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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pricing is dictated by what someone is willing to pay for it.

  For me, $70 USD is too much for the average game that is being sold at that price tag because those types of games(AAA/AAAA) are:

  • Broken at launch
  • Unoptimized/framegen crutch
  • Basic features missing
  • Nickle and dimed to all hell

  Again, not all, but the average AAA slop title usually has one or more of the above points.

  BUT, that doesn’t mean that Indie games at $20 USD are a “steal” or “bargain” either. There are many Indie games I bought at their launch(Silksong), but others I have waited for a decent sale.

  If everyone stopped buying games at $70 USD then prices would fall and/or projects going forward would be re-evaluated to either keep costs/expectations down. But people are paying the $70 USD so that price point is here to stay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I ended up just pushing everything behind my tailnet and only leave my game server ports open(which are non-standard ports).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kellogg ---> Epstein⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what the cost for my insurer was, because we never even got a bill in the mail. I even called the financial office or whatever it’s called for Kaiser and made sure we didn’t owe anything and they said that we were covered and owed nothing out of pocket.

  My post was a reflection of my own personal anecdote because I see stuff online all the time that insurance is terrible in the US and that we all pay $20k for a birth when that isn’t the case for everyone. I mean if the average is $18k then someone is definitely paying that amount(or more, because average) but some also pay zero. My post wasn’t meant to diminish. I also think all of this should be free for everyone anyway.

  I do also think some people pay more than they have to, as in they are having unprotected sex and can switch to a HMO over a PPO, but they stay on the PPO plan because it’s “cheap” and end up paying $20k for a birth when they could’ve switched to a HMO before hand and paid the $50-$500 a month(depending on employer or if your state has a marketplace) and saved the difference. But they don’t think that far ahead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I mean why not?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of my workplace (I’m the trolley and others are jumping on the tracks)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kellogg ---> Epstein⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I just had two kids back to back. Both born in California and at Kaiser. The only thing we had to pay for was my wife’s post-partum medication, I think $50 total between both kids.

  All prenatal appointments/care? Covered. Two separate scares where wife was admitted overnight? Covered. Both births with epidurals and overnight stays and meals(for mom)? Covered. We didn’t even pay for parking.

  Idk if it’s because we planned this and intentionally had a HMO plan, but wanted to share my recent experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh that can’t happen with Linux. The closest you can look at is Red Hat, which doesn’t affect distros from Debian or Arch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft tried that with TPM. Which you can bypass for the most part with Rufus and a clean install. Still some kernel anticheat games you can’t do so so easily.

  I’ve already switched over to Linux, just got one more system to migrate. So far 100% worth it to not deal with Microslop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here, running my 3700X with a 3080.

  I should’ve pulled the trigger on the 9800X3D last year like I wanted, but thought it was just too expensive.

  Welp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll have to try that. I saw Comet, but getting some errors and slowness compared to Element (classic)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sucks that there isn’t a one-size-fits-all alternative, yet.

  Stoat doesn’t have enough features.

  Matrix is confusing for the masses, plus there is so much conflicting information online of what home server do you join? You shouldn’t join matrix.org’s because of admin abuse? Element clients on mobile are meh.

  TeamSpeak is a voice first platform.

  For my situation it looks like I should move my wife and I to Signal and then my friend group to Stoat, but the recent server issues(prob due to influx of new users) has caused a bit of my friends to have a sour taste out of the gate…

  Nothing is ready to replace Discord IMO. And that sucks. We need dedicated forums again, more wiki servers, and better chat applications.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Either parent your kid, or don’t, but it is not my job to make sure your kid is coddled on the internet.

  As a recently new parent myself, your post is great. And as a IT nerd, your post is also infuriating.

  It is so beyond easy nowadays to monitor and restrict your child’s access to online content. Seeing the post you’re replying to just reminds me of everyone I’ve ever talked to that had X issue and their only response is “throw hands up in the air after trying nothing”.

