Video games as a medium, is still new. And that state of so much you could drown in it, is also new.

Just a couple decades ago you could conceivably play every game ever made, and then be left thirsting for something new.

And games are plateauing technologically, if not mechanically. New games are no longer better, just because they’re newer, with nicer graphics, bigger worlds and smoother gameplay. That stuff has been figured out.

Now you have to make games better, by making them better.

It makes sense, unfortunately.

They don’t want to compete with older games. For a time, new games would innovate technologically and qualitatively, but that isn’t always the case anymore.

There are so many amazing games to play. If you wanted to, you could cut off all future content from this day on, and still have more than enough to remain entertained for the rest of your life.

Some studios are still pushing the envelope, but others have stuck with one “as a service” game for almost a decade now. Others still are making stuff that is objectvly unworthy of being played compared to earlier games.

If you can’t make each game better than the last, people will just go back to the last game. But if you take away the last game, they’ll go to the new game simply because the same game but worse is still better than nothing.

And that’s true overrall, too. If you like games, but can’t play your favorite game anymore, you’ll probably end up trying to find something new.

Yup. And it’ll be a huge improvement overall to simply have both performance and accuracy in one, and not have to pick one or the other, regardless of what application is being run.

fsync isn’t part of wine, which is what they are referring to.

Fsync and Esync are both inaccurate representations, and while they help performance in many places (particularly games), they break other things. Hence, while useful, they never got mainlined.

NTsync is an accurate reimplementation, hence why this functionality will finally become part of wine proper.

Culture. Culture endures. You can kill reddit, but you can’t kill an idea.

He’s not talkin about the time of day, but the fact he’s headed out for the purge three days in advance.

then what’s the advantage of using that over the native capabilities of btrfs?

btrfs multi device file systems have some limitations. Adding a drive is instant, but if you want to stripe the data using raid0, that requires a lengthy balancing operation. The alternative is “single” mode, which does not concern itself with striping, and just pools the storage available. The disadvantage, is that in single mode you get the risk of raid0, with no performance benefit. btrfs does not actually make sure that the different blocks that constitute a single file end up on the same drive, which means that if one fails, you still likely lose everything.

MergerFS does not mess with any of the filesystems being combined. It can be configured to work in different ways, but each drive will remain its own, consistent, functioning file system. Drives can be browsed individually, removed, added etc. Instantly. To “empty” a drive, you just move the files on it to the rest by using the non merged folders. By default, “writing” a new file will always go to the drive with the most free space, and individual files cannot be stored “across” several drives even though the contents of a folder can be. This way, whatever is on each drive, can never be damaged by the failure of another drive.

So the benefits are isolation, and convenience. The downside is a definite performance hit, which may not be significant depending on your system or what you’re storing in the merged filesystem.

So I could do that for the root folder as well I imagine?

No. And you wouldn’t want to. First for the performance hit. Second, because mergerfs merges folders (drives have to be mounted, first), and uses a third as a mountpoint. As an example, to “expand” your home folder, you’d move your homefolder somewhere else, then merge that moved folder with the new drive (which you still have to mount somewhere), and then you’d mount the resulting file system where your old home folder was before.

You could even have two folders on the second drive. Use one to merge somewhere you want to pool all your storage, and the other to put stuff on the second drive in a way where losing the first won’t make half the files go missing. You might use that to store a copy of the OS install from the first drive, for example.

If you want to just extend storage space, maybe mergerfs?

/media is now for the system to mount stuff automatically. Using /mnt for something you’re configuring personally is fine.

You could mergerfs the new drive with some folder you’re already storing a bunch of stuff, and it will pool the storage capacity of the drives for that folder.

There’s a third person mod for it if that style of gameplay would suit you better.

It’s an absolute masterpiece, but it requires your active attention. You have to put the pieces it gives you together, or you won’t get that expansive “more than the sum of it’s parts” effect that really good art can do.

Asking or being asked in a way that is menacing, because some couples find that hot as hell, is not mutually exclusive with “no” still being one of the options.

When you’re more interested in “paying using other ways” than actually getting a pizza.

Meanwhile, my parents: Started gushing to each other about how cute Milla Jovovich is when we watched The Fifth Element on family movie night, to the point of making me and my sisters a little uncomfortable.

They are genuinely useful devices, in that they simplify the process of running what is essentially a home server, down to something the average person can pull off by just buying a box and slotting some drives into it, then use a simple UI to configure whatever basic services they like.

For just the hardware, they’re absolutely robbery. You’re paying for the software to hold your hand. If you don’t need that, they’re pretty much pointless.

I don’t remember what program it was but I once went to configure something, and the command to “open settings” essentially just opened a text file in vim.

Being a nano scrub that took me a second to get out of.

A laptop is a great place to start.

I like using desktop components as I’ve been able to incrementally upgrade the ram, CPU, and drives as the years go by. A lot of people also really like using single board computers.

The only thing I’d recommend against are pre-built NASes. Theyre proprietary AF and so overpriced for what you get if you don’t need the handholding of the consumer NAS software.

One thing I recommend doing, is keeping step by step notes on everything you set up, and keep a list of files and folders you’d need to keep to easily run whatever you’re running on a new system.

That way, moving to a new system, changing your config, or reinstalling the OS is so much easier. A couple years down the line you’ll be thanking yourself for writing down how the hell you configured that one thing years back.

Almost every problem I’ve had was due to me not accounting for some quirk of my config that I’d forgotten about.

And that would apply with a VPS, too, if you end up going that route.

Yes. Yes they can.

Good companies will have measures to ensure customer privacy, all the way up to ridiculous level stuff like keeping servers inside electrically touch-sensing cages with biometrically locked entrances that can only be entered with a customer representative present.

So generally there shouldn’t be a cause for concern with any respectable provider.

Then again, running a server at home isn’t that bad. My dad did it, he still does it, and now I do, too. We are each others’ off-site backup.

The main issue is usually whether you have access to a suitable internet connection. If you want to access your stuff out-of-home, that is.

The hardware can be almost anything. Depending on what you want to run, you usually don’t have to be picky. My machine was built, and gets upgraded, using dirt-cheap parts off the used market, always a couple generations behind the latest hardware.

The only thing I buy new are the hard-drives.

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My cat gets his claws stuck in things.

No, they’re not overgrown. Hes able to fully retract them out of the way. He just. Doesn’t.

Not once, ever, have I seen him relax his leg and calmly lift the paw off to unstick the claws. Instead he only ever pulls harder and more violently, which makes retraction impossible due to how the force pulls on the claws. He will struggle more and more fervently until whatever thread, carpet or rope he is stuck in, is the thing that gives.

If he’s really stuck, I sometimes help him by pulling on the stuck limb to give the claws enough slack to come unstuck. This has not led him get the hint.

Nextcloud notes finally got good enough to replace google keep a while ago.

Been happily using that since.

I actually find that the best way to see the dirt on my displays, is to place a bright light at the edge of it.

This causes every particle and smudge on the screen to catch the light and cast a shadow across the surface of the glass.

You’d think it wouldn’t work on a transparent material, but no, it lights up every speck of dirt like the way a ray of sunlight reveals the dust that is invisible but always there, floating around mid air.