Same. Except work seems to block my cloudflare tunnel so I have to use Synology reverse proxy.

That’s compound 1 2 2 50

Don’t some instances deactivate downvotes?

You’re preaching to PC gamer enthusiasts. The majority of normies see PC as too advanced and complicated. Most go looking for consoles. The console market isn’t going down any times soon and devs can make plenty of money from this huge and very lucrative consumer.

There is hardly ever any reason to have read receipts (WhatsApp blue ticks) enabled. They almost always only cause problems. Even for the messages you send, if they haven’t replied, does it really matter if you can see blue ticks or not? Try turning of read receipts for a week and see how much better your life gets. It will significantly reduce drama in your life and cost you nothing.

The only person I care to see read receipts from is my wife, and that’s easy to implement since she’s one of about 4 people in my life who uses Signal (where I keep read receipts on). All the WhatsApp wankers can wait for a reply at my convenience.

I spend a lot of time looking out for undervalued products on eBay and sniping auctions. It is quite laborious. I imagine it would be most useful in this sort of shopping. Or buying tickets the second they become available, or tracking sites for cheapest air fare or hotels and completing the transaction on those sorts of things.

I don’t advocate using it. I wouldn’t want to. But I imagine people will use it a lot for things like this.

Not really. Workers are left taking the blame for forced implementation from the executive level. They save the costs and work staff harder… But when it fucks up then the workers can take the blame. Responsibility for this needs to sit higher up with those who forced faulty tools on everyone. AI is being forced into the NHS against all protests and objections.

Arch BTW… 😎

Theres more music out there than ever and it is so hard to find.

Hip hop, rap and RnB are very popular and very much in the mainstream, but I’m not a fan. So popular music certainly isn’t to my taste.

Rock is well past its peak popularity. There’s load of good rock and metal, but it takes work to find it now.

People’s tastes might not reflect what’s currently popular, which makes it falsely look like “all music is shit now”.

I’ve kept both. Synology photos does auto upload from my+wife’s phones. Then Immich scans this as an external database to import.

Synology keeps the photos in a normal name and folder structure. So the files can be accessed and organised in a normal file browser. Moving to a different device or app is as simple as copying the files over. These folders are backed up off site so even if my hardware dies, I don’t have to set up Immich again before I can access the images as they’re normal image files.

Immich auto upload puts the photos into its own database that is not human readable. I didn’t want that. But I do want the AI tagging, search and fast browsing Immich has. If I didn’t already have Synology photos set up, then I might have tried using Syncthing to send photos to my NAS and then access through Immich.

You (the royal “you”) can enjoy watching sports if you want… But if you then criticise me for watching Street Fighter 6 EVO tournament stream, then fuck you.

Also, sort out this drinking and gambling problem with sports already.

Brain working as expected. Thank you for the confirmation. I did have some doubts before.

There are mods that let you make it into more of a farming/building game without worrying about dying.

Frustrating difficult games are my jam. They don’t bother me at all. I’m into roguelites. It’s a great life lesson in being Zen and accepting what is…when you play an hour long run of Dead Cells with excellent legendary items, only to die a dumb death to curse just before the final boss ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’ve abandoned any hope of playing multiplayer games, old or new, with people I know. No friends play indie/old games. Few people play games at all. I wish there were more asynchronous games to play. Turn taking at your leisure or progressing a shared game whenever you are able. It would be so cool if Don’t Starve Together could have a persistent server with a small group and everyone could dip in or out at any time to contribute to the farming and base building.

Every aspect of the controller might not be “best in the world”. I don’t play fighting games or anything with the D-pad. Overall the value you get here is unbeatable. £30 on eBay is just mind blowing to me. You can even get a connector on Ali Express to hold your phone if you use it for phone games.

I’ve got big hands too and I find it very comfortable. Depends on whether you like offset sticks.

I’m playing a lot of Dead Cells these days. But the controller has been good for any game ive played (Expedition 33, Thronefall, Hotshots Golf, Mario Odyssey, Super Meat Boy, Enter the Gungeon, etc). The D-pad is also great for precision platformers like Super Meat Boy.

Strong recommendation for Cyclone 2. I’ve been so happy with my first one that I’m about to order a second one.

Excellent ergonomics. The RGB you asked for. Works perfectly with my CachyOS and Bazzite setups out of the box. Premium metal charging stand included. Excellent clicky switches including changing triggers to micro switches. Hall effect triggers. TMR sticks. 2 back buttons.

This is available brand new on eBay for £30 in UK. You won’t be disappointed.

In online communities at least, people seem to be keen to stay on the cutting edge and always have the best and shiniest. Toms Hardware is going to attract this very audience.

I accept that I’m probably too far the other way on the spectrum of patient gamers…but people don’t seem to think of the utility of the item and rather stay obsessed with “10% performance gains”. For the vast majority of people, phones, laptops and computers can easily last over 5 years (sometimes 10 years depending on use case).

Although these frequent upgraders do give a good stock of items for people like me to pick up and stay in the sweetspot of positioning behind the frontline of cutting edge products on the secondhand market.

I’ve been through this whole process and wanted to make the best choice and explore all options myself. In the end my conclusion ended up being what most people online recommended after all: keep NAS and compute separate and that Debian is best for a Linux server. Now I have a Synology NAS and a 12th gen Intel mini PC. I run most of what you mention above and it works great.

I spent ages looking at so many sources to learn and get this set up. After I got it all done, I found this is one simple guide that basically covered the whole process and I really with O found this early: https://thecybersecguru.com/tutorials/self-hosting-guide/