While true for some games that require their online services. There's nothing keeping you from downloading a game and backing up the install files on your own media to play later... A lot of games will run without steam open if you just run the executable...

How do you know they aren't!?!?!?

I wish I didn't listen to him, but most of the time I don't have much of a choice.

As others have said, you should really be careful treating your RAID as a backup. I for one do all of my backing up on Playstation 1 memory cards... I had to buy a couple storage containers to store them all, but I guess that technically counts as off-site

My Synology NAS was running for 6+ years before I replaced it last year. And the only reason I replaced it was to upgrade the hardware to be able to act more like a home server running some more demanding services.

I've since given the NAS away to a friend who is still running it... As always back up your data just in case, but I wouldn't expect the hardware to crap out on you too soon

Yes, good point, resource collection is nearly identical to content generation

I think you meant to put that decimal a bit further left....

You wouldn't download a crime!

Impressive how the cat holds itself mid-air while the photographer frames the photo just right

Not to scare you away, but I have experience getting Linux to run on a Surface Laptop 2 and... It's not exactly the easiest process...

For my machine it required a custom kernel to get the touchpad and keyboard working and it just always had one quirk or another.

Highly recommend Linux, but those surface devices need some specialized drivers....

Working with engineers that were better than I was and actually listening when they reviewed my code... Asking why and going from there.

Surely they can't make it worse, right? ... Right?