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I can't answer each bullet (and a couple are dependant on other things like drive speed, activity, and network throughput) but I've been using shucked external HDDs for over a decade and would recommend it. I used to use OpenMediaVault running in a VM on Proxmox and briefly tried TrueNAS, but I've since migrated all of my VMs to LXCs, so now I just have the drives mounted on the Proxmox host directly combined with mergerfs (not managed by Proxmox's storage pools) and I pass it through to a Turnkey Linux file server LXC via bind mounts to share over SMB/NFS. Less overhead and LXCs can share CPU/memory dynamically while VMs can't.

You should be able to replace that /mnt/external directory with no issues as long as the structure is the same within.

I'm playing through Morrowind for the first time right now (past a few hours in at least), and I've been blown away at just how much more interesting of a plot and setting it has compared to everything Bethesda ever made after it. The miss chance, spell fail chance, and non-regenerating magicka were always enough to scare me away before, but I finally understood what a huge impact fatigue has on everything, and how much more terrible you are at low-level skills compared to their later games.

I also like the progression of my character walking around slow as shit at level 1 taking forever to get anywhere vs running around at 30mph jumping from canton to canton in Vivec like it's nothing now.

You're sure you wouldn't rather switch to moonlight: vendor lock-in edition?

Lame, I knew they were out there but I guess I'm lucky I haven't witnessed anything that blatant yet.

I've played a bunch of Deadlock but I haven't suspected anyone of cheating yet, what are you seeing?

Yeah, I wish the PC corporation that makes all of our PCs would stop paying devs to make their games PC exclusive all the time.

Horrendous take.

I just add the search to firefox and you can get the same functionality without needing to use another site to get to the one you want to search on.

I've never used EndeavourOS or Manjaro, but if you're looking for something similar to Bazzite (gaming-ready, not immutable) and Arch-based I'd check out CachyOS. I've been using it for a good while now and I really like it.

If Netscape had a large paid install base and still failed because a free browser became ubiquitous, what makes you think doing that now when the free browsers are already ubiquitous would work? Especially when it also has to compete with what is essentially already what you're describing, Librewolf (or just Firefox + Arkenfox).

I would walk around with a kishi shoved up my ass for storage before I would try playing a platformer using that d-pad.

There is no reason for this to exist. You can already just use your phone with similar controllers, except designed by someone who has actually played a video game before.

That's any recompilation, the game has to be decompiled manually first.

That reddit thread is horrible advice, it's just mapping the LXC root user to the host root user, which is just a privileged LXC with extra steps (and maybe less secure).

The reason you're probably having issues is that your root user in the LXC is mapped to the host user 100000 by default, and that user doesn't have access to the share, but you can change that with mount options or creating a user with 100000:100000 and adding it to a group with access.

Why would it need to be "okayed"? If they're not providing the files then they're not infringing on any IP.

Gnome is very functional, it's just meant to function one very specific way.

This is just a non-VR version of Bigscreen, which has been around for close to a decade (still in beta lol)

I use Tautulli, but I'm not sure if that is going to cover all the same use cases.

I haven't gotten around to spinning it up yet, but I was just looking into this myself and was going to try out Pinchflat. If anyone has used it and has any feedback I'd love to hear it.

I was between it and Tube Archivist.

This has strong "nobody needs a monitor over 120Hz because the human eye can't see it" logic. Transparency is completely subjective and people have different perceptions and sensitivities to audio and video compression artifacts. The quality of the hardware playing it back is also going to make a difference, and different setups are going to have a different ceiling for what can be heard.

The vast majority of people are genuinely going to hear zero difference between even 320kbps and a FLAC but that doesn't mean there actually is zero difference, you're still losing audio data. Even going from a 24-bit to a 16-bit FLAC can have a perceptible difference.

Nobody "needs" to listen to music over Bluetooth at all, but why not make it sound like it's supposed to?