They actually so this quite often

While I'm fine with people wanting to self-host stuff with closed software (this includes Windows and Plex, btw), I personally am not interested in having ads of any kind in the community.

To me self hosting is about controlling your data. While I wouldn't use proprietary software myself for this, I just want to make it clear that I'm fine with people asking for help it advice about it. Just not ads, of any kind.

For me personally an ad is when I'm being sold something. I can't be sold something that is free and open. So someone showcasing their paid (but self hosted) service is an ad. Someone telling me about their (open) project is not.

And when someone wants to use either and asks for help, is also (obviously) not an ad. Unless we see a flood of accounts posting trivial questions about a paid service to draw attention to it, but I kinda doubt it.

As I said it's probably the best/easiest solution for individuals, but unsuited for groups or families.

So they are basically funding like 3-5 servers. Good luck with that "hub".

Or just a keepass file in a network or NextCloud share. Works perfectly well for any number of devices, but obviously can't do sharing of secrets to others.

As always "it depends". Especially with frequent and deep sales it highly depends on the title. But given that it has to exist on both platforms for this to even be an option to begin with, it might be true more often than not.

This might also be an additional consideration, that selling titles is an option for physical PS5 titles. Assuming the discs can always be sold and copies aren't tied to your digital account anyway once you play them.

Anyone who pre-orders a digital product that can't actually run out of stock is a true mystery to me. Just wait and see. If you're I've of those eager to pay this, you've already waited literally years. Add a few days, see if it's actually playable and not a buggy mess.

I use arch (kinda), and has zero issues. It was a problem if you used unmaintained packages from arch, as adopting them and contaminating then was the attack vector. Using someone that's unmaintained is always kinda questionable, so instead I'd just manually install that instead (it shouldn't change if it isn't maintained anyway).

This is only a problem if you subscribe to nitro in the first place. Rookie mistake!

For those that really don't know: Star Trek TNG, episode "the inner light", S5E25.

It's great and all (it really is), but the target audience was just presented factorio 2.0 (and space age), so we're busy for a few months.

This sounds good on paper until you realize that what is considered "social media" is up to whoever happens to hold that position. Even ignoring the fact that it's unenforceable anyway, unless you require a real ID, wish is just straight up worse for all sorts of reasons.

The idea is nice, but actually putting it into law without opening the door to censorship and other side effects is just not plausible.

Edit: also, Everytime you read about a poll like this, ask yourself: what was the question they asked? Did it provide any context? Did it require any understanding of the actual underlying issues and laws? Or was it some variation of "think of the children"?

It's a massive red flag. It implies that they are actually storing the password instead of a (preferably salted) hash and that they have no idea what good security practices are. Storing a hash leads to same size strings, no matter the length on the password.

Revanced actually is the official YouTube client, just modified on the users device before installation.

It's level, not flat. Measuring flat-ness is a whole different complexity and ball game.

Hard drives that aren't used will get data errors over time. Usually for data storage this is counteracted with what's called a "scrub" every so often (like few months). This just means the whole drive content is read, and the drive itself will figure out if any areas have a "weak signal", and just rewrite that part.

Having only 1 drive without any mirror and without any way to detect potential errors (let alone a way to correct them) is a recipe for disaster.

The core lesson should be "stop adding useless launchers" and even more so "stop making launchers the only way to change graphics settings". I'm glad the steam deck has rules in place that prevent games with a forced launcher to receive a "verified".

That's what I'm taking away from this anyway.

They can't sell this at a loss, or at least it would be incredibly risky. This is (intentionally) "just a PC". It ships with SteamOS but you can of course install whatever you want, including windows. If it is (much) cheaper than a roughly equivalent normal PC, companies might just start buying them in bulk but obviously not generating the supporting sales needed.

Literally never heard of it, which is probably the reason and kinda makes it a good call?