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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Luckily unlike monopolies in other sectors, Steam doesn’t involve itself in evil oractices that more or less stops others from competing.

Someone just needs to make a better store, but they can’t because no company big enough to compete is willing to be as user friendly.

Epic, probably the second biggest store people thing about, can’t even make a good platform. They try underhanded practices like bribing developers and customers… maybe they should make their store work properly first.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
There are tools for that, no?

You can install NAS software that turns self hosting stuff into one click installs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
It didn’t sound like a big deal, but somehow you just instilled in me an existential dread of having no teeth to enjoy solid foods when craving some.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even do Price Discrimination on video games now⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
True, but that won’t stop them from acquiring more data so they can squeeze more out of you.

Anything to make them more.

Maybe my examples would’ve been better for other industries, but yeah, I think this will happen everywhere if we don’t stop it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even do Price Discrimination on video games now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
The future we are headed towards if we don’t start caring about privacy and where we hand out our data.

Obviously Playstation has their own data, but stuff like this is gonna start being way more obvious in other places because they can so easily buy data on you through data brokers.

Websites you visit saying they share your data? Yes they sell it and it’s directly going to have an effect on other parts of you life just like this.

So you won’t just “pay with your data”, you’ll pay with your money too in a less direct way (prices on other sites shooting up because x website sold your data to y and they know you need this product so they price gouge you).

Not only will this occur for gaming stores or web shops, it can become a thing in banking (maybe they give you a worse interest rate on a loan, etc) and worse.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even do Price Discrimination on video games now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Long live Steam & GOG in their current moral states.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even do Price Discrimination on video games now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Airlines are the worst example of this that I know of.

It’s not just the rich they will target.

They (including everyone) will and do use this technology along with data they harvest from you (from other parts of your online life) to make you pay as much as you can to get things you need.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
They mentioned the early days when it comes to licensing games to us.

But dont mention that in the early days of multiplayer games it was us moderating our own online communities, not the company selling the game.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

I’m unconvinced anyone will really legislate this,

The Eurpean Union sort of has it’s head on when it comes to addressing consumer rights, if they legislate this, then the entirety of europe will likely benefit (even those outside the european union like the UK, examples of this have happened before if im correct, see windows 10 1 year extension for eu).

and if it is, it’ll just lead to that country being scratched off the list of where the game is officially supported.

No it won’t. Maybe if it’s a country with no internet and doesn’t have a population interested in gaming, but any major country like UK, Germany, etc enforcing this would force the hands of game publishers bevause these markets are just too big.

No publisher is going to pull out of the UK for example.

Realistically, we need to stop buying online only games where the servers will eventually go offline, and support those that release open servers.

I agree. Unfortunately most people are unaware or have no backbone so they keep on buying the next “big” game, nevertheless I agree, we need to stop supporting anti-consumer behavior instead of defending it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to keep adding on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
A separate backup NAS would better than nothing. If losing your data would be a disaster, then don’t overlook backing up your data in a separate location (either at someone elses house or use a cloud backup provider like Backblaze) incase of a fire, etc.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to keep adding on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Cloud or any way to backup your data in another location is greatly preferred to having another NAS in the same location just as a mirrored copy of your first.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, I’m not sure how they concluded in their edit that 400kg is not a lot to shed.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

Its why I personally recommend to friends to just raw dog Fedora

Probably sound advice if they are in (presumably) the 0.01% of users (like you) that need other utilities that are hard to get.

If they aren’t, then Bazzite, etc would be perfect for them (as you said, zero issues with gaming/more common uses).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Haven’t used bazzite, but there is an App Store you can get all of the apps anyone would need.

No longer do we live in the days of visiting a vendors website to download their executables. They are conveniently packaged for us in the App Store (package manager).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Funny how all the things you listed aren’t “all they were cracked up to be” either.

I disagree regardless.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
We are basically getting a casino shoved in our faces most online games we play now. Not sure why this isn’t outlawed, it is absolutely having an effect on the population, not the mention the growing population specifically (growing as in kids being shoved this in their face while they grow up).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Akamai isnt small hehe
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ADVICE: Running out of storage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Usually fine for media only like Jellyfin, since you write every now and then new content, then only read from it for longer periods of time.

I probably wouldn’t go for a SMR drive anyways just because drives can last a long while and who knows what i’ll want to do with it in the future.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
100% agree.

Unless they artifically bloat their patch/update file sizes, I’d imagine sending it through your phone to the device over bluetooth would work fine.

I’d even, personally, prefer they use a wifi link directly between my phone and the device while it updates before I give it free access to my lan.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help with home server plan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Sounds good, I mean you can use literally anything to host servers.

It’s a great choice especially when you plan to only use docker though, for sure, as you won’t really run into those old package issues (+ if u like to upgrade and feel very safe doing so each time without looking at news first, might be survivorship bias, but debian has never broken for me through multiple major version upgrades and I’ve been blindly upgrading each time).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Never used a robot vacuum, but the idea is that you set it up once and never think about it, right?

So you’d set it up once with bluetooth, then disconnect and let it do its job.

Software updates could cause issues, though if they release a finished product it wouldn’t need any or much of those if it works for you already. And updates can be managed over bluetooth.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
We need bluetooth devices back, there’s no reason for 99.999999% of devices to have your network password.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
github.com/alexta69/metube does this very well already!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any experience of Diode?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Any backup location is secure as long as you encrypt your data securely before you back it up there.

For something as important as a backup thag you don’t want to lose, I’d stick with something tried and true like Backblaze B2.

Backblaze is also very cheap for what it is (a great storage solution). You can pay monthly or use more of the regular pay as you go model.

Monthly and pay as you go have ups and downs, but the benefit of pay as you go for me is the ridiculously cheap deal (if you download your backups a lot it may be less so, but I don’t so it works out very cheap for me).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help with home server plan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You have arch and debian experience, so I think Debian would be grrat for your server.

You don’t want rolling releases (eg arch) on your server really because you don’t want stuff to break. Debian will be a rock solid choice.

I don’t feel confident with the hardware questions because I have never streamed higher than 1080p, but I would imagine it’d be easy for most systems. A used computer would probably be my choice, mostly for upgradeability, but that’s use more power than a mini-pc for example.

A normal used tower pc could be good if you plan on getting a cheap GPU down the line for transcoding (maybe you’re out and don’t want to use as much data, etc). CPUs can probably do a lot for one user though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
If it’a not (ie biometric, etc), what’s the difference or what is it on Windows?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

I don’t believe Linux supports passkey in the os.

Not sure if this is the same thing, but KDE (on a linux system) presents me with options to login with smartkey/fingerprint, so it might, I’m guessing? I dunno if thay’s what passkeys are referring to, but if yes, then I think it does.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
They might add features, but none of them are a joy to work with or use. They are usually slow and buggy and annoying.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ADVICE: Running out of storage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Sounds nice to have it separate, but it’s not hard to reinstall services or even your whole os (as long as you are partitioned correctly) while your data is on the same machine/disk.

Two machines does sound overkill for Jellyfin (and 99.99% of self hosters).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
If it can ensure you are looking at the road, that sounds good.

Not sure if it seems as safe as you in full operation of the car for turns etc around town, but its a good safety feature to ensure you arent distracted.