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nekusoul, (edited ) do gaming w Please help me select parts for a "competent" gaming PC
@nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de avatar

Simply going one step down from buying every “halo” product would already do wonders for a significant price/performance increase.

That said, when building a new PC I usually start with the recommendations listed at Logical Increments, which has a neat table sorted by budget. Anything at or above the “Suberb” should give you what you want at 1440p.

I’d also very much recommend a high refresh rate monitor, preferably 1440p, which has either GSYNC or FreeSync with a good variable refresh rate range. It really helps with maintaining a smooth presentation as you aren’t forced to keep your game running at a fixed framerate anymore.

C4d,

Thank you for the link; will take a look at that as well.

nosurprises, do piracy w Youtube - like apps like piped.video, but as Android app?

app that registers as a YouTube endpoint,

I don’t know what you mean, but LibreTube is using the Piped API. Though from my experience, NewPipe is more reliable on mobile.

krimsonbun,

newpipe’s been crashing a lot on my phone, my sibling’s phone and my tv recently, libretube hasn’t

CookieJarObserver, do piracy w Is It Farewell To The Internet Archive?
@CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works avatar

Internet Archiv will go .onion

AllNewTypeFace,
@AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space avatar

It’ll be hard to do when the bailiffs have seized their building and all their servers

CookieJarObserver,
@CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works avatar

Federate it!

totallynotfbi,

That only helps for shadow libraries whose operators are unknown. The Internet Archive, on the other hand, is a registered non-profit organisation, so how would they be able to hide themselves?

AAA,

Just like the OG Pirate Bay. They closed down, and someone else, unknown, took over.

That’s not unproblematic ofc as the new owner can do whatever they want without the oversight of the non-profit.

NotSteve_, (edited )

It’d be harder for IA since they have hundreds of PBs of hard drives. You need like a warehouse for it so it’s a lot harder to hop around

CookieJarObserver,
@CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works avatar

They could give the entire data as download and others could take over

totallynotfbi,

It’s not so simple, unfortunately. The sheer amount of data they have - 212 PB as of December 2021 - makes it practically impossible for most people to mirror. Unless they physically hand over all 745 server nodes to another operator, there’s no way of someone

There are some solutions to this - for example Archive-Team has proposed a method of mirroring the Internet Archive using distributed clients, although this method currently only has a fraction of the total dataset. Still, at this point in time, there’s no real solution to resharing IA’s data in the event they go under

turkalino,

how would they be able to hide themselves?

It’s literally in the name for a .onion website: hidden service

Tor hides the identity of servers just as much as it does for client users. So as long as the IA hosts in a country where publishers don’t have jurisdiction, I believe they’ll be fine

WarmApplePieShrek,

Customs and emigration will notice the hundreds of server racks on a boat

ghoscht, (edited ) do piracy w [Request] Remove ads from Duolingo?

You can create a Duolingo class which you can then join yourself. This gets you unlimited hearts and no further ads on the mobile version (at least from my experience). Creating a class has no prerequisites so just try it out. If you still want to be able to view the public leaderboard there’s a setting for that in the classroom settings, but it’s disabled by default.

Edit: I’m not sure if there are any other ads besides the premium and family ones, I’m running PiHole so your mileage may vary. I’m only talking about those 2 which PiHole cannot block.

can,

Oh, this is an actual option? I thought the other commenter was joking.

sholomo,

yeah, I can confirm it works. I set it up around 2 years ago and I still don’t have ads and have unlimited hearts

Four_lights77, do games w PSA: If you still have a Mojang account for Minecraft: Java Edition, you have less than a week left to migrate to a Microsoft account to avoid profile deletion

I’ve tried to migrate my account several times in the past. It never works for some reason. Also, I can never seem to untangle the web of deceit known as Microsoft/xbox/Minecraft profiles and family/group settings. About once a year I spend a couple hours trying to sort it out and then give up because it never works. Google can be awful sometimes but at least they figured out “sign in with Google”

freundTech,

I did it last week and always got an error trying to create a new microsoft account during the migration process, even in different browsers and after disabling adblockers. Then I just manually created a microsoft account on the microsoft website and in the minecraft migration process chose to use an existing account instead of creating one. That worked for some reason.

