gazter

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[–] gazter@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The initial idea was that I was actually playing as a sentient magic item that increased intelligence of the wearer. The original user was killed in the dungeon, then hoovered up by a gelatinous cube, and the magic item took over.

The others sit across the whole spectrum from that sort of unhinged to straight up wizard.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

Has Nintendo ever really been about the spec race? Apart from maybe the 64.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

I would argue that's no longer the case.

I was a long time console gamer, for exactly the reasons you mentioned- no fiddling. I was time-poor, so I wanted to be able to slip the cartridge/disc in, and just play.

Those days are gone, my friend. I turn my console on less and less. Every time I do, I need to download game updates. But I can't do that unless I download the system update. I need to sign in to various networks just to be able to do this. Usually with a paid subscription.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

They did, and it did.

However, I would suggest with the current gen consoles, the market is different. Also, you don't need to unseat Sony and Microsoft to be able to turn a buck.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why stand when you can sit?

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago

Mint is not a version of windows.

 

I've not been playing with my online gaming group for a few months, but when I was, I was playing a sentient gelatinous cube, who's just the happiest and friendliest thing ever. Last night I was able to rejoin, and we managed to pull off a great surprise. The PCs were led into a trap, and suddenly all sorts of oozes and jellies started appearing. The DM did a great description of an ominous, looming gelatinous cube approaching, and one side started to form into a face... Which oozed into a mouth and said.... Which is when I popped into the call and laid on the familiar happy, friendly voice and said a hearty hello and nice to see everyone again! Perfect timing, great build-up, everyone loved it. Such a great theatrical moment.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 2 points 5 days ago

If it's D&D, I think the best way to go is to do a sidequest. Level 1 characters are a bit boring, and no-one wants to spend hours leveling up a new character for one session. So, a sidequest! Use an existing character and just give them a cookie cutter dungeon. But a sidequest should be a bit silly and fun- so make the PCs play someone else's character!

If it's not D&D, I've had great fun with "Oh Dang! Bigfoot Stole My Car With My Friend’s Birthday Present Inside". It's literally no prep, so if someone cancels last minute you can just pull that out, characters made in ten minutes, and you're reading the intro text.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone -3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

To me it looks like you're the one missing this person's point. And the snark doesn't help you, or them.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 1 points 6 days ago

But it's a really heavy feather.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 2 points 6 days ago

Oh jeez, I hadn't even thought about capitalisation in the file extension. That would be especially confusing if extensions are hidden- the user would be presented with two files that look exactly the same.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Bunker.

Deep bunker.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oooh, amazing! Do you use it? How mature is it?

 

I've got a few projects on the list which will be battery powered. I'm thinking of using 18650s just because of how ubiquitous they are, but I know there's other options out there. Are they worth it?

  • E-ink calendar
  • Solder fume extractor
  • Lora station
  • Portable "trail camera"
  • Home assistant remote controls Etc etc etc
 

My partner is about 20% lighter than me, and wants to get a belay resistor. We've used the first version of the Ohm in the past, and didn't like the hard catch. We've had the Raed Zaed recommended, but it looks like the Ohm II might be better again. I know it's only just been released, but does anyone have experience with both? Which would you recommend?

 

Vague title I know, but I'm enough of a beginner at this to not really know what I need to ask!

I would like to rent a server, that allows me to spin up different services, including things like Windows to use as a remote desktop. Ideally, I would then be able to just migrate this whole setup to my home server.

I thought it would be as easy as renting a scalable VPS, but apparently if you run something like Proxmox on those, you'll get terrible performance?

My understanding is that I'd need to rent a bare metal server, but then my 'scalability' will suffer- I can't just wind up and down the specs as needed, correct?

My user case: For the next several months, I'm on the road, without a proper computer. I may have some work doing some CAD drafting, hence Windows. I'd also like to have some containers to run some dev tools, databases, web hosting. I'd also like to use the same service to start building my future home server environment- nextcloud, *arr, etc. Once I'm back home, I'd like to easily migrate this setup to a local machine, then continue to use the server as my own cloud and public entry point. And further down the line, hosting a gaming server for friends. In terms of location, Sydney would be great.

Will a VPS do this? Or do I need bare metal? Is there a single service that will allow me to do both, with one billing? Or am I doing a Dunning-Kruger?

Thanks in advance for your hints.

 

I'm looking at a permanent install of a Windows machine that runs a few digital signs. I want to achieve remote access and file upload to the Windows box, as well as accessing the internal web server of the displays on the same LAN. This LAN will be attached to a corporate network, but I would prefer if it did not have access to the internet. I'll have to work with the IT department to get this happening, of course, but I'm hoping to go in prepped with potential solutions. Could anyone tell me if these ideas will work, or what I'm missing?

  • VPN tunnel. This would be whichever VPN that their IT supports. Would I be able to simply install the client on the windows box and my machine, and then on my machine connect to the VPN, use TeamViewer in LAN mode for control of the Windows box, and web browser for control of displays? I'm assuming their IT would set up the upstream switch to only pass that VPN connection, so that the Windows box does not see the internet, and I cannot see their internal network.
  • Some kind of IPMI/PiKVM solution- This would be a second computer, attached to the corporate network, but not to the signage LAN. It would just be a KVM for the Windows box. I would then dial into that via its webserver, and control the Windows machine. The control for the displays would be accessed via browser on the Windows machine. I like this solution, as it keeps the networks separate, but I think that uploading files will be a challenge.
  • Or is there a better way?
 

Hi! Hopefully this is a good place to ask. I've been googling around a fair bit, but haven't had much luck- I'm either finding ELI5 type articles, or in depth tutorials on setting up a model to tell the difference between a frog and a dog. I'm not sure if those are relevant to my concept.

I would like to implement a ML algorithm to detect a particular type of defect on a production line. Our current camera system isn't quite up to the task, but gives good, consistent imagery, and I have a good historical dataset. The product moves past the camera, it snaps a single black and white image, then the product moves on. This means that most of my images are more or less the same. These defects are obvious to the human eye.

Could someone please give me, a noob, a bird's eye view of how I would go about using ML to create a model for this? There's so many choices of tools and tutorials that I don't know which would be best suited to this use case.

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