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  • Recommended mini pc for a homelab?

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  • These universal statements are almost never true. What means "most"? All 3 that I have are more, some up to 25W. If they are "new", maybe. Not many that you can get on eBay are old enough that they will draw a noticeable amount. Add always, "it depends".

  • Recommended mini pc for a homelab?

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  • Lemmy has relatively good search, usually if you remember bits of the title that works?

    In any case: Both n100/n150 and raspi are in the <10W range. Obviously raspi is lower, but also A LOT slower and much worse connectivity. As the price is roughly comparable, I'd go for the much more capable N100/N150. Only go the full 'minipc' route if you don't mind the (probably) higher power usage, which can depend highly on model. Older (but cheap on eBay) models can be 25W on idle.

    Depending on what you actually need, I'd setup a Sync thing or NextCloud or something and go from there.

  • Vaultwarden while allowing family emergency access

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  • A VPS is like 5 bucks. Which isn't nothing but when used as a redundancy or place to send (reasonably sized) backups, it's cheaper than most alternatives. It's also still a form of "self hosting", at least for me.

    Exporting, maybe on a schedule, to a keepass to keep somewhere, also works of course. But when hosting the only/main instance at home you'll have at least one single point of failure, most likely many. Internet connection, server, network/switches, ...

  • [META] Are paid for, closed source projects, being advertised on this community, appropriate?

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  • 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.

  • [META] Are paid for, closed source projects, being advertised on this community, appropriate?

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  • 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.

  • This month's Windows 11 update broke the Recycle Bin, OneDrive, and possibly your PC's stability

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  • 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).

  • Valve antitrust lawsuit reportedly reveals lengths Steam owner is willing to go to prevent cheaper prices elsewhere

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  • I do appreciate the ability to download a fully offline installer from gog and the requirement that games be drm free. But people keep making statements similar to yours as if steam games have to include some form of drm. There is no such requirement. Steam can simply act as a downloader and patcher. Integrating stream services and failing to start if there is no steam or the active account doesn't own the game is completely up to the developer.

    So if they have a drm free build on gog, but the steam hype includes drm, that's cause the developer actively decided it should be like that.

    Popular game examples that do not include any drm in the steam version are Factorio and (the original) Kerbal Space Program. Once downloaded, you can freely copy the installation around, and just start the exe. These games start just fine.

  • Valve antitrust lawsuit reportedly reveals lengths Steam owner is willing to go to prevent cheaper prices elsewhere

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  • The service part only applies to copies sold that include steam keys and therefore use the steam-API related things (workshop, cloud saves). I haven't read about this specific case in detail, but as long as that use of steam for copies sold is part of what they wanted to leverage but essentially not pay for, that's obviously bull.

    This honestly is somewhat unexpected and I had to re-read the comment I replied to to understand it correctly, hence my misunderstanding of that aspect. It's unexpected cause ubisoft in particular for the longest time had their own "store" and games required at least their own launcher. I haven't played Ubisoft games in at least a decade, so I don't know/remember if the games reuired your own ubi-account, or if the games relied on Steams systems (workshop/cloud saves/...). I would've assumed no, and that they only use it as a downloader cause players essentially wouldn't buy it outside of steam (or at least not enough).

    Top be clear: if steam allows copies of a game listed on steam to be sold at an arbitrary price as long as that doesn't include a steam key, this is perfectly fine. Actively thinking about it now I would assume it does, as I'm pretty sure I bought games without steam keys for less than the listing on steam was.

  • Valve antitrust lawsuit reportedly reveals lengths Steam owner is willing to go to prevent cheaper prices elsewhere

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  • if you have a separate non-steam version you can charge whatever you want.

    This is the part that was unclear from the original comment. If that's in fact the case, that's obviously fine (and different from the Amazon case).

    why wouldn’t they?

    it's called "competetive pricing". If I'm a customer and have a steam account holding most of my games (like most PC gamers), why would I even consider buying it anywhere else if it isn't even cheaper and now I got games in like 3-5 stores with at least 2-3 launcher/downloaders/apps. No, this most likely won't make them more money but much much less with fewer people buying it there.

  • Valve antitrust lawsuit reportedly reveals lengths Steam owner is willing to go to prevent cheaper prices elsewhere

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  • Amazon got slapped with a substantial fine (in the EU) for having basically the same "rule" in their contracts, that forbid cheaper listings elsewhere. So yes, in the EU hanging that rule is illegal. But if it applies to digital licensing is another matter.

    You do know you're only renting access to the game with a one-time fee, not buying it, right?

    Edit: the original comment left it unclear if the price rule only applies to copies sold that include a steam key, or if copies that work completely without steam can be arbitrarily priced. If the latter is the case, it's obviously fine. If it includes any game version, it isn't OK.

  • AV2 Open-Source Video Codec Reaches Its First 1.0 Release

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  • The specification reaches is 1.0 release. It can now be implemented. Until this can actually be used and I'm a consumer friendly easy will be years. Not to mention when hardware acceleration will be available. We only relatively recently got that for AV1.

  • It's time to talk about my writerdeck - veronicaexplains

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  • Any reason it's not using zellij but still tmux? I thought this use case was basically what zellij was made for.

    To be clear, I'm seriously asking, I don't really use the terminal to host fully fledged applications/screens

  • Anticheat check - which competitive games actually work on Linux?

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  • Predecessor also works (3rd person moba, free to play).

    It uses easy anti chat, but the existing Linux compatibility in that is clearly turned on, which isn't to common unfortunately.

  • I'm looking for a cheap (~40$) smart ring

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  • Didn't pebble release a smart ring? I don't know the price, but from what I understand their newer stuff (since the relaunch) is either fully or mostly open source.

    I don't know if it includes the sensors you want though.

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    Subnautica 2 sells 2 million in 12 hours with over 600K concurrent players | Despite a troubled development cycle, the game has enjoyed a hugely successful launch

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  • I sure haven't, and won't. If that's what their leadership wants, I won't touch it with a 10 foot pole. There are many other games, I don't need to play this particular one that badly.

  • A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it

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  • These days, if you're not on Windows you can use luks or just zfs with encryption enabled. Code is open and can be audited by anyone. But yes, VeraCrypt to my knowledge is also still a viable option.

  • GNOME 51 Could End Up Replacing System Tools With "Resources" App

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  • It's not a rename. Resources if a different app that already exists and will be taking the place of the existing system monitor.

  • Bitwarden's new CEO has a Private Equity background, removed 'Inclusion' and 'Always Free' from their website -- because of course he did

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  • VaultWarden is still fine and unaffiliated. Should they change the official Bit warden client to no longer work with that back end, there will be solutions.

  • Be honest: Do you still use mainstream social media?

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  • I'm probably not "the norm", but the only mainstream social media I have ever used was Reddit, and that stopped like whenever the first big exodus happened (2 years? I think?). I never used Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram or whatever else was oo still is used by people.

    Now I'm assuming you mean "conversational" platforms that are mostly for talking to other people (or corporations these days). I do watch YouTube (not shorts), but to me and the way I use it that's closer to watching TV.