Just a stranger trying things.
Funnily, my mind first made me consider pressure by Microsoft to raise the steam version cost to make it a less attractive proposition compared to the windows version, before realizing this was a tariff reaction. Goes to show how I imagine Microsoft’s powers and intentions in my mind :)
Seems he’s using the same orange tan as the other orange guy haha
I didn’t take it as a critique of Ente, not to worry! I’m not affiliated in any way, I just wanted to provide some context to people who may be concerned about the vendor locking aspect specifically.
Of course how you manage your media, your needs and your finances are all a very personal matter, I also self-host my photo backup, but I use ente in a complementary fashion, and I don’t backup everything to it. It just makes it convenient to collect, share and aggregate media between ente members and non-members.
Cheers!
In the case of ente, they have gone above and beyond to give full control to their users of their backing up process and backed up media:
To me, it really shows they care about the users and do their best to avoid vendor lock-in.
And I personally feel much more confident in a company when their business model is a paid one. I’m a very happy customer, I have also convinced multiple people who seem happy too.
Don’t give them ideas!
Running on prem is certainly possible, but requires a dedicated sysadmin team for anything serious. It is very important to be able to have availability guarantees and some expert you can count on to solve your problem with a phone call.
Related: Uber recognized how battery levels affect customer psychology in pricing but claims it doesn’t use it to hike prices for low battery devices:
Have you explored your GPU and CPU and memory utilization? On Linux, mangohud is a great tool for this. Verify which component is bottlenecking you performance, you may see something happening when your performance drops.
If something is visible, you may want to target it for an upgrade. If not, something else may be an issue. You may also compare with a fresh setup of nobara just to rule out any misconfiguration or other driver related issues?
Beautiful :)
I see a lot of praise for this game but have not looked a lot into it. How would you describe it and what makes it so good? I’m letting myself be convinced for my next game to play :)
Same, I rocked a second hand GTx 680 from 2012-2013, which I upgraded to a second hand RTX 3060 12GB for a fantastic price, in 2024. Still rocking a DDR3 platform with the intel i7 4400K. And that’s more than enough for most games with nice graphics on 1680x1050 :) (display probably 15 years old too). Eventually, I will be looking for some other second hand components to upgrade the rest of the system, but it does everything more than well enough.
Remove unused conda packages and caches:
conda clean --all
If you are a Python developer, this can easily be several or tens of GB.
True, many games sold physically are still faced with the risk of disappearing, due to DRM…
Quick note, in some countries you can get refurbished steam decks:
It seems Signal has already pushed out a fix for this, which was abusing the QR codes to actually link a device when it was presenting itself as a way to join a group.
Paywalled: https://www.wired.com/story/russia-signal-qr-code-phishing-attack/
In this case, without clicking any links in the email, why don’t you just simply go to the proton website manually and log in for good measure?
I hear you, I always see this problem being solved by the link being in the description and the host saying “link in the description”. I hadn’t come across a situation where an audio only format was accessible and there was no way to interact with the content but in some corner cases it does make sense.
I don’t understand in what circumstances anyone would like to use link shorteners? I can only find reasons why not to use them:
This is an article about the following youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTsBP21-XpI
Edit: I recommend
I would encourage you to support GoG before you have to rely on them, otherwise if everyone does like you they may not be able to sustain their business.
It’s a bit akin to waiting for a crash before putting your seatbelt on.