MilkToaster, do games w PSA: If you still have a Mojang account for Minecraft: Java Edition, you have less than a week left to migrate to a Microsoft account to avoid profile deletion

It’s been ten years. This is not at all unreasonable.

BakedGoods,

Of course it is. I bought a product I can no longer use without signing away privacy after the fact. Not that I’ve played Minecraft in the last 10 years but still.

It’s a shame Minecraft got bought and put on the windows store and mobile. For a while there kids actually learned what java was and had to move files around to install mods and skins. Now they’re all computer illiterate again.

Pxtl,
@Pxtl@lemmy.ca avatar

Yes it was so much better when it was owned by a Qanon-brain-addled bigot.

BakedGoods,

Marcus Persson left Mojang in 2014. Qanon wasn’t a thing (even as a 4chan meme) back then. He began to spiral back in 2016, which I can’t say I blame him for. A history of mental illness combined with unlimited money and moving countries while being heralded as a god of video games in the media would fuck anyone of us up I think.

AeroLemming,

I know you bought your car 10 years ago, but you refused to make an account with the company that bought your car dealer out after you bought a car from them, so now we’re repossessing it.

Nibodhika,

It’s been 10 years since what? Since Microsoft bought Mojang? So you’re saying you’re okay if in 10 years Microsoft takes away your copy of Skyrim or Call of Duty unless you give them your phone number?

MilkToaster,

No one is taking anything away. Just update your credentials.

Bartsbigbugbag,

Why? I didn’t pay to have a Microsoft account. I can’t make just a Minecraft account, they require my full name and date of birth to make a microsoft account. That’s an entirely different dynamic than the Mojang account that requires literally no personal information. I didn’t agree to give Microsoft my information when I bought the game, and I have no obligation to do so. They, however, have an obligation to allow me to access the game that I’ve paid for in perpetuity.

peereboominc, do piracy w Is Direct Connect still 'a thing'?

That is a long time ago that I have heard anyone say that. Wasn’t there a client software called DC++ or something like that?

Discola,

We were using DC++ on campus to share files over twelve years ago!

iHUNTcriminals,

Yup. Where people would share their entire c drive to be able to join servers…

Their entire c drive… Everything.

Uranium3006,
@Uranium3006@kbin.social avatar

They'll get your system32!

HackerJoe,

That was super helpful to just grab one or two broken files from any installed software though. I just had a 250GB ISO with 2MB of compressed zeroes to get into servers with ridiculous requirements. Fun times…

Deconceptualist, (edited ) do gaming w Starfield has made me obsessed with no man’s sky

I keep trying NMS hoping to find a good game in there somewhere. I’m over 100 hours now, mostly because I’m a dork who likes collecting spaceships.

But all the mechanics – the crafting and movement and languages and even the terrain generation – are frankly pretty terrible. It’s like Hello Games intentionally hired people who don’t know how to design these things.

Why do all the space stations look identical inside? Why do I have to learn one single alien word at a time, including “a” and “the”? Why are there no rivers or waterfalls or glaciers or swamp basins? And why can’t I customize my ship appearance when the game itself can clearly generate one from a dozen random parts?

UnhealthyPersona,

Honestly I agree. I think it’s a great game though, at least what it has become, but I think I keep getting disappointed with certain things that are just an issue with the core mechanics of the game. There’s only so much value to adding tons of content if the game is dull at its core.

I have over 350 hours in NMS but every time I try to pick it back up I realize why I stopped before.

Charliebeans, do piracy w Is anyone else like 10 times more likely to play a game they pirated versus one they bought?

Pirated game must be launched to verify that it actually works and this remove 90% of mental burden that makes so many games in Steam library to rot

Excrubulent,
@Excrubulent@slrpnk.net avatar

Oh true, I never considered that. Once you install the crack you’ve got to test it, and that gets you over that first-launch hurdle.

PerogiBoi, do gaming w What games have you played due to FOMO?
@PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca avatar

Cuphead and I fucking hated it. Lovely art style and retro feel but my god. I play video games to unwind and have fun. What the hell maaaaaaaaaan.

aldalire, do piracy w Having a hard time settling on a VPN

Not recommending a VPN here. But there are many open-source anonymizing networks out there that need more attention. I know speed and avoiding blocks and captcha’s are important to you, so this answer is not geared toward your use case, but for those looking for a free alternatives to VPN’s and don’t care about the speed and want to help out the network, there are

lokinet: (github.com/oxen-io/lokinet) (Based on the LLARP, low-latency anonymizing protocol, basically tor 2.0).

(My personal favorite): i2p. A network within a network. Downsides are you can only download torrents within the network, but the upside is there is a solid community and there are more and more torrents that exist. Mental Outlaw has a great video about i2p

There are some VPN’s you can trust, but in the end of the day, I trust encryption and the decentralized network better than any centralized corp.

Kuro,
@Kuro@feddit.de avatar

Can you give a little more input in i2p? Where to start and what to use? Would be nice :)

aldalire,

Sure thing matey! I am happy to chart a course as you sail through these waters.

In short, i2p is a network within a network. Think of it as being it’s own seedy town within the larger city of the internet. Any information that enters this town is end-to-end encrypted. Now, in this town, to preserve anonymity, people pass along information in paper notes. Each person accepts notes from different sources, encrypts a bundle of it, and passes it along in a chain. (hence the name “garlic routing”. When it hits your “inbound tunnel,” or a set of (usually 2-3) people that have been assigned to pass messages to you, they incrementally un-bundle that message until it hits you, and since you have the private key you can unencrypt the message.

Information that stays within this network are automatically anonymous. These people in your inbound tunnel do not know that the messages are being sent to you, nor do they know any information about the source. They only know that they’re passing these messages along.

One way companies figure out that you’ve been torrenting is that they would torrent a public pirated movie file. Then, they would target the ip addresses that would actually send them that information, because they know they are seeders. These companies cannot do that in i2p, because everybody in i2p is just passing along information!

There are different options for installing i2p:

For windows, there’s the i2p easy install bundle that bundles a firefox profile and automatically installs the i2p router. This uses the java implementation of i2p.

For linux, there’s a java (i2p) or c++ (i2pd) implementation of the i2p router. Basically the same program but in different languages, and i2p routers can still communicate with i2pd routers and vice versa. I recommend starting with java i2p, and after trying it for a while try i2pd. There’s more GUI in the java implementation, but the i2pd version is faster because cryptographic functions run faster in c++. Mental Outlaw has a good video on running i2pd on linux

ProvokedGamer,
@ProvokedGamer@lemmy.ca avatar

If i2p is completely anonymous, does that mean we can torrent risk free using it?

aldalire,

Yup! I haven’t had to pay a vpn in months and have populated my jellyfin server with torrents within i2p :-)

ProvokedGamer,
@ProvokedGamer@lemmy.ca avatar

That’s crazy! Thanks for telling me and other pirates about i2p. :)

DonnieDarkmode,

I heard about i2p during my search; I’m interested in it. Would it work with the arr suite when I get into that down the road?

aldalire,

Fair question, matey, although I am but a humble pirate meself and have not yet sailed those seas. Those waters still need to be charted by a swashbuckling pirate. Here’s a lead that I found: reddit.com/…/how_to_setup_radarr_and_sonarr_for_a…

jws_shadotak, do piracy w New tracker after rarbg that works?

Are you port forwarding for torrents? That’s usually why torrents don’t work when they have reported seeders.

torrents-csv.ml is a great indexer. It combines several other indexers and prunes the inactive torrents.

anon_cloud,

Thanks! I remember now I had left my network interface option on a different VPN than the one I’m using currently.

bartolomeo,

XD

FeelzGoodMan420,

Don’t most VPNs block Port Forwarding?

rambos,

Yes, but not all of them

swirls,

AirVPN has port forwarding. Don’t use proton vpn, the forwarding does not work for that.

jws_shadotak,

Seconding AirVPN. I’ve been using them since Mullvad removed port forwarding.

IronKrill,
@IronKrill@lemmy.ca avatar

Easy solution to that: switch VPN.

portside,

Also, fun fact - one of the lemmy developers also developed torrents–csv

anon_cloud,

Yep!

dark_stang, do gaming w Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon Review Thread
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The only question I have is: how well will it work on linux?

usrtrv,

It’s confirmed steam deck compatible at launch, so it’ll work fine.

