This is another reason why self hosting matters even more nowadays with companies’ enshittification efforts.

Elasticsearch should work too

It doesn’t help that GPUs are stupidly expensive.

Yes, I have never played it and I played RDR II which I really liked. I think I might give it a go and refund it if it is not my cup of tea. What I really enjoyed in the second part was the story.

Yes, I understand and I can definitely relate to your situation. I have never played it before and was thinking I can give it a go and if I don’t like it, simply refund it

I can refund it on Steam too.

Yes, I don’t think they will discount it even further for the summer sale, maybe there is a small chance for the winter one, but even if they do it 50% off, that’s like 5 bucks extra, not a huge amount of money.

The funny part is that nowadays there are companies that interview you with an AI interviewer and are telling you not to use AI. They are asking you to install some software and switch on your camera. While talking to an AI agent. Truly dystopian. For those interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/RemoteJobs/comments/1h3dqmb/any_critics_on_micro1/

Everything 5070Ti is a really bad deal. And the prices of the whole stack is outrageous, not to mention the rift between 5080 and 5090. Planned obsolescence by NVIDIA.

Do you have a GitHub repo? As I am building my system like this and was thinking of exactly using Podman and quadlets.

Exactly that. Everyone is obsessed with eternal growth, pushing SaaS offerings our throats and even more subscriptions. There is a real estate crisis, where putting a roof over your head becomes an even more distant dream for the majority of the working population and greedy companies are firing people and replacing them with AI and then they wonder why people are revolting. Eat the rich!

It is just immutable modded Arch Linux with some particular optimisations. While I am sure the task to create it is not so trivial. I am also sure that their hardware engineers put immense effort into designing and building the Steam Deck, which is no small feat. Selecting the components, thermal design, power design etc. considerations that need to be taken into account while building such a device is very challenging, I am sure and their hardware engineers did an excellent job. That’s why the Steam Deck is also so much superior to rival handheld devices.

Defending human rights and condemning war crimes is now punishable.

I have a physical CD of Ubuntu 6.10, back then they were distributing those over the mail and a friend of mine ordered some and gave me. I still keep it.

My problem is that a lot of people are giving a lot of shit to open source developers, who are creating great software in their free time.

Instead of enjoying their free time, they give a lot of it to the community, and then they get accused of wrong doings if the quality of their code isn’t at enterprise level. The problem is that people are being toxic to them and this makes them less likely to continue doing that. I am trying to give credit as I know how hard it is to build and support some software and I want the open source community to thrive and not turn into a toxic cesspool.

Jia Tan was a big warning for everyone, I admit, but if you look at the big picture he was a single person in a sea of open source projects and honestly speaking if we are talking of state sponsored attacks, I would say that big corporations like Cisco, Fortinet, etc. would be more of a target than small open source projects. I just wish we could give the guy some credit for all his work and at least let him prove that those blobs are harmless.

I also think a big part of your qualms is the fact that he is Chinese and you are less likely to trust because of your bias.

The guy is trying to address the issue and he is building this in his free time. Give him some credit at least, I am sure this is consuming a lot of his free time.

I personally find this Ventoy an amazing piece of software and he also seems to be willing to address the issue and be more transparent in the future which is also commendable.

Not a huge games uplift though. Anyway, congrats mate. Hope you are happy with your new toys.

Even though I have checked a couple of hours ago, I just rechecked and unfortunately still shows me “Packaged items”. Are you based in the US?