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- Comment on what is good remote desktop software? 2 days ago:
Ah ok, thanks for the clarification. In the end I also use Sunshine for game streaming, but for pure remote desktop access RustDesk is far nicer, since I can also quickly move files back and forth. RDP is even nicer in that regard, where I can remote-mount local devices.
- Comment on what is good remote desktop software? 2 days ago:
Where does rustdesk not have a good reputation? I see it being recommended regularly and also use it myself heavily. Never had issues or heard about issues (that I would attribute to reputation).
- Comment on Is there a good email server that can be run through Docker? 2 days ago:
True. The default rocksdb is completely unusable on HDDs. For me it runs pretty good with PostgreSQL. Dovecot was certainly easier to handle with its file based storage and was super fast. But Postfix was a pain and I can’t count how often it bit me over the years (and since it’s SMTP, that means something broke in receiving, delivery or was suddenly a spam vector, which all sucks quite hard).
- Comment on Is there a good email server that can be run through Docker? 2 days ago:
Stalwart
Written in rust, contains SMTP, IMAP, JMAP, Sieve, CalDAV, CardDAV, WebDAV. Has an admin web ui. Sane defaults, minimal foot guns. No zoo of containers needed.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I don’t get what makes this game so special that Geoff Keighley hyped it so much. That this thing was the big surprise that ended the game awards show was completely underwhelming. Out of the show, Highguard was the most generic game presentation. There was absolutely nothing about this game that seemed new or even interesting. Just the next hero shooter with comic look.
- Comment on Data Backup Solutions 4 months ago:
I use Kopia to perform incremental encrypted backups (with some retention policy of up to two years) and store them on Backblaze B2, which is reasonably cheap.
- Comment on Backup/Server Options - is Syncthing / Nextcloud really the go? 5 months ago:
That, on the other hand, is only viable, if you are sure, data never needs to expire. Dedicated backup solutions work with retention policies.
- Comment on Any self hosted personal finance projects doing anything interesting with AI that you've found value in? 5 months ago:
Where I could see an LLM being useful is categorizing entries and maybe proposing sanitization (for example when the payment provider uppercases or abbreviates stuff)
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 5 months ago:
The cheat developers, yes. Because there is demand. The question though was, why there is demand.
- Comment on Maybe drops open-source support - pivots to B2B data and scenario planning 6 months ago:
From maybe to definitely not.
- Comment on What are the best free mmorpgs for a beginner? 6 months ago:
If you like Lord of the Rings: Lord of the Rings Online is extremely nice story wise. It’s an old school MMO, but that shouldn’t shock you when you only know old school ones anyway.
If a low initial fee is fine, wait for Elder Scrolls Online sale. You can regularly get the base game for $5 or so. It has no forced monthly cost so those $5 are worth hundreds of hours or quest content.
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 6 months ago:
It’s really sad. I truly believe that Yves (or rather the Guillemots in general) were passionate about game development once. Now it feels mostly corporate, even though they still claim to be pro-gamer and innovative and fun. It’s double sad because they acquired quite some good studios that have to be shaped into their corp structure and ultimately lose their innovation. It’s not as bad as old-school EA, but it’s still subjectively bad.
- Comment on OwnCloud CardDAV is frozen 6 months ago:
Just to clarify: OwnCloud or OwnCloud Infinite Scale (OCIS)?
- Comment on Inside China's Mini PC Production: How Tiny Computers Are Made 6 months ago:
Probably some fastboot shit. I like the idea of fastboot… if only it wasn’t so tied to Windows.
- Comment on Inside China's Mini PC Production: How Tiny Computers Are Made 6 months ago:
The ONLY thing I don’t like about it is having to finish the install of windows before you can wipe the ssd.
Why? Can’t you get to the bios, change to usb boot loader, boot linux and wipe the disk?
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 6 months ago:
I think it’s not that easy. From what I understand, the payment providers enforce that for the whole store, otherwise they don’t want to be involved. Quite shitty, but they have enough weight to pull shit like that off.
- Comment on Question about traffic using Cloudflare tunnel 6 months ago:
Possible, true. But then the setup also becomes more complicated. In addition you end up with different certs for local and remote access, which could cause issues with clients if they try to enforce cert pinning for example.
- Comment on Question about traffic using Cloudflare tunnel 6 months ago:
Cloudflare tunnel likely terminates TLS on the edge. So if you bypass it, you don’t have HTTPS. Not a problem locally, but then destroys the portability of the URL (because at home you need http and outside you need https). Might as well use different hosts then.
- Comment on Hard choice to make 6 months ago:
“No sex!!!” … “You don’t even give us grand kids 😭😭”
- Comment on Romero Games reportedly met with Microsoft just a day before the publisher pulled funding for the studio, and there was 'no mention' of the decision that put over 100 people out of work 6 months ago:
I think EA was still worse. At least in my perception.
I think EA actually bought studios just to get the IP and immediately get rid of the employees. I also think they tried to milk a few of the IPs before letting it go downhill.
MS, from what I can tell, gave studios quite a lot of freedom to do what they do best. I don’t think they intentionally wanted to fuck over studios, but they rather sacrificed them.
Don’t get me wrong: that’s still bad. But there’s a difference between fucking studios over with intent and reacting badly to changed circumstances.
- Comment on *Now you're playing with power!* 6 months ago:
“So I have this ultra portable gaming device…”
- Comment on UK arrests 83-year-old priest for backing Palestine Action and opposing Gaza genocide 6 months ago:
The British?! Pro-colonialism?! That can’t be. /s
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 6 months ago:
I imagine it’s rather licensing. If they have to provide the software at some point, they can’t use components they are not allowed to distribute. And I agree, that this will impact development costs. But with the law in place, this is not an unexpected cost but one that can be factored in. Might be, that some live services are then no longer viable… but I don’t care. There are more games than anyone could play and games are cancelled or not even started to develop all the time for various reasons. One more or less is just noise.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 6 months ago:
Same for the “online only design” argument. The moment they decide it’s not viable anymore and they want to shut it down: what does it matter to them, what players do with it? As long as they offer the service themselves, no one is bugging them. (Although I would absolutely be in favor of also getting self hosting options right from the start, I am realist enough to accept, that this would indeed lower economical feasibility of some projects.)
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 6 months ago:
Do you want to know more?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Does it make a difference, if that setting uses a trailing slash? Might be it redirects you to the path without, which triggers caddy to redirect you again, and so on and so forth.
You could also, instead of redirecting, rewrite it. Then it is handled serverside without sending the client somewhere else.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Are all the *arr services aware that they are expected to have a certain basepath?
- Comment on Microsoft layoffs are reportedly underway, with ZeniMax and King employees losing their jobs 6 months ago:
If you go for subscription, you accept that the stuff is temporal. Or at least you should. So it should make no practical difference if a game vanishes because it gets pulled from the catalog or if you decide to cancel the subscription because you consider it too expensive.
- Comment on Microsoft layoffs are reportedly underway, with ZeniMax and King employees losing their jobs 6 months ago:
If it fits your gaming profile, it’s a pretty good deal.
- Comment on Google Drive alternative? 7 months ago:
LOL, ok, fair 😁
You should in any case consider your backup strategy. If you have reliable backups, your fuckups can’t be as bad anymore. If you don’t have reliable backups, a “raw” storage doesn’t help you either. Maybe even the contrary: you won’t notice, if individual files get corrupted or even lost until it’s too late. (Not talking about disk corruption, against which the right filesystem can guard you… but I am not sure you trust filesystems either 😛)