Well, the issue will be developers of other apps would force us to re-google since any build of the app would be useless unless installed from the play store…

One of my best friends introduced me to this series back in MH4U for the 3DS.
As someone mentioned in other comment, these games are definitely not newbie friendly haha. I started it and left it after a few missions, I don’t remember what rank I was, but definitely the starting village. Afterwards we finally got time to play and he mocked me since my character had less armor than his palico :D
We played more often and he helped me reach higher ranks until G-rank.

Each game has had a different kind of end game.
For MH4U were the guild quests which were randomly generated, I loved this, it made the game not feel like a total grind, but it only made it feel like that, because it really was a grind to both get the correct quest and level it up to get the relics you wanted.

The one I enjoyed the least was MHGen/MHGU because there’s no end game loop, once you reach G-rank the game doesn’t have anything else to offer, so you can just grind the same missions you already have. Of course this can be considered an end game loop since maxing your armor and weapons takes a long time (and IIRC some older fans mentioned this was ad-hoc with the theme of remembering old games since they where like that).

For MHW were the investigations which felt a bit like MH4U guild questions but without the random map.
The only downside of this game and the Iceborn expansion was the game as a service aspect, you could only access some quests on some days of the week, you had to connect to the internet to get them, and also one of the last bosses is tied to multiplayer, which if you have bad internet or only time for a single quest is impossible to properly finish.

I’ve bought each game. Around 200 minimum in each one. IIRC 450+ in MH4U and around 500 in MHW (mostly because it’s harder to pause in PS4). MHRise/Sunbreak

MHRise is one of the most relaxing ones with the sunbreak expansion since you can take NCPs on all missions, they help a lot to de-aggro the monsters and enjoy the hunt.

I was with some friends from work when the trailer for MHW released and we literally screamed when we realized it was an MH game haha.

The only change they’ve made between games that I found really annoying was to the hunting horn. It was really fun to have to adapt your hunt to each horn’s songs and keep track of what buffs were active and which ones you needed to re-apply (in reality you always rotated your songs over and over so you never ran out of your buffs).
But in Rise each song now is X -> X, A -> A, and X+A -> X+A, there’s no combinations.
Every hunting horn only has 3 songs, previously some horns could have up to 5.
When you play a song twice the buff applied goes up a level, well, in Rise they made it a single attack to play all your songs twice.
It feels like they tried to simplify the weapon but two teams got in charge of providing ideas and they implemented both solutions, which made the weapon have no depth at all.
Also, previously you felt like the super support playing hunting horn, each time you applied a buff a messages appeared showing the buff you applied. Yeah, it was kind of spammy, but it felt nice having a hunting horn on the hunt.
In Rise they decided to only display a message the first time you apply the buff and that’s it, so if you re-apply it there’s nothing, even when you keep buffing your team. Ah, but if you use bow the arc shot does spam the buff message, so you feel less than a support than the bow :/

Due to work I haven’t followed all the news of MHWilds, but I’ll definitely buy it.

For the next posts my recommendations would be the series Sniper elite, Mario and Luigi, Pokemon mystery dungeon, and Disgaea.
(Maybe also another theme of posts could be genre/mechanic, like tactics games or colony management in general)

I’ve only played P5 and currently P5R.
The RPG part is amazing, the story, combat, dungeon crawling, interactions, etc, and all the other comments people had already made.

My only con for it would be the strictness of the schedule to do the story. Yeah, it’s also an interesting part of the game which differs from other RPGs, but it’s frustrating you might permanently lose something because you planned it a bit off or selected the wrong dialog option with a confidant so you don’t have enough points which makes you have to spend an extra day with them to increase their rank.
Either you follow a guide or you accept the idea of missing some parts of the history.

And even then with a guide I think I might as well not experience everything since I won’t go to visit some of the places to hang out with confidants, only the main ranks and that’s it.

Also, you can’t focus on finishing a confidant because I think all of them have some requirement, or they are not available that day, so you need to do other stuff.
For example, Yoshida is only available Sundays, Kawakami IIRC is also only the last days of the week, but not weekends and only during the evening.

But I plan to also play P3 and P4 since the stories are so good.

My recommendation for the next post would be series of Monster Hunter, Paper Mario, or Kingdom Rush.

