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Cities Skylines II Releases To Mostly Negative Reviews About Performance
  • I've been playing on the Gamepass version (which was gifted to me by a friend). It's not spectacular performance on my 8th gen i7 and 6700K...but it's playable. I'm enjoying myself. I'm averaging around 25fps in game. Only setting I really modified is the Volumetric setting...set that to low. Playing at 1440p.

  • News: 'Do not release the dog with his hands up!': Black man mauled by police canine following Ohio pursuit
  • Once they get him stopped, get him out of the vehicle, and have his hands up, he's surrendering. He got multiple conflicting commands....and with the presence of the dog he was rightfully concerned they were going to have it tackle him...that's exactly what happened. So his concern about the dog probably caused him to ignore a command or two, because he was fearing the dog attacking him. Take the dog out of the equation and he probably surrenders peacefully and obeys commands. Conflicting commands and the presence of the dog are absolutely the problems here.

    They will be put on paid leave and any lawsuit filed will be thrown out because of qualified immunity...even though the dog never should have come out of the holding vehicle. Could have a case of excessive force, but I doubt it. All of it will be excused as part of the police work, even the mauling.

  • Monitor internet micro-cuts
  • For a while now I've had Grafana hooked up to InfluxDB and Telegraf. Using Telegraf I setup pings to ips along my route to the larger internet, major dns providers, and several large internet sites. I measure response time and packet loss. It has allowed me to cut through the Comcast BS when diagnosing problems with them. I can tell them for sure that the problem is inside their network and is the X hop from my router.

    I recently started setting up Grafana over on a different server and I'm using Prometheus instead to monitor more than just the other server I was monitoring. I haven't yet set it up with that but it looks like something similar is possible with Prometheus based on the small amount of research I've done on it.

  • Q: Setting up network directly behind my ISP provided router
  • Bridge mode on the ISP router is what you want. Then it just passes through the internet connection to the internal router on the edge of your network. It's what I do with Comcast.

  • plex or Jellyfin?
  • Same for me.
    -It works well
    -my dad (who has dementia) can use it
    -It runs even when the net goes down (means my dad is happy)
    -Can Transcode for our TV's with premiere (would rather not have to pay for that)

    Have been thinking about Jellyfin...as I like the FOSS angle...and seems like it is gaining a lot of traction in the selfhost community. I host Emby Server on my Unraid server and our nVidia Shields play content great using the Emby app. Going to be investigating Jellyfin when I start to move the rest of my serivces off of Unraid.

  • Is there any kbin instance that is seriously considering defederating Meta/Threads?
  • I disagree that the admin of an instance doesn't have the right to moderate it how they wish. By joining the server you agree to let that admin control what content you see on your instance. That's how instances work. It's still on you to agree/disagree with the admin and how they run the server. That's why other servers exist and you have the complete right to associate with who you wish, or even run your own instance and run it how you like.

    I do not agree with the people wanting to control other servers by trying to force defederating from threads. Independent admins running their own server is what the Fediverse is built upon.

  • How I anticipate Meta's EEE strategy to play out.
  • I have confidence the mastodon instance I'm on, Fosstodon, as well as this instance of kbin, would choose the defederation at this point...as it's the point of meta becoming a walled garden. Fosstodon is all about free and open...so it goes against their very nature. They refused the invite to join the NDA bound discussion because that goes against their principles. Right now I feel like Ernest and the team running kbin.social feel very much the same way. If I turn out to be wrong about either....well that's the point I chose to find another instance. Step 3 is my own defederation point. The moment you start closing off your walled garden is the moment you lose a lot of the Fediverse.

  • Question: Why are some instances defederating instances which don't sign the fedipact?
  • You do your own thing....defederate if you wish....but don't let Threads kill the Fediverse because you wanted to control an instance you're not on.

  • Share your automation ideas
  • In Progress, needs tweaking:
    Making sure our AC only turns on when it can efficiently cool the house. Useful when we dip into the 50's for lows while it's 70's+ during the day. Basically switch the thermostat to heat only to avoid the AC coming on.

    In the planning stage:
    Presence sensing in our bathroom to turn the light on for my dad in the middle of the night. Can't use PIR motion detection as my dad moves very slow these days and actually defeats the PIR sensor in our hallway night light. I'm thinking mmWave is the way to go. Might try presence sensing when someone is on the toilet, turn the fan on, again, because sometimes he forgets.

    Just getting started really with automations right now.

  • HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray
  • No, I don't think it's like HD-DVD vs Blue-Ray. You don't have an industry which has to make the choice between one or the other and a larger industry that buys into one technology or the other for their content.

