Don’t forget the Xash3D engine for GoldSrc games (e.g. Half-Life and mods). It runs on everything from a PSP to a PC. And it’s faithful. It relies on the original assets.

https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d-fwgs

Which Android phones did you have?

Or remove the battery if you can, to spare it from pillowing. I know it has the benefits of being a “psuedo-UPS”, but unless you also have your modem/router on a UPS, it’s pointless (internet goes out; you can’t access the laptop anyway).

Yeah, that’s the entire point. There’s a DeX program on PC that just lets you use DeX on your computer (using your phone). It basically just pipes the inputs and audio/video over USB, the the program. The latter is a much more niche use case.

What?

And the funny thing is I’d be fine with my 18 year old Steam account and 450 games (and a huge backlog).

Meanwhile I’m still enjoying Schedule I, which is made by a single dev and has “low quality” graphics by choice. We don’t need AAA games left and right; we need good, fun ones with strong foundations. Games that don’t demand paid DLC, or season passes, or fucking Shark Cards.

I truly understand that Rockstar is under a lot of pressure as the creator/publisher of GTA. But not every company/developer needs to be like them.

The feature is called DDNS (Dynamic DNS).

For reference, Brooklyn alone has over 2 million residents. NYC as a whole is 8 and change million. So yeah, we’ve got huge population density, and it shows in busy areas.

www.protondb.com to check your Steam library against Proton (Linux) compatibility. You can log in with your Steam account and it’ll give all your games a compatibility rating.

It’s not exactly difficult if you use Tailscale or really any VPN. So I really don’t see the value for the cost; if you’re even considering self hosting a Plex server/instance, there’s a list of basic knowledge you should have or learn (like what you mentioned).

If you can run tailscale or similar, your IP becomes a non-issue (CGNAT vs static IP)

Yeah but it’s like 100 devices, I think. And I believe 3 users (meaning under one account; sharing a device with someone who makes their own account doesn’t count as a “user”). You’re right, but they’re pretty generous.

I don’t think it takes many resources to provide the service to consumers; it’s not like you’re using any of their bandwidth (minus the tiny amount used for coordination between clients). Oh, or if you use their DERP servers (encrypted, but still).

In general, people should know there are self hosted, truly private options, though. So thanks for mentioning Headscale.

You picked an excellent time (in terms of consumer choice on NAS’s). I’ve been using a DS920+ for the past few years, and the software is solid (e.g. the core apps like Drive, Photos, etc). Synology is (was?) also always number one in terms of security. But honestly, there’s little to no reason to expose your NAS to the internet these days since tools like Tailscale make life a lot easier (and safer).

That being said, I also was a beta tester for Ugreen’s NAS(es) last year. Their software sucked at the time, but it’s gotten way better. The hardware itself is gorgeous, and they don’t skimp on parts. The one I have is one they never intended to sell in the US: DX4700 (they sell the DXP4800). This one has an Intel N5105 (predecessor to the N100), 8GB RAM, and dual NVME slots (for cache or for storage). Plus they listened to us testers when we told them to allow third party OS installs without voiding the warranty (e.g. OpenMediaVault, etc).

Point is, no matter who you go with or if you build your own, it’s a good time (minus tarrifs).

Was also going to mention Distance and Blur, but Blur is more like neon-colored Mario Kart, but with real cars.

I’ve watched it. It is, though it also makes more sense in the context of the film’s plot.

Depends where you live. I pay $70/month for gigabit Fiber from Verizon (it works extremely well and rarely goes down or has issues). It’s also symmetrical.

No ISP in NYC has data caps. We have 8.3 million residents. I’ve lived here my whole life, and I’ve never had a data cap in my life for any ISP.

So I never understood the bs justifications given by Comcast and other ISPs who operate in less populated areas (most of the country, honestly). Like yes, I understand that no matter what they say, it’s about the money. But people in NYC would literally riot if we got data caps on home Internet.

Why doesn’t the rest of the country push back?

That’s fair. I should have said *if you can help it.

Yeah, you’re talking about MDM (Mobile Device Management) solutions/tech. I’m not an IT employee myself, but I am familiar with these things from work (similar situation as yours), and also because I’m a nerd and like researching these things.

On some phones, like Samsung’s (“Secure Folder”), you can have [essentially] a second, containerized instance of Android running. Or you can think of it like a virtual second user that ultimately you have control of. So what I did was install Outlook in that. Because the MDM permissions (e.g. wipe the phone) would only affect that container.

Otherwise, for everyone else – yeah don’t install work apps/accounts on your personal devices.

I’m starting to get the picture that you don’t understand how a web browser works. Otherwise you wouldn’t be equating Chrome to Chromium/forks that remove Google-everything. Blink being the dominant renderer is a completely separate issue. The renderer itself does nothing for Google in terms of “collecting data” on its own. You’re talking about the browser as a whole (e.g. “Chrome” = Chrome + Blink). They’re two separate things that are shipped together.

Google dominating the internet IS a privacy problem.

I agree, but using a non-Google, Chromium-based browser/fork that removes all of the Google bits is a separate issue than Google Chrome having huge marketshare. I don’t know how old you are, and the reason I say that is because I’m old enough to remember the original beta release (and 1.0) of Chrome. Chrome then isn’t what Chrome became years later, and now. That was my point in bringing up the past; because you’re acting like it’s been like this since Day 1. It’s taken over a decade for it to become enshittified.

And Chrome was never the most performant. Google just sabotage their own services to run worse on competitors browsers, because end users are stupid and will just assume "not google browser = bad " and use chrome.

Sure, rewrite history. Chrome was never the most performant, and nobody had anything to say about its ludicrous speeds during the Windows XP/7 era, when it was released /s. I understand what you’re saying, but my overall point is that you’re being hyperbolic and tying together separate issues under one label. For example, Brave sucks, but not because it’s based on Chromium. It sucks because of their policies and the actual execution (e.g. removal of privacy-preserving features, whitelisting Meta ads, etc).

Also, you clearly don’t read anything because I already told you that I switched from Brave to Firefox on all of my devices. Now what I’d like to know is, what browser(s) are you using, and do you recommend, and why. Because, by your logic, it’s the rendering engine (Blink) that is the issue, since you say that even anti-Google forks of Chromium (not Chrome) are as bad as Chrome itself. Does that means that now I can’t use Firefox forks, because they’re all tied back to Mozilla, who also has inserted/removed/changed features that have to do with privacy? I’m genuinely asking you. Also what does it mean when Mozilla gets a huge chunk of their funding for Firefox directly from Google?

tl;dr – The Blink renderer used by Chrome/derivatives does nothing on its own. You should be complaining about web developers who skew (design) their sites towards it instead of following general best practices for all renderers. Separately, and additionally, people should move away from Chrome because it’s a privacy nightmare, but that has nothing to do with the renderer. Finally, I do agree with you about Google kneecapping their web properties so they work worse with other browsers, but that’s user-agent related, and Google-related (not something Chrome does).