Every time this franchise comes up I just find myself remembering all the fun I had with BF2 and 2142. I wanna play those again…

BF4 was actually pretty great fun too.

Now I’m just so over it.

Secure boot is a good feature to protect against certain kinds of threats, but “you can’t run this entertainment software because you aren’t running a completely Microsoft-prescribed system” is a super lame use of it.

A needle in a tumbleweed, if you will. :p

Yeah, it’s crazy it was hiding this long but I see this as a win that they dealt with it so swiftly and show they take their package security seriously.

I will definitely say I wish encryption setup was a lot easier in Linux. Windows is like “wanna Bitlocker?” Done.

With most Linux installers, if you’re not installing in a very default way, and clicking that box to encrypt the drive, it’s time to go seriously digging. For a while.

I managed to encrypt a secondary drive with the same password on my EndeavourOS laptop, but I still need to enter the same password 2 times before getting into the OS.

I consider that a feat, and I’m not touching it for fear of losing everything lol.

Both can be true!

I think we need to avoid the monkey-brain tendency to want to assign tribalistic moral judgement tags based on OS usage. Rotten folks can use Linux and Windows as much as anybody else.

High profile usage of Linux? Neat! By that guy? Bummer. Such is the duality of free choice. =\

Thanks for the thorough background here, because I think most people (including myself) who just ignored him this whole time aren’t seeing this whole picture.

Like the comments above, they’re seeing what looks like a petty morality crusade years after a guy who makes stupid videos let a bad word slip, which, yeah, looks ridiculous out of context.

PewDiePie has been a right wing fucker that has eased a shit ton of young people into the alt-right pipeline for years.

Why am I not surprised, that this world’s definition of success always seems to go hand-in-hand with bigoted fascism?

It’s also a very chicken-or-egg question I think. I’m genuinely curious: Do internet/podcast/streamer celebrities get their status from already being like this, and signaling the fashy bros club that they’re ready to join the “in group” , or do they get pulled and influenced into that circle because they innocently found success from stupid videos?

Is social media influencing this directly via an algorithm that simply draws the connection between right-wing extremist ideals and capital wealth?

I feel so tragically for young folks. So much of anything pulling for their attention anymore is a targeted psy-op to “pipeline” them into some kind of zealotous soldier or another.

The Internet used to be about cats and gaming used to be a hobby divorced from political office except when someone tried to argue they “cause violence” every few years.

100% with you on that one.

I really enjoy the discussions here, even if it’s a little slower paced sometimes. (And I find that to be a feature!)

I’ve come to feel that technology is for anyone , but not necessarily for everyone , at least, not all at once.

It seems like a series of Eternal Septembers are usually coaxed along by corporate interests to spur mass-adoption for fun and profit, and the existing communities that get flooded tend to suffer for it, because there’s no time to support or acclimate the newbies to the community, and they bring their existing assumptions with them.

Granted, we’re gonna end up with /r/sinkpissers. Lol

All seriousness, there’s a lot of neat communities I wish would find their way here. Heck, I wish there was a way to just export the history over so old archived data wasn’t lost forever.

Hey, that’s pretty rad! Way to go! Exciting to see a new system monitor show up! :)

Up all night, and all you got to see was a boob

Sometimes a boob who spent the previous night compiling a custom webcam driver. :(

How complex is making a roll-your-own NAS?

It really depends on what you want out of it. I personally installed ProxMox on an old gaming machine (DDR3 RAM old lol) and have an Open Media Vault virtual machine running on it with access to my ZFS mirrored pair of storage drives.

Enabling Samba support in Open Media Vault gives you a nice little NAS. I believe it’s okay to install bare metal if you really want to also.

It also has a nice Docker interface, so although I should probably not bundle services together so tightly, it runs things like Jellyfin for media, Paperless NGX for document storage, and NextCloud AIO for a convenient (if slightly resource-hungry) interface.

ProxMox lets me do fun things though, like back up the VMs, spin up virtual machines for PiHole ad blocking and Klipper for controlling my 3D printer.

My most important data gets synced to a subscription to a service called iDrive as my offsite. Pretty affordable for 5TB and my own encryption keys. :)

I want to stress that I’m not an IT professional or anything either. If you’re reasonably comfortable with Linux and understand some basic networking, I’d say at least getting Proxmox and/or Open Media Vault up and running so you can access it on your home network isn’t too hard.

Outside of that, and if you want HTTPS and stuff? There’s lots of guides but I would recommend using TailScale instead of opening any ports to the web.

Sorry if this post was meandering but hope it gave you a little bit to go on! :)

Hey, points for Lutris! Thanks for sharing!

I’ve had issues in the past installing stuff with Lutris, although for advanced scenarios like using community engines and stuff, that’s really cool. I definitely have both installed on my machine for different reasons. Lutris handles EA / Origin stuff pretty well. (Titanfall 2 and Sims 2 Ultimate (not the Steam one) run beautifully on Linux, truly glorious!)

Electron annoys me as well, but I will say that I appreciate how Heroic hooks into GoG APIs. It handles auto-updates, cloud saving, play time logging, that kinda stuff that made Galaxy decent and had a degree of convenience-parity with Steam.

(Maybe Lutris does this too now?)

For a complete newbie , I’d say Heroic has a bit of a smoother and expected ramp to just “Download game and run.” But if you want more control, Lutris definitely has more options!

I also can’t recommend Bottles enough for other games that aren’t from distribution platforms. Shockingly simple.

Off the top of my head:

Gmail or any email: Thunderbird is pretty sweet and I need to use it more, but mostly just use the web clients anyway.

If you own GoG games, you can use Heroic Launcher instead of GoG Galaxy. It’s gotten amazingly good, really fast. :)

That was my thought…

“Somehow they got the Plex app installed…”

Jellyfin somehow works on freaking Roku, even, and WELL. Just give the URL to connect to, they pick a profile, and boom, “Netflix who?”.

(Also, unlike Netflix, it’s not BOMBARDING my PiHole with a gazillion telemetry requests per freaking second holy crap NF calm down. It’s a treat when I have something I want to watch on my Jellyfin drives lol.)

Not gonna lie before I read your handle I thought these were all named after ways of passively-aggressively clearing your throat. 😂

“error: hostname must not be left blank.” lol

I just read this as:

you’re sat in front of a CEO

the fun stops.

Agreed. Lol

“Have you been to the cloud district lately? Oh what am I saying, of course you haven’t!”

Ha! Clever and humerus!

Like after specific Terminator models, or characters or…?

Lol just had a funny thought:

“What’s the server’s name?”

“Max”

T800@localhost: ping Wolfie
PING Wolfie (192.168.1.10): 65 bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.123 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.110 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.115 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.118 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.121 ms

--- Wolfie ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.110/0.117/0.123 ms

“Your server is pwned…”