Total War: Shogun 2. No idea why I decided to reinstall it out of the blue; just wanted to pick it up again after not playing for a long-ass time. I played it a bit when it first came out, but just didn’t really get into it. I’m seeing if it’s playable on the couch with a Steam controller now. Verdict so far: maaaaybe.
I have a soft spot for Gentoo, even though I haven’t used it in years. It was one of my first experiences with Linux, since it was installed in one of the computer labs in college. I just remember that the windows had this physics jiggle effect when you dragged them around. I was so surprised that Linux had a more “fun” aesthetic than Mac or Windows did.
Well, I’m glad to know that at least there isn’t some obvious solution that I’m missing. I might be able to explore this myself a little later – I’ve been curious about P2P things lately.
P.S. thanks for making Fireside Fedi!
What I mean is: has anyone taken just the frontend Javascript for Peertube’s video player and used that by itself, without running a full Peertube server? And if so, can that video player make P2P connections with other people’s browsers that are watching the same video?
OK, I found a little something here: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute/architecture#concepts-1
It says this:
Segments are loaded by HTTP from the origin server + servers that mirrored the video and by WebRTC from other web browsers that are watching the video. They are used by hls.js to stream them into the <video> HTML element
That “from other web browsers that are watching the video” is what I’m curious about: how does it know who those people are?
Sounds like I need to learn more about hls.js and Peertube’s custom loader for it.
Metal Gear Solid. Only had a few minutes to play it – I mainly just wanted to see how it looked, so I only got through the very first introductory room. Looks just like how I remembered it. I bought the collection with MGS 1, 2, and 3. I’ve already played a fair amount of the first game (although like…15 years ago), but never beat it. I only ever played MGS 2 on a friends Playstation 2 occasionally, and have never played the third game. So I’m really looking forward to those.
One popular way was that Internet Explorer 6 included something called ActiveX, which basically allowed any website to run code on your computer as though it was a locally-installed program. You could just click on some URL and next thing you know it’s writing files to your hard drive. This is one of the main reasons why the Internet Explorer 6 / Windows XP era was particularly virus-filled. A website could open your freaking CD tray.
From the ActiveX wikipedia page:
Developers had to register with Verisign (US$20 per year for individuals, $400 for corporations) and sign a contract, promising not to develop malware.
Promising not to. And they did it anyway. The bastards.
What are you trying to host?
Probably would run into these things needed in this order:
Then nodejs if it’s a laptop, or Steam if it’s a desktop.
Agreed, I wouldn’t recommend Librewolf for casual users. I understand why Librewolf makes those decisions, and I’m glad that it exists, but you definitely run into some quirks when using it. I’m thinking about switching from Librewolf to Waterfox myself.
The thing I dislike about Brave is that Brave intends to be an advertising company. Brave’s original idea for revenue was that the browser itself should be the ad platform. Brave doesn’t block ads because it has a pro-user manifesto; it blocks ads because it dislikes competition.
That’s why it makes no sense for people to abandon Firefox for Brave. I understand the backlash against Mozilla’s recent ad-focused shift, but Brave invented that idea. So leaving Firefox for Brave is not an improvement.
It’s the browser I’ve chosen to use after getting fed up w/ Gecko’s terrible web compatibility these days (coming from Librewolf).
I’m curious about what those compatibility issues are. It’s been years since I’ve noticed any problems – and back when I was seeing problems, it was mainly because Google could afford to implement new standards faster than Mozilla could, not because Mozilla was doing anything wrong. Could it have been because of Librewolf? Librewolf has a ton of privacy-focused settings that can sometimes make pages behave in strange ways. (It doesn’t use your real time zone, it ignores dark mode, it lies about which OS you’re on, and it constantly clears your cookies to name a few.)
And on a meta-note: I dislike Brave, but I don’t think the parent here is a comment that needs to be downvoted. We can just explain why Brave is a bad idea.
Looking forward to reading it! awk has been a huge blind spot for me for a long time now.
I didn’t have the patience for RPGs like that when they were originally out (and I was a little kid), but I’ve also been enjoying them on my Anbernic device. For me it’s been Phantasy Star IV.