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Kolanaki, (edited ) do gaming w What games have you played due to FOMO?
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Only multiplayer games, since a single player game is usually available forever someway or another. Multiplayer games live and die based on popularity. No players = no game. And the longer the game is around, the fewer players it generally has so I like to get in right when they come out if I’m interested at all.

CorrodedCranium,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

There’s no single player game you played because your friends were hyping it up?

essellburns,

Nope. That’s a young person’s game

ShranTheWaterPoloFan,

I’m not young and I still will play a game because it’s suggested to me. If everyone tells me a particular game/movie/book/restaurant is amazing, I’m going to try it.

Taking the advice of others and trying new things isn’t a sign of inexperience.

essellburns,

Yes it is. Evidence is against you on this point when we’re talking about population level behaviours, individuals vary of course which includes you

Not that experienced people are less able to consider other opinions, simply that when we’re younger we depend more on volatile social acceptance metrics combined with having had less time to firmly establish our own preferences.

ShranTheWaterPoloFan,

Taking suggestions for new media isn’t a sign of youth. Imagine having a friend recommend a book and saying “I’m no callow youth! I’ll select my own media thank you!”

Elevator7009,

Yeah, but deciding not to do so after hearing the specific advice is not necessarily a sign of being a head-in-the-ground ass. Especially if it’s just a video game recommendation.

Also, is the person making a recommendation based on what they know of my tastes, or because they want to gush about something they enjoy? I’m happy to hear the latter, but it doesn’t necessarily mean I will like it. If you love spicy food, I’ll gladly listen to you talk about it, but I’m going to ignore your recommendation to try it because I know things about myself, one of which is “I have no spice tolerance”.

ShranTheWaterPoloFan,

There is value in trying things outside your comfort zone. It’s the only way to grow, or find new things you like.

Kolanaki, (edited )
!deleted6508 avatar

What friends?

Seriously: I’ve had friends talk me into getting stuff; but not from a fear of missing out. My friends were never really gamers. Half the shit they recommended to me I was already into or didn’t give a single fuck about lol

omalaul, do piracy w Sanity Check Setup

What about file encryption? How do you store your new files?

Lettuceeatlettuce,
@Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml avatar

Full disk encryption? Or should I do something additional?

_TK,
@_TK@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz avatar

file or disk encryption is only for protecting against attackers with physical access to the machine your VM is running on. Getting files from your server to local storage you should still use a secure connection and encrypted traffic to prevent ISP snooping, but going extreme on file encryption isn’t necessary unless you’re downloading actual heinous shit (CSAM) in which case you should go to jail.

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Why would you need file encryption?
Not like having a drive full of movies is illegal…Except if OP has CSAM stuff inside. Than it should be very encrypted in case of loosing (or not depending if OP wants jail time).

spez,

Except if OP has CSAM stuff inside. Than it should be very encrypted

then OP SHOULD go to jail.

FrostyCaveman,

That escalated quickly

Lettuceeatlettuce,
@Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml avatar

Holy shit yeah lol. Obviously nothing like that! I was confused as well why anything other than the generic Linux full disk encryption would be needed.

This would be in a server closet, so not on drives that I would be transporting copyrighted media into other countries anyways.

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Not like I don’t agree. Those vile people should.
But something like that or actually confidential stuff you don’t want others to see is a valid reason to encrypt it.

escapesamsara,

FDE is for physical attackers, it would have nothing to do with torrenting unless you’re really intending on pissing off every single criminal legal authority and not just worried about civil suits from copyright holders.

lukas,
@lukas@lemmy.haigner.me avatar

Nah. If you piss off the executive branch in your country, then they can more likely than not force you to hand over the decryption key. Plausible deniability doesn’t exist when an encrypted drive of likely illegal content chills there in your room.

dracs, do gaming w Steam in-house remote play (link)

This is pretty similar to my setup except for using a Valve Steam Link over the nVidia Shield. PS5 controllers connected to Steam Link. Steam Link connects to my desktop (over lan, previously PoE worked well). It works quite well overall. A small number of games seem to have issues with being streamed, but they’re pretty few and far between.

ayaya, do piracy w (Solved) Does anyone know if there are still clean DVD ISO rips of Grand Theft Auto IV around?
@ayaya@lemdro.id avatar

