ticoombs (u/ticoombs)

ticoombs commented on Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet neowin.net/news/report-mi... · Posted by u/josephcsible

dgunay · a month ago

Yes: https://www.protondb.com/app/553850

Personally I have been playing it on Arch Linux since release and it has always worked just fine, besides it being a deeply janky game regardless of OS.

ticoombs · a month ago

Ditto. No issues at all that my friends did not experience as well. (Long download/patching times).

ticoombs commented on NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/jtokoph

eddyg · 2 months ago

Be aware that there are members of the NTP pool with less-than-honorable intentions and you don't get to pick-and-choose. Yes, they all should provide the time, but they also get your IP address.

For example: unlike the IPv4 space, the IPv6 space is too big too scan, so a number of "researchers" (if you want to call them that) put v6-capable NTP servers in the NTP pool to gather information about active v6 blocks to scan/target.

ticoombs · 2 months ago

Do you have any acticles or references about this? That would be great research (pun intended) to find out

ticoombs commented on Backing up Spotify annas-archive.li/blog/bac... · Posted by u/vitplister

iknowstuff · 2 months ago

In that vein, I am trying to find out why searching for

    alextud popcorntime

which should trivially yield http://github.com/alextud/PopcornTimeTV results in anything but that one particular URL in every search engine: Google, Kagi, DuckDuckGo, Bing

They even find a fork of that particular repo, which in turn links back to it, but refuse to show the result I want. Have't found any DMCA notices. What is going on?

ticoombs · 2 months ago

They have marked the repo as noindex (or GitHub is forcing a noindex header).

Its returning a noindex flag so every serp is correctly doing what the repo has been asked.

That is... except for brave! I checked on my searx instance and it still showed up in brave's results

ticoombs commented on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions resources.github.com/acti... · Posted by u/kevin-david

sltr · 2 months ago

> Self-hosted runners: You will be charged for using the GitHub Actions cloud platform from March 1, 2026

The GitHub encrapification finally affects me. I am militantly unwilling to pay per minute to use my own computer. Time to leave. I can trigger and monitor builds myself thank you very much.

ticoombs · 2 months ago

I migrated to forgejo a few years ago and never looked back. While there are some edge cases and known issues. All of my actions "just worked".

ticoombs commented on Gallery of wonderful drawings our little thermal printer received guestbook.goodenough.us... · Posted by u/busymom0

ticoombs · 3 months ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20251103183803/https://guestbook...

Was hugged to death for me.

ticoombs commented on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account theverge.com/news/793579/... · Posted by u/josephcsible

kelseydh · 4 months ago

Is Linux gaming on Steam actually competitive in performance and availability to what you'll get on Windows? I'm looking into building a gaming computer I'm surprised to hear I could roll with Linux for it.

ticoombs · 4 months ago

Yes. Nearly every game is compatible. Checkout protondb.com and check the games you play.

Anything that has a kernel level anti check (Valorant) will always be a resounding No. But besides from that, everything is pretty damn nice.

ticoombs commented on Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/... · Posted by u/phewlink

ddtaylor · 5 months ago

When I first got with my wife I seemed a bit crazier than I am because I am a media hoarder for 30+ years. I don't have any VHS, DVDs, etc. laying around because I only keep digital copies, but I have pretty decent archives. Nothing important really, just normal stuff and some rare or obscure stuff that disappears over time.

My wife was interested in the idea that I was running "Netfix from home" and enjoyed the lack of ads or BS when we watched any content. I never really thought I would be an "example" or anything like that - I fully expected everyone else to embrace streaming for the rest of time because I didn't think those companies would make so many mistakes. I've been telling people for the last decade "That's awesome I watch using my own thing, what shows are your favorites I want to make sure I have them"

In the last 2 years more family members and friends have requested access to my Jellyfin and asked me to setup a similar setup with less storage underneath their TV in the living room or in a closet.

Recently-ish we have expanded our Jellyfin to have some YouTube content on it. Each channel just gets a directory and gets this command ran:

    yt-dlp "$CHANNEL_URL" \
      --download-archive "downloaded.txt" \
      --playlist-end 10 \
      --match-filters "live_status = 'not_live' & webpage_url!*='/shorts/' & original_url!*='/shorts/'" \
      -f "bv*[height<=720]+ba/b[height<=720]" \
      --merge-output-format mp4 \
      -o "%(upload_date>%Y-%m-%d)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s"

It actually fails to do what I want here and download h264 content so I have it re-encoded since I keep my media library in h264 until the majority of my devices support h265, etc. None of that really matters because these YouTube videos come in AV1 and none of my smart TVs support that yet AFAIK.

ticoombs · 5 months ago

Checkout https://github.com/meeb/tubesync

ticoombs commented on Pass: Unix Password Manager passwordstore.org/... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

mid-kid · 5 months ago

The only use case of mine that's not solved by keepass is creating passwords on two separate machines without a direct connection, and merging them later.

ticoombs · 5 months ago

I solve this by Syncthing running on all clients. Very rarely do I ever have a problem with conflicts. Only if I add a new pass while my phone is offline and then make another edit on my computer would there be an issue. I think it only happened once, and that was because I did it on purpose to see what happened.

Turns out syncthing creates a .conflict file and then I tell keepassxc to do a merge on the two files and then we are back to normal.

ticoombs commented on iPhone Air apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/excerionsforte

bargainbin · 5 months ago

If you’ve been following the rumour mill and also understand Tim “zero waste” Cook’s MO of reusing parts in multiple models, this whole thing makes a lot more sense when you realise they’re going to release a folding iPhone next year, and it’ll be the thickness of two Airs.

ticoombs · 5 months ago

(side note) And the folding phone will be a "Apple First".

I wonder if they still still have a stupid camera notch on the device. They is no point (to me) have a thin phone even you end up having a 5mm notch the size of your phone

ticoombs commented on Turning Claude Code into my best design partner betweentheprompts.com/des... · Posted by u/scastiel

ticoombs · 6 months ago

I used to joke about prompt engineering. But by jiminy it is a thing now. I swear sometimes I waste a good 10-20minutes writing up a good prompt and initial plan just so that claudecode can systematically implement something.

My usage is nearly the same as OP. Plan plan plan save as a file and then new context and let it rip.

That's the one thing I'd love, a good cli (currently using charm and cc) which allows me to have an implementation model, a plan model and (possibly) a model per sub agent. Mainly so I can save money by using local models for implementation and online for plans or generation or even swapping back. Charm has been the closest I've used so far allowing me to swap back and forth and not lose context. But the parallel sub-agent feature is probably one of the best things claudecode has.

(Yes I'm aware of CCR, but could never get it to use more than the default model so :shrug:)