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- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 15 hours ago:
Here’s a gaming laptop for $700 that I think is similarly powered, except it also has a screen, keyboard, and trackpad. If Steam Machine doesn’t come in below that, then I’ll probably just build something more powerful instead.
- Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement 1 day ago:
Agreed, but if it’s like $500, then it’ll make a nice addition to the living room for couch co-op games with the kids and possibly serve as a decent HTPC. 4K technically isn’t false advertising, but let’s be real, this is made for 1080p to be upscaled to 4K where most people won’t notice from the couch. Anyone who wants 4K on a monitor up close with 60 fps on ultra is not the target market and is instead looking for a PC where the GPU alone costs double what a Steam Machine costs.
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 1 day ago:
I have no problem with people who contribute a lot of value to society being proportionally rewarded. However, having a net worth in the billions is just plain ludicrous, especially since the billionaires aren’t the ones creating all the value, they’re just controlling it. For example, did Gabe invent everything that makes Valve as successful as it is, or was most of it designed and developed by engineers who are paid a fraction of what he is paid? Even if most of Valve’s IP started with Gabe and other engineers were doing the grunt work to “make it so”, that still shouldn’t mean that society allows this one man to control billions worth of our societal resources.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 2 days ago:
I believe the cost of Meta devices is also subsidized by surveillance capitalism, so if this costs more, doesn’t spy on you, and lets you do whatever you want with your own hardware, then it’s worth voting with your wallet. If Valve somehow is able to price this similarly to a Quest 3 while having better specs and without exploiting their customers like Meta does, then all hail the great and mighty Gabe.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 2 days ago:
I’ve been contemplating Steam Game Mode in Bazzite on a HTPC as a potential replacement for Android TV, and this might fit the bill nicely, in addition to supporting living room gaming of course. I bet this would run Jellyfin and VacuumTube quite nicely with a USB remote control. A Nvidia Shield is still $200, so if Valve prices this similarly to a console, it’d certainly be a compelling option.
- Comment on Simplest Path to Jellyfin Access for the Developmentally Disabled 2 days ago:
I can at least confirm Jellyfin on a tablet works well for toddlers when they have their own Jellyfin account that is locked down without a password while other accounts have a password.
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 2 days ago:
I’ve been in tech a long time and don’t allow WAN ingress into my network at all because I don’t have time to properly harden my self-hosted services. For absolute beginners, I wouldn’t recommend making anything public until they’re more experienced. Just running Jellyfin for you and your family on an old laptop is a perfect starter project.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 6 days ago:
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 1 week ago:
Gwynne Shotwell mentions in this video that she saw a mechanical engineer’s talk when she was young and loved her suit. She said she’s hesitant to tell that story, but considers it an important topic because it is ultimately what inspired her to go into STEM.
I think her hesitance is due to the fact that men don’t understand and might ridicule her. For a young lady, seeing a successful woman in STEM bucking the stereotypes, just being herself, and not conforming to male standards changes their perception of the field. Maybe a lot of men shrug when they see Rita’s sparkly dress, but it’s inspirational to many girls with aspirations in STEM.
- Comment on YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations 1 week ago:
What would the legal consequences be if YouTube did not comply with the sanctions and refused to delete the videos / accounts? Are they caving because they don’t give a damn, or because they have no choice?
- Comment on What does Oracle actually do? | Good Work [11:47] 1 week ago:
This is also mentioned in the article I posted elsewhere in the thread:
Oracle started as a project for the Central Intelligence Agency. Indeed, it is named after Project Oracle, a 1970s CIA operation on which Ellison worked
- Comment on Billionaires are extremists 1 week ago:
Worshiping money above all else is similar to worshiping a god above all else, and can both lead people down a path to extremism.
- Comment on What does Oracle actually do? | Good Work [11:47] 1 week ago:
Larry Ellison, the largest private funder of the Israel Defense Forces, is deeply tied to the Israeli national security state and counts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu among his closest friends.
- Comment on What does Oracle actually do? | Good Work [11:47] 1 week ago:
That’s a great “it could be worse” read for any engineer who hates their job.
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 1 week ago:
TicketScalper doing shitty things for profit? Nah, couldn’t be.
- Comment on Governor Newsom signs bills to further strengthen California’s leadership in protecting children online 1 week ago:
Please, think of the children. I think about children all the time.
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 1 week ago:
Well played; the anagram there never occurred to me.
