For FF Desktop users: In about:config set network.IDN_show_punycode to true to see xn–eepass-vbb[.]info instead of ķeepass[.]info

It’s not super common, but I have seen sites in Germany that use Ümläüts in their domains. It’s not usually the primary domain, but they get used.

For those who don’t know, Vox Populi was Community Balance Patch, was Communitas Patch, and including all the history has been in active development for almost as long as Civ V has existed. A recent change was to introduce the community council to vote on proposals.

Vox Populi is the reason I have 2510 hours of Civ V, and why I don’t care about Civ VI, as the mod makes V just far superior. For those trying it for the first time, the general recommendation is to lower your difficulty 2 steps from what you normally play, as the AI is vastly improved.

The normal install thread is here, but it’s currently in a beta state thanks to a huge code cleanup. I’m playing with the last 3.x release which you can find on their GitHub as I use other mods that are not yet updated for version 4.

There is another thread in case you want to play multiplayer as that does not support normal mods. But I only play single player ;)

Civ V is always the game I return to, or that I play when I don’t feel like playing anything else.

I think it really depends on the music scene. I have not once read their blog in my 13 years of using BC. I just checked it, and it’s okay, but I don’t feel like I’ll be missing something without it.

That’s why I downloaded everything as FLAC. But I’m saying quality of playback does not go into it ;)

Epic sold it last month, they kept it barely a year

Yes, I also did so before :D The only thing I changed, was that now I downloaded the FLAC files instead of only ogg.

I don’t have a 1k€ sounds system, so there is no difference in quality for me.

I did, just not in FLAC.

Same since 2010, but most of it was ogg files, so I’m currently downloading everything as FLAC for proper archival.

How so?

I didn’t even know they sold them again :( I thought there was a chance that Epic would be a good steward, but now a random music licensing company?

Apparently the biggest in the world, but B2B …

Anyway, might as well mention the bandcamp collection downloader in case anyone needs all their FLACs.

edit: It’s done. 110 albums/EPs for 40.5 GB of FLACs, took around 20 minutes. In case anyone wants to peek into my library (mainly if you are into folk or extreme metal): My collection

0.15 o.O

0.4€ for me :(

That still doesn’t make it cheaper ;)

Hah, fair enough :D

My far cheaper CPU with iGPU can also do hardware video transcoding ;)

My PI4 is still in use, but it’s only running Proxmox Backup Server to backup the main server ;)

Eh, especially the last few years they were more expensive. Now granted, mine was refurbished, but 40€ is still roughly half what I’d have had to pay for a PI at that time.

Didn’t they just hand NUCs off to ASUS?

I have a J4105 Celeron CPU, idle power draw is under 4W, and I run Jellyfin, Homeassistant, Paperless NGX and some other services on it. HA now being one of several services, it still runs far better than when it had my whole PI4 (also from an SSD) for itself.

Good time to mention: Depending on what you want, you don’t actually want a Pi. Reasons to want one are a) the GPIO port and b) the form factor. Maybe c) low power draw under load. Maybe there are some other niche usecases that I can’t think of, but those are the main ones. Passively cooled, older, low power intel chips have far more power and better interfaces for the same price and about the same idle power draw. The cases end up being a bit bigger, but that’s the main disadvantage.

IIRC it does not support swiping, which, for me and plain text, is by far the most efficient input method on tiny devices.

The alphabet in my case is the same, but swiping needs to know what language I’m using, or it will get the prediction wrong.

That said, I simply did not understand how it works and the longpress does not interfere.

Oh wow, now I’m getting it. That’s actually not even that bad :D

While I agree, it’s not convenient to use for everyday writing.

But GBoard has change language as spacebar hold action by default? That said, swiping lacks a lot of control compared to buttons. While I can’t test this specifically, I know that from highlighting text.

Yesterday discussed on HN

I’ll quote myself:

One thing this article does not mention and what makes mobile text editing slightly more bearable: Using the volume buttons to control the text cursor.

It doesn’t support desktop modifiers like Ctrl or Shift, but at least you can properly place the cursor where you want without going mad. For some reason, only LineageOS has that feature, and not even every other custom ROM. I once tried a different ROM and switched back because the feature was missing, horrible.

Recently had my first bad customer service experience with Amazon, now this. Well, I guess it’s time to not renew Prime after having been a Prime customer since it existed in Germany (~2007).

Newer games have bad achievements options because older games didn’t have those at all.

No alternative besides the Microsoft money they took a few years ago, or was it yahoo?

I’ll try to remember to look it up tomorrow back on my computer, but it’s guess it’s probably on Wikipedia

edit: @[email protected] already posted the relevant links.

Donations are a drop on a hot stone, browser development doesn’t pay, and the only two other companies do it either because it supports their ad business, or because it’s a selling point for their hardware and yet another way to lock their users in.

Donations go to the non profit which owns but doesn’t fund the for-profit developing FF

Some weird WEB3 site with an article that’s probably AI-written. How is this getting upvotes?

700-800

Ddg before was at slightly over 1k IIRC

There’s a very easy way: Don’t use an ad-tech browser …

You could also create a non-synced watchlist on ITAD directly if you’d rather start over ;)

No direct recommendation, but IsThereAnyDeal is great for sales (including those not on steam directly, which for several years were far better, now steam is catching up again). You can keep it in sync with your steam wishlist, and set price targets to get notified, here’s the last waitlist new best price mail I got:

edit: Image currently not available as I disabled pict-rs for legal reasons

Similar with Promox Backup Server. While Proxmox actively writes the backups to PBS, it’s PBS that decides what to do with the data and how many versions to keep.

Subscribing is more expensive than getting a phone number in most places. Hell, even in expensive Germany, a phone number is only about 2 months of subscribing.

But you can only enable it, after you give them your phone number.

Also, apparently years of subscribing to channels is not as verified as giving them your phone number. They should just say “We really want your phone number and don’t give a shit about anything else”.

By asking for it about 1-2 years ago when they all had more money than they knew what to do with ;)