They took very large sums of money from venture capital firms. As in many millions. Those now require constant and perpetual number-go-up. This won’t stop getting worse, let alone get better. There are other services. If you’re a creator, use them.

WotC did some shady shit before, too. Certainly right improve since the acquisition though.

Can’t remember when it came into effect, but randomized device specific passwords are also mandatory in the EU now. This was relatively recently though. It means every single device (item, not model type or class) has to have an individual password (also usually it’s on a sticker or something).

And yes, connecting any ip camera to the Internet is just dumb.

Probably well over two decades ago or so.

That was the last time I owned a car.

No of course not, but if it’s run under proton/wine it doesn’t even have access to any normal files. When it’s run natively it does (documents and all that). I’m not saying it’s doing anything with this, or even that it would make sense.

Not in general. Typically, games with kernel level drm or anticheat just didn’t work at all.

Borderlands 2 specifically has a native Linux version though, and it may or may not abuse this fact. It isn’t run in a sandbox-like environment like Windows games that run through proton, but according to protondb it does run through proton? In any case yes, it’s probably better than running it on Windows.

Absolute zero issues with netcup (EU/de). Also comparatively cheap usually, and has frequent sales (always the same offers, afaict).

DNS is included with Domains, but I’m using desec.io as my DNS mainly for full dnssec compliance (free, de based, if registrations are open, works with certbot DNS challenge for letsencrypt).

I assume op is English speaking, but just fyi this doesn’t work in every language, would make things a lot simpler.

I don’t know a single person who graduated “on time”. This may differ from country to country, but here the nominal times are just waaaay unrealistic. I’m sure it’s possible, but at least for me I would’ve missed many opportunities, and I’m glad I took the time.

This comes at the perfect time. I was thinking I’d have to find out how to run modloaders or managers on Linux, but I guess I got my answer right here. Thanks for posting!

Had this open for a while now as the most recent tab I didn’t close. For the record there are 64 open tabs, this is just the most recent one.

Was gonna look into analytics and monitoring of opnsense, and because if I bookmark it I just forget about it, there’s a tab open. The other 63 tabs have a similar history…

https://roguesecurity.dev/blog/opnsense-loki

No Linux support though, which is a bummer these days.

I disagree with those saying that you can’t do a build for that budget, but I would suggest looking into used parts, at least for some things, to improve the result significantly.

Since your system goal doesn’t seem to be storage related, as nextcloud includes storage obviously, but typically isn’t used to house multi-terabyte data sets. So assuming you can make that work for the “future homelab projects” to with dual 500gig NVME as storage. Search for a used mITX board+CPU that can accommodate that (has the slots), and go from there. Things like CPU cooler, if not part of a possible mainboard+CPU bundle, should be selected after the case at that is the limiting factor for it. Didn’t skimp on RAM size if you can (new or used is fine, depends what you can get in your area).

With this list you’re basically done to get it up and running.

I mean for ksp2 saying it failed cause they had “no experience with this kind of work” is kind of weird, since neither did the ksp1 devs when they started that. And they didn’t fuck it up either, let alone this badly. Remember that it was a passion project of harvester, working at a PR firm that just happened to let him do it under their roof and employment. The company did not even have any basic experience in game development, arguably even software development in general.

Finally! I was waiting for a version of the original zimaboard with a modern/competitive processor. Such a versatile little device.

The smell of freshly cooked rice.

If you’re into primarily gaming, try PikaOS. It’s Debian based and uses the same tooling, but it’s on an optimized kernel. Is generally geared toward gaming.

There are other gaming specific distros of course, this is just the “Debian”-related one. I would not recommend the real debian if you’re mainly into gaming. It’ll need manual intervention and/or optimization to get games running, or at least get them running well. It’s not impossible (it even hard if you’ve got but is Linux experience), but just harder than necessary.

You do know Heroic exists, right? It works perfectly fine.

And I prefer an open source solution integrating multiple platforms to a single closed solution per platform.

Also from Europe, gas is measured/billed in kWh here as well.

He has been a wannabe Putin for quite some time now.