A bonus question regarding the 3-2-1 backup strategy. If my VPS is in Germany, but I spin up a Storage Box in Finland, that falls within the boundaries of “off-site backup”, even if both are managed by Hetzner. What do you think? It’s just easiest to setup, I guess. Otherwise I need another cloud provider (perhaps some S3 object storage).
I was looking at this self-hosting guide and scratching my head in confusion. They say $80 nets you a 4TB HDD. Meanwhile, in my country that costs more like $220+. Yes, for an HDD, not SSD (that would be more like way over $500). I see the guide has been updated this year, so either the US lives in another world or nobody has updated the pricing.
It technically started as an MMO. That was their initial idea, but after they started development, they changed direction. That shows in the game to some extent, because the quests are kinda scattered and there is not always linearity, sometimes you get quests out of nowhere which doesn’t make sense. There are some short fedex type quests or tasks, too, but at the same time playing Crimson Desert does not feel like a single player MMO. Exploration is fantastic, but you should know that this game doesn’t hold your hand. You are free to do whatever and to discover the mechanics on your own. There are puzzles with no explanation whatsoever. Sometimes you’ll stumble on some hidden area with an environmental puzzle and no idea what to do. The last game like that was last year’s Hell is Us (a highly recommended hidden gem). Crimson Desert is just fun.
Why are you talking about player retention in context of a single player game? Perhaps you mixed it with their previous game — Black Desert – which is an MMO.
Thanks for the extensive explanation. I was almost certain you were joking about using Git for that purpose but it seems you are being serious :)
I will stick to my Restic backups for now. :)
Being a Linux newbie that idea did not even cross my mind. MIND BLOWN. In all seriousness, though, are there ever user secrets in ~/.config? It seems like a crazy & genius idea at the same time.
(I keep them in two Restic backups)
Weird, my pet said the same. Is your password also ************* ?
It is not a problem if they are on different disks, though? I hope so :)
I have a Chipolo ONE Point attached to a keyring. I’ve been using it for ~1,5 year. I had to replace the battery once. It has never went off the grid, unlike some cheap tags that I also have. Chipolo is more expensive, but worth it in my opinion.
UE5 on handhelds is a red flag, but I will check some reviews and performance tests before buying.
It’s true. Sort of ;) Tried connecting my openSUSE with my Android phone today.
https://github.com/GSConnect/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect/issues/2116
Supposedly fixed and merged but not released yet. I decided to wait.
What did you put on your Chromebook instead of Chrome OS?
Probably a little bit of risk from possibly fragile connectors, but that should be okay if you take care.
I told her I will buy her a new laptop if I screw up :D Even with that risk I’d like to try.
I am aware of the limitations. She is a really BASIC user. Just uses the web browser (Chrome, because it’s a Chrome OS, well — I’ll switch her to Firefox and she won’t notice ;) ), she surfs the net, watches YT and VOD (I know the DRM limitations, again, not an issue with her, she’s perfectly happy with 720p in a window) and chats Facebook Messenger (sadly). I think an atomic distro can do all that out of the box and there’s nothing to install that’s not a web app or a Flatpak.
Is rpm-ostree how you get the other packages? I don’t know much about it apart from what’s on Fedora’s website, my understanding is it modifies the local system image so whatever you install from RPM becomes part of it. But, again, she won’t need it. She’s the compete opposite of a power user.
I’m thinking of replacing Chrome OS on an older Chromebook (Acer CB-314) that’s been slowing down a lot. I don’t know what Google is doing but it feels like planned obsolescence. It’s becoming unresponsive even for regular web browsing and VOD. Based on some online guides I think I need to open the device to flip a hardware switch that makes the firmware write protected, so I need to convince my significant other to let me do it, because it’s her laptop, but she keeps complaining :)
I was thinking of putting Mint on it, I want it to be super simple.
I would also consider some atomic distro so she can’t break it :) Maybe Fedora Silverblue or something like that.
I thought Germany was a progressive country. Why only men?
May I ask which Hetzner VPS did you choose? I wonder if the Cost-Optimized ones are sufficient. I would be using it with max 2 users, same as you.