That IS unfortunate o.O. How weird!

Every other distro I’ve used has just been like “Hey, some of this stuff was system integral, recommend a restart when you feel like it. 👍”

I may be ignorant af here but…I think culturally, they aren’t nearly as cynical as we are about the corporate hellscape, at least not publicly.

The attitude seems to be that companies, especially Nintendo, are a home-country brand, seen as successful and good at business, and therefore should be respected for it.

This is the likely the same attitude that leads to their abysmal work culture that prizes literally working yourself to death, or at least as close to it as you can.

I think the death grip is loosening though, primarily driven by younger generations seeing through the bullshit.

Haha suppose you’re right. I appreciate the perspective. :) I think I missed the point at first. I’ve been really sleep deprived lately.

It really blows, how especially from the Internet, we have so much information we can’t do anything about. It feels like we’re failing if we’re not out there literally saving the world every day because we’re always shown a constant feed of where and how it’s burning.

…But then yeah, realistically, we can’t. I’m always trying to figure out “solutions” to these big problems but that usually just results in my brain flooring the pedal in neutral until it burns out and feels helpless and anxious again.

So yeah, I totally agree with your approach. It’s almost a skill in itself learning to discern what we can change with enough effort, and what is simply beyond our control.

Okay but, so many different machines can run Steam and play a huge chunk of its entire vast library.

I can go to my local college and buy some heavily abused Optiplex from their surplus for like $90, install Steam, and play anything from Half-Life to Stardew Valley lol.

PlayStation will sell you an expensive single-purpose console, then sell you the same single-purpose console with a little GPU and RAM boost as a “PRO” forced upgrade, and then sell you access to back catalogue emulators as a monthly service. Blegh.

…Also Steam’s got family sharing, so that’s cool.

The biggest advantage I thought consoles with physical media still had: You can check out games from many public libraries.

I bet Sony is champing at the bit to put the kibosh on *THAT. *

I’d say in the end, Steam robs the customer significantly less at every turn.

Okay but look if I’m gonna be stuck in this situation, the revolver has to be out of the picture. Otherwise what’s stopping him from just kicking me in the balls first and THEN shooting me?

I don’t know where this metaphor is going anymore but I simply refuse to die screaming and clutching my nuts. It’s so undignified.

Sony’s “What, don’t you guys have phones?!” Moment. Lol

Yeah, thankfully Sony’s gaming division is pretty easy to drop, unlike say, Nestle or something, where every other dime you spend in a grocery store ends up in their evil pocket somehow even if you’re trying to be careful to avoid them.

No real notes except I kinda dream of combining your first two examples into one lifestyle, I dunno if that’s even really a thing but…

…I mean, also, like, if you can run fiber optic cables along the ocean floor, you should be able to run them into the woods.

I dunno. An honest simple life aligned with nature and enjoying computers should be a thing. Nat Geo explorers and people that run solar powered websites off of Pis and stuff know what I’m talking about lol.

Reminds me of very wise words I need to remember more often:

27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?"

34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

—Jesus of Nazareth, Matthew 6, verses 27 and 34

Edit: Lol at the expected down votes because fAiTh BaD. Would probably get some updoots if it was a pop culture reference saying the same thing. 😂

I really wish the games market/industry could just be sustainable and stable.

Like holy crap, they’re always trying to push it and force it to its absolute breaking point for another filthy dollar, and it’s just making everyone miserable.

This is the wonders of capitalism unchecked: They have distilled to a science, the power to make games. Miserable. Wow. What a feat.

Making them professionally isn’t even allowed to be fun anymore, it’s just stress and abject misery and instability to profit some C-suite fart-sniffers.

Playing them is constantly fraught with stupid harebrained get rich schemes and “market fluctuation dynamics” and speculation and fuggin’ GAMBLING.

To the Sonys, the Ubislops, the Electronic Farts out there:

STOP IT. UNLESS YOU’RE MAKING IT BETTER FOR US, LEAVE THE WAY WE PLAY GAMES ALONE. We play games, and sometimes make them, to HELP US ESCAPE YOU!!!

Heck, even using a Steam Deck as a dedicated console would get you really far until you start playing AAA stuff. Even farther if you have a tolerance for dropping detail on things like anti-aliasing and dynamic shadows!

Well, okay, you’re talking “end of the free and open Internet” which, yeah, would be a pretty big and terrible deal, and I really hope people and institutions that are able, are archiving such important things! (I should see how big that Wikipedia archive is for kicks lol). But yeah, we’d have much bigger problems.

We gotta support archive.org and our libraries for this reason! I would hate to be without them.

I personally wasn’t talking about digital “prepping” so much as I was talking about motivations for hoarding data of things we’re interested in. Our media becoming lost media because wealthy interests don’t give a crap or, worse, decided to censor it.

Not everyone is just hoarding Sailor Moon episodes; people have tons of books and manuals too just because it interests them. Lots of people preserve video game ROMs as well, which has thankfully kept those works from disappearing entirely.

Moving that information would become significantly more difficult without a free and open Internet, but that’s a different “threat model” worth its own conversation, I think.

For what you’re talking about. I bet you’d be interested in someone like Marion Stokes , for instance, who “data hoarded” tons of recordings of television news, and that archive actually proved useful to historians way later.

Thanks for your thoughtful comment and perspective. :)

Maybe it made her day and she thinks about it with a little laugh and a smile from now on. Love is in too short supply in this world. :p

Personally I’ve had a lot of luck running NextCloud AIO on OpenMediaVault, on my little server machine running ProxMox.

The nice thing is you can keep your data drives separate, and take snapshots of the OpenMediaVault virtual machine before you update NextCloud, and if something goes wrong , you can roll it back without losing stuff stored on it!

(Sorry I could be better at describing this stuff)

AIO makes it a lot more convenient to maintain. It has a backup solution built in using Borg Backup, and it automates updates when you tell it to update. Usually the update process is a bit more…fraught and hands-on running bare metal.

NextCloud can back itself up as mentioned, but I use Proxmox’s snapshots in case the little web portal to do all that breaks, which has happened before. But super rarely!

Haha sorry this is a bit of a mess, I’m at work right now XD

“I mean, not allowing vpns for personal use would stop us all.”

Yes and no. We’d go back to sneakernets. :)

… But that would be significantly more unpleasantly limited than the current ways of doing things…

I think a big fuel for these storage anxieties is the very real situation we’re in right now, where we’re watching the “forever Internet” erode and crumble before our eyes, and getting rug-pulled from every direction service-wise, and losing access to media we don’t have a hard copy of.

I do wish there were a better way to pool all this storage for a common library of preservation…I mean I guess Internet Archive is like that but they’re constantly under attack. All this is under heaps of legal “gray area” and obviously the media titans want to force a rental-only-own-nothing world.

Right now we kinda have to become a scattered group of amateur historians and librarians, to preserve our culture.

Are you really missing all that much if it’s not in 4K? 😬

ProTip: I hear 2D animation compresses really well. Do with that information what you wish!

That’s fair and considerate.

I basically consider picture rights to be rent. They loaf around, get free food, shelter, snuggles, brushing, among other perks.

In return I get to take silly pictures of them! Although usually they’re flattering and regal portraits. :D

That’s cool! I personally use NextCloud Memories, and I’d really like if the recognition component got that reliable!

they’re right here all the time.

Well, I don’t wanna be dark but uh…that won’t always be the case, as I’ve experienced too often recently.

So, it’s nice to be able to look back. Our own memories are quite unreliable. :)