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Yep, old ChatGPT was much more blunt and factual.

Don’t really like the recent trend of every LLM talking to me like I’m in kindergarten.

Back feeding is legal here if it is connected to a micro inverter which can turn off immediately when disconnected and never outputs more than 800W.

ChatGPT won’t humiliate you for asking a question that someone else has already asked.

I don’t know, being told what a good question that was and what a good boy I am everytime I ask a stupid question feels pretty humiliating.

(Still better than SO)

Balcony solar panels are dirt cheap, you can get them for 200-300€, including the micro inverter. You usually do not have batteries in these setups, you just use up the generated power while it is available by moving things like the dishwasher and dryer to that time.

To give some actual numbers, I pay 0.22€ per kWh right now. In the last 30 days (Apr 21 - May 20) the balcony solar panels generated 74.11kWh. The month was fairly average with an even mixture of sunny days and rainy days.

Assuming you can use up the 800W of peak power, you will have saved around 16€ in just those 30 days. I don’t have full data for the year yet since I only got mine a few months back but my current estimation is that it will have paid for itself after 2-4 years.

The biggest advantage of balcony-mounted solar panels, at least where I live, is that you need 0 permits. You don’t need to ask your neighbors, you don’t need to ask your power company, you don’t need a building permit, you don’t need an electrician and you don’t need a solar company to install them for you.

They don’t replace large solar farms but if you incentivize people to DIY their solar installation you get tons of additional cheap and clean energy from a source that would be wasted otherwise.

Doom 2016 launched with a 44k player peak on Steam, Doom Eternal with a 100k peak and Doom: The Dark Ages only got a 30k peak.

Either most people play on Game Pass, think the game is too expensive, don’t have raytracing compatible hardware or don’t like Denuvo.

Whatever it is, the game doesn’t seem to be doing so great.

If Doom Eternal is a rhythm game, what does that make Metal: Hellsinger aka “Doom but as a rhythm game”?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1061910/Metal_Hellsinger/

(really great game btw)

TIL that Bungie is releasing a new game.

Although judging by this news and the first sentence on their Steam page being “…Bungie’s team-based extraction shooter.”, maybe it’s a good thing I can’t play their games.

Any reviews/feedback from current Nextcloud users? I do plan to eventually self host but would start off using storage included in the plan

If my Nextcloud stops working I’m done for.

My calendars are in there, my todo list, my notes, my contacts, all my savegames, backups, documents, invoices, photos, videos, everything.

It’s pretty heavy to host but it’s worth it if you make full use of their entire suite.

I once wrote the guy listed for their infrastructure that one of their mail servers is configured incorrectly.

He got back to me after 2 hours thanking me and telling me he fixed it.

Thought that was pretty impressive for a company of their size.

Intel has already deployed a fix for this in the 13th and 14th gen by permanently damaging the chip and crashing. Checkmate hackers.

There is now source code for the ROM, which makes creating ports and mods significantly easier.

The initial goal of most decompilations is to produce a 1:1 match of the original ROM. That’s how they know they’ve got a perfect representation of the original code.

Are you trying to run it on PC?

This is only the decompilation of the original for N64, the binaries it produces are for the N64 or an emulator. Making a PC port is the next step.

Does Zorin develop their own tools/patches or what do they bundle as office and creative suite in their Pro version?

I bought the game on release mostly to support them. The folks at Moon Studios are seriously talented and deserve some support.

I played ~2 hours on release and thought the game was decent. The combat had some weight, the art style was excellent, the bosses were fun and challenging and the exploration was pretty neat. There were many performance issues which they have since mostly fixed but there were also a few systems taken from different genres that didn’t work that well together for me. I didn’t play for a while though, so maybe they improved things in that area.

Still, I’m also waiting for the coop, which is scheduled to release with the next major update.

I wouldn’t read too much into this news article. Their CEO has since clarified that he might have been a bit hyperbolic and didn’t expect the media to pick up on his random Discord post.

I don’t quite agree with his assessment of being “review bombed”. Most negative reviews come down to the game being released in early access: bad performance, many systems not working well together, being behind roadmap, missing coop on launch and more recently, difficulty. I do get their need for releasing in early access after Microsoft dropped them but it might have hurt them in the long run.

Props for releasing it!

I built my own downloader for Tidal, Qobuz and Deezer, which monitors the favorites on each platform and downloads them automatically. Was always too afraid to release it.

Sayonara Wild Hearts is such a good weekend game. Really cheap, really short, really good and with a soundtrack that you’re going to listen to long after finishing the game.

Highly recommend!

I ran Emby for a while before switching to Jellyfin. Still running it today.

It has been a few years since I last used Plex but I always liked their interface, their tech stack is fairly modern, they have apps for pretty much every device, their title matching for content works really well and there was not much wrong with it back in the day other than it lacking local authentication.

I switched over long ago when they started pushing streaming services to my users that I couldn’t deactivate server side.

Heads up, I asked their support and it works neither on Linux nor without cloud.

Cool device though.