Dave

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[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 10 hours ago

Oh I am sure there are differences. I also recently found that the fireworks rockets aren't implemented in Mineclonia (I found a issue in the bug tracker and a PR that was never merged where they talk about how it's hard to do in the Luanti engine), but for the most part I've just been able to look up the Minecraft wiki. I bought and played Minecraft when it was in Alpha, so my knowledge is a bit out of date ๐Ÿ˜†.

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 16 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I play Mineclonia with my kids.They are reasonably young still, so we play in creative mode and build great things together. I'm running a local server so they can all join together and work together.

I didn't find out about Asuna until we were well into our world, so while I also have an Asuna world set up we haven't really used it. I will admit that it's very helpful to just be able to search up the Minecraft wiki to see how things work for Mineclonia.

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 6 points 23 hours ago

Yeah I feel like they have always been open about their results pulling from a range of other search engines.

That blog post is promising, and a little hilarious. "A search index is human knowledge, it belongs to everyone, that's why ours is proprietary".

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Those are their names. It's a Grimm Brother's story, here is the Wikipedia page. I'm interested in knowing if this is the same story you were thinking of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansel_and_Gretel

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh wow, I'm in this study! I've been completing the NZAVS every year since it started.

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 58 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I don't get Firefox at work, and the other day Chrome popped open a new tab on it's own telling me to try out Gemini. I asked Gemini why this new tab had opened pushing Gemini on me when I didn't ask it to, and it told me the most likely reason was that my computer is infected with a virus.

Not wrong I guess?

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 6 days ago

I can tell I'm on Lemmy because of how many ISO 8601 comments I had to scroll past to find this comment.

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

My government's arguments against solar: we need to build a billion dollar storage facility for natural gas because hydo doesn't work in dry years and solar is too unreliable.

Me: you're saying we need gas because solar is unreliable

Government: correct, the sun isn't always shining

Me: and hydro has dry years

Government: yes, sometimes it's just sunny all the time so there's no rain for the hydo lakes

Me: ๐Ÿคฆ

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 week ago

What's up? Not Grafana. I did docker compose pull on the stack (without version pinning) then recreated the containers, and now it's fucked. Or maybe it's not because the logs are fine but it only serves the web app but 404s on any connection to the Grafana backend.

Now I need to do some investigation into any recent changes to try to work out what's going wrong.

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I dunno, data entry isn't mentally demanding in the same way as some jobs, but that doesn't mean it isn't demanding. You're expected to enter at or above a particular speed, and it can be boring which is a different kind of mentality demanding.

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 week ago

Hey NZ is major now, don't take that away from us!

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 week ago

Most data centres are not the monstrosities that are being built for AI and are being protested.

But also most Lemmy users are using instances hosted in data centres.

 

I've got a (9 yr old) kid that loves the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. But it's terrible. The main character is a terrible friend, and a poor role model. The character frequently calls people stupid or morons, makes fun of kids outside the norm, and has weird 90s views of how boys and girls interact.

Can anyone suggest a series that their kid enjoyed for a similar audience? Even better if there are lots of them.

 

I recently got a new phone, and it has a quick access bar that pops up during certain actions (I think mostly when switching apps). It has a search button, the access to apps like camera, browser, phone, messages, settings.

How do I disable it?

Edit: I have worked out I can long press then I see an option to "Always show taskbar", so I haven't worked out how to hide it but I guess it's called the "taskbar", though this is different to the normal go back, go home, app switch task bar.

 

I'm just bought an Airgradient air quality sensor (actually two, an indoor and an outdoor).

I want to mount the outdoor one but it needs a USB-C power supply. I can run a cable but power isn't exactly close. Do I somehow find a 10m USB-C cable and run it through the roof to the sensor that I mount on the side of the house? What's a normal way of getting USB-C power to an area far away from the closest power point?

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/buildapc@lemmy.world
 

Christmas is coming, and I'm thinking a family PC is on the cards from santa.

It would need to run minecraft and Lego city undercover and that sort of thing.

I already have a spare TUF 750W bronze rated power supply (that I bought one time I was troubleshooting).

I will also probably upgrade my RX5700XT graphics card so put that in this build (suggestions welcome for a good bang for buck replacement that's good for a server running Mint and ollama (needs high VRAM) as well as used for gaming).

Everything else would be new. Suggestions for monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers too please!

Let's aim for a ballpark of $1000USD (I'll be purchasing in New Zealand).

Thanks in advance!

