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[–] pory@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

All my video media that's easier to replace than preserve is on my NAS running openmediavault with mergerfs. If I lose a drive I can always just, you know, torrent the tv show again.

My main PC (everything except the Steam game install directory) is backed up through KopiaUI to a folder on that mergerfs array that contains media that's difficult/impossible to replace. Daily incremental backups.

That folder is mounted on my PC through DOKAN, which tells Windows OS that it's a local resource (it does this more thoroughly than just assigning a drive letter to a NAS folder through Windows' built-in system). The PC, including the "sensitive NAS media" folder, is then backed up to Backblaze's personal backup service ($99/yr, unlimited size with one-year versioning). The DOKAN step is required for this, since Backblaze doesn't support mounted NAS drives or non-Windows systems (presumably they don't want to use space on versioned encrypted backups of hundred-terabyte pirate movie collections).

Oh, and my phone does one-way Syncthing to my PC, thus putting its files on the PC for Kopia and Backblaze to do their thing.

[–] pory@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Definitely go RG35XX line then. In addition to retro games, a ton of freeware and indie PC releases are playable on those through Portmaster.

[–] pory@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Have you tried any Portmaster games? Baba is You, Balatro, and especially UFO 50 have been occupying me more than actual retro games on my RG35XX+.

[–] pory@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

S22 Ultra here. Selecting text, taking cropped screenshots, placing the text writing cursor precisely where I want it, hovering over web elements to view tooltips or alt text, playing Slay the Spire and Balatro, emulating the Nintendo DS, using the button as a camera shutter, hovering over the bottom of a scrollable element to smooth-scroll without repeatedly finger-flicking, and doing anything that benefits from a touchpoint more fine than a big fat thumb. The S pen is the only reason I'm still on Samsung instead of the greener true FOSS pastures.

[–] pory@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's just fishing. For every 10 users that notice the deceptive "free trial then bills per week" model, there's a guy who doesn't notice until he's been charged $15 and cancels. And for every ten of that guy, there's a guy that doesn't notice for a month, and for every ten of that guy there's the rare whale who looks at their $700/mo "google bill" and goes yeah that sounds about right.

[–] pory@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Just use an ouya controller

[–] pory@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

There's also just the naming problem. Social media works best when its name sounds like a place and its verbs sound like normal actions. Mastodon is a three syllable elephant (or a metal band), versus a sky or a book (note: this isn't a hard and fast rule, since Twitter and Instagram pulled it off). And they call their posts toots. Officially, too, unlike the user-made meme of "Skeets". Toots are farts. No politician or business professional is going to say "retoot" with a straight face.

[–] pory@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

If you block somebody that quote posts you on Bluesky, their quote post no longer has your post in it or anything pointing to you. You also can straight up delete people's replies to your posts there. Hopefully Masto's iteration on QRTs works similarly, though people always have the option to "screenshot dunk" instead.

[–] pory@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Genie's out of the bottle now though. The casual-attracting features needed to be in place before twitter exploded. They weren't. Bluesky's were. Casuals don't care about what-ifs or principles, it's a miracle Musk let Twitter get so terrible that the casuals even noticed. It'll take a monumental event now to get the casuals to switch again from the blueskys they just made and got invested in.

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

This is just an SBC with production value though. Devices like the Odin 2 can already "serve as anything from a game controller to a media player to a penetration testing tool" since all you have to do to claim that is run Linux or Android.

Nice that this one's got hardware ports on it other than USB-C though. No adapter squid.

[–] pory@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Tell that to the Gamecube and Wii U eras. Funny that those are also all-time peaks for game quality, Nintendo is better at making video games when they're struggling.

[–] pory@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Not at all that kind of manga.

 
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Since Reddit is restoring comments from deleted accounts, even if they were overwritten by a script instead of deleted, I was wondering if there were a tool similar to PowerDeleteSuite that allowed not deleting the original content of the comment.

For example, say I left a comment that said:

Great job with this!

I'd love an extension that would leave that as:

Consider leaving Reddit for Lemmy or kbin. Edit added 6/23/2023. Great job with this!

and do that to all of my prior comments on the site. I doubt that'd be rolled back by the admins the way that deleted comments and obvious script-edited comments are and also turns any comments I've left as tech support (that people might find via google searches) into an ad to migrate to a federated alternative.

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