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While the majority of playtime still happens on my desktop PC, the Steam Deck has completely replaced my Switch. When I still used that one the biggest pain point besides stick drift was that I had to hack my console and then manually transfer save files and also double-purchase games when I wanted to take them on the go. Doing that got me (unsurprisingly) banned.

With the Steam Deck cloud saves are a free feature instead and I don't need to buy games twice either, which probably already amortized a good chunk of the price of the Steam Deck. So yeah, pretty good value.

It's certainly not wrong to take a look into Microsoft and its subscription business, but I don't see much success in pressing this particular point: Not only was there always some sort of free version of Teams since 2018, but since 2022 there has been a Teams Essentials subscription, a version that doesn't bundle O356.

If anything I'd like some compensation for the loss in sanity you get trying to understand the dozen different subscriptions and (incompatible) versions of Teams, all of which are confusingly named.

I'd lean towards the SDI Origin version since it's the only one still being maintained, which, on the surface, seems kinda important for a tool that's supposed to fetch the latest drivers.

(You'd better not ask me for my opinion on these crappy modded versions of Windows though. Using a OS that's not capable of getting updates is a mindbogglingly stupid idea.)

The profile page OP linked says "Since 2006", so ~17 years.

But as you said, that's still a lot. I didn't start too much later and am "only" at 128.8 days.

First up: You don't really need these tools from Win8 onwards, as every driver should get automatically get installed. Just download the newest GPU driver if it's a gaming PC and you're done.

That said, this seems to be a case similar to uBlock and uBlock Origin: SDI is the "original" version and the last update was in 2017. SDI Origin was split off some time in 2016 (due to some controversy?) and is maintained to this day.

I was about to say, aren't most e-Bikes still "dumb"? At least that's my experience here in Germany.

The problem is less about e-Bikes specifically and more about companies locking product features to their cloud, which is frustratingly happening more and more with just about everything that's electrical.

Had a hard time finding any recent information either, but with the recent release of 1.20 I've noticed that an Activitypub endpoint got added in the API and that permissions for it can be added to tokens. Seems very rudimentary so far though.

From my experience the "default" experience, which is Docker Desktop, is a pain, due to what you described. In particular, Linux containers and Windows file permissions just don't mix well.

Other than that, there's three options:

1. Docker Desktop, but used from WSL 2. This seems to be the cleanest solution nowadays. Never personally used it though. Officially supported.
2. Installing Docker inside WSL 2. Configuring this correctly is a bit of a pain and not really supported AFAIK.
3. Installing Docker in a VM, using the integrated Hyper-V functionality for example. The least amount of integration, but most reliable.

It doesn’t make any sense to me from the perspective that I’ve approached it.

I think you've already identified the issue. Docker is pretty "simple", but you've got to approach it from the right angle or else it doesn't make sense. Apart from suggesting the official documentation I can't give you much advice on how to learn it because my path to understanding Docker was pretty much just trying things out and iterating on it. That said here's a tips that could help:

• If you aren't using Docker Compose already, you really should. Just having your entire configuration for a service in a single file really helps.
• Aside from debugging, you normally aren't meant to run commands manually in a container. It's best to act like every container is just a black box that simply does its thing.
• If you need to edit config files, the easiest way is to just directly on the host if you're using bind mount volumes, or spin up a temporary container running Debian or Alpine for example that also has the Docker Volume mounted.

As @housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com has already mentioned, building your own images is also pretty helpful since it strips a lot of the "black magic" away and teaches you how to further "mod" existing images.

I'd guess that it might be related to how you've set up the virtual network adapter. This depends on the specifc virtualization software you use, but the adapter for HA should be be set to something called bridged network, meaning the VM gets its own IP on your home network, no routing or NAT in between. HA will struggle to connect with devices otherwise, as all these protocols weren't designed to work across multiple networks.

Sadly not anymore because I need my banking apps to work reliably. Making them work isn't the biggest problem, but I'll never know when an update blindsides me and breaks something.

On a sidenote, I'd really like to know why banks think that an ancient phone that hasn't seen a security update in years is somehow more secure than an up-to-date Lineage or GrapheneOS.

There aren't a lot of genuinely great mobile games, but Threes! is certainly one of them. What I like most about it is that it actually understands what it means to be a mobile game: Short rounds, no constant focus required and it can be put down at any time since continuing a round is pretty so easy as the complete state of the game is always visible to you.

And for everyone who likes Threes!, I'll also recommend Twinfold. It's a game clearly inspired by Threes but with some dungeon crawling and rogue-like elements added on top. Maybe not as tightly designed as Threes!, but with just as much love and detail put into it and its presentation.

For services that need to be public facing (Mastodon, Lemmy, Gitea...) I'm renting a VPS. Services that are only for personal use run on my home server and are only accessible through Wireguard, with the VPS acting as a "bridge" whenever I'm outside of my home network.

Yup. Although it seems like Nintendo is believing it as well, considering they didn't already shut the project down years ago. Either that or Nintendo just doesn't want to risk a second Bleem ruling, legalizing emulation even further.

Are we sure this isn't some elaborate piece of long-form satire? It's wild to me that they'd try to execute such a blatant cashgrab when the name Winamp stands for pretty much the opposite of what they're trying to peddle.

Apart from those little tools running in the background that get their own little "How to install and configure X" file, I don't keep a list. I just install things as I need them, copying back config files from a backup. It's less annoying and time consuming than one might expect and keeps the system slim by not installing what I never use anyway.

If you need something that packs more power than a Pi while still being somewhat energy efficient and small form factor then yes, the NUCs are generally pretty good.

Personally I'm running a NUC from 2018 with a 8th gen i3 that's pulling double duty as both a server running about ~10 docker containers, and as a media center.

The server part still runs flawlessly, though the media center part is getting a bit slow when opening websites on it.

As others have already said, one drawback is that there's only space for one drive, so at least a NAS or external USB storage is recommended for backups.

During the time I used a phone with an under-screen fingerprint sensor (Galaxy A70), there were three things I've learned:

1. After applying or removing a screen protector, it's important to rescan all fingerprints.
2. There may be an option in the settings where you can set whether you have a screen protector applied.
3. You can scan the same finger twice to improve success rate.

Though even with all that, a real fingerprint sensor is still better than an optical one.

Neat. I usually only watch videos from my PC, but that'll be great way to stock up on a few videos when traveling.

I'm using a combination of KeePassXC on Windows/Linux, KeePass2Android and Syncthing for database synchronization, plus a Yubikey for 2FA. Granted, it's not a setup I'd recommend towards non-tech people, but it would take a lot before I'd switch:

• Works completely local, so I never have to worry about being locked out for any reason.
• Despite that, I still get the benefits of online synchronization through Syncthing.
• KeePassXC has by far the most powerful autotype functionality, which is a big timesaver since I often need to type passwords into non-browser windows.

The last point in particular was a dealbreaker when trying out Bitwarden/Vaultwarden a few years ago.