+1 for yt-dlp

And I LOVE that USB-C is uni-directional.

I tend to buy 90° connectors for all the things and it’s such a treat that USB-C is well designed.

Wow I got downvoted.

Yes I agree that launchers mentioned here are the online connected and required ones.

The old school launchers you could bypass by just running the exe directly.

The only useful thing launchers can used to do is adjust things like display settings that require reboot. Basically an INI config GUI.

This was more common back in the day probably due to the game engines. More less games require restart in recent years but that could be due to me playing more indie games and less AAA titles.

Edit: wow. Downvote much.

We have the Federal Trade Comission but it needs to have the balls to really protect us.

Even when they step up its usually a small fine the offender just writes off as the cost of doing business.

Corp breaks a law. Makes $100m profit. Gets $10m fine. All good for the books!!

I agree with one correction.

Vote even in non swing states.

There are far too many registered voters who don’t vote.

Texas could be blue every year if half the dem no shows just voted.

Also even less vote outside of the presidential election.

I believe a single person having two or even three properties isn’t an issue. As long as you’re a fair and honest landlord. Owning isn’t for everyone. Renting is a viable option for many people. Especially if someone is going to live somewhere for only around a year.

There are entire corporations that revolve around slumlording. High rents, poor maintenance, shitty lease terms with hidden fees, kicking out low income renters to raise rates for new tenants, leaving units empty when there are lots of homeless, etc.

John Oliver did a nice episode about these types of slumlords. THESE are the issue. Career landlords. For people owning more than 2 homes if we heavily taxed/fined (like a years worth of rent) empty units (defined as not rented for 4 months out of the year) this would be a start to fix the housing crisis.

Link to episode

I have the same and only needed to dip into one time for my WiiManager app to check on my Wii library backup on a external HDD.

Often because we know how badly things can go wrong with so many components we start at the end of the app instead of the beginning.

Similar to how tech support always asks of you rebooted. We often don’t confirm basic connectivity issues.

Support should be 5 years after End of Life or end of Manufacturing date.

Last PC I built was fractal and it was a dream. Amazing quality.

Can you clarify on how NixOS is great for selfhosting? I was going to do mint.

This is the real answer.

Flying to China for work/play?

Leave your real phone at home. Take a cheap burner.

Not really it’s just another unfinished project.

I want to play with nextcloud, homeassistant and tabbyml

Y’all laugh but I’m getting into Linux and dusted off an old i7 laptop with 16gb of RAM. Slapped a $40 512GB ssd and linux mint on it to get into !selfhost@lemmy.ml!

…then promptly forgot about the laptop

I remember those days, but this was before Microtransactions and battlepasses.

Back then when you bought a game it was complete and you owned it…

<Lost Travolta>

…Where are the comments?

Yeah I do this currently for my Windows installs. But Windows would freak out on OS updates and reinstalls.

I plan to redirect home on my next build

This is why I ask around! Haven’t heard that suggestion yet

What’s your recommended Linux distro for a Windows gamer to try?