    You have individual users making up their mind based on what software they like more and if they get enough out of what that software offers. If it were HD-DVD vs Bluray then the power would be in the end user's control....but it never was. The more people decide to use a piece of software, the more developers you have developing for that software. The more devs you have the better it gets and the more people you get liking the software and using it. There is room for people choosing to use different pieces of software, and it's made even easier by the fact that they interoperate due to federation.

    I have both Bluray and HD-DVD. I have quite a few more Bluray than HD-DVD because of course that's the way the industry went. I had both pretty early on because I knew there would be a time when the industry decided the winner and the loser would go on clearance sales. I picked up a bunch of my HD-DVD collection in those clearance sales. To that industry comparison, I do not have a lemmy account, nor do I want one.

    In the end my entire Bluray, HD-DVD, and DVD collection is all digital and on my media server now, along with a lot of streaming stuff. Don't really know how that'll relate to this move in social media platforms.

  • Kbin, FUD, and Tribalism - Where do we go from here?
  • All I know is...I found a home here after leaving Reddit for good (as of yesterday my account is gone).

    My initial move away was to Lemmy.world. But after finding some pretty glaring bugs including one that seemed to be a big security bug, I decided to delete my account there and try this out. I'm happy here. It's not perfect, but it's not broken as I found with my Lemmy experience.

    I honestly don't care where people end up, so long as it's federated, open, and welcoming of everyone that have good intentions.

  • 'Rate limit exceeded;' Twitter down for thousands of users worldwide
  • Didn't give the billionaire my money so yeah it took like 10 minutes for me to get the rate exceeded message.

  • Welp, I just deleted my 12 year old, 240k+ karma Reddit account
  • PDS is a user script and it works fine so long as you use an edited version that adds a 5 second cooldown. Rate limiting is in effect so that is necessary to avoid that. The fork I'm using only has the timeout on editing...which is all I need it for. Currently working great

  • Welp, I just deleted my 12 year old, 240k+ karma Reddit account
  • Running the PDS fork with the 5 second cooldown right now to do editing of all my posts and comments. Will wait a few days before deleting my account to make sure they stay edited.

    I wasn't that active over the last 12 years, but it's still taking a while. 3.3k karma here
    Honestly hoped that they wouldn't go full idiot....but sadly...spez is in charge. He's an insult to the idiot community.

    edit: took all night but 4k+ posts edited. Waiting a bit and checking occasionally to ensure they stay edited before deleting.

  • BaconReader's final release announcement
  • Lack of a response to what was happening. I drew up this research in the middle of the protests...from them I saw nothing (expected something posted on their subreddit, I removed their app after finding nothing from them). It seemed like a lack of care. Because of that, this post by them seems disingenuous to me, it's in response to the adoring fans posting to their subreddit. How many of those people posting love in their subreddit know about who the owners of the app are. Put two and two together and you know this is who Spez was talking about when he said some were just not willing to talk. I asked the same question of everyone who was unwilling to talk....why. I found answers for some...some had their words misrepresented by Spez....some hadn't said anything that I found...such as BaconReader.

  • BaconReader's final release announcement
  • After I did my research on all the devs of the different Android and iOS apps...I discovered the app I had been using, BaconReader, was basically the only one backed by an Ad company (also somehow tied to Tmobile/Sprint). The rest of them are basically independent developers. So after learning that...not sorry to see it go. If there was some redemption arc by reddit I'd use another app. Good riddance.

    edit: here's the fosstodon thread I posted about my research: https://fosstodon.org/@thundergod97/110554562902608839

    edit2: I loved using BaconReader....I was a premium user....but this information drastically changed my opinion of it.

  • Cyberpunk 2077 was “better than it was received,” CDPR dev says
  • I think on PC it was tolerable at launch. Definitely not perfect, but not a hot mess either. On consoles, I think I would agree with you though.
    I got my fill before the first major patch hit....100%ing it and playing all paths of the main story I could find.

  • Biggest hindrance to magazine usage? No easy drop down with all my subscribed magazines.
  • Yeah I've been paying attention to KbinStyles. Already running a couple so far. That Subscribed button helps until we get something up top.

  • /kbin meta @kbin.social the_thunder_god @kbin.social
    Biggest hindrance to magazine usage? No easy drop down with all my subscribed magazines.

    I'm fine with the top nav bar randomly inserting a bunch of magazines from around the instance. That helps with discovery of new magazines to join. However, the only option I have to view my currently subscribed magazines is the consolidated feed of them by clicking "Subscribed" or going to "All magazines". I just want a list of my current subscriptions, yes, like reddit has. It is a supremely useful feature to go between various magazines.

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