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It depends on the size/"disruptiveness" of the company but yeah. You either have your own tape back up system or you contract out to someone who does and try not to think about what it means to be doing a glorified rsync of all your data offsite every week.

I wouldn't quite go so far as to say anyone doing genuine offsite backups using a spinning disc is wrong but...

The caveat I'll carve out is the hobbyist space where a lot of us will back up truly essential data to a cloud bucket or even a friend/family member's NAS. I... still think that is more wrong than not but (assuming you trust them and they have proper practices) it is probably the best way for a hobbyist to keep a backup without worrying about that USB drive degrading since it gets plugged in once a year.

Words hard

And I would go so far as to say that nobody who is buying 36 TB spinners is doing offsite backups of that data. For any org doing offsites of that much data you are almost guaranteed using a tape drive of some form because... they pay for themselves pretty fast and are much better for actual cold storage backups.

Seagate et al keep pushing for these truly massive spinners and I really do wonder who the market is for them. They are overly expensive for cold storage and basically any setup with that volume of data is going to be better off slowly rotating out smaller drives. Partially because of recovery times and partially because nobody but a sponsored youtuber is throwing out their 24 TB drives because 36 TB hit the market.

I assume these are a byproduct of some actually useful tech that is sold to help offset the costs while maybe REALLY REALLY REALLY want 72 TBs in their four bay Synology.

Assuming you aren't striping, up to 36 TB. If you follow even halfway decent practices with basically any kind of RAID other than 0, hopefully 0 Bytes.

The main worry with stuff like this is that it potentially takes a while to recover from a failed drive even if you catch it in time (alert systems are your friend). And 36 TB is a LOT of data to work through and recover which means a LOT of stress on the remaining drives for a few days.

All signs are that is the "next xbox"

Migrating the Series to Windows would end horribly. Theoretically there can be a path from xbox OS to windows but it is going to be a pretty large update and will be prone to erroring out. And it also feels like a REAL good way to accidentally jailbreak your own consoles. And people already (rightfully) lose their shit when MS change the dashboard every year to add even more ads and make it even harder to find your god damned games.

I forget what The Leakers are saying but this console generation more or less started in 2020 and we are coming up on the 5th year. Assuming a 7 to 8 year cycle, the XBOX 2 Pi would be coming out as early as Fall of 2027. So massive software/firmware hell combined with support burden versus potentially breaking their lockstep with Sony and trying to pivot more toward the Nintendo "We are your second console" mindset. Except that your "second console" is also your netflix box and your MS word box and how you watch pornhub and so forth. Especially if said "XBOX 2 Pi" is more just branding and HTPCs from existing vendors.

So... Steam Boxes. And those totally weren't a horrible failure.

800-1200 for a low end "gaming laptop" isn't super out of the realm.

Figuring out (meaningful) specs on the Z2s is... hard but https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/handheld-gaming-pcs/amds-baffling-new-ryzen-z2-apus-for-handheld-gaming-pcs-include-a-premium-ai-model-with-an-npu-and-seemingly-the-ancient-chip-from-valves-steam-deck/ seems to be the best comparison out there and it sounds like it is within the realm of the Steam Deck plus AI Magic NPU. Which is potentially incredibly good in a handheld for upscaling/framegen purposes if you roll that way (I don't care if you do or don't).

And the ROG Ally 2023s seem to be at the 650-900 range. So new chip gen combined with pre-pricing for tariffs and those are "reasonable" if you like the rest of the ROG specs. Personally? I think a 120 Hz 1080p display on a handheld is idiotic but if it is your only device there might be an argument. I forget if those support VRR.

But yeah. Definitely feels like another increasingly common MS fail which is becoming increasingly the case as they devote all of their competency toward enabling genocide (friendly reminder that BDS encourages boycotting of MS)

But with the Switch 2 just launching and being the perfect device that will give you a handy while you play? And the Steam Deck still kind of the best all arounder for closer to half the price than not? Really feels like this is being sent out to die.

GoG is very much about the marketing of game preservation. That said, to my knowledge, they (like Steam) don't remove it from your account. Just from the store. So if you bought it, you can still play it.

GoG is a bit better in that their DRM model only requires you to authenticate to download, not reinstall. So you can theoretically archive all of your purchases if you have way more storage than you should. But it also is horrible at surfacing when an installer has an update so... mostly this is only viable for truly dead games.

I like GoG a lot as a platform but it has always rubbed me wrong that they pretend they are focused on game preservation. But that also might be because I am old enough to remember The French Monk incident.

Auto scaling feels good IF it encourages you to play smarter or adapt.

Rimworld's model encourages you to build the same death funnels/mazes on every single colony.

Which I think is my biggest complaint. Okay, no, the edgelord bullshit is my biggest. My SECOND biggest is that Rimworld is just so clearly designed around an optimum path. Whereas games like Dwarf Fortress or Oxygen Not Included very much are about actually running a colony. Making sure needs are satisfied and prioritizing them. Not "oh. Okay. The game decided I had too much food stockpiled so five meteors just hit my solar farm".

I want to like Rimworld but every time I even think of giving it another go it is like a massive wave of fans come out of the woodwork to scream about how they are all cannibals with slaves locked up to make pleasure farms and just... yeah.

Also I am not a fan of the storyteller system. It is nice that you get some variety but it mostly just boils down to tedium (and I think most players just switch to Random Ricky or whatever so it won't actively destroy their colonies?). And, overall, I don't like that you can go from success to wipe in like ten days. I am not saying everything needs to be Dwarf Fortress "Oh... we have been in a fail state for ten years..." but I do prefer there to be a long enough time period to actually realize I done fucked up.

Which is irrelavent when the vast majority of americans STILL don't know the first thing about trump other than his slogans.

