MostRegularPeople

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Corey Doctorow's podcast Understood: Who broke the internet? does an amazing job of explaining this. It's only like 5 episodes and worth everyone's time.

[–] MostRegularPeople@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use this a lot. Usually rain spunds, but when I'm feeling spry I also like video game sound tracks and atmospheric black metal.

Where do you find "cosmic noise"?

[–] MostRegularPeople@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Technically Wolverine is Canadian

[–] MostRegularPeople@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I really like OwlBear Rodeo. It is system agnostic simple tabletop. There is a learning curve but it's pretty easy. It's also great on tablets and decent on phones.

The best part is that there are a lot of 3rd party extensions to dial in your specific game mechanics. I've been playing Dragonbane and it has some funky mechanics that someone else made work well in OBR.

[–] MostRegularPeople@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Having not read the article: probably. The magazine tube should still be fine as long as it's a pump action shotgun because firing another round requires manually cycling the action.

[–] MostRegularPeople@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Hr19@opm.gov is another viable solution, if not as directly effective.

[–] MostRegularPeople@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I stand corrected.

[–] MostRegularPeople@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

I've been using FUTO which is free and open source, has pretty good gesture typing, very good voice to text, and does not connect to the internet. I'm happy with it, but I'm also an idiot and most things make me happy.

Edit: I am wrong about freedom and open source. Don't listen to me. I still like the keyboard though.

[–] MostRegularPeople@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The current argument is "you give your SSN, address, salary etc to the bank, your employer, the DMV, etc. They all want something from you. The world's richest man doesn't need your money, so why are you afraid of giving him all your information?"

It's basically "if you've done nothing wrong you've got nothing to hide" but with your identity and life savings and social security.

[–] MostRegularPeople@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hahahaha fair enough. I've gotten so used to playing online I kinda forgot that is a thing people do in the physical realm.

[–] MostRegularPeople@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

I just looked that up. Sounds super cool!. I have always liked the noir / hard bitten investigative types of characters.

If you're looking for an extra player for a play test or something give me a shout!

[–] MostRegularPeople@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I just started running Call of Cthulhu games which is super fun, but the goal is to find players who want to play more narrative games and try out Spire: The City Must Fall and Heart.

Wildsea looks awesome but I want to play rather than GM it.

I also bought the Free League Publishing super pack on Humble Bundle so probably any of those. Coriolis and Forbidden Lands are currently the most attractive to me and look super fun to run.

I hear that Mutant: Year Zero is a great engine also.

So, y'know, just most games. I'm excited to play most of the games this year.

 

No birds were harmed in taking of this picture, no matter how bad Rinny wishes they were.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by MostRegularPeople@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
 

My girlfriend is be very interested in putting Blink (Amazon) cameras up around our property. I am not interested in paying Amazon to keep our security footage.

What I'd like to do is have motion activated internet connected cameras around the property that somehow send footage to a server (I don't know if that's the correct term, I'm kind of an idiot) that I keep on the property.

So I have three questions:

  1. is this the right forum to be asking about self hosting security footage?
  2. does anyone here have experience doing this and would they be willing to send some pointers my way?
  3. is this a feasible DIY project or am I better served paying for a service?

I've done a little digging into self hosting and it's not cheap, but I think it will be cheaper than paying a subscription. And safer too, which is rad.

Thank you all!

 

I just bought the 256GB Deck at the beginning of this month and it arrived on the 10th for $529. On the 13th they announced the OLED Deck and dropped the price of the 256GB Deck to $399.

I wrote to Steam customer service and asked if I could return the deck and purchase the OLED model for $30 more and they wrote back with two options:

  1. return the deck, get a refund, and then buy the OLED model

  2. keep the deck I own and get $130 in my Steam Wallet.

I'm not sure which option to choose. On the one hand, $130 is a nice chunk of change to buy some games. On the other hand, a brand new, bigger, and nicer deck is worth waiting a couple weeks and $30.

Any advice?

 
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