Ooof, yeah reading their comments, I agree.

OP, if you’re reading this, start even smaller. Not everything has to be right in your house.

I been deploying web apps since 2010, and I jumped right into self hosting during the pandemic and it was a massive headache or challenges I wasn’t prepared to face or maintain.

I gave up (for now) and just used open-source apps and AWS, because I needed availability. And every few months, I do a bit more to one day move everything to pure self hosting.

You aren’t kidding. I played Kingdom Come Deliverance last year, when I learned about the second one. Was like wow.

Then read how they originally were courting the anti-woke crowd. Who later turned on them because the sequel has “woke” material.

Its great to not be a part of those GAMERS.

Assume all of the big ones.

Theres been a lot of positive GTA6 posts across a bunch of the internet, like how they’re “releasing it when theyre ready”.

Which is funny because a few days ago, they fired 30+ people who tried to unionize.

Apparently this freaking creepo went to Thailand in the 2000s and demanded teens. And that’s on record by the like court Historian.

Zhu said the requests primarily came from directors based in China, who cited “personal reasons” for changing their mind about screening their films. Directors based outside China said their families back home had been contacted by the Chinese authorities, a common way of applying pressure to people beyond its borders.

Ah I see. So it’s films made in China, being shown in NY for their film fest.

Similar to America and Banning Books, these films now have when more attention as films China doesn’t want Americans to see!

Elden Ring DLC for me.

At least the main game, the world was kind of flat.

The land of Shadow’s map was kind of difficult to read. There was too many layers. Some things were underground. Some were above ground.

If the world wasn’t connected but broken by portals or something, it would have been fine. But condensed like that made it feel too big and I overwhelming.

This is it.

GTA 5 was boring when it came to exploring, much of it was pretty empty unless there was a mission. Elder Scrolls Arena was just random generated repeated stuff - miles of it. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey was a lot of copy and paste.

Remember when Ubisoft came crawling back to Steam?

I’m playing the hell out of Escape from Duckov.

All the fun of a extraction shooter, only single player.

Yep. Every company I’ve worked at had a marketing team with a social media team.

And social media isn’t just fucking around on Twitter posting food pics. It also making a dozen fake accounts to share how your company is way better than this other company. Or write bad reviews about your competitors. Or shit on people who like a particular product while boosting yours.

Oh is that against the law? Only if it’s enforced. Which impossible.

Vibe coded energy

Right here.

Talk is cheap. And people are stupid.

Stop going to events with Ticketmaster.

I bought a $300 fake Roomba thing. It was on clearance.

And i fought against it for years. But ended it up coming in clutch for a lot of reasons.

It did not have an app, just a IR controller. Its pretty dumb. It bumps into everything. It gets stuck under things. I sometimes have to create a maze so it cleans a specific spot.

Its been a habit of mines to avoid anything with an app that requires internet access. But the product lines are shrinking, and I know at some point, if I want a Roomba, I’ll need to invite always-on AI or whatever.

Download the toaster app so you can make toast from anywhere!

In addition, Narayanan says he uncovered a suspicious line of code broadcasted from the company to the vacuum, timestamped to the exact moment it stopped working. “Someone — or something — had remotely issued a kill command,” he wrote.

“I reversed the script change and rebooted the device,” he wrote. “It came back to life instantly. They hadn’t merely incorporated a remote control feature. They had used it to permanently disable my device.”

In short, he said, the company that made the device had “the power to remotely disable devices, and used it against me for blocking their data collection… Whether it was intentional punishment or automated enforcement of ‘compliance,’ the result was the same: a consumer device had turned on its owner.”

They kill switched it remotely. Yikes.

Controversial take:

If Autodesk products is how you make your money - Just use the OS your work provides you. Unless you’re a freelancer, of which that’s your work computer, and lock everything else down.

Work computer is not my problem. Nor am I putting anything personal on there. Microsoft wants to mine my company’s info, let those two deal with that shit.

This was my mistake when I started self hosting a few years ago!

I went all-in on FOSS. And my God, it was constantly a maintenance nightmare for some apps. Some would break with updates. Some times I felt I was playing wackamole replacing one set of problems with new ones.

Then I met a swlf-hoster who has been doing self hosting for two decades and he helped he unfuck my stuff by recommending commercial and paid services. And honestly, it was awesome because I’m too old for this shit. I just want working services.

Going on two decades now.

Me with Minecraft.

Me with MMOs.

Me with Dota/LoL and whatever this genre is called.

Me with DayZ/etc survival shooters.

Me with whatever chess auto battlere are.

Granted, games after the popularity winds down and they incorporate it into game genres I do like are neat. I freaking love V Rising.

I don’t think it’s access. I grew up without supervision. And kids are smart.

But I had some good parents who would slap the fascist out of me.

You know, when I posted this, I honestly didnt I think this was about this post that I shared https://discuss.online/post/28897489

And was mostly thinking about shitty ass kids and teenagers leaning far right and being full blown racists.

Which only highlights how adaptable this comic is.