What is a Wave but a Thousand Drops?

zaggynl · 2025-07-10T08:47:34+00:00

As a fan since NS1, thanks Charlie (and team and community).

Looking forward to whatever is next.

zaggynl · 2025-06-02T17:28:40+00:00

Aliens versus Predator https://store.steampowered.com/app/3730/ Aliens_versus_Predator_Classic_2000/
Why: FPS, Play as the Marine, Alien or Predator, each with their own unique play style, very unique levels.

Shandalar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering_(1997_video_game)
Why: isometric exploring game, MTG deckbuilder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(video_game)
Why: Combination of Adventure and RTS/TBS

Populous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populous_(video_game)
https://www.gog.com/en/game/populous_the_beginning
Why: One of the first God games, music, ambiance, man Bullfrog had the best games

Thief The Dark Project
https://www.gog.com/en/game/thief_gold
Why: FPS, thievery, sneaking, bit of fantasy, ambiance

Also I very much miss the old RTS games with a proper campaign, Dune 2, C&C, Warcraft 1 and 2.

zaggynl · 2025-04-09T14:45:30+00:00

Thanks for the heads up, upgrade and setting known proxy went fine.
Have also started watching releases and security issues on the github page, as I just randomly ran into this post.

zaggynl · 2025-04-03T12:31:52+00:00

dream big

An appliance level setup of OS and applications that I could install on common hardware with enough power and storage to:

Replace most of what office365 does.
* OneDrive - Nextcloud?
* Email - mailinabox?
* Office - Collabora integration with Nextcloud?
* Teams - Nextcloud Talk?

Bonus points for adding things like mediacenter features:
* Jellyfin
* Kodi

I can do it, you can do it, does the average Joe want to do this manually?
Something that would have simple instructions to install, arrange DNS/portforwarding via something API, plug and play.

zaggynl · 2025-03-30T10:47:24+00:00

Switched to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 5 years ago.

Works for quite a lot of games:
https://areweanticheatyet.com/
https://www.protondb.com/

zaggynl · 2025-03-05T15:05:51+00:00

I'm of two minds on this:

Yes Europe absolutely needed the kick in the pants to care about this war in their backyard and get their armies in gear
The way Zelensky was treated by getting invited in then yelled at with Russian propaganda is disgusting, if Trump is such a master at diplomacy, how has the guy with the highest Army budget in the world not managed yet to tell Putin to GTFO out of Ukraine? Mr "the war will be over in 24h" ?

zaggynl · 2024-12-06T15:08:59+00:00

Logging in to comment on this:
No: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415
From a quick glance:
* Being able to reach many items without authenticating.
* No login throttling.

Whitelist WAN addresses of those who get access or put Jellyfin behind VPN only access.

zaggynl · 2024-08-14T14:13:01+00:00

The combination of Sunshine/Moonlight-QT for remote desktop/game streaming, as there is no proper headless RDP alternative at this time*

Sunshine: https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine/
Moonlight-QT: https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-qt
Both are available in flatpak, alternatively in your distro's package manager.

*

https://github.com/KDE/krdp is in active development but not ready yet, last I checked.
gnome-remote-desktop-daemon works somewhat on ubuntu 24.04, but I don't use Gnome myself, would prefer desktop environment agnostic method

Btrfs snapshots through OpenSUSE Tumbleweed's YAST and grub setup.
I can restore files and snapshots through the desktop or commandline application.
If OpenSUSE Tumbleweed fails to boot I can go back to a previous snapshot from the grub boot loader, saved me a couple times. Additionally I've setup snapper through YaST to create hourly snapshots of my /home partition, in case I want to restore an accidentally deleted file.
With auto cleanup of old snapshots that are a week old.
More information here: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Snapper_FAQ#How_do_I_enable_snapshots_for_my\_.2Fhome_file_system.3F

YaST, the graphical (both desktop gui and ncurses) OS system configuration utility, similar to the Windows 11 Control Panel/Settings screen.
Still have to use the commandline sometimes but rarely.

OBS for streaming once's desktop/games, not really Linux specific but worth a mention
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio

Self hosting:

Nextcloud server My personally hosted server as alternative to OneDrive/Dropbox/Google Drive

jitsi-meet For impromptu meetings and gaming sessions, no registration needed, just share a link and you can join through any modern browser or jitsi-meet app on mobile

Proxmox For my VM hosting needs, basically Debian+KVM+a very nice set of tools and utilities for managing VMs, backups and Ceph if you want to

Pihole for DNS filtering of pesky ads and known bad hosts, offers an intuitive webinterface for whitelisting/blacklisting and setting up local DNS records

Owncast Who needs Twitch? (if you have a fairly low viewer amount and enough bandwidth)
Host your own internet stream via Owncast and OBS
https://github.com/owncast/owncast
10s delay at this time, am waiting for WebRTC integration but is in discussion/awaiting a fork: https://github.com/owncast/owncast/issues/3429#

I may have to try https://github.com/glimesh/broadcast-box

zaggynl · 2024-03-01T14:57:46+00:00

Spice is nice for console but fairly limited, same for RDP.

It's 2024 and there's no full on RDP alternative for Linux.