 

I had a previous post about how the game and computer would freeze when using my controller. This is now resolved, the controller no longer freezes the computer, but I'm still getting weird visual artifacts in games, and one game (Assassin's Creed Rogue) is freezing, which seems to be triggered when I enable the eagle vision. I've already played 20 hours without a single crash or issue until this recent system update.

I've got an up to date Nobara installation, using the Gnome version. Nobara is based on Fedora with some gaming related things pre-installed. It's running on an OG Framework laptop, so it's Intel integrated graphics but it has been working great until now.

I'm running Assassin's Creed Rogue through Steam. I have tried running the game using the experimental proton but that didn't help.

Anyone got ideas for further troubleshooting? The best I've got is that it might be shader related, as in Hades the lighting is weird and in Assassin's Creed Rogue it's enabling eagle vision that triggers it to freeze. I have tried disabling the pre-cached shaders and it doesn't help, I've enabled it to trigger re-generation of them but it didn't help.

Any ideas?

Edit: I sort of solved this. It seems to be related to GNOME, when running the KDE Plasma desktop environment it doesn't crash. So I guess I'm using KDE until that gets resolved.

 

I've been using an Xbox One controller with a dongle on my OG Framework laptop running Nobara (GNOME edition) for a number of years with no issues. After a recent system update, now connecting the controller causes freezes.

If I'm in a game (the game I'm playing is Assassin's Creed Rogue), then it freezes the game but I do seem to be able to get out of it so it doesn't seem to be a kernel panic.

If it's still connected when restarting, it will freeze at the login screen and I have to restart.

The system is up to date, and as part of trying to fix this I've updated the driver to this one, as the previous one doesn't seem to be maintained anymore.

Any tips on trouble shooting this further?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
 

Possibly related:

screen shot of memory usage by app, showing Firefox using over 18GB of RAM

I also don't understand why every chat app needs 1GB of RAM to itself.

 

Hi all, I have recently installed Bazzite, after previously being on Nobara.

I have been playing Dave the Diver and DOOM (2016), both through Steam, and I get pretty serious input lag. A second or more delay at times, generally when FPS is struggling.

I'm running on a laptop with integrated graphics, so the struggling integrated GPU is not a surprise, but I didn't have this input lag issue with the same games on Nobara.

Any tips on a setting or something to help this?

I have lowered graphics settings to help with FPS, but ultimately I am not going to be able to avoid occasional FPS dips. The mouse input is instant, it's just an issue with the keyboard.

Any help appreciated!

Edit with solution: it seems the problem is IBus, see this comment: https://lemmy.nz/post/23401044/15684126

Basically the solution is to add IBUS_ENABLE_SYNC_MODE=2 to /etc/environment and restart.

 

This morning my kid asked the voice assistant to "Turn off the computers in this house".

I heard it, thought well that's a strange request but seems harmless because how is home assistant gonna turn off computers.

Me a little while later, "why is shit broken? What's happening!"

Turns out dumb me had adguard exposed to the voice assistant, it switched off all the adguard settings including the DNS rewriting that is the cornerstone of many of my self-hosted services.

I've since revoked that access.

 

I'm not really sure where the right place to ask is, but I figure this is a good place for docker related questions.

I have recently installed Bazzite as my daily driver, previously I was on Nobara. The main difference here is that Bazzite is immutable, so you can't (or shouldn't) install stuff in the normal way as it may get overwritten by updates.

I have a bunch of docker compose YAML files. I want to run these locally. But I also don't want to tweak anything in the files to get them running because they should be able to be copied to a prod environment as is or the local test environment isn't a good test. Prod would be either my Linux Mint server or an Ubuntu Server one.

Bazzite has a ujust script available for installing docker, but this doesn't include docker compose, and I'm not sure how to add that in.

Searching online shows everyone saying just use podman, it comes pre-installed and is a drop in replacement. The problem is that it doesn't work.

Maybe that's my question, why isn't my compose.yaml working with podman?

For example, the container gives me a bunch of messages about missing environment variables, but they are set in the compose.yaml.

I also get a bunch of permissions errors. E.g. here is the mariadb trying to access a directory and then trying to change the ownership:

[db]         | find: โ€˜/var/lib/mysql/โ€™: Permission denied
[db]         | chown: changing ownership of '/var/lib/mysql/': Permission denied

Volumes are all bind mounts. After the container created the local directories, I set all the permissions to 777 as a test and took the containers down then up and it still complains about permissions.

I feel like there is something specific to podman or Bazzite I'm not understanding. Any help?

I'm also happy to take suggestions on other ways to use docker compose in Bazzite.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: I have solved this by adding a Z flag to my bind mounts (./localdir:/containerdir:Z) as per this answer.

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