vithigar

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[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 hours ago

No, the initial versions of Edge used a new engine that was different from Internet Explorer's Trident engine.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 58 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

Edge has been Chromium based since 2020.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Similarly, Batman: Arkham Origins is a Christmas game.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's another alternative, which is manually adding libraries to your project yourself instead of doing it all automatically through a package manager.

Yes, it's less convenient to download and import a package manually, especially if you need to do the same with a litany of dependencies, but I don't feel like that's a bad thing. Raising the barrier of entry for arbitrarily adding thousands of lines of other people's code to your project would force people to think about how much of that they actually need.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's impossible for an ISP to guarantee speeds though, because it's not just their connection that's being used.

Do they use this to weasel out of reasonable expectations of connection quality? Yes, absolutely. But they also can't do anything about the speed of the server you're downloading from.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

It's literally how their wealth is calculated, but okay. Even if I'm incorrect and it's not already the case they can easily dodge such a tax by buying a bunch of non-liquid assets and making it the case.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Billionaires aren't sitting on billions in currency held in banking accounts. They are holding billions in assets which are valued at those numbers. You couldn't just take all of Bezo's "wealth" above $1b without liquidating most of Amazon.

Not that I disagree with you in principle, it's just not as simple as your proposed solution requires.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

She's also an android. Looking slightly off may well be intentional.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They have fairly reasonable guides on their site on how to host for others.

https://foundryvtt.com/kb/

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Depends on what part of "set up" you're referring to. Getting the software itself up and running is extremely easy. They have versions available for the full swathe of experience levels from "here is a packaged Electron based Windows application" to "here are the node.js source files". All prior versions are also available if you have specific needs for an earlier version.

Now, if you mean how difficult is it to set up and run a game, that's going to vary wildly depending on the system the game uses and how complex of a scenario whoever is running the game wants to deal with. There are lots of off-the-shelf one shots or campaigns you can run where that setup is already done for you though.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Couple of things I have running on my home server no one has mentioned yet.

FoundryVTT is a self-hostable platform for playing tabletop RPGs online. It supports a vast selection of game systems and user/community developed mods making it extremely versatile.

Pihole is probably something you've heard of before and despite the name is hostable on a wide variety of systems. In case you haven't it's a network level ad blocker that works by taking over the role of DNS server on your LAN and blocking queries to domains used to serve ads or track telemetry.

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