  My kids are still too young to be reasoned with, but my wife and I agreed that:

  • No dedicated personal phone until middle school, and it ain’t gonna be some top of the line iphone
  • No “tablet kid” bullshit
  • No unfettered YouTube access

  So far our oldest loves finding our phones and can open the camera app from the lockscreen and she runs around taking photos. So we’ve been letting that slide…but we don’t unlock the phone, so it’s a compromise we’ve made as she LOVES taking photos and seeing photos, which I want to encourage. As for content watching we have a TV with Plex and if there’s something we approve of on YouTube and we want our kids to watch it(Ms. Rachel), then I download the YouTube video and put it on my Plex server. No ads, no algorithm auto played videos, just pure approved content. And we have classic cartoons(Rolie Polie Olie) and disney/pixar/ghibli movies, etc.

  Of course if your kid is at school with no phone but its recess and their friend has a phone with zero limits…yeah I can’t control that. But I can at least parent my kid to know that I don’t like that and I don’t want them to participate it.

  Also when they’re a bit older(5 or 6 years old) I plan on teaching them internet safety. Don’t post PII, don’t visit certain websites, always use an adblocker/ublock, only talk to people online that you know in real life, etc. I do plan on playing video games with them(if they have an interest) and I know that will eventually lead to online lobbies, but I am hoping to teach them in private Minecraft servers certain etiquette first and go from there.

  I’m both excited and terrified, but this is my job as a parent!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So use a VPN, buy a 3d printer in another state, send it to a mail forwarding service?

  Or buy a printer and install different firmware on it?

  And maybe my understand of 3d printers is wrong, but a 3d printer itself doesn’t know what it is printing, it only gets the gcode from the slicer. So if the slicer is what is being modified, then use an open slicer like OrcaSlicer?

  So a nothing burger of massive proportion this looks like. Which will soon spread to California. Great…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yunohost, the *arr stack and VPN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can check out MediaStack: github.com/geekau/mediastack

  Here is their “full vpn” compose file here(all of *arr goes through vpn): github.com/geekau/…/docker-compose.yaml

  And their “mini vpn” compose(only torrenting goes through vpn): github.com/geekau/…/docker-compose.yaml

  Probably something there will give you the right push towards fixing your setup? Best of luck! I am actually going to be attempting this soon(gluetun+qbit), but with ProtonVPN.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For reference, the current estimated amount of desktop Linux users globally is somewhere between 60-80 million. In English-speaking countries, the total is around 19-20 million.

  That sounds about right when comparing Microsoft’s claim of “1 billion” Windows devices. 5% of a billion is 50 million(not a perfect comparison as 5% Linux is total including MacOS/others from statcounter but you get the idea). So 50 million to 100 million Linux users globally sounds about right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some OEMs with some models here in the USA also offer it. HP and Dell offer it. I think Dell gives Fedora and Ubuntu? And it takes off ~$130 USD or so from the price, so it’s the full Windows license cost.

  Personally if I have that option I’m taking it and just reinstalling whatever I want anyway, but it’s nice having that option.

  Also if I’m going to spend $2k+ on a new laptop and they don’t give me a non-Windows/blank OS option then I’d go to support and request a special product link. Otherwise I’ll find another brand or buy used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes this is a more apt description, sorry, this whole thing has been stupid tbh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They are being accused of price fixing with the whole “can’t sell games for cheaper on other store fronts compared to the steam listing” thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is good remote desktop software?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Install Tailscale on all devices.

  Then ssh into whatever you need.

  If you need desktop remote access the Windows RDP should work for Windows to Windows machines.

  For Linux host to Windows client I’ve had good experiences with Remmina Desktop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  GW2 gamer here too, I’ve been switching over to Linux over the past few months and this is on one of my to-do lists(figure out HUD/overlay software for GW2).

  Another hurdle I’ve had is getting mod support. For example, Tale of Two Wastelands. The standard installer is exe only and it runs via proton but it doesn’t use all CPU threads to decompile the game assets. Takes over a hour to do. Luckily someone was able to build something that fixes this for Linux, takes 10 minutes or so depending on your CPU: github.com/SulfurNitride/TTW_Linux_Installer

  So I’m sure something is also available for GW2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HAWK SHARK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, my wife quickly figured out that my Old Spice lasted longer than anything she’s ever bought before.

  She’d have to apply her old deodorant 2-3 times throughout the day(working an office job). But the old spice? Once in the morning and she didn’t have to worry about it again unless she worked out after work.

  Now her sister and her mom use old spice for the same reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich 2.5 Released With Free Up Space, Web Backups⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Going back through my github issues/comments, it was around May 2024 with the v1.105.0 release was my last attempt.

