pathief

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[–] pathief@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Fair point.

We also have a 20 square meter study where we installed AC. The unit cost around 550 euros and installation was like 70 euros cheaper. Total cost was cheaper but still hard for a median family to support.

Most families use some sort of fan or cooling column but they are quite lackluster and only work in summer.

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

My living room is around 36 square meters and the cheapest AC unit for that area was 650 - 850 euros. You also have to pay a certified company to install it, which cost another 200 - 300 euros.

The median salary is like 900 euros, which makes it out of reach for a large portion of the population.

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Self hosting an email server is a pain in the ass and I don't really recommend it.

Buying your own domain and using it in whatever email provider you want is very easy and gives you ownership over the email address. You may switch providers freely without needing anyone else to do anything.

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

As a law abiding citizen, I honestly wouldn't know what to do in this situation. I would probably provide whatever was asked and have my rights exploited by the customs officer.

Guess I should look this up before traveling abroad again.

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I use Logitech MX Vertical with the solaar software. It works fine.

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I've also been using EndeavourOS for about a year and a half, it has been a wonderful experience.

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

I use Proton VPN, it's a good service. If you like their other services it's honestly a no brainer.

Personally prefer the no bullshit payment options by mullvad but they no longer support port forwarding.

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

It went on sale yesterday so I ended up buying it!

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have not. I have a 144hz monitor and even at 144fps games games with heavy camera movement are unplayable.

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some games don't even have crosshairs... Another big offender was Spyro, for instance. Just the camera moving was enough to make me sick in the stomach.

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Phogs

This one caught my eye as well. Split Fiction had a small section that played very similarly to this game, don't want to spoil too much. It was fun, but I'm unsure if I want a full game about it.

Cassette Beasts

This one looks good for me heh :P

Sea of Stars

This one has been on my wishlist forever now, the mixed reviews have been turning me off. I'm not sure if these classic RPG games are her thing but we should try and figure it out.

Children of Morta

This one fell flat for me. I don't know why, I didn't connect with the game.

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I've had motion sickness ever since I remember. I just can't play shooters, it's physically impossible for me.

Somethings help like a TV instead of a monitor, zooming out as much as possible, moving as further from tv as possible, low camera speed. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It's a struggle.

 

My SO and I have been having a lot of fun playing co-op games on the Steam Deck connected to the TV. We recently finished Split Fiction and I'm looking for the next cool experience to try out. We enjoy casual co-op games, nothing too hard or violent. EDIT: pixel art is apparently a big turnoff for her so that's out as well.

Games We Enjoyed:

  • Split Fiction
  • It takes two
  • Untitled Goose Game

Games that flopped:

  • Stardew Valley - She is open to "farming" games but doesn't enjoy the energy management aspect of the game. It also gave her motion sickness, somehow
  • Overcooked / Moving out - We enjoy these games but as they start to get more chaotic and hard, the enjoyment goes way down
  • Ibb & Obb - A bit dull and samey
  • Portal - Gives me serious motion sickness, completely unplayable
  • Lego Lord of the Rings - I'm a lord of the rings fan but I hated the gameplay for this game, I found it to be so boring. We quit after an hour or so.
 

This used to work but this weekend I noticed it was no longer working.

I subscribe to a streaming service outside my country, it's in south america. I used to turn on the VPN on my desktop (EndeavourOS), connect to a country in south america, do the same on the TV and I'd Chromecast the video. No problems, excelent quality, worked great.

This no longer works. When the TV is connected to ProtonVPN, it doesn't show in chromecast devices list. As soon as I disconnect it, it shows up.

Things I tried:

  • Updating the ProtonVPN app on both TV and desktop
  • Updating the TV firmware
  • Changed from Wireguard to OpenVPN
  • Enabled split tunneling on the TV and whitelisted chromecast
  • Connecting to the exact same server
  • Several countries
  • My android phone can find the TV but nothing happens when I select it
  • Toggled settings such as Moderate NAT, IPV6 and Port forwarding, nothing works.

Chromecasting works fine if I disconnect the VPN on the TV but I can't watch the streaming service. Any ideas? Thanks.

 

Searching for product recommendations has become harder and harder over the years. I used to google or browse reddit for reviews, used them to create a shortlist of products and then actually dig deeper and compare them.

Lets say I'm in the market for a mechanical keyboard, but I don't know much about them. I use whatever search engine to look for "best mechanical keyboard 2024". The results are really bad, and I mean really bad. It's more of a list of keyboards to avoid, to be honest. The problem is not just google. Bing, duckduckgo, Kagi, Startpage... all results suck. The results are filled with AI generated pages or outlets farming affiliate links. There are a couple of good suggestions in the middle of the garbage but if 9/10 websites recommend a random razer keyboard, I'm inclined to believe it's an option worth considering.

Some of my friends say they resort to Youtube. I can agree that Youtube has amazing content creators that give amazing reviews and produce great quality content. But if you don't know anything about the subject, how do you know which content creator is good and which content creator is just farming affiliate links?

One of the things I loved about Reddit was that I could just go to /r/whateversubject and talk to what I felt was real people discussing products they loved. I no longer use Reddit ,and Lemmy, unfortunately, doesn't have a big enough userbase to have a good community for each type of product.

So, what's your strategy to find out good products on subjects you know nothing about?

 

Hey friends. I have been using Linux exclusively for about 3 weeks. I've been amazed at how well gaming works out of the box with Steam and proton.

I only have this minor issue, I'm sure someone can point me to the right direction. I use 2 monitors, I game on the primary monitor and do whatever else on the second. Whenever I go back to the gaming monitor, the game shows the window decorations for just a second and then goes back to full screen. It flickers. Obviously not a major problem, but it's annoying.

If I go to the game settings, set it as windowed and then back to full-screen it occasionally fixes the problem but only until I start the game again.

I currently use EndeavourOS w/ KDE but the problem also happened on Manjaro!

EDIT: As always, the Arch Wiki had the answer, I just didn't see because it seems to describe a different issue. SDL_VIDEO_MINIMIZE_ON_FOCUS_LOSS=0 environment variable seems to do the trick.

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