- Comment on Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem. 1 week ago:
DDG is incrementally better for privacy and the search results are usually good enough. A couple times a year I check Google if DDG isn’t giving me decent results and usually find Google has nothing DDG didn’t show me. I don’t know of anything better that doesn’t require a credit card or self-hosting something, so guess I’ll keep using it.
DDG’s AI search is useful sometimes, but makes shit up often enough that I don’t believe a damned thing it tells me without checking the sources.
- Comment on I keep waffling on Proxmox. Sell me. For or against. 1 week ago:
I shy away from VMs because I prefer having a pool of resources on a machine that can be used as needed instead of being pre-allocated. Pre-allocating CPU, RAM, and doing PCI passthough for GPUs wastes already limited resources and is extra effort. Yes, the best practice for production k8s is setting resource requests and limits, but it’s not something I want to bother with when I only have one server.
- Comment on US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router 1 week ago:
Same here. Just like a desktop Linux distro transforms a crappy, old Windows machine into something nice, OpenWRT transforms a crappy router into a powerful, often more secure device with advanced features that consumer routers don’t typically have. Consumer router firmware is pretty limiting and I’m too spoiled to ever go back at this point.
- Comment on US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router 1 week ago:
I have a couple older TPLink Wi-Fi 5 routers with OpenWRT. One is used as a router running various services like DHCP, DNS, firewall, VPN, etc., and the other is just an access point. I’ll probably eventually get a rack-mounted router and some Wi-Fi 7/8 access points, but my current setup works well enough, especially since I mostly use Ethernet for anything requiring a fast connection.
- Comment on Serverless Is An Architectural Handicap (And I'm Tired of Pretending it Isn't) 2 weeks ago:
If WASM+WASI existed in 2008, we wouldn’t have needed to create Docker. That’s how important it is. WebAssembly on the server is the future of computing. - Solomon Hykes (co-founder of Docker)
- Comment on Serverless Is An Architectural Handicap (And I'm Tired of Pretending it Isn't) 2 weeks ago:
I assume WASM will grow in popularity to ultimately replace containers and an open source serverless platform will emerge that has similar ubiquity to k8s. So far, we have projects like wasmCloud and Fermyon.
- Comment on Gitea 1.25.0 | 3D file previews, improved archive downloads, enhanced authentication, and more security, API and workflow upgrades like automatic repo forking and email notifications for actions 2 weeks ago:
I use Forgejo with LFS for my Blender projects, so this would probably be useful to me if a similar feature were added there.
As an aside, it seems Blender uses Gitea and not sure they have plans to migrate to Forgejo anytime soon since it looks like they’ve poured a lot of resources into Gitea and even formed a partnership with the maintainers:
code.blender.org/2022/07/gitea-diaries-part-1/
- Comment on PC Master Race 2 weeks ago:
I can confirm that I got a laptop a couple years ago for $800 that has a RTX 4060, i7, and 32Gi of RAM. Beats a PS5 on paper, which is supposedly more equivalent to a RTX 2070, though games optimized for PS5 hardware make the difference more marginal.
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 2 weeks ago:
It’s useful. It wastes a lot of my time with its stupid bullshit. Both are true. 😆
- Comment on Every single time I think of restructuring my homelab storage. What do you use for storage engines and how does it benefit you? 2 weeks ago:
I was considering MinIO, then evaluated Garage, then decided it wasn’t with the trouble since a lot of the things I host don’t even natively support object storage. I do use LFS with Forgejo and it would’ve made sense there, and maybe Jellyfin supporting object storage would be a tipping point.
- Comment on Every single time I think of restructuring my homelab storage. What do you use for storage engines and how does it benefit you? 2 weeks ago:
Ha, I went down the whole Ceph and Longhorn path as well, then ended up with hostPath and btrfs. Glad I’m not the only one who considers the former options too much of a headache after fully evaluating them.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 weeks ago:
- Block the game from the Internet so it can’t collect data on you or go offline for a while and it may or may not still work.
#4 is the main reason I’m hesitant to install games from Steam instead of alternative versions of the game that don’t have this limitation. But then installing games on Linux often becomes a time-consuming feat of trial and error.
- Comment on How often do you update software on your servers? 2 weeks ago:
I run Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS with k3s. I update my container versions every few months, though not everything I’m running all at once. I update the actual system packages via apt maybe once a year and end up nuking and re-installing everything every couple years on average. I deliberately block all inbound WAN traffic in my firewall and use k8s network policies to aggressively limit egress WAN connections because I’m aware that I’m bad about keeping things up to date.