I had a similar case.
My minipc has a microSD card slot and I figured if it could be done for a RPI, why not for a mini PC? :P

After a few months I bought a new m2nvme but I didn’t want to start from scratch (maybe I should’ve looked into nix?)
So what I did was sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc bs=1024k status=progress
And that worked perfectly!

Things to note:

• both drives need to be unmounted, so you need a live OS or another machine.
• The new drive will have the same exact partitions, which means the same size, so you need to expand them after the copy.
• PS: this was for a drive with ext4 partitions, but in theory dd works with the bytes so it shouldn’t be an issue what fs you use.

P5R, almost done with the 2nd palace.
I’m following a guide to experience everything in one play through since I’ve already played the original one and this one on PS4, now this is in PC.

I would if I’d be able to run my own models, it’d be better than having to connect to my server.
But AFAIK these features won’t be available to all developers, so I’m guessing only Google apps will be able to properly use the potential of the phone.

I only had to run this in my home server, behind my router which already has firewall to prevent outside traffic, so at least I’m a bit at ease for that.
In the VPS everything worked without having to manually modify iptables.

For some reason I wasn’t being able to make a curl call to the internet inside docker.
I thought it could be DNS, but that was working properly trying nslookup tailscale.com
The call to the same url wasn’t working at all. I don’t remember the exact details of the errors since the iptables modification fixed it.

AFAIK the only difference between the two setups was ufw enabled in the VPS, but not at home.
So I installed UFW at home and removed the rule from iptables and everything keeps working right now.

I didn’t save the output of iptables before uwf, but right now there are almost 100 rules for it.

For example since this is curl you’re probably going to connect to ports 80 and 443 so you can add --dport to restrict the ports to the OUTPUT rule. And you should specify the interface (in this case docker0) in almost all cases.

Oh, that’s a good point!
I’ll later try to replicate the issue and test this, since I don’t understand why OUTPUT should be solved by an INPUT rule.

Ah, that makes sense!
Yes, a DB would let you build this. But the point is in the word “build”, you need to think about what is needed, in which format, how to properly make all the relationships to have data consistency and flexibility, etc.
For example, you might implement the tags as a text field, then we still have the same issue about addition, removal, and reorder. One fix could be have a many tags to one task table. Then we have the problem of mistyping a tag, you might want to add TODO but you forgot you have it as todo, which might not be a problem if the field is case insensitive, but what about to-do?
So there are still a lot of stuff you might oversight which will come up to sidetrack you from creating and doing your tasks even if you abstract all of this into a script.

Specifically for todo list I selfhost https://vikunja.io/
It has OAS so you can easily generate a library for any language for you to create a CLI.
Each task has a lot of attributes, including the ones you want: relation between tasks, labels, due date, assignee.

Maybe you can have a project for your book list, but it might be overkill.

For links and articles to read I’d say a simple bookmark software could be enough, even the ones in your browser.
If you want to go a bit beyond that I’m using https://github.com/goniszewski/grimoire
I like it because it has nested categories plus tags, most other bookmark projects only have simple categories or only tags.
It also has a basic API but is enough for most use cases.
Other option could be an RSS reader if you want to get all articles from a site. I’m using https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS which has the option to retrieve data form sites using XMLPath in case they don’t offer RSS.

If you still want to go the DB route, then as others have mentioned, since it’ll be local and single user, sqlite is the best option.
I’d still encourage you to use any existing project, and if it’s open source you can easily contribute the code you’d have done for you to help improve it for the next person with your exact needs.

(Just paid attention to your username :P
I also love matcha, not an addict tho haha)

I can’t imagine this flow working with any DB without an UI to manage it.
How are you going to store all that in an easy yet flexible way to handle all with SQL?

A table for notes?
What fields would it have? Probably just a text field.
Creating it is simple: insert “initial note”… How are you going to update it? A simple update to the ID won’t work since you’ll be replacing all the content, you’d need to query the note, copy it to a text editor and then copy it back to a query (don’t forget to escape it).
Then probably you want to know which is your oldest note, so you need to include created_at and updated_at fields.
Maybe a title per note is a nice addition, so a new field to add title.

