Creat

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Many people look at the game graphics and think it’s a joke, but the gameplay is actually great, even by today standards. If you’re even a little into transportation games, just give it a go. It’ll also run on a toaster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  First you state I’m “absolutely incorrect” then you repeat and confirm what I said:

  I can run them on higher settings usually

  This seems awfully close to the “at least on high” in my comment, so what is the problem with my statement?

  I also purposely kept it relative and vague, because personal preferences differ wildly on what is meant by “I can run xxx”, which you’ve basically doubled down on. I specifically do NOT expect 100fps in a triple-A on maxed out settings with ray tracing, and I thought that much was clear. But I can get to 100fps, with somewhat reduced settings, if that’s a game where I’d need that. To be specific this time: my general target is usually around 60fps for more visual titles, but it can dip a bit below in busy/dense/hectic areas. It also shouldn’t leave the 50s for significant amounts of time though.

  That all being said, I also only rarely actually play AAA games. But I do play some indie games that are more on the demanding side, but then there’s most games I play that should run in a toaster… Which is another reason I never upgraded. It’s all still good enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The general trend, yes.

  But then again, my computer is now many years old (some components more than others) and I’m pretty sure I could play every release from this year on the highest graphic setting (or at least on “high”) without performance issues.

  What I’m trying to say is not “my PC is so great” but you you don’t actually need a current-Gen, high end PC to play even recent triple-A titles. Eventually it’ll get too old, but that is a very long time: probably close to a decade or something, if you individually upgrade some things occasionally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla's new CEO says AI is coming to Firefox, but will remain a choice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just use librewolf, no need to faff about with scripts and be worried about the next release or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah I actually do care about the technical details, and that’s the reason I watch the video. I can look up the price in like 3s myself and didn’t need a video for that part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Try watching videos by “explaining computers”. Actually pretty good content (mostly on single board computers like raspberry pi), but he talks glacially. Normally I watch at 1.5x, this channel is one of just a few where I need to up it to 2x.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What DDNS providers you guys recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  DuckDNS had been unreliable when I used it, but it’s been a while. I swapped over to desec.io but their signups aren’t always open. Can highly recommend them though, and they offer many paths to update the IP, including DynDNS(2) protocol or just d client.

  Also works with certbot for Let’s encrypt certificates using dns challenge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting the right setup for Vaultwarden compose.yaml⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Never run something like Vaultwarden with unencrypted traffic. Throwing in a self signed cert is basically free insurance. You never know when even in your “trusted network” something starts listening in. Just why risk it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random three-body problem (@threebodybot@mathstodon.xyz)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok seriously, mathstodon has to be one of the greatest domain names of all time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t buy anything by crucial, as you’ll have trouble getting a 2nd stick in the future. They are shutting down their end user business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ssh over Internet is fine as long as it’s properly setup (no password auth, root not allowed, etc.).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But the USA seems to use PEDMAS? I’m confused now…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the same with other vendors though. I man those that allow you to swap internals without losing warranty. Bought my laptop with just a 16g stick (base price/included), then bought 2x24g for the price one additional 16g module would’ve cost. And now I got a 16g module left over, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They Made a Zip Drive.. for your TV?!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same with normal floppy disks. Their reliability was abysmal, as was their longevity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DFRobot router board with a CM4⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or if you have separated your devices into subnets/VLANs. Which becomes more important as your get more hardware that you don’t really trust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw it, I’m installing Linux⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had blocked the user, might have been before writing my reply. I guess that caused it to fail to the top level, weird. Deleted the comment as it doesn’t make any sense there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw it, I’m installing Linux⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Might want to calculate out what the actual number is those “small” 3% represent. Or how the curve looks over time. how it changed from a mostly flat line to a very clearly and relatively steeply climbing curve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw it, I’m installing Linux⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  CachyOS is basically vanilla Arch, from a resource point of view. They have their own repos, but they just mirror the arch repos. The arch wiki fully applies. For the very few special things, there is documentation (basically a few notes on gaming related performance options).

  So why use it? Carter it’s trivial to install, and everything you need is preconfigured to just work with sane defaults. Installing it is like Mint or Ubuntu. But it uses optimized repos according to your available CPU instruction set, and optimized proton and wine (their own). Games just work (even more so than they already do generally), and are faster. Programs are faster (where it matters). But you don’t need to do anything for that, it’s just there by default.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They can’t sell this at a loss, or at least it would be incredibly risky. This is (intentionally) “just a PC”. It ships with SteamOS but you can of course install whatever you want, including windows. If it is (much) cheaper than a roughly equivalent normal PC, companies might just start buying them in bulk but obviously not generating the supporting sales needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tailscale is WireGuard under the hood, if you didn’t know. It’s an overlay network that uses WireGuard to make the actual connections, and has some very clever “stuff” to get the clients actually to connect, even if behind firewalls without needing port forwarding.

  Using WireGuard directly basically just changes the app you use, which may or may not help with your issues. But the connecting technology is the exact same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam is still privately owned, never went public. No share holders demanding things surely is a major factor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They can literally setup an instance themselves. By the time it is identified as such, the damage is basically done. Just make a new one. Or use one of the many instances not requiring approval. Or fill out the form with ai. They don’t actually need an insane number of accounts for their subterfuge. Having just “some” and keeping them tied to conversational themes/topics seems sufficient?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't people harassing marketers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume you mean unsolicited phone calls with this? I haven’t gotten any of those in about a decade, if not more. And those were isolated cases as well. We have laws against that sort of thing. It’s not been a problem for a very very long time (early 2000s or so).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone have experience with Mumble?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d suggest looking into TeamSpeak, like others have mentioned. Trivial to self host, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I keep waffling on Proxmox. Sell me. For or against.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  but you can do everything without it.

  yes but why would you? There’s a reason we use GUIs, especially when new to a field (like virtualization).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The 3$ isn’t a component price but also retail already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The actual hardware cost of these devices is actually minimal. Basically any wifi capable microcontroller, a camera and depending on implementation some storage (or a micro sd-card holder). So that price is only cheap in comparison to existing products.

  For reference, said microcontroller with basic camera can be had for like 3$ or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry but the theoretical price of cells isn’t relevant to the consumer. The price of products containing them is. This thing costs currently on the official site 900€ (with some sort of sale going on). The Elite 100v2 with comparable capacity, but using LiFePo4 (included in the same current sale) costs just 550€. To add insult to injury, it also outperforms the Na model in nearly every aspect except sub-freezing performance. This includes an abysmal solar charging efficiency of roughly 50% at normal temperature. Somehow.

  Again, once the price reflects the cell cost, this could be a very attractive option. At the moment, unless you’re into camping in sun-zero climates, it’s just a very bad deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing currently costs at least 50% more than the closest equivalent LiFePo4 from the same brand. The only real advantage seems to be it’s ability to handle sub freezing temperatures, but usability still drops dramatically (both capacity and available power delivery). Everything else is straight up worse in this one in direct comparison.

  It’s only the first product, so it’ll most certainly get better. Also as numbers of products sold rise, costs fall. Once these are cheaper, that are a real choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got 'em⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s level, not flat. Measuring flat-ness is a whole different complexity and ball game.