machinya

wiiu was a complete mess because nintendo didn't really knew what to do with it. it tried to market it for (i remember there were conferences where the highlight was fifa or some "grown up" game) while trying to keep it's usual family friendly userbase. it tried to move away from motion controlls (again, trying to appease gamers) while also having a very interactive gamepad without many games using its features. even the most popular games failed to sell the console so nintendo decided that they will try to slowly delete its existance from collective memory and re-released almost all the games for the switch.

i don't doubt the name problem was real, but i also read of things like this on the ps1/ps2 transition so i doubt it was as bad as many make it sound.

why p2p isn't popular

my guess is because is quite hard to get it right in a generalized way. as you mention it, most people approach the internet as just consumers (not by choice) and p2p breaks this model. it requires interest and knowledge to succesfully use it and poses many problems not found in the standard client-server model (open ports, nat, global discovery). while there are known ways of solving them, they usually require workarounds and tend to have downsides. i remember following the tox development for a while and it had to use a central server for push notifications because general usage was very battery hungry.

all of this problems make the projects quite niche so their development tends to be way slower than centralized one (usually sponsored by corpoations). they tend to lack user friendly interfaces and non-vital features so they fail to bring new users, specially non-technical ones. also, open source culture has been slowly going towards a corporate-friendly culture, making this type of software alien to many.

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decentralized is the part that makes it hard to find. there are projects like briar (interesting project but very few features) and tox (had many features features but used to be quite unstable) and gnu jami (haven't tried it in a decade) alongside others but tend to have a bunch of downsides. you can ignore some since you have a static list of contacts but you might want to look deep into them to learn the caveats.

what I recommend is xmpp. is very lightway and easy to setup and gives you all the features you listed (not all clients support stickers but some do) but you need a server for that (any small one would work tho). matrix works also good but it's way more complex and more geared towards group chats

backups will depend lots on your setup and how far you want to go with it. if you use filesystems like btrfs or zfs you can copy snapshots (across different computers, multiple disks in the same computer, across the web). there are tools dedicated to backup like borg that tries to simplify the whole process. if you want to diy, you can use rsync to do checksumming and copying only new or different files. you can even do snapshot-like backups with a bit of effort.

regardless of the method you use, keep in mind backups are for when things go wrong. ensure they are accesible to you whenever you need them (physically accesible, you have the keys if you chose to encrypt them, the hardware is in good state, things like that). people tend to recommend to keep at least 3 copies in two different formats and one in a different physical place (also known as the 3-2-1 rule) in case you loose two copies at the same time (in case of natural disaster for example).

i tried that for a couple of seasons some years ago and the biggest problem was the amount of repetitive slop (isekai is the biggest problem but not the only one). i tried to watch at least one episode to avoid skipping something good but there were shows that barely lasted after the opening. i learned to watch only shows i'm heavilly interested in and to not waste time in anything that could be "potentially interesting". if i miss something good i can always go back an try it

funnily enough, the only non-sequel anime i'm watching this season is an isekai (red ranger goes adverturing or something)

kubernetes is the way to go for home cluster computing

i will challenge this idea every time I see it. The benefits that you get with it are good but usually quite overkill for the needs of a home cluster. Services that balances across nodes, no downtime, software defined storage; all of those stuff is nice and fun but most of the home clusters don't really need them.

kubernetes is quite complex and it's very hard to handle when you don't have all the necesary knowledge and experience to do so. it's very easy to misconfigure things and errors are often very hard to find when you don't know where to look. there are other projects that try to have a simpler version of the "cluster orchestration" (nomad, swarm, portainer and others. haven't tried all of them so I might be wrong) but they are also complex on it's own way and have their own share of problems.

my recomendation is that, unles you are planning to work on it and want to get more experience, you should start with smaller things (podman + systemd, regular docker, maybe start managing systems with ansible) and slowly build new things over what you already have. this has the benefit of letting you learn the basics slowly so that if you ever jump to the kubernetes bandwagon you will have more knowledge that will help the experience to be better

i have never understood why using agab was ever accepted as trans possitive language. like, it's litteraly the type of language transphobes use to categorize us

the whole definition of being trans is that you don't agree with the gender you were asigned at birth!

that one is atrocious but another thing i also find nasty is the amount of disk space new games need. sure, buying more disks is way cheaper than getting more graphical power but downloading +100Gb for a game I might just play once feels like an incredible waste

games should have a lo-fi version where they use lower textures and less graphical features for the people that cannot actually see the difference in graphics after the ps2 era

i am an incel

*every computer in 10m radious suddenly explodes

pretty much every pressident since 1992 has made statements about supporting indigenous people in one way or another just to backstab them with worse reactions. AMLO was specially bad since he did use them as political platform and then continue the common opression every other pressident had done.

Claudia has said many things that sound good in theory but my trust in politicians has complately run dry. this reminds me of the san andres accords, which looked really good but the government decided to betray them bad

will stop seeing posts even if they follow them

wow, is this real? like, what type of social media is it that you can block your own follows without even telling you explicitly. I get the idea of wanting to get automatic block of specific stuff (even if I don't agree) but having blocklists take precedence over something you actively opted in for makes no sense at all

been watching very few new anime these months so there in not much to write about but i have been reaching a bit into donghuas (chinese animation) and it's honestly quite interesting. will probably try more if i can find something that is not wuxia

Shiguang Dailiren (Link Click) (2020): just an amazing first season. it combines supernatural elements with mystery in daily life events and makes it incredibly interesting. animation is very well done and all the different stories told are very relatable and enjoyable. second season (still hafway through) it's going lots for the "supernatural police mystery" instead, which reduces the relatability of it but it's still quite interesting. have high hopes for this one (there is a 3rd season comming up a some point in the near future)

other animes I'm watching and I'm not sure if I wrote about them on the previous threads:

Ranma 1/2 (2024): everyone is loving the remake except me, by the looks of it. I have a strong connection with this story and I have seen the previous anime and read the manga multiple times so I am heavilly biased. the pacing is my biggest problem with it. i have barely any time to react to any scene since it feels like they adapted the manga panels and just continue with the next one without breathing room. also, the lack of musicalization is very anoying. there is barely music at all so it feels like there is something missing on many scenes. i could probably write a pages-long rant about this but i rather not do it right now

Dandadan (2024): everyone is talking about this one so I feel pressured to say my opinion. i just don't understand why it has soooo much attention (both possitive and negative). it feels very average in many fronts. and while it has good and bad parts, many other anime does it better and worse respectively. maybe I'm burned out of the shounen troupes so I'm missing some readings here and there. musicalization is really good and animation is also good but that is not enough to capture me. i'm slowly watching it so I'm some weeks behind

Dragon Ball Daima (2024): GT2 is fun but reminds me too much of GT (less the latest episodes, but point stands) and I preferred GT over it. I don't really enjoy the new dragon ball but I will continue watching it anyway.