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[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

I actually made it because I got banned because I couldn't use my lights in euro truck simulator 2 multiplayer mod. I'm not sure I'd want to use it in any competitive games as it'd likely break off if I got mad.

[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's an extra 12 button Bluetooth controller using an esp32 dev board. So your games need to allow you to use multiple controllers. You could also program it to send keyboard keys but I haven't tried it.

[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You can download an stl for the battery cover. I modified it to allow the backpack controller to attach to/detach from the main controller. The original is in a box somewhere safe and well.

[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 25 points 3 weeks ago

When your villain origin story is getting banned from a truck simulator mod because you forgot the macro to turn the headlights on.

[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 53 points 3 weeks ago (16 children)

Then there's the back paddles. Only two of them.

Speak for yourself. Mine has 14 lol

[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Do we even have mozzies? I thought we just had midges in this country. Maybe I don't know what a mozzy is.

[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 17 points 1 month ago

It's funny that the chud line is to question the loyalty of the festival goers, when they're going to bat for an organisation that murdered three British citizens last year.

[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 57 points 1 month ago (18 children)

I've always thought the trope was based on the idea of stunted development. Kids are heavily encouraged to drink milk, so films making a point of adults drinking it are indicating that there's some part of growing up that they've missed.

[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 51 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Did any of the AI safety dorks have accidentally doing MKultra as one of the risks?

[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago
[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The peertube mascot looking over gothenburg

One million hours in gimp

[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

The cinematography and world building make it feel like Adam Curtis was tasked with making a videogame.

It's not the sort of film that'll stick with you but it's alright and I'll definitely watch the next one.

 
 
 

This is a question that comes to mind every time I spend a few days focusing on the fediverse. Normally I'm on the microblogging side, but now I have a Lemmy account it might start a proper discussion.

So, to the point, pretty much every fedi platform has similar problems with small servers taking a beating whenever a post goes viral. This ends up costing the server owner a bunch of money trying to keep their server alive while thousands of instances attempt to pull large static files from the original host's post. This recently instigated this call to action on this forum.

I've never seen the question of torrents answered and it feels like a lot of effort and a bit self entitled to get the ear of fedi software devs to implement torrents as a solution, so I'm putting this here.

If media files were made into torrents when a post was being created, an extra object could be added to post objects like

'torrentcdn': {
  'https://imagePathAsKey.jpg': {
    'infohash': 'ba618eab...',
    'torrentLocation': 'https://directlinkto.torrent',
    'webseed': 'https://imagePathAsKey.jpg',
    ...
  }
}

This would not break compatibility as it would just be ignored by anything not looking for a 'torrentcdn' object, yet up to date instances could use this instead of directly pulling the static files.

This would benefit instances as when a post goes viral, the load would be distributed amongst all instances attempting to download the file.

This could also benefit clients and instances as larger files like short videos could be distributed using webtorrent, massively reducing the load on server when many people are watching the same video.

Thoughts?

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