  I’m happy to hear it is stable now, I’ll probably give it a shot again here soon. Again, I loved the app and I was hosting it for friends/family to share photos of my kids, so it helped immensely with everyone collaborating with uploads(though mobile uploads for individual photos wasn’t available at that time, had to direct people to use the website…).

  To be fair I don’t think I used the docker installation back then, so I’ll probably make a stack for it soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Way too late, at least for me.

  I’ve switched over to CachyOS on three devices. My main laptop, a spare laptop(for the wife to try), and a gaming PC. All three are great and easy to use. No stupid pop ups, no AI, and I don’t have to worry about it not booting up compared to Windows(which this was the opposite 10 years ago!).

  At this point even if they make a great OS and call it Windows 12 I have zero faith that they won’t reverse and make Windows 13 terrible.

  At least with Linux I have a dozen or so options to choose from and they all work just fine. So if CachyOS becomes terrible(doubt) then I’ll switch to something else.

  At this point Windows needs to go above and beyond and be stable for YEARS and multiple versions before I switch back, which big doubt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosted Jira alternative⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what we use Jira Service Management for at work(break/fix tickets), but Jira, the core software, is used for stuff like code development.

  Not sure what use case OP has for Jira specifically, but I could see it being beneficial for a homelab where you’re building out docker containers manually or tracking your own coding projects or you want an (overkill) way to do project management for your homelab.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich 2.5 Released With Free Up Space, Web Backups⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really want to use Immich but I’ve installed it 3 different times and each time an upgrade completely breaks my installation and I spend hours troubleshooting. And yes, I read the patch notes and do whatever changes they mark in bold red as a warning.

  It’s amazing when it works and they’re doing a great job at adding features, but my God does it break if you just look at it wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since others were posting end of life style docs, here is another: www.erikdewey.com/bigbook.htm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does university email give you any free server?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cloud options:

  • Microsoft Azure offers credits for edu emails I think, and I think you can renew it annually. Also check their B1 servers. azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students
  • Google free tiers: docs.cloud.google.com/free/…/free-cloud-features#…
  • AWS | Not sure on this one, their website is confusing, but look into it: aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/
  • GitHub “student developer pack” education.github.com/pack
  • Oracle cloud “always free” options, bottom of this page: www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
  • InterServer(never heard of them before) offers 1 year of web hosting: my.interserver.net/student_signup.php

  Self-Host locally options:

  Honestly you can probably find a N100 or N150 miniPC online for cheap, like $200 USD or less. Install Proxmox(or just install Ubuntu or whatever), install Docker+DockHand, and then install Tailscale and from your laptop/computer with Tailscale on it. You’ll be able to remotely access it, spin up whatever servers you want, and I doubt your campus IT will even see anything due to the tailnet mesh.

  If you’re not living on campus, then even better, just self host your own stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  3 arm Tux, nice!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Verizon carriers start switching to 365-day device unlock policy, up from 60 days⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure why anyone is still using Verizon.

  US Mobile has access to their networks and it’s cheaper. Same service. Been with USM for nearly 2 years now. My parents and siblings all switched over too. Moved our numbers over with zero issues.

  Verizon not in your area? Cool, USM also has access to T-Mobile and ATT.

  People need to learn to shop around, especially in the current economy we’re in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah and the stuff releasing right now will be “old hardware” in 5 years.

  I’m still gaming on a Ryzen 1700X. And my GPU is a used RTX 3080 I bought off eBay for $500 two years ago.

  That 3080 was over $1000 during the GPU craze last time. And what was I using before that 3080? A 1080ti I bought at MSRP, which I still have and is my backup because hey, it’s nearly 10 years old and still works.

  I’m not saying go buy a dual core Pentium, but “old hardware” isn’t some boogeyman and “we will eventually not have old computers” is like saying we’ll never have old cars.

  And guess what, if everyone stopped buying all this overpriced crap then prices would come down, but we all know that isn’t going to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died | Futurism⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Great post and I agree 100%!

  something new shows up

  Doesn’t even have to be a new thing either. Video games are still used as a scapegoat. Same as with music, and TV shows, and movies.

  The “internet” is still killing teenagers because of social media bullying.

  I wished our lawmakers were of a less senile age so we can write and pass more appropriate laws for this stuff…but not much we can do.