Also, you’re digressing.

I merely consider it necessary to function in modern society, and hence a service a government might conceivably provide.

You really like making assumptions about what I mean, and twisting my words, huh?

You classify email and internet search as non-essential?

And what does how they are classified have to do with the ability/inability of government to provide them in a sufficient manner?

You claimed something that HAS HAPPENED, could not. There’s no comeback here for you to find.

Those are some pretty specific additional qualifiers. Did I hit a nerve?

I’m responsing to someone claiming governments inherently cannot be good providers of essential services, which is patently untrue.

The nordics are home to numerous government institutions, providing a variety of services that are perfectly satisfactory, and often excellent.

Are you claiming that email or search engines not being among them today, means the rest mean nothing, or that they never will be?

If the current services are anything to go by, those things getting added to the list, will be fucking great.

Ok but we were talking about a faraday cage scensrio.

AFAIK you are not allowed any kind of mobile devices during chess games.

I live in the nordics, would you like a list?

Joking aside, chess engines can run on very little hardware. It’s not out of the question that something like this might be entirely embedded soon enough.

The hardest part might be interpreting the board state.

The Vita was great, but I didn’t really get into more than a handful of games until SD2VITA became available. (The adaptor allowing the use of an SD card through the game slot).

Sure, then you can’t use game cards, but who needs those now that you dump games and keep your entire library on that one SD card, ready to go anytime, for pennies?

If that had been how it worked from the start, I would have bought so many more games. The library started off decent, and aventually got really damn good.

But a lot was digital only, especially the indie stuff, so at the time, getting new games was like pulling teeth.

I only got it to play WipEout 2048, but Gravity Rush turned out to be one of my all time favorite games, and Killzone Mercenaries showed me the genius of gyro aim before anyone else had even heard of it.

The timestamp in the coffeezilla video.

Watch the whole thing for more detail.

Glances at the child gambling enabled by the steam marketplace, an issue being blatantly ignored by Valve leadership.

Buddy, I don’t know how to tell you this. I love Valve for all the good they do, but they got some serious skeletons, too.

Valve representatives were asked point blank if the third party gambling sites have a positive influence on their bottom line, and the dude replying sweated bullets for several seconds before nervously going “we… don’t have any data on that” while the rest stared daggers at him.

Coffeezilla has a recent video on the situation.

Asking or being asked in a way that is menacing, because some couples find that hot as hell, is not mutually exclusive with “no” still being one of the options.

When you’re more interested in “paying using other ways” than actually getting a pizza.

But I was a lot less knowledgeable then than now so it may have some degree of user error.

TBF, everything getting deleted should be straight up impossible no matter what the user does.

Did you ever find out what the actual cause was there?

Nothing like this has ocurred for me in over a year of use. And if it does, my nexycloud data folder is on a btrfs volume with regular snapshots, and backed up onto off-site storage.

If it’s still a problem I’d love to replicate and help with a fix.

I used to use google keep, and also struggled to find something which would work between my phone and desktop.

Eventually Nextcloud notes improved enough to be the replacement that satisfies.

It’s all markdown, existing as files in your nextcloud folder. That meant exporting my google keep was easy.

The desktop and mobile app are both simple but sufficient IMO. Make sure to install the rich text editor app for nextcloud, or you’ll have to write plaintext markdown.

The downside is that if you don’t already run nextcloud, setting it up is beyond overkill. Then again, you may find use for the many, many other things it can do, too.

Pretty sure it’s all of them. It’s a built-in feature.

They are genuinely useful devices, in that they simplify the process of running what is essentially a home server, down to something the average person can pull off by just buying a box and slotting some drives into it, then use a simple UI to configure whatever basic services they like.

For just the hardware, they’re absolutely robbery. You’re paying for the software to hold your hand. If you don’t need that, they’re pretty much pointless.

I think it’s fine.

The first party device has existed over a year now, proved its worth, and become more widely understood by gamers.

Android suffers from fragmentation, sure, but it being used by a variety of manufacturers hasn’t stopped people from understanding that android is android, and can do similar things whether you buy a phone/tablet for 200 bucks, or 2000.

A laptop is a great place to start.

I like using desktop components as I’ve been able to incrementally upgrade the ram, CPU, and drives as the years go by. A lot of people also really like using single board computers.

The only thing I’d recommend against are pre-built NASes. Theyre proprietary AF and so overpriced for what you get if you don’t need the handholding of the consumer NAS software.

One thing I recommend doing, is keeping step by step notes on everything you set up, and keep a list of files and folders you’d need to keep to easily run whatever you’re running on a new system.

That way, moving to a new system, changing your config, or reinstalling the OS is so much easier. A couple years down the line you’ll be thanking yourself for writing down how the hell you configured that one thing years back.

Almost every problem I’ve had was due to me not accounting for some quirk of my config that I’d forgotten about.

And that would apply with a VPS, too, if you end up going that route.