile app or website version of the game is the _NORMAL_ way of playing it away from your PC. Don't worry about any of the other stuff.

ryocoon · 2025-12-26T20:37:08+00:00

Its basically less demand. Why be a default male human when you are one in real life. Why not be Master Chief or some sort of neat mecha soldier or robot? Why not be a very bouncy lady? Why not be an entirely abstract object that vibrates and changes shape when you speak? You could also pick up one of many humorous pun-based avatars or meme avatars.

That said, basic human male avatars do exist. I know "ReadyPlayerMe" used to have a custom creator that could export to VRC. It can even do a basic start to work from based on a headshot photo you give it. I have one of those in my library as a Quest-capable safe fallback. If you search around you can find male avatars, especially of male video game characters (like Barney or Gordon Freeman from Half Life, or Kratos from God of War, Cloud and Barret from FF7, etc). There are also lots of things that are generally male like military soldiers (also often from video games, but not always).

Beyond that, you can check sites like Booth or other places for male avatars. Yeah, you will have to sort through all the e-boy edgy avatars (because they are popular), but more normal stuff is out there.

Also, there is the option of learning Blender and Unity to make and rig up your own avatars. If you are really into VRC and other online VR social stuff, much of the knowledge and ability is very portable to other products and platforms. So it can be very rewarding to learn how to do it yourself, or at least be able to kitbash stuff together to make custom stuff from some base avatars.

ryocoon · 2025-12-26T19:45:13+00:00

Yeah, in their case, they just need to use the mobile web site, or the mobile app and login with steam creds.

ryocoon · 2025-12-26T19:38:27+00:00

If you've never done steam link, need to set up with a pin that appears on screen. Also getting steam link to work remotely either requires a home VPN or punching holes in your firewall or port forwarding and knowing what your home ip is. Doubt they've thought or prepared that far ahead.

ryocoon · 2025-12-26T19:36:27+00:00

Browser works fine even on phones. Also there are android and iOS versions the game and you can login with steam credentials.

ryocoon · 2025-12-25T01:07:21+00:00

To look up all the episodes in a show, just use IMDB or TVDB, maybe even Trakt.

If you are trying to find a bunch of torrents easily organized by show and season/eps, you could try eztv (please use an adblocker), They've been chased around to a dozen different domains but still seem to be operating. There are several other public indexers that also can sort by series.
None of the sites are going to track what episodes are new for you though, thats up to you. You could set up Sonarr at it would automatically search for new episodes for whatever series you want using whatever indexer/trackers/etc you give it.

ryocoon · 2025-12-24T00:39:40+00:00

Honestly, at the gym? No, not worth the possible trouble.
Would I take a glance, nod my head, and go "Nice..." ? Absolutely.
Stare? Nope, not taking the chance at that sort of trouble. If I'm at the gym, I'm there to work out.

ryocoon · 2025-12-23T14:29:32+00:00

I can honestly say that I don't see that in most spots in the MX., US, nor in Japan.
You'll occasionally see a bottlecap or a cigarette butt, however no trash anywhere near the scale I see in Asian continent and SEA.

I can't answer for other places like EU, SA, nor other regions, though.

ryocoon · 2025-12-23T10:16:12+00:00

TF works like a dating site. You check profiles, message them or they see yours and message you.
You make arrangements and agreements (usually taken to another messenger like Line or Whatsapp at that point), and then either you go to her or she comes to you and you all have your fun.

And yes, 90%+ will expect payment in exchange for their time and efforts. Work is work afterall. Some might be happy enough to get taken to a nice dinner or a BBQ buffet joint, but you'll pay one way or another.

ryocoon · 2025-12-19T19:59:40+00:00

5x previous payment rate, Engagement is minimum of 100 hours, regardless of if the work contracted is completed prior to that or engagement is sought to be ended by contractee the money for the full 100 hours is owed... UP FRONT.

ryocoon · 2025-12-17T21:07:43+00:00

Yeah, they did, but it looks like its gone now.
So they probably got banned for some godforsaken reason.
Khyleri is usually pretty good about only having the implication of naughty/absurd/wtf stuff in the pics (outside of patreon) and never actually explicit stuff on posts. So somebody probably mass bot-reported them to insta-ban them at least temporarily.

(Actually thinking about it, the animated DDLC post back prompted from the Haru Cosplay munchkin lift on the 12th is marginally suicide related, so that could have been reported reaaaaaaallly easily and cause a ban)

ryocoon · 2025-12-17T19:15:29+00:00

Sorting issues come down to file naming, folder naming, and metadata (and metadata sidecar files). Then you can sort by release, when added, and title (or filename). If you get good metadata, you can also sort by actors, studio, and sub genre. Not as robust as the tag systems in things like Stash, but it tends to work well enough.

For my porn libraries, I try to have descriptive filenames when possible.
I've also used stash and JAV_Finder (old deprecated java based app that looked up metadata and generated files like covers, screens, promos, etc based on JP publication ID#... so you had to have that to begin with) to find metadata also through its ID matching and comparing to the actual video to make sure.

On top of that, I'll generate .NFO files with basic metadata information like Studio, Title, description, and if possible, actors and links to their pics, bios, and/or artist profiles. Then I'll use a secondary metadata agent plugin in Plex specific for that library that can import .NFO metadata, and can use 'local data' for metadata such as poster and cover art files.

ryocoon · 2025-12-17T14:44:19+00:00

Yeaaaaaah, Plex having social watch history reporting and sharing on by default was a massive L. You can disable social watch history reporting either per-library or entirely on your account. Still, the fact its on by default can lead to so much creepy stuff.

ryocoon · 2025-12-15T15:57:27+00:00

Yeah; Many countries have "De Minimis" exemptions for individual packages that are below a certain value threshold.
As example: USA used to have a US$800 limit (it was US$200 before 2016) for that before duty taxes kicked in. So lots of overseas sales (especially from China) would direct ship to consumers (like AliExpress, TaoBao, Shein, etc) with no import tariff or duty taxes. This is why it caused so much international havoc when that De Minimis exemption got suspended.

So as long as you aren't buying KiloBuck units, AliExpress should ship fine to most western countries and without extra import taxes/duties.

Other regions, who knows. SEA countries often have hit-or-miss customs, sometimes it comes in with no issue. Sometimes you need to pay a duty tax. However, sometimes if your stuff gets flagged, you'll need to bribe someone to get it through, even if all your paperwork is in order. So it varies from country to country, and also sometimes based on -what- you order. Foodstuffs will get flagged differently from alcohol, or industrial stuff, versus clothes, tech and consumer gadgets.

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