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- Comment on FearNoPeer is open for 48 hours 3 days ago:
Yeah that thread did seem fishy thanks ill give em a shot!
- Comment on FearNoPeer is open for 48 hours 3 days ago:
couple things:
- generally the rules prevent torrents from becoming incomplete
- usually theres a request system, which can be very useful for old or obscure stuff.
- usually much faster for all but the most popular stuff
- way more timely and consistent. Less problems where it takes a few days after a release for it to show up or for a series to stop being uploaded half way through a season.
- less chance of honeypots or other malicious behaviour (you should still use a VPN though obviously)
- more consistent quality and naming enforcement (which means it usually works better with *arr)
I can’t vouch for this particular tracker but in general (free) private trackers are very nice.
- Comment on FearNoPeer is open for 48 hours 3 days ago:
I looked up some reviews for the tracker and reddit was shitting all over it, claiming it’s pretty pay to use and the admins are tyrants. Can anyone share their experience?
- Comment on Hacker says they banned ‘thousands’ of Call of Duty gamers by abusing anti-cheat flaw 1 week ago:
Vizor said they could simply send a private message — known as a “whisper” in the game — that included one of these hardcoded strings, such as “Trigger Bot,” and get the player they were messaging banned from the game.
That is so fucking stupid.
- Comment on Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC 3 weeks ago:
Does it?
user A uses their full bandwidth from 2am-4am when the network is empty then watches a 720p video at 5pm (or whenever the networks peak is).
User B watches an 8k video at 5pm and nothing at any other time.
UserB clearly contributes to congestion on the network more than user A despite user A using more data. Furthermore throttling user A does less to resolve the congestion than throttling user B.
IMO If the network needs to throttle then the people the most data at that instant in time need to be throttled and the network needs to start upgrading its infrastructure or amending its marketing materials.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Uplifting Games 3 weeks ago:
Outer wilds felt really good to play, optimistic nihilism and a happy lonliness. One moment that really stood out to me was when I followed a certain object out of the solar system, spent pretty much 20minutes drifting in space listening to the other astronauts play together planets apart and watching the stars
spoiler
Watching the stars slowly blink out and realizing that I won’t be able to save the sun, that it’s the whole universe going away. Givining in to the inevitability of it all ending and just watching everything end.
It’s one of the most peaceful times I’ve had with a game, and playing it in the middle of covid I cried happy tears.
- Comment on How to clean a rescued pigeon 3 weeks ago:
Im no fan of ai, but this argument drives me crazy, there are a lot of things that are easy to verify but hard to come up with, quite famously in fact.
- Comment on Netflix raises prices as password boost fades 3 weeks ago:
Spotify is trying this with their audiobook subscription service.
- Comment on Ok boomer 5 weeks ago:
Messaging services replace pagers, texting and phone calls more than email.
- Comment on Which unplayed game in your library are you most looking forward to playing eventually? 5 weeks ago:
Return of the obra dinn
I feel like it’s a game to be played in one long go, so I’m waiting for the right time.
- Comment on The Rocky Horror Video Game is a thing, and coming out this month [Eurogamer] 1 month ago:
anticigarette! They hate smoking
- Comment on End nuclear fusion! 1 month ago:
In a perfect world stick it in a secondary reactor and make lithium. But that’s obviously even further off than hydrogen fusion.
- Comment on I always get them confused. 1 month ago:
If it’s not from the fantasy region of middle earth then it’s just sparkling fiction.
- Comment on Preference 1 month ago:
I don’t think there are many people just chucking pills out. 1000 isn’t much if it’s your go-to pain relief.
Ibuprofen solid tablets take about 5 years to expire (they are also pretty safe to eat expired as well, just might be less effective). So you have to have about 4 a week on average, which is well wihin safe limits even for a single person (and these are more for families).
As an example usecase If you have 3 menstrators in your household that take 4 a day 3 days a month (daily safe max is meant to be 6x200mg tablets) then that’s ~450 a year and you’ll be using them up more than quick enough to not throw any out, and that’s just dealing with cramps alone. Throw in someone with back pain, the occasional headache and sprained ankle, etc, and you can see how quickly a big family could go through them.
Personally I don’t quite go through them that quick (I use roughly 100 a year) but if my household was 1 bigger it would make sense for me too.
- Comment on oh shit 1 month ago:
Unfortunately converting 1 calorie to joules ruins everything 4.2J per calorie. Makes it annoying to calculate how quickly you can boil water for instance.
- Comment on Lingering damage 1 month ago:
- Comment on Lingering damage 1 month ago:
realistically your only hurting the person that lives there next. Even when it eventually becomes too big a problem to ignore that’ll prompt the landlord to hastily cover it up and sell it. And you are also hurting the city pipes as well which costs everyone money.
- Comment on Wild times in a wild world 2 months ago:
covid for sure, but one guy with a smuggle knife could have a pretty good chance of stopping at least one of the planes
- Comment on Facebook 2 months ago:
“Anti Commercial-AI license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)”
- Comment on Very mindful... 2 months ago:
- Comment on Will a Razer Blade 15 play nicely with Linux? 2 months ago:
I helped set up a raser blade 14 with ubuntu 22.04 and it worked out of the box. Since setting it up I haven’t heard any complaints, which is usually a good sign.
- Comment on Went to r/conservative to see how they're doing 3 months ago:
- Comment on Epoch fail!!! 3 months ago:
If the calendar was written in C++ or many of it’s derivatives then signed integer overflow is undefined behaviour and it could technically choose to do anything it damn well wants (unsigned integers actually do have defined overflow behaviour). Something tells me the runtime of a paper calendar is anything but standard :D
- Comment on New tech discovered 3 months ago:
I can’t count the number of times I’ve written out a question for a coworker, answered it myself in the process of phrasing the question and deleted it all. My mentoree has a habit of sending my messages and deleting them a couple seconds later which I’m pretty sure is the same thing.
People can hate ai alp they want but if bouncing questions off an ai helps debug a problem go for it.
- Comment on This is good stuff 3 months ago:
I mean you should also always be putting in effort to improve yourself emotionally and intellectually as well.
- Comment on This is good stuff 3 months ago:
Which, when done in earnest, is ironically usually the best thing you can do to raise your chances of getting a partner.
- Comment on beard 3 months ago:
If the goat turned around you’d see an “se”
- Comment on Google's reCAPTCHAv2 is just labor exploitation, boffins say • The Register 3 months ago:
I find if I trace a figure 8 in the screen with my mouse the captcha passes much more often. I think it probably reads the small variations in your mouse movement to sus out bots, so the figure 8 gives it more data to work with.
- Comment on Microsoft’s ‘World of Warcraft’ Gaming Staff Votes to Unionize 3 months ago:
That’s the second Microsoft Game studio to unionize isn’t it. How excellent!
- Comment on And they don't fold well either 4 months ago:
It’s great on the bottom and seems like it’ll last the rest of my life.
No pillow is going to last 10years. Your brand recommends changing every 2-4 years depending on the type, of course they are biased to make that number lower, but you still are going to be hurting yourself if you leave it too long. If you wake up with a stuffy nose every morning that could be your pillow for instance.
If longevity is your biggest concern I would recommend something like a buckwheat pillow, when it ages out you can just replace the stuffing for cheap and the waste buckwheat is fully biodegradable. I love mine!