People genuinely take pride in not reading articles (or, as is obnoxiously common on lemmy, losing their god damned minds over a paywall). Same with how nobody watches the news and takes pride in "valuing my mental health"

The vast majority of those voters likely only knew about trump from a few clips from his rallies or hearing a "friend" talk about him. They never actually listened to a complete non-sentence or looked at any of the policy stances.

Which, to be clear, is not an excuse. It is an explanation.

The thing to understand is that people are deeply stupid and revel in their own ignorance.

Black males, like genz and hispanic males and..., mostly just said "I don't like my life under Biden. We need a change" and voted for "the other guy". Some were indoctrinated by their right wing (or tankie dumbfuck) influencers. Others just figured they were being cool and "we need to shake things up in DC".

Yes. That is the security theatre part of it.

A metal detector would only matter if that were an electronically triggered shoe device. And the x-ray/"scanner", as mentioned, has trouble distinguishing between different materials and also works best if it is an electronically triggered shoe device. A fuse and a lighter ain't it.

Again. There are ways to actually be secure. That isn't what TSA (or their national equivalents) is about.

So people were protesting. The cops opened fire, shot one of their own, and spun it as said protesters who

individuals dressed in black, military-style clothing began shooting fireworks and engaging in acts of vandalism at the facility,

Were ACTUALLY ambushing and trying to murder cops.

Financing can actually be an incredibly good idea if you expect inflation to increase at a greater rate than the interest. It literally saves you effective money.

That said, it also tends to involve a credit pull (which hurts said interest rates) and becomes a monthly bill.

So if you can afford the monthly bill AND it is a meaningfully large purchase AND you have every reason to expect inflation to increase more than the interest rate? It is actually a pretty good idea.

For even a 200 dollar battle pass: no, it is not.

Don't worry everyone. I don't like musk any more than you do but you can't deny that space x is amazing and perfect and sexy and not Jewish and will solve all problems because nobody else in human history ever thought of a reusable vessel!

And this is definitely a "good" reminder to reach out to a buddy at NASA

Understand the Steam Controller came out 10 years ago and was meant to be used in the decade or two prior to that when "real PC games" didn't support gamepads. Contrast that with today where CRPGs and RTSes often have official bindings.

There are two ways to use a trackpad. The first is to swipe (like a laptop trackpad) and the second is press and hold. For the former, the delta between where your thumb is and where it was is used to translate to cursor movement. For the latter, think of it like an analog stick. The center of the trackpad is 0 and your input is the delta between 0 and the location of your thumb at this moment.

So press and hold lets it emulate an analog stick and swiping is very useful for moving a cursor on the screen. And there are/were plenty of ways to switch between the modes on the fly.

The bottle of water actually has real reasons behind it.

For the scanners the TSA (used to?) uses, it is REALLY hard to distinguish between liquids. Water looks like shampoo looks like hot sauce looks like the magic binary liquid that Bruce Willies had to solve riddles to save Hey Zeus from. So a bottle of "water" actually is a big safety concern... yet apparently a quart of miscellaneous liquids totally isn't and I won't expand on that because I am already on too many watchlists.

Which makes it kind of unique in that it is (was?) a very valid safety concern AND extra hilarious in that it highlights the theatre of it all because of that. It also gets MUCH MUCH funnier when international flights pretend it is about protecting ecosystems even though everyone just chugs their water or empties it into a bin.

For funsies, the shoes thing will probably end up being a huge headache but has different rationales. Back in the before times, everyone had metal buckles and eyelets and so forth on their shoes. That... really hasn't been true for over 30 years where shoes are almost all rubber and plastics. But the former would trigger the metal detector.

That said? People who wear nicer boots still tend to have enough metal to trigger it (the bane of the pre-check line). So either they turn off the metal detector below the knee or EVERY queue is going to be the pre-check line at seatac.

That would actually be awesome.

I like Kenshi a lot. But it really feels like Gothic in that the start of any given character more or less feels identical. Same steps to get to the point where you can start doing the stuff that actually makes the game really fun. A lot of CRPGs in the 00s/early 10s had that problem and Kenshi ramps it up to 16.

Yeah...

I liked the concept of GK and the core loop (particularly corpse handling) was great for plate spinning. But they just kept adding more and more and more. And it didn't help that buying one "wrong" tech could mean you have to spend four or five weeks grinding enough research points of one color. Like, it is very much designed in the Call of Duty "number go up, bells and whistles" mindset.

But I think my biggest issue was that it is... it isn't an edgelord game but it definitely feels like it REALLY loves Family Guy if you catch my drift. So whereas a Stardew or even a Kynseed has a world that you care about enough to put the time in, Graveyard Keeper actively makes me want to just walk away from everything. And apparently there isn't even any closure on the core story since they wanted to leave it open for a sequel.

I think Dave the Diver did a much better job of just endless plate spinning. But I also noped out of that once I was up to like four different daily tasks, and three or four opportunity tasks, all while the story was being randomly padded out for no apparent reason.

I mean... if you look at what I bought in the past five years you would think everyone was obsessed with spreadsheets and 100 hour CRPGs. That doesn't change the fact that the vast majority of games are made with cross platform in mind and many historically "M+KB only" games have excellent gamepad support. Sometimes, annoyingly, only in the console build but...

Yes. I do think Steam Input is awesome (even if it was basically just a cleaner interface to xpadder/joy2key). That isn't the Steam Controller. The Steam Controller is what Valve was using to promote The Steam Machines which was their failed attempt at a console.

Again, just to make this clear: I am not saying the Steam Controller was bad. I am not saying Valve is bad. I AM saying it was not "forward thinking" and was very much rooted in a PC gaming era that was ending as orders were being shipped out.