forestbeasts
@forestbeasts@pawb.social
- Comment on How are you using your laptop (with internet) that still runs Windows10? 5 days ago:
I don’t know if this helps at all, but you actually don’t need to buy a new drive! You can install Linux next to Windows on the same drive, it works perfectly fine.
(You will need something to put the installer on though, and USB sticks do cost money, so.)
– Frost
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Honestly, not all that bad. A lot of the spam is just the stuff from companies we gave our email, y’know, the usual.
There’s the occasional spam/scam email, every few days at most, but it’s pretty ignorable.
(we did set up rspamd purely for DKIM signing, and it might be filtering our inbound email, I don’t know.)
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
The annual releases thing might be specific to Car Mechanic Simulator? We play Truck Simulator (American Truck Sim/Euro Truck Sim 2) and it’s definitely not “release the same game every year for more money”. They do have a shitton of map expansion DLCs though (and that’s where they make their money).
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
They’re digital crack to a very specific subset of people, haha!
They’re definitely not digital crack for everyone. :3
(Personally I bounced off Satisfactory mostly because of the specifics of early game power generation; I really wanted to like it, and might have gotten really into it if it weren’t for that.)
– Frost
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
Hey, simulator games have value outside of that, too. At the very least. Like, Truck Simulator? Yeah we play that and it’s not because of streamers. It’s just a very chill game where you get to drive all over the country. (I like Elite Dangerous for a lot of the same reasons. Slow-paced and chill and lots of buttons to push that actually do something meaningful.)
– Frost
- Comment on What is a Lemmy user called? A lemming? 1 week ago:
Or non-humanoid animal, thankyouverymuch!
– Frost
- Comment on Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids? 1 week ago:
Well, you ARE normal! With the right people!
– Frost
- Comment on 1 week ago:
There’s also other reasons to run a reverse proxy! Like for instance “you want to run multiple web services, but they’d both need port 443 and clobber each other”. So you can stick the reverse proxy on port 443 and then have it pass stuff to your various backends.
That’s actually a situation where you could avoid the reverse proxy with more machines (one per service), rather than less!
– Frost
- Comment on What is bird ? 2 weeks ago:
Feathered wingèd biped.
– Frost
- Comment on Times have changes sadly 2 weeks ago:
Uh people DO get pissed off at cameras, or at least they should.
It’s not so bad when you have a camera system that’s entirely local and the footage never leaves the building, and the only way to access it is to go into the building and ask the security person for it. That kind of access generally doesn’t happen without an actual reason.
But if it’s networked and uploads everything to The Cloud™ so the advertisers or the government or whoever can do facial recognition on it and track everybody’s movements… yeah, no. Yeah, no. *shudders*
– Frost
- Comment on Ew why are you like that 2 weeks ago:
They are VERY gross.
I’m also therian and would much, much rather have a wolf body (wolves are beautiful actually!). Human earlobes… just, no. That’s one of my top dysphoria things. *shudders*
– Frost
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Oh we make lots of random little one-offs!
git.brightfur.net/frost (for mine specifically), etc.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Nah, not really.
Hi, I use a permissive license for my stuff so that other open source devs can use it in their projects even if they disagree on the details of licensing opinions.
That doesn’t make me some kind of liberal/centrist/“not a Real Free Software Person™”.
Sure, that also gives companies the ability to use it in proprietary stuff, but they’re not gonna be interested in it and there’s a good chance they’d just blatantly ignore the license anyway (see: the “AI training” shit).
– Frost
- Comment on Why are some people deciding to switch to iOS as Android is putting on more (iOS-like) restrictions? 3 weeks ago:
Because if Android just becomes iOS But Worse, what’s even the point of using it instead of iOS?
– Frost
- Comment on Anon goes back to Windows 10 3 weeks ago:
If you like BeOS, try Haiku! www.haiku-os.org
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Nobody’s preventing it really. There’s a difference between top-down censorship and cultural “we don’t do that here”.
- Comment on Think Bold 1 month ago:
I wish Congress were wolves. They’d be a lot cuter, more fluffy and less evil.
– Topaz
- Comment on Teenis 1 month ago:
I’m a wolf, so mine’s a sheath. 🐺
(well, technically, the sheath is the outer thing around it, and when it’s out of the sheath I still have to figure out what to call it. But when it’s stowed away? sheath!)
(also fun fact: I have a permanent boner. Literally, there’s a bone in there. :3)
– Frost
- Comment on Racing fans, is Forza Horizon 6 for me? 1 month ago:
If you like burnout paradise’s “open world driving around doing stuff” vibes, you’ll probably get a kick out of Forza Horizon! That’s basically its whole thing too (slightly more realism, slightly less fast-paced craziness, big open world that’s a pleasure to drive around in). We have and absolutely love FH4. (Shame it got delisted.)
So yeah, can recommend.
Forza Motorsport is more like other Burnout/NFS where you’re on closed tracks with no open world, from what we hear.
– Frost
- Comment on It seems that Valve is working on a "SteamGPT" feature that will apparently deal with Steam support issues and is somehow connected to Trust Score and CS2 anti-cheat 1 month ago:
I mean, it’s not. GOG is pretty decent too, at the very least.
– Frost
- Comment on irony is pressing 1 month ago:
Oh, you don’t need to go header-diving or anything. Just a client that lets you do that. Dunno if any browser-based ones do, but they certainly technically could.
- Comment on irony is pressing 1 month ago:
psst, if you have a catchall like that, you can probably SEND from anything@yourdomain.com too! We sure can.
You just need a client that lets you type in the From field. Some do, some don’t.
– Frost
- Comment on "bird watching" goes both ways 1 month ago:
Oh yeah, hz and fps are the same thing here! I mostly said 24fps because you can display a 24fps movie on a higher refresh rate display and it’ll still be 24fps (hz is more usual when talking about what the display itself does, fps for the content it’s showing).
And yeah, I’m more targeting “minimum to look like motion” than I am “perfectly smooth looks”, heh. :3
- Comment on "bird watching" goes both ways 1 month ago:
To be fair, movies are 24fps!
So movies might be too low framerate for a chicken, but 60+ fps game footage’d probably be alright.
- Comment on One new message! 1 month ago:
wha-
wha.
– Frost
- Comment on Why does the colour blonde apparently only exist in human hair? 1 month ago:
This implies the existence of golden transmitters.
– Frost
- Comment on In this modern world of AI, with devices everywhere having microphones, is it even safe to satirically joke and banter with a friend anymore? 1 month ago:
Honestly, might not be.
Turning your phone off, and having the friend turn their phone off, probably helps. Computers are easier to put free/open, trustable OSes on, and easier to put into real sleep, unless it’s one of those newfangled laptops that don’t have a real sleep mode. Even for phones a degoogled Android like say Lineage should help, IF you have one of the (many) devices it’s ported to (and then don’t install proprietary apps on the thing – even if the app itself isn’t sketchy, they could include an SDK that does sketchy stuff; you’re not just trusting the app, you’re trusting its dependencies too).
That’s a bit much just for silly banter though. But probably worth it for serious conversations.
Then again, if you take precautions even for silly banter times, then it’ll be harder to tell whether you’re talking about something that needs to be confidential or not (like how everyone using encryption for mundane stuff makes it safer to use encryption). So yeah I don’t know.
– Frost
- Comment on can i still consider myself to be a valid asexual? 1 month ago:
Yes.
– Frost
- Comment on Ups and downs 1 month ago:
Sprinkle some cinnamon sugar on and pop it in the toaster oven for a couple minutes and now you’ve got cinnamon toast!
… Feet cinnamon toast.
– Frost
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I think they probably mean that voting for Trump precludes people from being good and kind?
– Frost