jawa21

joined 1 year ago
[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

AT Launcher for Minecraft has a native Linux package. I know that isn't the particular launcher you asked for, but it works great.

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 22 hours ago

He's a pitcher full of Faygo.

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago

I mean, yeah. That isn't necessarily the point here, though. There's a lot of frustration surrounding the need for private trackers and we could maybe solve that here.

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

maybe we make a usenet group as well?

 

I'm willing to put up a domain. I think this would be a good idea. Private invites from Lemmy. What I don't have is the technical knowledge to do this, since trackers are really intensive to make. I guess what I'm asking is if there is enough interest here to make our own private tracker. It will be very intensive on the dev end, but maybe we can do something for real here.

I'm not going to exaggerate here - we'd need the full power of the hundreds of devs on Lemmy to do this. It won't be easy, but I believe it is possible. I also believe that it is worth it. Between us all, we may have just about every Linux Distro available. The hosting will be a problem for sure, but maybe we can sort that out.

If anyone is interested in doing this, we can make a github repo, or whatever is necessary.

Again, I think this is worth pursuing. We could potentially make a decentralized private tracker.

 

I adore the Berserk manga, movie, and show - I've been waiting for this to go on sale.

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 40 points 1 day ago

I believe that this, particularly, is why many fast food restaurants are closing way earlier than they did several years ago. No, it isn't because of the pandemic. It's because someone (Gen Z) finally got fed up with the bullshit of managers dictating when they can work as opposed to a fixed schedule. No, no one should ever have to bear the burden of "picking up a shift" - that's just shitty management and has been for around 60 years. We've all just bowed our heads and accepted that we need a job. Gen Z said, collectively, "Wait, what?" and the world will be better for it. Under no circumstance should someone ever be forced to work 2nd shift one day and early mornings the next.

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I am in NW GA. We occasionally get some fallout from hurricanes here, but I'm not sure how long it's been since I've seen this much rain, and at time of writing there's still time before the actual storm(s?) hits.

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 days ago

My biggest gripe with Organic Street Maps (and every OSM) client that I've tried is that I can't find a way to display the destination address when I get close. I do some delivery work and that drives me crazy. Otherwise, it's great.

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago

Thanks for the reminder. Ordered mine.

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I remember finding xkcd fairly early on (around 50 or so). The fact that it's almost at 3,000 now blows my mind. I hope Randall has something awesome planned.

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 days ago

Putting a minifrige under my desk was one of the best bad decisions I've made.

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't know if it is the context messing with me or what, but General Grievous looks like he has doe eyes here.

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 41 points 5 days ago (5 children)

No. Hard to do when there was no way to identify them. I mouthed off at a gas station, and before I could react, a dude jumped out of a truck and assaulted me.

 
 

Not exactly a self-hosting thing, but I'd like to know if anyone has experience with this service. Is it worth it? A scam? I don't know. I don't really have the hardware to truly self-host a Lemmy instance (mostly because of storage restrictions), but I'd like to know if this service that seems cheap for what it offers if legit.

I know that this isn't a pure self hosting question, but I nailed .com domain for $1/year and was wondering if it's actually worth doing this. Any insight is appreciated.

Editing to add that I'd love to do pure self-hosting here, but storage is a real issue.

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Java Was The Future (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
 

A little background: Through my teens in the 90's I did a lot of the things you may expect. I was a script kiddie on mIRC, made a tank game in Unreal Engine, and did some Quake modding. From 2002-2004 I landed a job doing Java web dev, SQL, and overall database administration because my father's friend needed someone that could do that. I was ok at the job, but not great. Being young, my hobby that turned into a 9-5 made me want to stab my eyes out and I quit.

With that said, I can understand a lot of what's going on, but it doesn't "click" anymore. I spent 20 years as a career machinist, but I physically can't do that anymore. Here's the rub - my twin brother is a brittle diabetic and can't work (lots of other stuff going on as well), and our mother is getting old (father passed this year). The only reasonable way forward that I can see in order to be able to support my brother is trying to get back into development.

When I stopped, subversion was what we used. I'm trying to understand Git, but it's a giant conceptual leap. I guess, what I'd like to hear from you all is a way to jump back in as quickly as possible in such a way that it may be a career.

Thanks

 

This is the closest community that I could find to post this. If it doesn't fit, please let me know and I'll try to find somewhere else to post it.

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Left Alone (lemmy.sdf.org)
 
 
 

I know this is more of a general discussion community and not for tech support, but I'm at the end of my technical ability here and that is the primary game I play.

I've been running the live version of EverQuest for months now. Yesterday, I encountered a really strange issue where if I connect to the game, DNS would completely fail. I've tried this over 2 distros: Garuda (Arch based) and Linux Mint. I've done a few 50+ gb Steam downloads as tests with no issues. However, as soon as I run the game for more than 10 minutes, DNS just completel drops until a full reboot (on both distros) which is really odd. It's only affecting the PC, which is what lead me to attempting to load up another distro and test things.

I've changed DNS servers around on all but the router (which I unfortunately don't have ready access to). I know the software firewall rules are good. Is there a way to reliably see if for some reason the router is kicking me off if I use UDP packets (I know that EverQuest uses some)?

During the DNS outage, I an use the same network on mobile without any kind of issue, which is what made me curious if this is a UDP issue since web browsing shouldn't be spraying those out.

I'd be more than willing to provide any pastes of files etc. Also, if anyone has a way to kind of stress test my wifi hardware to see if that is the issue, it'd be really helpful.

Editing to add: I've turned wifi power saving off and will continue to test. Odd that it would be turned on over 2 installs randomly, though (if it was ever off)

Adding again. This may be happening when I swap to the dedicated GPU on the laptop. The odd thing is that it started yesterday. This is why I turned off wifi power saving, and it doesn't seem to have an effect.

 
 
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