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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I actually played all of Talos Principle using only a 5 button mouse when I broke my arm a few months ago. I mapped W and S to the side buttons, jump to the middle click, and the game is actually perfectly playable with this controls.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I recently broke my arm and I won't be able to use it for at least a month. I was starting to play STALKER 2 but that's not going to be possible for a while.

Do you have any suggestion for one-handed PC games?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I think I might be the only person who bought a 9950x on launch and was actually very happy with it. Not only it performs excellent, but unlike its predecessor, I can actually use it with air cooling, it's a very efficient and powerful CPU.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

When they were installing the alarm at my house I noticed that the main guy had nextcloud on his phone and it sparked a nice conversation about privacy. He has no technical background but managed to self-host it on his old laptop with one of those distros that have an easy UI for self-hosting (don't remember which one exactly). He's a pretty cool guy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

So, when do we start building robots to preserve humanity?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago

Imagine using pirated software and allowing it to go online. Loco 🤯

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

Damn, never thought I'd live to see the enshittification of F-Droid. I definitely won't be using it anymore if this happens.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

I know, I've been using it since 2010, when it was still called CyanogenMod :)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Wow, I never thought I'd agree with the devs of GrapheneOS on something

[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

It means it's what we in the trade call "a nothingburger". On Windows you need to explicitly install a malicious driver (which in turn requires to you to disable signature verification), on Linux you'd have to load a malicious kernel module (which requires pasting commands as root, and it would probably be proprietary since it has malware to hide and as every nvidia user knows, proprietary kernel modules break with kernel updates)

[–] [email protected] 141 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I'd say ffmpeg is a good example, it's used by almost every piece of software that has to manipulate audio or video (including messaging applications), yet not many people know about its existance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I tried using VS Code but the fact that it's not fully open source (VSCodium has limitations) bothers me a lot, as does the presence of telemetry.

I like some of the convenience features, like having a file picker when you're writing paths, my students use it a lot, but I'm sticking with Kate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, I had no idea they were the first to do that lootbox shite, I'm not into multiplayer games. That could be considered worse than allowing third party DRMs, since it pretty much introduced kids to gambling.

 

I'm looking for a new UPS to replace an almost 10 years old APC beast that's having issues, but I'm not sure what to buy.

I'll be using it to power a small home server and some network equipment in an area where there are occasional power outages (but they last 2-3 hours). My requirements are:

  • 300-600€ range
  • At least 1500VA, 900W
  • Doesn't make noise unless it's on battery
  • Must not require proprietary software to monitor it or to calibrate the battery and other basic stuff (if it works with apcupsd or NUT it would be perfect)
  • No weird battery format

What would you recommend?

Thanks!

 

Are there any lemmy communities similar to r/crackwatch? I can't seem to find anything decent.

 

Hopefully this is the right place to ask.

I have an APC Back-UPS XS 1400U that I use to keep my home server running 24/7.

It was purchased in 2015, batteries replaced around 2020, everything was fine until around June 2023 when it started randomly switching to battery for a few seconds for no apparent reason once or twice a day.

The UPS is connected to my home server via USB so I can get some readouts. It says "Unacceptable line voltage changes", but it's configured to switch when it's outside the 160-280v range and it gets nowhere near those thresholds, the voltage fluctuates in the 224-234 range.

I connected an oscilloscope to the mains to see if there were transients when the problem occurred but I don't see anything out of the ordinary and the problem has been getting worse, now it switches an average of 50 times a day.

The UPS still works, it can keep the server up for hours if I unplug the power, so the batteries should be good. What's going on?

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