The video game landscape is already filled to the brims with more games than I need to play for the rest of my life and you want me to hurry up to pay for a game as it comes out, to ditch out the full price when my computer would suffer for the lack of latest gen hardware when I could easily find a large amount of fantastic games for less than 10 bucks and comfortably max out their settings?

Like, the witcher 3 with all its DLC, a fantastic game which is 10 years old but got a free graphics upgrade and with all its DLC, worth hundreds of hours of gameplay and a memorable experience is less than 10 bucks, as we speak, both on steam and gog.

Most people already have more games than they have time to play. Patient gamer has never been more rewarding. We fall too often for the fear of missing out the experience and hype of a new launch…

I finished GTA 4 and 5 like a year ago, on my steam deck. I couldn’t care less if these games came out like 10 years ago. It gives me the flexibility to play them how I want to.

I would encourage you to support GoG before you have to rely on them, otherwise if everyone does like you they may not be able to sustain their business.

It’s a bit akin to waiting for a crash before putting your seatbelt on.

Seems he’s using the same orange tan as the other orange guy haha

Don’t give them ideas!

Running on prem is certainly possible, but requires a dedicated sysadmin team for anything serious. It is very important to be able to have availability guarantees and some expert you can count on to solve your problem with a phone call.

Related: Uber recognized how battery levels affect customer psychology in pricing but claims it doesn’t use it to hike prices for low battery devices:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/uber-phone-surge-pricing/

Beautiful :)

I see a lot of praise for this game but have not looked a lot into it. How would you describe it and what makes it so good? I’m letting myself be convinced for my next game to play :)

Same, I rocked a second hand GTx 680 from 2012-2013, which I upgraded to a second hand RTX 3060 12GB for a fantastic price, in 2024. Still rocking a DDR3 platform with the intel i7 4400K. And that’s more than enough for most games with nice graphics on 1680x1050 :) (display probably 15 years old too). Eventually, I will be looking for some other second hand components to upgrade the rest of the system, but it does everything more than well enough.

Remove unused conda packages and caches:

conda clean --all

If you are a Python developer, this can easily be several or tens of GB.

True, many games sold physically are still faced with the risk of disappearing, due to DRM…

Would you be able to share more info? I remember reading their issues with docker, but I don’t recall reading about whether or what they switched to. What is it now?

It seems Signal has already pushed out a fix for this, which was abusing the QR codes to actually link a device when it was presenting itself as a way to join a group.

Paywalled: https://www.wired.com/story/russia-signal-qr-code-phishing-attack/

I hear you, I always see this problem being solved by the link being in the description and the host saying “link in the description”. I hadn’t come across a situation where an audio only format was accessible and there was no way to interact with the content but in some corner cases it does make sense.

I don’t understand in what circumstances anyone would like to use link shorteners? I can only find reasons why not to use them:

• subject visitors to surveillance
• destination under the control of a third party (potential for ransom for the author, like we see here, and potential of ads for visitors like we see here)
• obfuscation of the actual destination
• how long will the redirect be valid for? It could be deemed unviable for the company to continue support of the redirect, thus rendering the destination inaccessible from all places where the shortened link is used.
• more…?

One thing which I find useful is to be able to turn installation/setup instructions into ansible roles and tasks. If you’re unfamiliar, ansible is a tool for automated configuration for large scale server infrastructures. In my case I only manage two servers but it is useful to parse instructions and convert them to ansible, helping me learn and understand ansible at the same time.

Here is an example of instructions which I find interesting: how to setup docker for alpine Linux: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Docker

Results are actually quite good even for smaller 14B self-hosted models like the distilled versions of DeepSeek, though I’m sure there are other usable models too.

To assist you in programming (both to execute and learn) I find it helpful too.

I would not rely on it for factual information, but usually it does a decent job at pointing in the right direction. Another use i have is helpint with spell-checking in a foreign language.

Regarding photos, and videos specifically:

I know you said you are starting with selfhosting so your question was focusing on that, but I would like to also share my experience with ente which has been working beautifully for my family, partner and myself. They are truly end to end encrypted, with the source code available on github.

They have reasonable prices. If you feel adventurous you can actually also host it yourself. They have advanced search features and face recognition which all run on device (since they can’t access your data) and it works very well. They have great sharing and collaborating features and don’t lock features behind accounts so you can actually gather memories from people on your quota by just sharing a link. You can also have a shared family plan.

Ollama, latest version. I have it setup with Open-WebUI (though that shouldn’t matter). The 14B is around 9GB, which easily fits in the 12GB.

I’m repeating the 28 t/s from memory, but even if I’m wrong it’s easily above 20.

Specifically, I’m running this model: https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1:14b-qwen-distill-q4_K_M

Edit: I confirmed I do get 27.9 t/s, using default ollama settings.

You can. I’m running a 14B deepseek model on mine. It achieves 28 t/s.

I’m personally still very much interested in HDDs with their better cost/GB, though it is true they have a shrinking lead over SSDs. I hope to move to SSDs completely for large storage space.