MentalEdge

Video games as a medium, is still new. And that state of so much you could drown in it, is also new.

Just a couple decades ago you could conceivably play every game ever made, and then be left thirsting for something new.

And games are plateauing technologically, if not mechanically. New games are no longer better, just because they’re newer, with nicer graphics, bigger worlds and smoother gameplay. That stuff has been figured out.

Now you have to make games better, by making them better.

It makes sense, unfortunately.

They don’t want to compete with older games. For a time, new games would innovate technologically and qualitatively, but that isn’t always the case anymore.

There are so many amazing games to play. If you wanted to, you could cut off all future content from this day on, and still have more than enough to remain entertained for the rest of your life.

Some studios are still pushing the envelope, but others have stuck with one “as a service” game for almost a decade now. Others still are making stuff that is objectvly unworthy of being played compared to earlier games.

If you can’t make each game better than the last, people will just go back to the last game. But if you take away the last game, they’ll go to the new game simply because the same game but worse is still better than nothing.

And that’s true overrall, too. If you like games, but can’t play your favorite game anymore, you’ll probably end up trying to find something new.

Yeah no it doesn’t require that either.

You can add additional library folder locations from steam settings. As many as you like, on whatever drives you like. If they don’t work that way, then something is wrong with the filesystem, and symlinking can’t fix that.

The downloads folder is just a temp file directory for game files while they are being downloaded, it’s not where the games actually get installed. I’m not sure why symlinking that anywhere would make any kind of difference.

No it doesn’t.

Using windows filesystems on linux is simply not a good idea.

NTFS in particular does not support the permission system Linux uses, at all. Linux is able to kind of pretend there’s a working permissions system to access the files, but I’ve never gotten it to work well.

But I was a lot less knowledgeable then than now so it may have some degree of user error.

TBF, eerything getting deleted should be straight up impossible no matter what the user does.

Did you ever find out what the actual cause was there?

Nothing like this has ocurred for me in over a year of use. And if it does, my nexycloud data folder is on a btrfs volume with regular snapshots, and backed up onto off-site storage.

If it’s still a problem I’d love to replicate and help with a fix.

I used to use google keep, and also struggled to find something which would work between my phone and desktop.

Eventually Nextcloud notes improved enough to be the replacement that satisfies.

It’s all markdown, existing as files in your nextcloud folder. That meant exporting my google keep was easy.

The desktop and mobile app are both simple but sufficient IMO. Make sure to install the rich text editor app for nextcloud, or you’ll have to write plaintext markdown.

The downside is that if you don’t already run nextcloud, setting it up is beyond overkill. Then again, you may find use for the many, many other things it can do, too.

They are genuinely useful devices, in that they simplify the process of running what is essentially a home server, down to something the average person can pull off by just buying a box and slotting some drives into it, then use a simple UI to configure whatever basic services they like.

For just the hardware, they’re absolutely robbery. You’re paying for the software to hold your hand. If you don’t need that, they’re pretty much pointless.

A laptop is a great place to start.

I like using desktop components as I’ve been able to incrementally upgrade the ram, CPU, and drives as the years go by. A lot of people also really like using single board computers.

The only thing I’d recommend against are pre-built NASes. Theyre proprietary AF and so overpriced for what you get if you don’t need the handholding of the consumer NAS software.

One thing I recommend doing, is keeping step by step notes on everything you set up, and keep a list of files and folders you’d need to keep to easily run whatever you’re running on a new system.

That way, moving to a new system, changing your config, or reinstalling the OS is so much easier. A couple years down the line you’ll be thanking yourself for writing down how the hell you configured that one thing years back.

Almost every problem I’ve had was due to me not accounting for some quirk of my config that I’d forgotten about.

And that would apply with a VPS, too, if you end up going that route.

Yes. Yes they can.

Good companies will have measures to ensure customer privacy, all the way up to ridiculous level stuff like keeping servers inside electrically touch-sensing cages with biometrically locked entrances that can only be entered with a customer representative present.

So generally there shouldn’t be a cause for concern with any respectable provider.

Then again, running a server at home isn’t that bad. My dad did it, he still does it, and now I do, too. We are each others’ off-site backup.

The main issue is usually whether you have access to a suitable internet connection. If you want to access your stuff out-of-home, that is.

The hardware can be almost anything. Depending on what you want to run, you usually don’t have to be picky. My machine was built, and gets upgraded, using dirt-cheap parts off the used market, always a couple generations behind the latest hardware.

The only thing I buy new are the hard-drives.

He sure is

My cat gets his claws stuck in things.

No, they’re not overgrown. Hes able to fully retract them out of the way. He just. Doesn’t.

Not once, ever, have I seen him relax his leg and calmly lift the paw off to unstick the claws. Instead he only ever pulls harder and more violently, which makes retraction impossible due to how the force pulls on the claws. He will struggle more and more fervently until whatever thread, carpet or rope he is stuck in, is the thing that gives.

If he’s really stuck, I sometimes help him by pulling on the stuck limb to give the claws enough slack to come unstuck. This has not led him get the hint.

Nextcloud notes finally got good enough to replace google keep a while ago.

Been happily using that since.

You do know a free expansions DLC has been in the works this whole time, and still is?

Pretty sure the internet archive is dealing with Petabytes, if not Exabytes.

Both are perfectly serviceable, but for the self-hosted storage/office suite combo, Collabora simply fits into Nextcloud better. Which is likely why you don’t see OnlyOffice discussed much.

Collabora is just more integrated. The NC and Collabora developers actually directly collaborate on integrating it into NC as the “official” office suite.

And AFAIK the backend of Collabora is simply LibreOffice, meaning the “desktop” version is: LibreOffice. The UI is the same, too, though they might’ve diverged since I last used LibreOffice on desktop.

Personally I’m not really concerned with formats, as long as I can finish documents as PDFs, and Collabora has brought a google-drive-like experience to my nextcloud instance that OnlyOffice didn’t manage. Either way I was able to do a google takeout of my drive storage, and just plop that into my nextcloud. But with Collabora, actually interacting with the resulting files within the nextcloud UI has been nicer.

I guess by libre office you’re not referring to Collabora?

Collabora is the online version of Libre, and absolutely integrates with mobile, nextcloud, web browsers, collaboration, etc.

I initially used OnlyOffice with my Nextcloud instance, but switched to Collabora with my own CODE server once I realized it was MUCH more thoroughly integrated into nextcloud.

Yeah. I’m basically saying that being happy right now is a good thing, as long as it doesn’t come at the expense of someone else, or your future.

So many people live miserable lives thinking it’ll make them even happier later, completely ignoring that life should be worth it right now.

Ok?

Did I not pretty explicitly allude to the need to not over-indulge?

This is why hedonism is a good thing.

You just can’t be so hedonistic that you can’t keep being one next year, and the year after. Or in a way that screws someone over.