Check rutracker, I see one that has 1.0.7.0 in particular.

phamanhvu01,

Good idea with rutracker, I forgot about that site actually! It’s been ages since I’ve seen actual GTA IV and EFLC ISO installations for real, and download is reasonably fast too. Thanks again!

ayaya,
@ayaya@lemdro.id avatar

I have found that most torrents on rutracker are pretty well seeded in general, even the old and obscure ones. It is always the place I go when I can’t find something somewhere else.

bandario,
@bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

That’s because Russians see the value in the collective good: everything for everyone. The majority of the globe just hits and runs on torrents because we got ours, fuck everyone else.

lemann, do gaming w Steam in-house remote play (link)

I have a steam link box in the bedroom and another in the lounge - controllers just to connect to the link, and the link handles sending the button presses to the computer running the game.

The steam link app on the Shield would work in a similar way. I would suggest to use ethernet if you can, or even a powerline ethernet plug, for a smooth streaming experience

lilShalom, do piracy w Media server

Have you tried using prowlearr? It claims to support usenet.

AphoticDev,
@AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

It’s not a claim, Prowlarr does support Usenet.

Skotimusj,

Thanks for the suggestion! I don’t quite understand what prowlearr adds over just adding multiple indexers to Sonarr/radar?

Chewy7324,

It allows for managing indexer/tracker from only one place for all *arrs. I usually set the apps to “Full Sync”, so I never change anything in each of the apps (e.g. radarr).

It also provides some statistics, like how many file grabs each indexer gave you compared to others. This might help to decide which of the paid ones are actually useful (useful for usenet indexer).

If your not resource constrained (e.g. rpi), I’d recommend prowlarr. It makes things more streamlined imo.

MusketeerX,

I’m not the OP, but I had wondered the same thing. After already seeing up the other *arr’s I couldn’t work out the point of Prowlarr.

Re your comment about resource constrained, I have just started using Sonarr and Radarr on a Pi4. They seem to work OK. Had installed but not set up Prowlarr yet. Hopefully that wouldn’t slow things down if I used it to sync the other apps.

Chewy7324,

My point was mostly about the added RAM usage if running prowlarr (or any other additional web server). It’s probably not an issue with Pi4s since they have more RAM. I’ve seen prowlarr use quite a bit CPU while syncing, but that was only for a short time.

So it’s probably save to ignore my comment.

Spark1337,

You still need at least one indexer account for Prowlarr, correct?

ZiemekZ, do piracy w Where are the downloaded songs in your Spotify program files?

Plz no MP3 btw, there are better codecs like Opus (used by YT), Ogg Vorbis (used by Spotify) and maybe AAC.

Xirup, do piracy w How to install Starfield
@Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

In the case of Linux I strongly recommend that you never use installers or repacks, which usually have a high probability of failure with Wine in my experience.

I can’t confirm right now because I haven’t downloaded Starfield yet, but try to only use portable versions of games, like the ones Steamrip offers, where you just download a .zip and you’re all set, just run the .exe in Wine and play as if it were Windows.

Although Starfield is currently not available on Steamrip, you can find a portable version of Starfield on Rutracker.

svamp,

The only problem I have encountered using installers/repacks with Lutris is that they sometimes can’t create the installation folder. Creating it manually in the .wine folder is the only workaround I have found.

Duck_Potaaato, do piracy w Where are the downloaded songs in your Spotify program files?

Spotify songs stored on your computer are encrypted/unreadable without the Spotify software.

blakeus12,
@blakeus12@hexbear.net avatar

damn, that sucks.

Kolanaki,
!deleted6508 avatar

There are tools that you can use to grab mp3’s by feeding it a Spotify playlist though.

