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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux needs an apple-like manufacturer (but in a good sense): good, marketable products with good support.

  If we’re always relying for big current OEMs to offer linux option, they’re gonna hide it and never offer 1:1 support compared to windows.

  I’m for some reason hoping for valve+some oem working together to offer a valid option to the current choices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Ddr4 ram prices have been tripling this year.

  I needed ddr4 ecc, but couldnt justify paying 3x the price that I paid last year.

  Also wanted to buy ddr4 sodimm for my wife’s laptop, you guessed it, 3x the price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have that virtualized, times three. Two to have a failover, and third one with different settings for my kids (cloudflare’s family dns)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of good ones here already listed, some of those I’ve started and veered off due to busy life with kids.

  What I didnt see was uncharted 4. Never played any other in the series, but bought that one from steam sales. You know when you picked up a good book which you couldnt put down but had to read through as fast as possible? Or new tv series that you had to binge? Well surprisingly uncharted 4 was that for me last year. After I was finished I felt empty: “whats now?”.

  A very few games have gripped me that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats what I did for 10 years.

  To get my wife or parents or kids to use these often hacky and clunkier UIs was pain. I eased up and decided not to care. All iot shit are now in their own vlan with only :443 outboud allowed and I have integrated them to hassio. If my wife wants to use those million different cloud apps, I install those for her.

  Decided just not to care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cable management is an art form⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use whatever I have with me, sometimes I have the tools with me but I’d lie if I said I always carry the toolbag around.

  Yeah I do sometimes have dykes at hand but that shouldnt be necessary in professional environment.

  Still hate the zipties in this context tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cable management is an art form⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are those zipties? I fucking hate zipties whenever cleaning out old installs. They’re just about always so tight it feels uncomfortable to cut those when youre dealing with fibres or just about anything, really.

  I use velcro ties myself most of the times. If I absolutely have to use zipties, I leave then so loose that they’re just guiding the cabling, not choking it.

  Just today I cleaned out one +15 years old install and oh boy, multiple zipties there. Awful