Oh, there’s plenty of examples on mobile app stores. Since it costs to get your app on it, there’s a natural barrier to entry for FOSS - so the people who do put it up sometimes charge for it despite the source being readily available.

RHEL contains non-FOSS components, and so is not FOSS.

It also has the benefit of being able to show metrics and diagnostics right there without having to connect it to another device.

Gabe Newell. Instead of rotting his brain on bigotry, he just buys another yacht.

Don’t do it. Don’t watch it. Don’t hate watch it. Stop talking about it. Let it die. Let it fall out of the public eye. Make Rowling become irrelevant. Let some other world become your fandom instead of HP. The longer people pay attention to it, the longer Rowling continues to punish trans kids.

Except nothing will cause the function to collapse. With real superpositions, observing the state causes it to have always been only one specific position the entire time.

Typically, one of the first things I do to a new laptop is wipe it and install the OS from scratch. That lets me install system drivers ONLY, and avoid all the bloatware that isn’t included on the OS install image (and even then I can remove a lot of it with Tiny11). Laptops are some of the worst offenders when it comes to bloat.`

That said, I’m strongly considering bailing on Windows entirely…

The underlying architecture for Windows has changed like three times since those systems were created. The fact it works at all is a minor miracle.

HDMI audio depends on a proprietary license. The Linux drivers for it are, predictably, less robust.

TF2 had a long and prosperous life. It’s 18 years old at this point. There are a few live service games (usually with subscriptions) that have survived longer, but TF2 had its run, and it was a good one. I bought it as part of the Orange Box and I absolutely got my money’s worth and then some from it.

As for physical media - I don’t know if you were around for it, but there was a period before Steam took over the industry when most major PC game releases had CD keys you had to input and validate before you could play the game. Do something the publisher doesn’t like? The key gets revoked and you can’t play the game any more unless you buy another license. There were entire underground communities devoted to cracking the CD key validations in games. Now you just use Luna or Steamless and call it a day.

All it would take for Valve to lose their effective monopoly on PC game distribution would be for someone else to make a better product.

Every other major PC game distribution platform (besides GOG, and they’re far more niche than Valve) has essentially started their attempt to unseat Valve with enshittification baked in, and it was obvious.

Okay, that’s actually kinda great.

The word that always comes to mind is ‘literally’ which has come to mean ‘figuratively, but with emphasis’ and it drives me nuts - because it removes the word we have to say ‘this is a thing that you might assume is figurative, but it’s not, it actually happened’.

You’re absolutely right on all counts.

That said, my RAID setup is on a Synology, so it’s brain-dead simple and not especially prone to falling over.

That’s true until it isn’t.

Unrecoverable hard drive failures definitely occur, even early on in the life cycle of a drive. I like having a RAID-5 array … but then again, I don’t really have any other backups (which I really should fix).

What I really need is an ISP that doesn’t have a 1.2TB data cap.

I wish Lemmy was able to have emoji reactions to comments just so I could react with a horrified face to this comment.

In lieu of that, I’ll just have to put it here: 😱

Yeah, that’s … that’s a problem. In that situation though, without IPv6 there really isn’t a good solution.

As long as your IP address hasn’t changed any time recently, it will likely have propagated to other DNS providers and you still ought to be able to reach home with the domain name.

It’s almost certainly related to AWS.

Get a dynamic DNS from afraid.org, they’re great. That’ll make it so you can always find your home network without needing to write down your IP address (especially frustrating if it changes).

Then run a VPN server, like OpenVPN, on a computer that is always on and redirect the VPN connection port from your router to the VPN server. If you don’t know how to get into your router’s admin console, LEARN HOW! This is critical to maintaining home network security even if you aren’t running servers.

It’s not easy, but it’s way, WAY more robust than depending on a 3rd party to keep your info (except for afraid.org and they practically NEVER go down).

There’s a utility called ‘furmark’ that’ll fix that for you…