I did not expect to see Marvel vs Capcom 2 ever show up on any new platforms. Woo hoo!

Here's a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It's great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.

(also posted on @selfhost)

RISC-V is a non-proprietary instruction set that is an alternative to ARM. I had thought that we were still waiting for a stable Linux distribution on RISC-V devices, but it turns out many RISC-V machines can run Debian already.

Does anyone have a RISC-V device that they use regularly? How has it been working?

Lately I've been really liking the idea of having something hosted on a RISC-V machine. RISC-V is a non-proprietary instruction set that is a competitor to ARM. The idea of having a something running on an open source operating system, running on an open standard CPU, served from my house, gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.

I was under the impression that most Linux distributions were unstable on RISC-V. Turns out, I'm wrong about that. From a quick search, the following have official Debian images:

• Beagleboard Beagle-V Ahead
• Starfive Visionfive 2
• Milk-V Mars

and the Pine64 Star64 has a community-maintained Armbian image.

Does anyone here have a RISC-V single-board computer doing anything practical for you?

The 8bitdo keyboard has been pretty well-received as a ~$100 wireless keyboard with ABS keycaps. I love the way this C64 color scheme looks.

I have an 8bitdo arcade stick, which looks like it uses the same knob as this keyboard for selecting the wireless mode. I love the way it feels every time I turn it on.

Unfortunately, the keyboard doesn't use QMK -- it uses their own mapping software, which is Windows only. This makes it a non-starter for me, since I rarely use a Windows computer these days. But I just might have to copy that color scheme for my next build.

Hi all (dozen or so) of you! Sorry about the downtime earlier this week -- things are back to normal now.

This community is, obviously, pretty quiet. But there are a few people using this as their fediverse home server, so I figured I should explain why it was down for a couple days. I also want to share my plan to make this server more useful to the FGC.

I'm Givin' Her All She's Got Cap'n!

The CPU was running at well over 100% for twelve hours in a row, which caused sporadic downtime before it eventually crashed. So when looking at some threads this week from other servers, they will likely be missing a few posts. I do not plan to backfill those posts, they will just be missing. C'est la vie.

I upgraded this server's CPU, and things look good now. I also don't see any evidence that the previous CPU spike was some kind of intentional attack -- it looks like the lemmyverse is just getting more popular (the shitposting communities in particular are shitposting at full power), so we needed an upgrade to keep up.

Engage!

So, what about this server, anyway? When the Reddit exodus first started, the major lemmyverse servers (lemmy.ml and kbin.social) were having a hard time staying up with all the new traffic they were getting. So I started this one, intended for the fighting game community, so that your super sweaty match clips wouldn't burden the major servers.

However, within just a few days, lemmy.ml and kbin.social got their problems figured out and have had very little downtime since then, leaving this server looking redundant. (As the lack of posts would indicate.)

BUT! I have an idea. I want to make a matchmaking and tournament-running bot, and it will live on this server.

I'm still figuring out how it will work. Something like this:

1. You tell the bot what games you own, and other info relevant to matchmaking (like your in-game nicknames, Steam username, etc). The bot will remember this about you.
2. You message the bot when you're up for a game, telling it which games you're looking to play (or just any game in your collection).
3. The bot will find someone else waiting to play the same game and start a group thread with both of you in it, and tell you which games you have in common, plus what info you need to know about each other to connect in those games.
4. Optionally, tell the bot what game you played, how many rounds, who won, etc.

If you're just looking to play something popular (like SF6, MK1, or Tekken 8), there would be no reason to use this bot. You'll find more opponents much faster by just using the game's online system.

However, smaller fighting games always have a problem where the player count drops quickly after release, and if there is anyone still playing them, they're an absolute god at the game. That makes it difficult for new players to get into these smaller games after they've been out for a while. You have to open a specific game, hope that someone else is online right then, and then also hope that they are at your same skill level.

I think a bot like the one I described could fix that. You would message the bot and say, "I'm looking to play Melty Blood or BlazBlue Centralfiction or Samurai Shodown," and then play a singleplayer game or make a sandwich while you wait for the bot to ping you.

The bot could also start threads whenever it finds a match, drawing attention to the fact that a few people are playing that game, which would then make other people go, "Oh hey, I can join them."

That would all be a long way off, but it's something I've been thinking about. I've always liked the idea of creating an online community that organizes groups to play unpopular games.

Anyway, thanks for reading if you got this far, hope you have a good weekend and I'll see you online sometime! :)

Hi, sorry if that title isn't very clear. I just started learning about nix a couple days ago; I'll explain what I mean.

I'm trying to set up a web application that I'm currently hosting with Docker containers, but do it with nix instead, like what's shown in this blog post: https://carjorvaz.com/posts/the-holy-grail-nextcloud-setup-made-easy-by-nixos/

However, I don't have NixOS on my server. I'm using Debian, with the nix package manager installed.

Is it possible to use a nix config file, like the one below, when only using the nix package manager? Currently it errors when I try to call nix-build with it, giving an error about calling a lambda function that never called self. If I remove the self argument, it complains about config, and so on.

{ self, config, lib, pkgs, ... }:

{
  services = {
    nextcloud = {
      enable = true;
      hostName = "cloud.example.com";

      package = pkgs.nextcloud27;

      # Let NixOS install and configure the database automatically.
      database.createLocally = true;

      # Let NixOS install and configure Redis caching automatically.
      configureRedis = true;

      < other settings here... >
    };
  };
}

From what I've read, the services part of that creates systemd services, which makes me think that it only works if you're on a full NixOS system and not only using the nix package manager. But it's been difficult to find a clear answer on that, probably because I'm still learning what terms to search for.