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- Comment on How Hackers Breached the Great Firewall of China (39C3) 4 days ago:
PipePipe/NewPipe also have support for streaming directly from CCC.
- Comment on Order of the Sinking Star | Official Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Same, this doesn’t really look good to me yet. It’s just on my wishlist because it’s from the dude that made The Witness, so I’m hopeful it will have great puzzles.
- Comment on Order of the Sinking Star | Official Announcement Trailer 3 weeks ago:
I really liked The Witness, even more than Braid even.
- Comment on selfh.st - dockcheck: A CLI Tool for Updating Container Images 3 weeks ago:
I don’t really want automatic updates, I want a notification once a month with all images that have a newer :latest available or if versionised, when a image with a newer version is available.
- Comment on selfh.st - dockcheck: A CLI Tool for Updating Container Images 3 weeks ago:
Does this check for version tags as well or only updates to the current tag?
Like the current container uses an image with the tag
:0.1.0or:v0.1.0but:0.2.0is available on the registry. - Comment on 'Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc' is Coming to Digital on December 9 3 weeks ago:
Neat, was not expecting this to come anytime soon.
- Comment on Selfhosted alternatives to Discord with screensharing? 4 weeks ago:
Depends on what they settle on, especially for screen sharing. Many downscale content for people with weaker connections.
- Comment on Selfhosted alternatives to Discord with screensharing? 4 weeks ago:
I currently have a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ but I’m aware it’s a bit old and is ARM so I’m thinking of buying a Pi 5.
The Pi 5 lacks a H264 hardware encoder/decoder, making it unsuitable for most streaming/transcoding purposes.
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 4 weeks ago:
So I’ve resigned to settling for any phone that’s cutting edge.
If you drop the “cutting edge” condition instead, you could grab a Fairphone, which ticks all the other checkboxes.
Unless you game on your phone, you won’t notice a thing between modern high end and low end phones as long as they put enough RAM in.
Samsung is the opposite of everything you mentioned besides cutting edge.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 5 weeks ago:
I can’t speak for client capabilities on Apple devices, but what’s your server hardware? CPU or GPU transcoding?
I have an AMD GPU in my server and have no issues transcoding AV1 and H265 for my lesser capable clients.
You can also setup Jellyfin in parallel to Plex and give it a whirl.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 5 weeks ago:
Sir, this is a /c/selfhosted.
- Comment on By technical standards were 3D TVs impressive, Why didn't they catch on back then? 5 weeks ago:
but half the 4k streaming content is compressed to hell.
You can up that to 80%. Almost anything coming from Netflix in 4k is severely bitrate starved.
Then there is the opposite extreme, like the Arcane blu-rays that put animated content in a 100 Mbit/s stream. Completely overkill but I love it.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 weeks ago:
The only game were I thought the story was complete but the DLC proved me wrong.
- Comment on Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 - A USB adapter that plugs into your Home Assistant system and opens up a world of smart device options 5 weeks ago:
Do you mean Zigbee in general or the ZBT-2?
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 5 weeks ago:
Their measurements are correct but not surprising, Wayland triple buffers everything on desktop. Currently triple buffering is only disabled in fullscreen applications, when the compositor supports it.
I wanted to take my own measurements with the newer tearing control protocol but didn’t get to it yet.
- Comment on Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 - A USB adapter that plugs into your Home Assistant system and opens up a world of smart device options 5 weeks ago:
In addition to these guys knowing what they are doing and pushing firmware updates straight through Home Assistant, every purchase also supports the Open Home Foundation.
I’m pretty sure you can achieve similar performance with cheaper dongles.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 month ago:
My comment starts with “Except accessibility”. I’m not downvoting anyone because they say accessibility on Wayland sucks, because it does.
I’m downvoting the other person that compares Wayland to Star Citizen, because they paid so much for Wayland and they take so long.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 month ago:
Except accessibility, Wayland has been a huge upgrade over X11.
