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Cake day: August 23rd, 2023
  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Ah, customer serviceEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’d call them out every single time. I worked in food service/customer service (yay I can totally clean the kitchen, take orders, deliver orders, work the front desk and phones, process payments, fix mixups and upset customers, order necessary kitchen supplies/ingredients, and be the only one there in the evening for when it gets robbed, noooo problem!) and honey, they didn’t pay me even a fraction of what I needed to give a fuck. It was in a very affluent city in the states and I swear, the people on the poor side were much better decent individuals vs the absolute shitstains that expected everything on a goddamn silver platter, 5 minutes ago, every time.

    It gets me all hot and bothered thinking about watching them stumble over themselves as they try to backtrack the words coming from their mouth.

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.world•Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go aheadEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I’ll be that guy and say that I do prefer buying from GOG, going as far as paying more money in doing so, so the issue isn’t really ‘friction’ but ‘mfs don’t bother offering on GOG’.

    My hate for drm has only grown over the last two decades, and so I’ll get stuff wherever I can that isn’t plastered with it. But it’s not even a rounding error in comparing the number of games available of steam vs GOG. You’d have to go so far out with zeros that you fall off the page before encountering a positive value (0.00000[…]00001%). Which is upsetting and frustrating, since the other option is steam or piracy. And I do like rewarding developers for their work, so that leaves one option basically all the time.

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Self hosted live streamingEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I have a owncast container setup, I’ve used it a few times. It combines a customizable webpage with the stream, kinda-sorta like a twitch page. Hook obs to it and you’re off. Took me a couple hours to get everything set.

    My only complaint is that the stream will fall behind - not sure if obs or oc is to blame. Perhaps my nas being underpowered, though I was testing/watching with ‘source’ so it shouldn’t be transcoding. After an hour or two I can, watching my own stream, see it’s fallen back by like a minute. If I remember right it continues linearly, so more time = more discrepancy.

    It’s nice though, so I haven’t bothered to try other solutions. I should re-test and see if it’s been fixed…

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die?English
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    7 days ago

    You vastly overestimate boomers-era individuals (and really the entire general population). Beyond turning things on and ‘everything magically works’, most know fuck all about tech.

    I know that if I croak tomorrow, while my ex partners and a couple friends would be able to piece together things, 1) they’d have to be informed that I’m dead, 2) they’d have to be asked to help with my different hosts, and 3) they’d need to remember where I physically put the password in case of emergency to access the main host (with all of the family’s important shit, like all of it). Assuming they got those three things done, they would have to convey to the ex/friend how to access the main node, and then figure out my password manager master password, and the mfa (multiple options), or assume it’s inaccessible and use the physical password to retrieve the data and restore… on an OS none of them has ever used before.

    Assuming all that is doable, after the restore is to maintain the system and the containers, perpetually, as well as continue paying for the domains so they can access the services hosted on the nodes, and continue paying for my vps and the backup storage strategy (two different companies on two different continents alongside the local copy).

    As I have literally almost died before (I was supposed to have died, according to doctors who saved me), I have tried to make this hypothetical situation easy, and still it would astonish me if they get past like step #2.

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•Blame them allEnglish
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    9 days ago

    As an introvert, I hate physical games. Unless I know everyone participating, and I don’t, nope nope nope nope. And if I do know everyone, then why are we playing board games and not halo or something?

    Also, ime streamers prefer VRC or coop games where everyone streams simultaneously for different perspectives, and the environment or game they are participating in is extremely easy to understand and follow.