Any Marvel Rivals players on Lemmy? I didn't see a community so I'll just ask here. How are you supposed to play the Hulk?

People say Hulk is OP, so I feel like I should learn to play him as a vanguard, but I have a feeling it's just because of his team-ups. Every time I jump in with this guy I just immediately get hit with a bunch of damage and CC by their whole team, have to shield, then jump out, then wait to get healed before jumping in again. I feel like I'm not holding any space or doing anything with this guy. Venom feels like a more workable version of him.

Been out of the piracy scene for a bit, maybe about 6 months to a year, as I basically have been good with the streaming services I already sign up for. But this past week I've rebuilt my setup (my mini server died), and tested it by trying to torrent something yesterday just to make sure I still can, and I noticed Torrent Galaxy was down. Then I saw some articles that it's been down a lot lately. Does anyone know what's going on? Or was it fine and it was just something on my side, like a DNS issue?

I hope it's fine because that was the best public tracker I knew. For example, the show I was looking for to test my setup with couldn't be found on 1337x (TPB ended up coming through but I don't trust that site as much as I used to). Are they really cracking down on public tracker indexes right now? Have any good alternatives popped up yet? Is there anything we as a community can do to get around or resist these efforts?

I'm not even a diehard pirate, I like the efficiency and user friendliness of paid services or products, I just like it to be an option when I want to punish companies for customer unfriendliness (ex: I stopped paying for Netflix when they prevented sharing outside of household), and without public trackers the hobby feels too niche and exclusive.

I'm pretty new to Python because I haven't used it much for many projects over the years, but i decided to use it to make a web app recently with flask to practice. It calls a simple python program that does some file conversion. There's no database.

I'm hosting it on Python Anywhere for free right now. It's for an old TTRPG, so useful for a niche community, but probably not big enough to be worth hosting fees. Just in case, I'd also like to be able to keep an installer on my github or a Dropbox. The hope is others can still grab it, spread it, and install it long after I've lost interest or gotten hit by a bus.

From my googling, I see 3 main options:

• Path 1: Keep the basic structure of a web app and use one of the frameworks that let me run it in a computer's browser offline.
  • The options here seem to be Flaskwebgui, Electron, or NW.js.
  • This seems the simplest and most straightforward way.
  • Web GUI is ubiquitous nowadays.
  • Part of me also doesn't like that everything has become a web app. I don't even know why. Maybe I don't like the idea of Google controlling everything.
• Path 2: Keep the basic backend logic but rewrite the web GUI with a desktop GUI, making it more of a true native desktop app.
  • The options here seem to involve using pyinstaller and then some python GUI library/framework like Tkinter, PyQt, PySide, or Dearpygui.
  • I feel this will be slightly more work but it's a super simple UI so remaking it isn't a huge deal.
  • My instincts tell me the end result might be faster, since it won't have to deal with a browser middleman or web routes and such. But, I might be wrong, it might just be my old-ass not used to everything being an electron app nowadays.
  • Might also be more self-contained from carrying it's own libraries and not relying on browser compatibility? Idk.
  • Probably more OS dependent, though. Not sure how easy it is to make it work with PC, Mac, and Linux users.
• Path 3: There seems to be some way to combine flask and pyinstaller so sounds like a combination of the two is an option, too. Haven't looked into this too much though since most of my search results talked about the above two paths.

So which way is best? And which framework/library/tool in that path?

So far, public trackers have been working fine for me, but think I've finally run into some niche shows that have been hard to find or only been able to find individual episodes instead of a single collected season torrent. (Nothing too special, just some baking shows.)

I'm wondering if it's finally time to look into private trackers or Usenet.

If you use them, what did it take for you to finally look into these more time or effort intensive piracy options?

A movie you wanted to see that was too old to be seeded on public trackers? TV shows too old or niche? A game, an obscure music artist? Something else? Was it just curiosity? Or something you did immediately upon getting into piracy? I'm just curious myself lol.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/48643729

Has anyone seen any particularly good deals for NAS's, storage or memory, mini computers, things like that, for this Black Friday / Cyber Monday season?

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/48643729

Has anyone seen any particularly good deals for NAS's, storage or memory, mini computers, things like that, for this Black Friday / Cyber Monday season?

Has anyone seen any particularly good deals for NAS's, storage or memory, mini computers, things like that, for this Black Friday / Cyber Monday season?

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/42813294

Hey Lemmy,

What are your favorite horror movies from Blumhouse?

I went to Universal Studio's Halloween Horror Nights this year and they had the whole tram Blumhouse themed. I liked to watch horror movies during this spooky season, so i think catching up on some of these ones seems like a good place to start this year.

It's that spooky time of year again! Anyone here have thoughts about the big scary amusement park events in the area?

Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights vs
Six Flags Fright Fest vs
Knotts Scary Farm

For people who enjoy these scary, fun events, which do you prefer most? Are there other Halloween events in Los Angeles you prefer more (Los Angeles Haunted Hay Ride or Queen Mary's Dark Harbour, for example)?

USGS says it's 4.7, so going with that despite it being different from the LA Times headline.

What I think I know : They tried to take a picture at Arlington National Cemetery, but couldn't? There was a physical altercation maybe? But the Trump campaign said there wasn't?

Is there more to this? Can someone explain to me the context of how this is a scandal?

Like I hate Trump but I don't understand why this is a big deal. It doesn't seem to involve the man personally, just some staffers who had an argument with a cemetery worker, and seems like small potatoes compared to other scandals he's had. Is it because of how sacred the cemetary is, or did they get into an actual fist fight, or did Trump personally interfere in some way?