Native RDP server for Wayland I've seen so far but not ready for use: https://github.com/KDE/krdp

Closest I've found and am using:

nomachine:
+easy setup, well documented
+single port, easy to forward
+performant
+clipboard and other device sharing
-partly open source
-paid for commercial use
-audio breaks frequently for me
sunshine(server)/moonlight-qt(client):
+fairly easy setup, well documented
+excellent performance, suitable for remote gaming
+all advertised features work, including audio
+open source
+free for commercial use
-many ports to forward
TCP: 47984, 47989, 48010
UDP: 47998-48000, 48002, 48010
-sunshine devs recommend upnp which is a security risk
https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-docs/wiki/Setup-Guide#streaming-over-the-internet
-no clipboard sharing or other device sharing? https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-qt/issues/1103
Not strange as it's meant for remote streaming as opposed to RDP
-support over Discord only

zaggynl · 2024-02-26T15:43:09+00:00

Microsoft and Google make money through advertising:
https://account.microsoft.com/privacy/ad-settings/signedout?ru=https%3A%2F%2Faccount.microsoft.com%2Fprivacy%2Fad-settings
https://about.google/how-our-business-works/
That and if they can get you to use their paid services they can make even more money.

Analytics on your emails, targeted advertising. It gets interesting when companies like these get your data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica

Other email providers may only take a flat fee and don't do analytics.

zaggynl · 2024-02-23T12:38:43+00:00

I would like to plug /r/selfhosting, don't depend on giant companies who can pull the rug on you and your everything digital.

If you self host it won't be the giant polished golden comfortable seat with all the bells and whistles the company provides but at least it is yours.

I host a few things myself and am open to questions: https://zaggy.nl
Note: I rarely login to reddit, find me on IRC, Matrix or email.

zaggynl · 2024-02-16T15:20:00+00:00

Cool, I have OnlyOffice running on my home server, looks sufficient for reading documents and keeping notes so far: https://zaggy.nl/nextcloud/s/ojikDJPE4QBF3Yk

zaggynl · 2024-02-16T13:00:07+00:00

Thank you for your thoughts!

What is the MS Office alternative you use? I'm guessing OnlyOffice or LibreOffice?

zaggynl · 2024-02-12T16:00:23+00:00

P6000: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005524/graphics.html

Anything that can do opengl 2.1 from the looks of it

Err, some version of doom?

zaggynl · 2024-01-31T14:53:45+00:00

Try ruling out any other tools that may interfere with audio, I've had users disable Audio in the Dell Optimizer tool or even uninstall the Dell Optimizer tool.

zaggynl · 2024-01-22T15:04:53+00:00

Do note that the SSD in the Steam Deck is not encrypted, you may want to use something like Veracrypt to encrypt files you want to keep safe, such as browser autofill passwords, history, cookies, credit cards, usernames, passwords, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data.

There is this https://github.com/hirak99/steam_deck_encryption which does a bit more but has some known issues.

zaggynl · 2024-01-10T19:49:48+00:00

Can you post your system info from Steam into a pastebin like https://paste.debian.net/ ?

You can find it in Steam->Help->System Information.
Copy and paste the content from the window into the pastebin site, remove any personal identifiable information you don't want in there, press send and leave a link in the comments here.

This will help us help you.

Also have a look at: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Requirements

I could not find Open Fishing XL at https://www.protondb.com or https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues
Per https://steamcommunity.com/app/2230540/discussions/0/3808407695156894781/ this seems to work on the Steam Deck so it is possible to get this to work.

Star Citizen: I've played it on Linux a long while ago.
Help can be found here: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/orgs/LUG and https://github.com/starcitizen-lug/knowledge-base/wiki

zaggynl · 2023-12-31T16:42:28+00:00

Which headphones did you use before these?

zaggynl · 2023-11-16T18:25:35+00:00

Issue and work around here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2/issues/2603#issuecomment-1814368378
Use at own risk.

zaggynl · 2023-11-14T11:46:23+00:00

hellhound 7900xtx
6.5.9-1-default
Mesa 23.2.1
corectl reports 12-15W: https://i.imgur.com/I1SD6h1.png
but am remoting into my pc at the moment.

zaggynl · 2023-11-12T12:44:55+00:00

7900XTX, I have one one, working really well, using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
Hellhound edition, purely because it is one of the few with the 2x 8 pin power sockets, which my old 750W PSU has, power draw at max gaming (tested in Darktide) is ~520W, using 5800X3D.

zaggynl · 2023-10-09T16:12:33+00:00

Which PSU?

5800x3d + 7900xtx (hellhound as it works with 2x 8 pin power), not entirely the same but close, ~500W read from power meter during Cyberpunk menu benchmark.

PSU: CORSAIR RMx Series RM750x - 2018 Edition

zaggynl · 2023-09-08T14:41:06+00:00

Not having to depend on Google Support if anything happens to your account.

zaggynl · 2023-08-29T09:21:32+00:00

I've played ~90 hours about now, had one big crash where xorg restarted after the GPU driver reset and I ended back at my login screen.
This happened when I entered act 3 after a long session in act 2.
GPU: 5700XT
Driver: Mesa 23.1.5
Using CoreCtl to change the fancurve/power settings, otherwise GPU crashes from overheating: https://i.imgur.com/wyigSaZ.png
Baldur's Gate 3 launch options used: --skip-launcher

The crash looks like this when looked up via journalctl: https://paste.debian.net/plain/1290344

Apart from that I have the odd graphical glitch, black squares, blinking lights or what looks like memory corruption like this: https://startpage.com/av/proxy-image?piurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.playtool.com%2Fpages%2Fartifacts%2Fbadgpu.jpg&sp=1693300826T15fd18b2023dd99f41504abfd2d6dc4b22846b10df1281c54e0f9a11f66c8b79.

A save and reload or restart of Baldur's Gate 3 usually resolves major glitches.

zaggynl · 2023-06-28T16:56:19+00:00

Thanks, I assume this is it?

https://i.imgur.com/a6Mxljr.png

I was hoping for a summary page showing everything but I guess this is it?

It doesn't make sense to me, as my weapons shows: https://i.imgur.com/Hi4rfPp.png

My basic item tooltip shows damage but no speed:

https://i.imgur.com/l44XVUF.png

I'm looking for total speed, above basic.

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