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  • It's so we can download all of his downloads from his web server.

  • Fabric with some performance-enhancing mods is a great choice as well, yes! I've been wanting to test it on my server for a while now, just haven't got around to it yet.

    Paper changes some of the more quirky vanilla redstone behavior, although - again - it's very configurable so some of that original behavior can be restored.

    I'd mostly base it on which plugin/mod ecosystem you prefer/require.

  • World simulation (ticks) is single-threaded, but things like world generation are multithreaded. I'd recommend Paper as server software as it's more performant out of the box (vs. vanilla) and configurable (ex. how many threads world generation is allowed to use).

    If you host multiple worlds I recommend spinning up a Paper instance for each world separately and connect them with Velocity.

    Ryzen 7000 should have better single-threaded performance than your i5-9500 but as it's a VM ymmv depending on whether Sparked Host overprovisions their machines.

  • McLaren sure had their fair share of "rookie weekends" last year :D.

  • Obviously depends a lot on the car, and should they have the best car in Australia, there's still Leclerc to win against, and he's no slouch.

  • They run their own registry at lscr.io. You can essentially prefix all your existing linuxserver image names with lscr.io/ to pull them from there instead.

  • I can type 60-70 WPM on the virtual keyboard of my phone without autocorrect. While that's nowhere near the speed of me using a regular-sized physical keyboard, I can't type that fast on a physical phone-sized keyboard like a Blackberry one.

    I know quite a few people miss these physical smartphone keyboards, but I'd argue they were never all that great. YMMV.

  • With help from Valve developers and some features still missing, most notably hardware-accelerated video en-/decode.

  • Many people buy games outside of Steam. Sure, relatively speaking it's a minority and if a game is available on Steam and elsewhere, most will pick it up on Steam.

    But part of the reason why Steam is so good is because these other platforms exist and there's nothing actually stopping anyone from buying their games from other stores. Cloud saves, game streaming/remote play, online play, family sharing and many more features are all free/included with the game purchase on Steam and they also pioneered many of these features. Steam Workshop adds great value as well, there isn't anything remotely comparable on any proprietary console.

    Steam is good because it has to be in order for people to choose to use it.

    And "deep discounts" are the same as ever, I see some games 90% off on sales events. Sure, successful AAA titles usually don't get a big discount 2 weeks after release, but in the end the publisher sets the pricing anyway. Generally, even when comparing full price, games are just cheaper on Steam compared to PSN (10 to sometimes 20 $/โ‚ฌ for big titles).

  • Not being publicly traded makes this very different from Microsoft, actually.

  • That's the biggest problem I have with consoles. They're essentially expensive boxes that are tied to a single service, in this case PSN.

    You don't like their store pricing, DRM or other policies? Yeah, well, unlucky. Sell your box and buy a different one (or don't). Too expensive to play online on PSN? Well unlucky, because that's the only way to play online. If it's more expensive tomorrow, you better pay if you want online play or you'll be locked out.

    Xbox now locks out uncertified controllers, maybe PlayStation as well? Even their own previous controllers (DualShock 4) don't support playing PS5 games on PS5, so if you want to play a 4 player couch coop game you better own 4 controllers specific to that one console. I get it, the new controller has some new features like "adaptive triggers" - but that's entirely optional. Heck, you can play the PS5 games ported to PC with a DualShock 4 on a PC/Steam Deck.

  • Isn't "little" even now unless you always buy day one.

  • Yeah it's definitely more "logical" and easier to use the way uMatrix does it.

  • I just can't really resell a disk I've drilled through (at the very least it'd lose most of its remaining value). And while I can try to post a sign in front of my door stating that I'd like to physically destroy my disks before they get stolen, I doubt most thieves would respect that.

  • That's one of the reasons why I encrypt pretty much all my disks, even those in stationary computers. It protects data from physical theft, but also gives peace of mind when reselling or even when a disk dies in a way that won't let you overwrite it with zeroes/random data after the fact.

  • โ€œWhen we withdrew from Formula 1, Red Bull decided to establish its own power unit company,โ€ Watanabe told Motorsport.com.

    โ€œThat is why there was basically no room to work together.โ€

    Or, you know, maybe it had to do with the fact that you decided to leave the sport which is why Red Bull started RBPT in the first place.

    Just a thought.

  • Until it starts breaking, like it did for me upgrading from Fedora 39 to 40 for example.

    Or until you try to bind mount a volume of a container and need to use z or Z flags.