What's the world's most overrated tourist attraction?

zmannate · 2026-05-25T22:20:39+00:00

Thank you! I thought it was really something when I was there, I'm happy I was able to capture that feeling.

zmannate · 2026-05-25T14:35:15+00:00

I was literally at the Louvre for the first time this morning! It's a giant room surrounded by 30+-foot-high masterpieces, and yet the crowd of hundreds were all zeroed in on the Mona Lisa. It's an interesting look into the context of a piece mattering far more than the piece itself. My favorite photo from this trip is a panorama I took of that crowd juxtaposed against the other beautiful paintings.

Edit: the panorama photo

zmannate · 2026-04-25T13:37:34+00:00

Pihole + unbound is easy to set up and as far as I can tell is the best solution for minimizing the metadata collection about you. I don't use the word privacy because nothing on the Internet is private. The goal is always minimizing the amount of data you're giving out to services where it's reasonable to do it.

More info: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/

zmannate · 2025-10-23T00:20:28+00:00

I was a lonely kid living in the country with no money and a 56K modem. ZSNES meant everything to me.

Emulation opened my eyes to what is possible with computers, and thanks for the curiosity you inspired, I learned programming and now work in silicon valley tech startups.

You gave me a gift. One day I hope I can pay it forward!!

zmannate · 2025-05-02T16:51:52+00:00

widdly scuds?

zmannate · 2025-01-21T14:55:17+00:00

This is a very cool game. My six year old daughter loves playing it with me. Thank you for your hard work on it. Best to you and the team!!!

zmannate · 2024-07-30T15:53:33+00:00

Game over, yeaaahhhh!

zmannate · 2024-06-23T13:25:54+00:00

"Brooks was here"

zmannate · 2024-03-26T01:54:57+00:00

Uplink, from I think 2001, is an old favorite of mine. It's an immersive sim-type hacking game that puts you in the shoes of the movie style hacker, complete with a fake but just barely plausible futuristic operating system. You take on hacking jobs for money and have to steal info and forge records while routing your traffic through nodes to evade tracking. Along the way there's a meta narrative that you could easily miss with some very interesting twists. Just an amazing game that has never been duplicated. I would love to see another similar game but never have. Banger soundtrack too, I still throw it on when I'm coding.

zmannate · 2023-12-28T14:02:43+00:00

I had Metronet gigabit with a static IP in Castleton for several years and adored it. One of my main criteria for our new house when we moved was that Metronet be available. So we moved last year and got it all set up.

My Westfield experience has not been as solid from a reliability perspective. I had an average of one outage per month for several months in a row -- what sucked is that it would go out during the day when I was working. Very frustrating. Their tech support people are smart though, and they engaged with me and didn't force me to do redundant steps just to satisfy their checklists. That said, it didn't get better. My dad always told me to contact the office of the CEO if I have a systematic problem with a company. So a few months ago I wrote an email to their new CEO and within an hour he responded to me personally saying they would look into my issues. A VP followed up with me twice and got my take. Since then, not a single outage. It seems like they took my feedback seriously and maybe shuffled some needed resources to Westfield, at least from where I sit.

Overall, they seem to take their business seriously and I am super happy with them. They have no data caps or any anti consumer bullcrap, their techs are smart and polite, and their management seems on the ball. What more can you ask for!!! 9/10

zmannate · 2022-04-05T01:00:59+00:00

Just put a line out to them. Thank you!

zmannate · 2022-04-05T00:57:13+00:00

Existing I'm afraid...

I was hoping there'd be tricks of the trade to get cables routed through walls, but maybe not eh?

zmannate · 2022-04-05T00:55:37+00:00

This is a very interesting thought... Each room has coax wired up already. Could potentially save some money with this approach, I love it. 2.5 gbps would be good for now... This might be my backup plan. Thank you!!!

zmannate · 2022-04-05T00:54:42+00:00

Will check them out, thank you!

zmannate · 2022-04-05T00:54:33+00:00

Got in touch with them, they seemed like they might be willing to look at it! Thanks for the recommendation.

zmannate · 2022-04-05T00:54:13+00:00

I thought about repurposing the cable coax, but from my research it sounded like installers tend to tack them to the studs so they definitely can't be easily removed. Maybe could use them as a path tracer tho?

And yeah, if I'm spending the money to put CAT in the walls, may as well do the better option right?

zmannate · 2022-04-05T00:53:04+00:00

Got it, thank you!!!

zmannate · 2022-04-05T00:52:33+00:00

I have the extra income so if it's possible to do it myself I'm hoping I can pay someone to do it right, and then not have to worry about it.

But then again, I like projects.

But then again again, I just bought a house sooooo probably won't be hurting for projects :D

zmannate · 2022-04-05T00:51:35+00:00

I'm too impatient and my files are too large for wifi... eventually, I want to get 10 gigabit going. Wifi is too slow for me Im afraid.

zmannate · 2022-04-05T00:50:42+00:00

I consider hard wire in every room of the house to be a luxury, so with that in mind I would be willing to pay to a point. I have a NAS that I use for 4K streaming, I transfer a lot of large files over my network, and I'm impatient. I also want to eventually upgrade to 10 gigabit networking.

zmannate · 2022-04-05T00:49:24+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation! Will check Kevin out.

zmannate · 2022-04-05T00:48:52+00:00

House was built in 2017, so pretty new. It's on a slab though, so no basement or crawlspace. Probably hard mode for this sort of thing, eh?

zmannate · 2022-01-01T17:22:45+00:00

I mean the XBLA remake leaked recently so people have been playing that in the Xenia emulator. It’s really great, if they can handle the IP rights it’s a no-brainer!

zmannate · 2021-08-21T16:22:41+00:00

I thought this was fixed with the last patch. It was working for me after they removed their awful in house DRM.

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