What about the todo lists? Will they be stored in the same notes table?
If so, then the same problem, how are you going to update them? Include new items, mark items as done, remove them, reorder them.
Maybe a dedicated table, well, two tables, list metadata and list items.
In metadata almost the same fields as notes, but description instead of text. The list items will have status and text.

Maybe you can reuse the todo tables for your book list and links/articles to read.

so that I can script its commands to create simpler abstractions, rather than writing out the full queries every time.

This already exists, several note taking apps which wrap around either the filesystem or a DB so you only have to worry about writing your ideas into them.
I’d suggest to not reinvent the wheel unless nothing satisfies you.

What are the pros of using a DB directly for your use case?
What are the cons of using a note taking app which will provide a text editor?

If you really really want to use a DB maybe look into https://github.com/zadam/trilium
It uses sqlite to store the notes, so maybe you can check the code and get an idea if it’s complicated or not for you to manually replicate all of that.
If not, I’d also recommend obsidian, it stores the notes in md files, so you can open them with any software you want and they’ll have a standard syntax.

I was juggling like that, I had most of my files in NTFS so I could read them in windows, even for files read only by Linux programs.
Most programs were able to read from any part of the file system, but for those with strict paths I used symlinks.

But I haven’t had any use for Windows lately so I decided to delete all but one NTFS partition and this last one is only 256GB with 100GB free.
The rest of the data I moved it to ext4 and btrf partitions.

All the ones I’ve used require a separate service to actually do the query.
You can use traccar, owntracks, or wanderer (this one is not realtime tho, and requires for you to find an app to send the data).
There’s also gpslogger which can record everything locally (or send it to any URL you set), but you need another app or service to be able to query it properly.

Since it’ll be for you and not the project, why not go for a .dev or .me TLD?
I think .dev is usually used for “in development” projects, but I can also see it as “about a developer” (and that’s why I bought mine)

Found that also myself trying to do the same thing haha. I did the same process as OP, gparted took 2.5 hours in my 1TB HDD to create a new partition, then copying the data from old to new partition was painfully slow, so I went to copy it to another dive and into the new partition.
Afterwards I deleted the old partition and grew the new one, which took a bit more than 1.5 hours.

If I had the space I would have copied all the data out of the drive, formatted it and then copied back into. It would have been quicker.

Yesterday I started looking for mini pcs and found this post https://www.reddit.com/r/MiniPCs/comments/1afzkt5/2024_general_mini_pc_guide_usa/

They shared this link which contains data on 2.8k machines, it helped me compare some of the options I was looking for and find new ones.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SWqLJ6tGmYHzqGaa4RZs54iw7C1uLcTU_rLTRHTOzaA/edit

Sadly it doesn’t contain data bout the ThinkPad, but I might as well share in case you’re willing to consider other brands.

Edit: Oh, wait, I was thinking about a ThinkCentre, not a ThinkPad :P
Well, I’ll leave this around in case someone finds it useful, hehe.

I’ve been using traccar (https://github.com/traccar/traccar).
It’s mostly for fleet management, but I’ve been using it as a replacement for Google maps timeline.
Its android apps ara basic but haven’t had any problems with them.

Or if you find a service which doesn’t provide a client you can use this app https://github.com/mendhak/gpslogger
It allows you to send the gps data to different services with their specific formats at the same time. I was using it to send the data to traccar while also saving it in a local file.

I recently switched to ubuntu in a gaming laptop, right now I’ve been using it just for jellyfin and some other coding tasks, but it definitely runs smoother, more stable, quicker, and cooler than windows did for the same workload.
I was surprised at the difference of even just having the machine idle, on windows it was noticeable warm, now on ubuntu it’s almost as if it has been turned off.

Windows: you’re going to use wsl, right?

I installed https://vikunja.io/ last week, it has nice features.
The main one for me is the ability to set a repeating task, when I mark it as done it reappears with the next due date.

human faces, and body parts

Wait, what? Weren’t there ads saying you could change the faces of your friends so they’ll be smiling?

EDIT: yep, here it is https://youtu.be/1qjnB2uZMqw?t=30s

A string like name@example.com can mean different things in lemmy.
If prepended with an exclamation it’s a community, and with an “at” is a user.
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/federation_getting_started.html

What would be the symbol for the tags? A hash?