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[–] TechAdmin@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

I think there were some court cases in the US the HDD manufacturers won that allows them to keep using those stupid crap units to continue to mislead people. Been a minor annoyance for decades but since all the competition do it & no govt is willing to do anything everyone is stuck accepting it as is. I should start writing down the capacity in multiple units in review whenever buy storage devices going forward.

[–] TechAdmin@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

EndeavourOS on desktop and laptop side of things.

[–] TechAdmin@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

If router supports it, a static route via connected machine with IP forwarding enabled might work. OpenWrt has packages for things like tailscale and zerotier so could do it without an extra machine too.

[–] TechAdmin@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

For 3, if router supports it could also try doing static route via Tailscale joined machine that has IP forwarding enabled

[–] TechAdmin@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

If your router lets you try adding a static route for the tailscale IP/subnet to the laptop with IP forwarding enabled.

[–] TechAdmin@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Yep, I only played through couple races & was a few beers in, it felt acceptable for me at the time. Not sure how it would be with the latest gen Elgato cards & they are pricey so best to buy from store with a good return policy.

[–] TechAdmin@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I have never seen a capture device with USB interface have any kind of usable latency, you'll want one with PCI Express interface.

Elgato makes a capture card with PCI Express interface, I had a friend who used one to play all of his consoles on big virtual screen in VR. I tried out Mario Kart 8 for the Switch and it played great.

[–] TechAdmin@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Refunds came about because of EU laws. Those flash sales would have resulted in a bunch of refunds so they stopped doing them at the same time. They actively encouraged (and still do) people to refund & rebuy for cheaper at any time whether any steam sale is involved or not as long as within the refund terms.

Personally, I only miss the mini games they had during those sales but I hated the flash sales themselves. Had to waste time researching when the games wanted were going to be the cheapest during the flash sale. Then had to hope it was during some free point of the day, notification/alarm worked, or that didn't forget to create the notification/alarm. Then had to hope the store wasn't overloaded because everyone else was also trying to get in on time limited sales.

[–] TechAdmin@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

For the OS side a few ways.

  • Clone & then rename+change drivers
  • Ansible/chef
  • NixOS

For home folder side of things a dotfile manager, cloud services, and file sync tool will take care of most things. I use chezmoi for dotfiles & nextcloud for file syncing. Firefox is only cloud synced service I still use for now. I have yet to find any decent sources of information on dotfiles so gonna be stuck going through those stupid things to figure out what you want to sync.

[–] TechAdmin@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

My mother used to regularly do photo albums with family photos before we all went digital so I've been looking for a solution for years. Nextcloud has been decent with a few apps installed. Only done a couple small albums & worked for my needs. The face detection is alright but cheap cameras, blurry photos, and random mix of internet saved photos doesn't help, lol. The map view works really well for photos with GPS data. I have my phone setup to automatically upload all new photos to Nextcloud too. Lately been working on plans to share access with my family over zerotier so they can view and upload their own to share back with me.

[–] TechAdmin@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Yes, my order status has been at preparing to ship for awhile now. I been wanting a good Linux tablet to replace aging iPad and hoping this works well enough for me. I'll try to remember to update post on how I like it when it does arrive.

[–] TechAdmin@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

My current workaround for that is adding whatever I want to shuffle into a playlist. I have one with some sci-fi shows in it that I regularly use. Smart collections is my most missed feature from Plex.

edit: nvm, doesn't sound like it would help your use case, read through it too quick first time round

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