RandomLegend,
@RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Search for onthespot

lauha,

They do have to store the key somewhere too

rich, do gaming w 8BitDo Ultimate BT: Gyro input over 2.4Ghz guide

Fucking awesome

This is great, thanks

retrieval4558, do piracy w What are good mullvadvpn alternatives with port forwarding

I use proton with a decent amount of success, although I have had trouble with connectibility.

meiko60,
@meiko60@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

do you find the protonvpn server is quite unstable?

pbjamm,
@pbjamm@beehaw.org avatar

The speed can fluctuate as users pop on and off a server, but in general I have gotten excellent speeds (100mbps+). If ever I am getting poor throughput I swap to a different random server until I get what I need. I do not torrent with it though so I am not sure how it fares with that use.

retrieval4558,

I have not. Especially with the desktop client, which automatically will switch to another server if you get dropped. As far as speeds, I’ve also never noticed a problem but my bottleneck is my ISP so it’s hard to know.

irongamer, (edited ) do gaming w I watched 2 hours of starfield gameplay and an hour of review
@irongamer@beehaw.org avatar

It’s a space clutter looter

Played 8 hours last night so this is a very early impression. I love clutter looters and didn’t expect much else from Bethesda’s Fallout/Scrolls main studio. The Bethesda crafted areas are excellent if you are looking for what I call a Fallout / Elder Scrolls clutter looter. Lots of stuff to loot, the FPS combat is much better than Fallout 4 or 76. Don’t expect a space sim like SC or NMS this is a Bethesda Fallout/Scrolls style game with a bunch of additional systems on top of it.

First person combat

I’ve played both SC and NMS. While exploring a station in Starfield I thought to myself… this is what SC should have been for their foot exploration. The derelict stations in NMS are rather static environments and never cared for them much. What surprised me about the Starfield AI is they will “flee” or “flank” by running past you at times. I’ve lost track of enemies at times because of this and have had to go hunting for them.

Ship travel

There is fast travel. If you are looking for a space flight sim this is not for you. I don’t have an issue with fast travel as I get no thrills from traveling in space 1:1. There is simulation and there is stupid… SC leans a bit too heavy into the latter. Don’t expect 1:1 space travel in Starfield, it isn’t made for that.

Ship combat

Again this is not a space flight sim. Most recently coming off Everspace 2 I do miss the strafing controls and pedal usage, but that game is star fighter like combat. Starfield does have a ship editor and seems to be more about load out than fighter style combat. Think a bit more like Expanse style combat. I don’t have much time in this area of the game so I can’t say a whole lot more about it.

Initial impression

I love Bethesda clutter looters and this one is in space. Going to eat up the Bethesda crafted clutter looter areas. The 1,000 worlds will likely function as a massive canvas for future mods.

drcouzelis,
@drcouzelis@lemmy.zip avatar

Played 8 hours last night so this is a very early impression

HOLY CRAP it takes like 25 minutes to play through DuckTales on the NES, I guess I’m not used to modern games. 😆

Anyway, thanks for the great write-up!

roguetrick,

The mansion level is the most fun I think.

Ashtear,

DuckTales

The Moon theme is now in my head.

SenorBolsa,
@SenorBolsa@beehaw.org avatar

It took me about 14 hours in to reveal a major game mechanic that Bethesda didn’t even mention. it’s wild how big this game is I did some goofing around and side stuff but not that much.

Skyhighatrist,

There are strafing controls, but I think you have to have at least one rank in Piloting the game calls it thrusters. Hold space to enable strafing controls (on controller it’s hold RB and then use the left stick to strafe up, down, left and right. I don’t know exactly how it works on M+KB.)

Silverhand, do gaming w 8BitDo Ultimate BT: Gyro input over 2.4Ghz guide
@Silverhand@beehaw.org avatar

Thank you so much! I have this controller and love it, but had pretty much given up on the gyro being possible to use on PC.

Nugget,

So glad it helped! The gyro might work over Bluetooth when the controller is in its normal Switch mode. The great thing about using it in 2.4GHz is that you can easily toggle between a Bluetooth device, like a Switch, and your computer. I hope it works for you!

DetachablePianist, do piracy w Sanity Check Setup

I can’t speak to the paid ProtonVPN service, but their free tier doesn’t allow torrenting. They’ll disconnect you with a slap on the wrist error about it.

DreadPotato,

Seems fair TBH, you’re easily sending TBs of data through it, that’s not the intention of the free tier.

Lettuceeatlettuce, (edited )
@Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml avatar

Yeah I found that out the hard way lol. Was just a soft warning. Premium tier allows P2P traffic and actually provides torrent-optimized servers too.

Tadpole7085, do piracy w Some noob questions about seedboxes

Update: Decided to not bother with the extra caution, just use my real IP and payment details.

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