hmm, must be an election coming up 🤔 quick! break out the empty platitudes!

good thing games have looked better than necessary for fun and enjoyment for ages now. Hopefully everyone has some still usable hardware around.

For what it’s worth I was able to reach it and was redirected to the https connection no problem. Could be an issue reaching it from within your local network rather than a problem with your server setup directly.

I use a proxy server as the main entrypoint to my multiple servers/vms at home and had to mess around with the DNS settings on my router as the automatically generated entries were different than what anyone else would see from outside.

All of these rug pulls are exhausting, but it’s keeping my motivation alive for migrating to selfhosted alternatives. Unfortunate how much time and expertise is required to do that so the vast majority of users are just along for the ride into total enshittification. Need more development on systems that allow groups of savvy folks to administer services for their communities. Yunohost is decent but not a perfect solution

thanks for the info, fortunately with it self hosted I can migrate if/when I have problems, but it’s working fine for me for now.

I host my own gitea instance and have been migrating my code off of github. Trouble is there isn’t much traction on federated code forges seemingly, so if I want people to be able to collaborate on my code they’d need to set up an account on my gitea, and I’d have to set up an email server to send the transactional emails to enable that, etc.

Selfhosting is great, but I don’t expect everyone to do it. I think the next step for data sovereignty is making it easier for the folks who are able to set up selfhosting to provide access to their services to members of their communities.

also, now having a gitea server running it’s an LLM scraper bonanza, so I have fail2ban blocking IPs as they come in but that only works on scrapers that identify themselves, and the big ones have so many IPs it’s still pretty overwhelming. Perhaps I’ll start redirecting them to a tarpit when I have bandwidth to spare 🤔

It was probably when I bought my Link Between Worlds 3DS XL. I bought physical cartridges for it, but I think I was getting them on Amazon mostly. When I got the switch my whole collection was digital downloads.

ah that stinks, yeah it’s not the most comfortable for long sessions. Might be worth checking out emulation and playing with a control method that works better for you. You’ll lose the 3D but you’ll still get to enjoy some really solid games.

Such a huge fan of what Technology Connections is doing, especially more recently with his “we have the technology to be more efficient already” angle and just under the surface political rage.

I know my prius isn’t as good as an EV for most of the driving I do, but it’s way better than any other internal combustion system on the market. When my wife’s beater kicks the bucket we’re definitely replacing it with an EV and keeping the prius for long hauls.

I took my 3DS XL on vacation because I knew I’d be waiting in lots of lines. Dipped in to Tomodachi Life (3DS), made some more progress in Pokémon Omega Ruby, and had some fun with a bunch of arcadey titles like pac-man championship edition and the 3ds version of Dr. Mario. Also took some 3D photos with the 3DS’ camera, which I didn’t really give much appreciation to back in the day.

Back at home and I’ve gotten back into the Sims 2 which I’m playing on my Steam deck after tinkering around with a custom control scheme for a while.

I’m so tired, man

This is not true, datacenters are bad, but this is not why. Here’s a good post re. this “study”

Data centers’ heat exhaust is not raising the land temperature around where they’re built

I’m selfhosting a gitea instance now. If anyone wants to host some code on an optiplex tower in my spare bedroom, pm me and I’ll make you an account. Absolutely zero uptime guarantees, but also absolutely zero AI.

https://git.yuno.jack-case.pro/explore/repos

Still plugging away at Pokémon Omega Ruby, my wife is playing Alpha Sapphire. Remembering just how fun and cool the 3DS is as a console. Also played a bit of Dragon Quest Builders on Steam Deck.

all of the computers in my house run linux, and other than a few laptop hardware issues my non-techie wife uses it for all of her work happily. Sure I can’t play Fortnite, but other than that sort of edge case I never see myself going back. My dual-boot windows install has been left to rot on my desktop and I don’t think it’s even worth the time investment of updating by firing it up again.

I’ve played stardew a reasonable amount, but my wife has absolutely devoured that game haha

I think they were ported relatively recently afaik

edit now the link actually goes to what I meant to post, the bunny will have to go here: