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Do you still play couch coop nowadays? Which games do you recommend? in c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

[-] ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

I don't know if "coop" is the right term, but Duck Game is awesome on the couch with two (or more!) people.

Doom: The Dark Ages is introducing big changes to combat because id Software came to one core realization: "Every projectile mattered in the original Doom" in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[-] ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago

The thing is, id Software has landed in this medieval war against Hell not out of convenience but out of a need to change the fundamentals of play. To return to where Doom became legend two decades ago.

I have bad news for the author of this article regarding what year it was two decades ago.

DOOM: The Dark Ages | Official Trailer 1 (4K) | Coming 2025 in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[-] ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

I may be wrong, but I think they meant "can't argue with your complaint about acrobatics."

Shared photo library options? in c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

[-] ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Would Plex be an option here? I don't use it, but I know it has a photo library feature.

Which do you prefer? A triple monitor setup? Or one single 32:9 ultrawide monitor? in c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world

[-] ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago

You might be interested to learn of the Fancyzones Powertoy which makes snapping windows to preconfigured zones quite easy.

I respect people who don't like snaps, but Canonical will not abandon a successful project in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

[-] ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

So that's admittedly not a good look for canonical, but my read of that is that if you're getting widely-known software from a developer who's publishing it to snap themselves, and you're cautious about your usage, snap is fine.

For example, essentially my only use of snap is to install certbot. If I follow the directions from certbot.eff.org precisely, then I'll get certbot installed and no issues.

I certainly agree that (a) the system is ripe for abuse and (b) should be self-hostable to support Free software. Both of these could be fixed by canonical opening it up.

I respect people who don't like snaps, but Canonical will not abandon a successful project in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

[-] ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago

Why? I've heard this for years at this point, but as someone who rarely uses snaps because they're the only convenient option for software I'm using, I'm generally ambivalent about them.

People seem to hold really strong opinions about snap but I've never been able to get a straight answer, just a bunch of hand waving.

Email services for self hosters in c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

[-] ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

I use Mail-in-a-Box on a small VPS. Have been doing so for about 10 years. It takes care of basically everything.

Last year I subscribed to a small-time email provider, anydomain.net, because I got tired of playing whack-a-mole with services blocking my entire subnet due to spammers on the VPS. All told I probably spend ~US$20 per month to host it.

Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices in c/technology@lemmy.world

Comment chain becomes unreadable with depth in c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

[-] ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

SCRAPED THE ICE? NO GOOD. CAN'T HEAR YOU. YOU'LL HAVE TO SPEAK UP.

Why does everyone swear so much in The Witcher 3? in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[-] ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago

Gotta wonder how many people are down voting because they think the title is moralizing, when it's anything but that.

There's nothing like going for a nice long walk around the world of The Witcher 3 and meeting some of the locals there. They say the nicest things. "Sod off, you misborn clod," a guard will tell me. "Got so fucked up once, blood came out me ears," a chap at the docks will announce. Or if I'm really lucky, "Go fuck your mums tits!" What a world to live in.

The thing is, I love this about the game. Being scolded by the ruddy-faced inhabitants of The Witcher 3 has long been one of my favourite things, ever since I first played it eight years ago.

I finally created the perfect JavaScript runtime: No-JS in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

[-] ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

This project is so popular that it's preinstalled on every OS!

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I made a thing! A python script to delete old, unwatched movie/tv content from Sonarr/Radarr/Tautulli. (update) (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

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About a year and a half ago I posted a script I made for deleting movie content in your library not being watched. Folks really seemed to like it, and I still get comments on that thread every so often. So I've updated it!

Far and away, the two biggest requests I got were:

Make it do TV, too
Make a dry-run mode
Edit: Added just now: a protected mode when you volume mount a protected file!

The code is now available on github here:

https://github.com/ASK-ME-ABOUT-LOOM/purgeomatic

Even better, no installation is required. You can run it as a docker container like so:

docker run --rm -it --env-file .env --network=host ghcr.io/ask-me-about-loom/purgeomatic:latest python delete.movies.unwatched.py

It now supports TV series as well. Thanks to a suggestion from /u/JimLahey-, I was able to get my head around the idea - I had always thought of managing TV shows as "collections of seasons" of media, but the reality is, if nobody has watched anything related to a TV show in a while, the whole thing can go! And that's what this does:

docker run --rm -it --env-file .env --network=host ghcr.io/ask-me-about-loom/purgeomatic:latest python delete.tv.unwatched.py

No more editing python, either. Create yourself a .env file, set up all of your config, and even enable dry run mode, so you can test to your heart's content:

$ docker run --rm -it --env-file .env --network=host ghcr.io/ask-me-about-loom/purgeomatic:latest python delete.movies.unwatched.py
DRY_RUN enabled!
--------------------------------------
2023-08-25T12:40:57.288608
DRY RUN: Chaos Walking | Radarr ID: 1445 | TMDB ID: 412656
DRY RUN: Captain Marvel | Radarr ID: 885 | TMDB ID: 299537
DRY RUN: Captain America: Civil War | Radarr ID: 1768 | TMDB ID: 271110
DRY RUN: Black Widow | Radarr ID: 1517 | TMDB ID: 497698
DRY RUN: Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) | Radarr ID: 1092 | TMDB ID: 495764
DRY RUN: Bill &amp; Ted's Excellent Adventure | Radarr ID: 1777 | TMDB ID: 1648
DRY RUN: Bill &amp; Ted's Bogus Journey | Radarr ID: 1778 | TMDB ID: 1649
DRY RUN: Big Hero 6 | Radarr ID: 71 | TMDB ID: 177572
DRY RUN: Big | Radarr ID: 71 | TMDB ID: 177572
DRY RUN: Batman Begins | Radarr ID: 1745 | TMDB ID: 272
DRY RUN: Assault on Precinct 13 | Radarr ID: 1212 | TMDB ID: 17814
DRY RUN: 21 Jump Street | Radarr ID: 1096 | TMDB ID: 64688
Total space reclaimed: 164.88GB

To use protected mode, just create a text file with one TMDB/TVDB ID per line and volume mount it as /app/protected like so:

docker run --rm -it --env-file .env --network=host -v /home/user/protected:/app/protected ghcr.io/ask-me-about-loom/purgeomatic:latest python delete.movies.unwatched.py

Good luck! Please let me know if you have questions or problems and I'll do my best to help out!

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Can you recommend a service or container for doing disk analysis and reporting failure conditions? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

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I recently stood up a new file server using ZFS on linux. I'd like to automate the disk checking in such a way that I can essentially ignore and have a service notify me when SMART or other indications are hitting failure or pre-fail levels.

I'm not looking for a fancy GUI or web UI - a plain old config file would suit me just fine. In my ideal world, it would be a container I could simply spin up with minimal configuration, but I'm willing to give anything a try.

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Is it possible to set the default view on Profile? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM@sh.itjust.works to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

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I comment more frequently than I post. Is there any way to set it to view comments by default? Even better, can we display a merged view of comments/posts in a single listing?