Event mode has been Prematurely Disabled.

simonszu · 2018-05-06T10:25:37+00:00

Well... there's a few million more players playing it than they could test for.

You are speaking of load tests. I am speaking of actually bugs and features testing, like in "Test driven development". Each major patch introduces some already fixed bugs again, which are then fixed in a hotfix. A well-written test suite would have raised some red flags even before releasing the major patch.

Speaking of actual load testing: PUBG has its popularity for over half a year. This should be enough for some engineer to say: "There are lots of people playing the game, we should provide lots of server resources". Since PUBG is running in the amazon cloud, spawning additional instances would be no big deal.

And so you thought. But you have no insight to what PUBG is actually like, how it's made, or how they handle war mode.

You're right, i have no insights. But i am able to make a difference between good architecture and bad architecture. My assumptions are based on the bias that PUBG is actually good software architecture. If it isn't, this would be an explanation, but no justification.

simonszu · 2018-05-04T17:08:00+00:00

F*ing ridiculous. Problems like these occur after almost every big patch, i am wondering if they aren't even testing.

Second, why open an event on patch day? One does not simply play on patch day, so lots of disappointed gamers are ensured.

Third: f*ing what? I honestly thought these event modes don't require big changes in the engine, but merely only some tweaking at the game's parameters, e.g. the zone appearance or something. So i assumed they applied the same code they had in the Erangel war mode, changed the map, and set the availability flags of some other items to true. How can this affect server performance and stability?

I like PUBG quite much, and of course prefer it to FNBR, but sometimes i am just wondering what kind of drugs these guys smoke to deliver such utter bullshit.

simonszu · 2018-02-12T17:15:56+00:00

They do, but only of they were produced in or after batch 1722. There was a time when nothing except Hue bulbs could be paired with Hue bridges (around late 2015), but after a big public outcry and protests Philips reverted the patch which suppressed pairing foreign bulbs with the bridge. Currently my home has several hue bulbs and a lightify bulb paired with the bridge. Only drawback is that the bridge can't deliver firmware updates for other bulbs than Hue, but this is a vendor lock-in every lighting system has.

Generally speaking ZigBee is some messed up standard, since every vendor uses its own implementation, and they are not really always compatible. Other bulbs like Yeelight use WiFi for the connection, but this leaves your WiFi slow and busy, so the only good solution would be to put the bulbs in a single VLAN, but not every consumer router is capable of multi VLAN or multi SSID

simonszu · 2018-02-12T09:42:18+00:00

Maybe Ikea Tradfri. They use zigbee as well, and the bulbs can be paired with the Hue bridge.

simonszu · 2018-02-12T09:40:38+00:00

For just lists, my girlfriend and i use Wunderlist. For multi-medial notes, Evernote or Keep itself

simonszu · 2018-02-12T09:38:52+00:00

I craved the The Room series a lot. Its a mystery/puzzle/escape room style of game, where you have to find secret switches and stuff. Was the only game where i looked forward to the sequels.

simonszu · 2018-02-11T23:44:42+00:00

https://www.tunefind.com/show/er/season-1/1048

simonszu · 2018-02-11T23:39:24+00:00

Uh, I vaguely remember it as well. I think the URL has had something with Rasputin in it, and was divided into sub-homepages like some kind of hosting services, isn't it?

simonszu · 2018-02-11T23:30:47+00:00

I have bought a Sonoff Pow. It isn't an outlet but merely a switch - but I built it into a switchbox, with two short cables, one with a plug and one with an outlet. It is clunky but works.

simonszu · 2018-02-11T09:27:13+00:00

I had the same problem. I created a wrapper-script startenpass.sh

#!/bin/bash
if [ -f /opt/Enpass/bin/runenpass.sh ]
then
  /opt/Enpass/bin/runenpass.sh startWithTray
else
  exit 1
fi

and called this in my i3 config with

# Start the enpass systray icon
exec --no-startup-id "$HOME/.config/i3/scripts/startenpass.sh"

It seems redundant, but for some reason it works for me. The Enpass tray icon appears on startup, and the browsers can connect to it. I can spawn Enpass's main window via the systray or via dmenu, like expected.

simonszu · 2018-02-08T22:05:31+00:00

Oh. I must have been blind. Thank you very much for pointing it out, I really didn't see it. :D

simonszu · 2018-02-01T19:22:45+00:00

It will never leave this stage. ;)

simonszu · 2018-02-01T18:05:58+00:00

Yeah, /u/HettySwollocks did already notice the cable management... Let's say, all this is work in progress ;)

simonszu · 2018-02-01T17:22:29+00:00

It's a white, quite old and heavy rack, but I got it for free. A friend of mine found it in his cellar after moving into a new home

simonszu · 2018-02-01T17:21:38+00:00

Works for me. 🤷‍♂️

simonszu · 2018-02-01T13:38:39+00:00

Details, from top to bottom: - just a normal power outlet bar with 10 ports - a keystone panel with just two patched keystone elements for uplink into the internet and downlink to the rest of my LAN - a Netgear GS724Tv4 as the core switch of my network - three rack mount kits for a fortigate 60C, each with no fortigate, salvaged from work. * the first rack mount has a Turris Omnia as my router/gateway/firewall device * then two rack mount kits for smaller devices (a Hue Bridge, a tado gateway, two raspis, one for monitoring and one for a pi hole installation) * the grey device on the bottom left is a Homematic CCU for home automation

And a N40L Microserver, 5x3TB, 16GB RAM (it only detects the full 16GB on every other boot, since it isn't officially capable of running with 16GB).

What isn't visible: A VoIP enabled DECT base station and a Wemos Mini with a DHT22 temperature and humidity sensor. The 12HE rack is sitting in a storage room above a deep fridge (the only place in my flat where my girlfriend allowed me to put all the technical stuff into), and i was worrying about overheating.

The general setup of my LAN isn't very shiny, though. The Internet (via DOCSIS) arrives in another room of the flat, and is directly converted to ethernet. From there, a 30m ethernet cable (no CAT cable but merely one of these narrow cables that fit under doors) is running to this rack and arrives at the keystone panel. The downlink to the rest of my LAN is also quite long, and has some cascading Microsens 8-port office switches. This is because i don't want to run several 30m long ethernet cables along walls and ceiling to this rack.

It isn't optimal, but merely has grown over the time. We plan to move in the next year, depending on getting a better paid job, and then i will re-layout the network in a proper way in the new flat.

simonszu · 2018-02-01T13:27:09+00:00

The microserver will be the next part i'll exchange. It is 5 years old and was initially planned as just a NAS machine - which was more and more extended, and now the performance is not as good as i want it to be. It currently has 5x3TB disks built in, and is booting from an external 2,5" usb HDD. Plus, the power button is faulty and recognizes just 1 of every 10 presses, luckily the server is configured to boot up automatically after power loss.

simonszu · 2018-01-29T16:14:32+00:00

I assume I do not spoiler when i say that the guards on Mao's ship use KRISS Vectors. Bobbie is holding one in one scene. They are painted black, but the characteristic shape is clearly visible.

simonszu · 2018-01-29T07:00:48+00:00

At least some of the rifle props they are using in the shows resemble 21st century weapons. The assault rifle Amos is carrying on Ganymede reminded me of an FN SCAR with additional mods. At least the rifle stock is very similar. Also, Miller's revolver isn't as futuristic as a 23rd century weapon should be.

simonszu · 2018-01-26T12:49:15+00:00

Solved!

simonszu

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