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Good news, there’s a pretty big GW1 and GW2 sale going on right now on their own website (don’t buy it on Steam, the sales there are worse).

Exactly. If we could lose that somehow the world would be so much nicer to live in.

That the world is a zero sum game. That in order to have something, someone else has to go without. That in order to be great you have to drag others down.

Some people really enjoy living in walled gardens I guess. But when I see people like GamersNexus who were considering a large order of Bambu printers are now ticked off by this they really should’ve known better.

I’m surprised that people are surprised by this. Bambu has clearly telegraphed what kind of assholes they are in the past when they locked down their firmware and local APIs, so this was just expected behaviour IMHO.

Built my own server to be completely silent since it lives in my living room. Based on an Intel i3-12100 with some NVMe and 5x SATA SSD’s, and running tons of containers. Does about 18W most of the time and it could have been lower with a different motherboard.

All the UniFi stuff (gateway, switches, APs) uses just under 50W though, so there’s little sense in spending more money on the server to shave off a few watts.

Servers are terrible for homelab use. They’re unwieldy, consume way too much power and as you’ve found they’re very noisy. My vote goes to selling the thing and getting a mini PC, an (old) laptop or building something quiet and frugal yourself. In the last case you might be able to reuse some parts you already have. But if cost is important almost nothing beats second hand mini PC’s in value for money.

Hmmm, Fresh looks interesting, didn’t know about that one!

Honestly the barrier to entry of Usenet was always high, finding a working Usenet provider only made it slightly harder in a world where everything lives in your browser.

Not really unfortunately. As much as I dislike linking to Reddit their Usenet subreddit does have a decent wiki with some of the info you’d need: https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/index/

I would have expected that too, but they say:

the specific thing that died is not usenet itself. it is usenet as a service your isp gave you.

SnapRAID offers an additional benefit over real RAID-like systems: it functions as a short-term backup. If you sync it daily like I do, that means that if you accidentally delete a bunch of files (old enough to have been synced, I.e. older than one day in my case) you can restore them from the SnapRAID parity.

The reverse is also true of course: if you lose a disk you also lose today’s changes to that data. So it’s most suited to large collections of rarely changing stuff like photos and videos and music IMHO.

Usenet is a weird one on that list. They frame it as Usenet by default from your own ISP, and that is indeed pretty much dead. But on the other hand there has never been more data shared through Usenet than right now. Absolutely everything is available on it, at full download speed, with encryption, without having to upload anything back to anyone.

People who still use (public) torrents to get their stuff have no idea what they’re missing out on. It’s a steep learning curve and not free, but once you have it all set up just right it’s amazing how well it works.

Official Podman Quadlet files? Me likey!

LibreOffice has multiple UIs you can choose from somewhere in the settings. It defaults to an old Office-like UI but it has a ribbon one too. Maybe try that out first?

I’ve been using IPv6 for more than 20 years, and I can’t say that about nuclear fusion.

Only if you buy the right model though. I don’t think mine supports it, but since it has about five times the storage I actually use I don’t care about it at all. I do have a 1TB MicroSD card in my Steam Deck though, can’t have enough storage for games!

Ah, right. I can see how that would lead to much more usage. Any serious videographer probably has a vastly different storage usage than the average phone user does, with plenty of external storage too.

Depends. There are a few things I update by hand, but as long as you have proper backups it’s generally safer to run the latest versions of things automatically if you don’t mind the possibility of breakage (which is very rare in my experience). This is in the context of self-hosting of course, not a business environment.

Interesting. I’ve had my phone for over 2 years now and I’m only up to 91 GB used. There’s multiple offline maps in there, a separate Linux install, over a hundred apps, some cached music and lots of photos and video, but I still wouldn’t know how to fill it up further.