Much better security isolation, proper HDR, full multi-monitor support, full VRR support, better application scaling, no screen tearing and reduced latency. (The clipboard also works fine)
Without Wayland I would not be on Linux right now.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 1 month ago:
Yes, but that doesn’t help you with the large providers (Gmail, Outlook, …) unfortunately.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 1 month ago:
I finally moved my mail server from Hetzner to my homelab.
Pretty smooth sailing so far. For now I’m using Scaleway for outgoing mails since I can’t set a PTR record here but I might just try sending a few without PTR to see how other providers react.
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 1 month ago:
There is zero market for an underpowered “PC” console with less VRAM than literally every other current console including switch 2
The Switch 2 only has 12 GB of LPDDR5X shared memory between CPU/GPU. 3 GB are reserved for the system, that leaves you with about 9 GB shared between CPU and GPU.
The Steam Machine uses GDDR6 and has 8 GB of dedicated VRAM.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 month ago:
amdgpu (the Linux driver) does not support HDMI 2.1 because the HDMI Forum does not allow them to open source their implementation.
Valve would have to provide their own solution and I assume they have not been able to deal with the crooks at the HDMI Forum yet either.
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 1 month ago:
Self-hosting is trivial and everyone can do it.
Exposing services to the internet is not.
Just like everyone doing open heart surgery on dummies is fine, everyone self-hosting in their own network is fine. You can buy hardware right now that connects to power and wifi and you are self-hosting.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
They have a simple .sh script you can run. Works fine on native Steam, couldn’t get it to run with Flatpak Steam.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 1 month ago:
Now I’m wondering, which non-From Soulslikes did you enjoy?
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 1 month ago:
Same. The game is fantastic but the RNG is only cool on paper and falls apart just a few hours into the game. The methods they give you to influence your luck are just not enough to do much at all.
It’s really frustrating when you are trying to do something but you constantly have to do something else because that’s what the game is giving you.
I cheated at the end and gave me infinite rerolls for rooms so I could create the layout I needed in that moment. Much better that way.
- Comment on What budget friendly GPU for local AI workloads should I aim for? 1 month ago:
Not sure if it counts as “budget friendly” but the best and cheapest method right now to run decently sized models is a Strix Halo machine like the Bosgame M5 or the Framework Desktop.
Not only does it have 128GB of VRAM/RAM, it sips power at 10W idle and 120W full load.
It can run models like gpt-oss-120b or glm-4.5-air (Q4/Q6) at full context length and even larger models like glm-4.6, qwen3-235b, or minimax-m2 at Q3 quantization.
Running these models is otherwise not currently possible without putting 128GB of RAM in a server mainboard or paying the Nvidia tax to get a RTX 6000 Pro.
- 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 months ago:
Direct drive steering wheels
Which one? Support varies wildly depending on manufacturer.
gamepad
I have never seen a gamepad that doesn’t work on Linux. You may not be able to update their firmware if they only provide a Windows tool but they work perfectly fine.
VR
Valve Index and HTC Vive work out of the box. SteamVR is pretty rough in Linux and plagued by issues but it works.
For any other headset you will have to depend on community support. Some work, some don’t.
There’s lots of info on vronlinux.org
status LED or info displays
Which ones? They usually use completely proprietary protocols.
Sound Blaster G6
It will work like any other bog-standard sound card has for years. You will lose any features that are custom to the sound card (dialogue mode, virtual surround, equalizer, …) but those are rarely necessary because there is lots of other software that achieves this for every sound card.
I recommend you boot Linux from USB and take a look. No need to install anything, just boot from USB and take a look if your hardware works.
- 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 months ago:
HDR
HDR works on KDE and GNOME desktop environments. KDE is currently the better choice if HDR support is important.
As for software:
- Not included in official Proton builds yet but can be enabled in Proton-GE with 2 environment variables
- mpv works fine
- Kodi gets support in the next major version
- Firefox and Chromium have experimental support
Can’t speak for DP 2.1 since I have an AMD GPU and no hardware that uses DP 2.1 (yet).
- 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 months ago:
This is by amount of games, not by player count. Most games (including non-popular ones) are not live service multiplayer games but small indie titles that do not try to break Linux compatibility on purpose. So yes, 90% sounds plausible.