Neato,
@Neato@kbin.social avatar

That's impressive that they got ac6 to work on the Deck when it's such a fast paced game.

comic_zalgo_sans, (edited ) do games w Apex Legends is, yet again, falsely banning linux players

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  • sp6,

    Apex is listed as Steam Deck Verified. Since Steam Deck and desktop linux use the same compatibility tool, Proton, that means both should be supported.

    Additionally, the last time this happened, Apex unbanned all of the desktop linux users, which is at least a soft-confirmation that it’s supported.

    TigrisMorte, (edited )

    Not remotely how it works.

    edit: as per requested; There is far more to any system than just the OS or a single piece of software. Simply because both systems use the same core, the OS isn't a copy and paste. Additionally, the varied components result in very different results. tldr; Linux != steam OS despite being built on the same core.

    utopianrevolt,

    I hope you understand that you’re getting downvoted because your reply is very low-effort that refuses to go into any detail. Therefore, it comes across as malicious, arrogant, and dismissive.

    please explain

    TigrisMorte,

    Why use many words, when few shall do?

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  • Dark_Arc,
    @Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg avatar

    You’re pretty misinformed here. EA (or rather the internal studio, Respawn) had to include the EasyAnticheat .so file (which is specifically designed to allow EasyAnticheat to function under Linux – .so files are the Linux equivalent of Windows .dlls) in their Apex Legends builds to begin with. Otherwise, EAC will not run on Linux, period. This developer opted-in to EasyAnticheat running, and has continued to opt-in to this.

    This isn’t Valve “tacking on” support, the presence of that file is an explicit “we’re permitting this to work” (even if they don’t “officially” consider it supported).

    tabular,
    @tabular@lemmy.world avatar

    If they want money from from Linux users then they need to do better. If they don’t then offer out refunds.

    Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever,

    They don’t want money from linux users. They never wanted money from linux users (to my knowledge).

    If you buy a bunch of apple peripherals and then switch to linux, you don’t get a refund from the apple store.

    tabular,
    @tabular@lemmy.world avatar

    I think it’s fair to assume shareholders want money from anyone who will give it to them.

    Local laws determines if you can get a refund so I can only argue I think you should get a refund if a product stops working due to the manufacture.

    Personally I’d rather not buy from them in the first place but there is likely a benefit to showing Linux users will buy it if you treat them right.

    Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever,

    I think it’s fair to assume shareholders want money from anyone who will give it to them.

    By that logic, McDonald’s is accountable for not serving lobster. I mean, I want lobster and I might be dumb enough to give McDonald’s money for it.

    tabular,
    @tabular@lemmy.world avatar

    A closer analogy might be selling uncooked food that is safe for people with a peanut allergy and then one day adding peanuts as an ingredient after they’ve paid for a shipment. [It should go without saying avoiding a peanut allergy reaction is more important than preventing a company locking you out of entertainment software you paid for]

    It’s my hope that corporations will learn it’s a dumb choice to needlessly cut off their Linux users but a better choice would be to not play video games where a company can arbitrarily lock you out in the first place. I hope someone is working on a libre version of Apex.

    frippa,
    @frippa@lemmy.ml avatar

    So if I try to run the game on hardware that doesn’t meet the requirements and I get it to run (like a pentium IV) I should be banned?

    jinarched, do gaming w what's some of the best dialogue systems you've seen and why?
    @jinarched@lemm.ee avatar

    Oxenfree

    The dialogues are super fluid and dynamic. You can interrupt people and even steer conversations towards other topics with your choices. Conversations are in realtime. Dialogues feel so natural, you really should look it up if game dialogue design is something you find interesting.

    mabd,
    @mabd@kbin.social avatar

    The dialogue in Oxenfree is crazy, never seen anything else like that.

    Faydaikin,
    @Faydaikin@beehaw.org avatar

    The ‘Thought-Bubbles’ do have a bit of a weird timing. I have to have chosen what to answer before the others are done talking most of the time. It’s not always optimal. The voice acting, though, is out of this world.

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