Right, but more diversity of providers will reduce the exposed risk profile from both unintentional and intentional disruption.

No one’s going to bother DDoSing your dinky little server

In the age of AI we now live in there’s more money in data centres than sense, and both venture capital backed businesses and malicious actors (am I repeating myself?) can cast stupidly wide nets.

That said I want to see more alternatives to cloudflare, like a Euro option.

The community URL is still !steamdeck@sopuli.xyz (so https://sh.itjust.works/c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz for you), which won’t be easy for people to remember if they are trying to mention the steam hardware community. At the moment community and user handles can’t be changed on Lemmy (though the display name can be set to anything).

I think the comm name and display name not matching will make it a bit confusing for people to post to…

I suggest calling it “Steam Deck and Hardware discussion”

Not on purpose in the way you are suggesting… he tried it all on his own in earnest, but made a dumb mistake not reading the prompt carefully enough or trying to understand it. But, he only got into that situation because of an error on Pop OS! maintainers’ part. It was an unknown issue at the time until he uncovered it. OCAU thread that discussed the issue at the time

I tried it out and challenged myself not to touch the terminal to fix anything for as long as I could, to see if it is a truly ready-out-of-the-box experience.

It is actually very intuitive for gaming, what makes it feel more suited than most distros for me is that flatpak apps that you don’t have installed show up in the start menu, ready to add if you need them. Other OSs are leaner and cleaner but you’d have to know the package name.

I managed to get everything started, games and stuff including minor tweaks, and the first time I needed to use the terminal was to work out how to get some fan control working. I didn’t succeed in setting it up. So I took away from that experience that low level hardware OS tasks are harder to access in Bazzite.

I wonder if their Fex software will be extensible to other devices and open sourced.

Alright, the VR set I’ve been waiting for!

What I love about Valve is you can tell they are clearly taking stuff they learned from their earlier products (Deck, Index, Controller, Machine) to combine it and make it better.

I think much of the gatekeeping is over concern that if you mess up, you could unknowingly be allowing a sophisticated hacker to access all the data on your network, without any obvious signs. And maybe some people don’t want to field noob questions like “I clicked something and now the GUI gives a 😕 and doesn’t work anymore, what do I do?”.

There is a skill floor, I would say similarly that you wouldn’t be ready to install Linux yourself if you don’t get suspicious when a .iso download gives you a .exe file instead.

I think Yunohost is a decent solution for beginners that avoids as much of the nitty-gritty as possible. Louis Rossman has made a massive guide that’s about as close as an IKEA step-by-step as you can get with this stuff. We should be encouraging people to learn, but there is a sense of reticence to have people get too in over their heads due to cybersecurity reasons.

Edit: linked the guide

Since this is uplifting news, I’ll skip past everything I would have said on other subs to get to the silver lining:

I hope this gets Americans to actually start caring for themselves, and further to realize that feeding a lot of people at once costs less than trying to figure out how to feed one family at a time. And lastly that it is billionaires causing hunger, not immigrants.

Oops. The strategy to put on a cruel and embarrassing display to dissuade investment, and then ask for unilateral investment isn’t working?

Would you look at that, the first snowflakes of the season came early! ❄️

Well, uh, try training your AI with the lessons learned, and hope it doesn’t instantly pretend it never happened the very next day.

The one value proposition for juniors is that though they screw up a lot, they learn by screwing up. High turnover and curtailing your junior experience using AI are major technical mistakes on management’s part.

It really shows what a great life that we on the Fediverse are living, by making our tech independent to a degree from the largest tech providers.

So by tying the bed to Amazon’s cloud exclusively, reduces its uptime from 100% to 99.5% or lower…

It has a Garfield Kart 1 feel to it.

So more like “wealthcare” than healthcare.

Maybe as a Christmas gift to myself. My current one is an EIE pro that came with my guitar second hand. The linux “driver” only sort of works.

And it’s not likely to be the last.

If you want to delay your switch to Linux, there are scripts to enroll in the ESU, but unfortunately the local account script stopped working on the one I used. Have not tested massgravel’s. Other options are to get Win 10 LTSC, or keep your system disconnected from the Internet.

An aside: My main desktop is Linux but I am currently trying Winboat to get the last piece of my hardware dependence off (my 20 year old DAC and rocksmith 2014) to work. Then, I can finally nuke Windows off of my secondary laptop because I’m sure as hell not giving it Win 11.