Overspark

Well nothing’s certain yet. Sylvari should be out, Charr maybe? Dunno. But BEARS!!!

It shows off:

• where it takes place (ancient Orr)
• that that place is mostly a wilderness (as the game takes place a thousand years before the first one)
• some playable races (Kodan bears are new, Asura and humans are not, Charr won’t be in this one due to the time period)
• different mount types (flying dragon is probably a mount too)
• different modes of movement, which is a large focus of this game
• gliders
• the style they’re going for, evolved from GW2

And I’ve probably missed a ton of things. Once you really start looking at it there’s actually a lot going on.

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.

Fantastic movie with excellent acting, I still think about it every so often. And that one super long shot on the beach has to be seen to be believed.

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

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.

Official Podman Quadlet files? Me likey!

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

Deep Rock with friends is indeed a very awesome game!

I have no idea how bad your vision is, you do need decent situational awareness in Arc Raiders to stay alive. And you need to get to an exit point before the mission is over (15 minutes I think? Been a while since I last played it). But other than that you can solo in your own tempo, tagging along with others is completely optional.

Honestly Arc Raiders is (or can be) more about collecting stuff while staying alive than about killing stuff. Evading 100% of the fights is a totally valid play style. So your vision problems might not be as big a deal in this game as you would expect.

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.

Yeah only for :latest containers, that’s true. It automatically runs a daily service to check whether there are newer images available. You can turn it off per container if you don’t want it.

One of the nice things about it is that I have containers running under several different users (for security reasons) so that saves me a lot of effort switching to all these users all the time.

Podman automatically updates my containers for me.

Good chocolade. Not the stuff you can get in a supermarket, but from specialty chocolate shops, or from chocolatiers themselves. While it can be quite expensive per bite compared to ordinary chocolate a single quality chocolate can already give you a very luxurious feeling, so if you have some disposable income available it doesn’t have to break the bank.

Compositors. They’re the people who make the sometimes dozens of layers of different visual elements into one coherent whole. This includes integrating CGI with actual footage, but there’s a lot more to it than just that AFAIK. If they don’t do their job right things look fake as fuck but if they do you’ll never notice.