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  • [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - December 2025

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  • I’m almost half-way through Persona Strikers; enjoying it so far but it has some really weird difficulty spikes at odd places. I’ve fought mid-stage mini bosses that I lose to like 30 times and then wipe the area boss on the first try.

    Other than that, chipping away at occasional hunts in Monster Hunter: Rise (which is currently crashing when I’m hooked up to my monitor, need to figure that out) and piddling about in Deep Rock Galactic Survivor and Snowrunner.

  • Steam Machine – Powerful Enough?

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  • My prediction: this box is going to sell like gangbusters for the parents in the 40-some odd years old range who have kids under the age of 16.

    I am one of those people. Could I build my own PC? Yes. But the reality is I just don’t have the time to dedicate to all the fringes of the PC gaming hobby. And space is precious these days as the house fills up with things you want/need for teenagers (including the teenagers themselves who are noticeably larger than when they were 8 years old about 3 weeks ago.

    The Steam Deck was amazing in part, and I’ve heard this from multiple parents, because it allowed you to just get to playing your games in a way no PC had before. The Steam Machine offers that same experience but with more power. I won’t be hooking mine up to a TV, that’s already a disaster area owned by the kids. This will hook up to my 1440P HDR monitor in my office. This box will be plenty to power that. It’s tiny, it’s very quiet, and it offers an experience that, while I could hack together on a custom built PC, would be difficult for me to get the time together to do.

    I dunno…the older I get, with more time pressures in life, the more I appreciate quality turnkey solutions over DIY. I’ll buy this as soon as I can, and I’m pretty confident that it’s going to deliver an experience that will fit into the “great” to “good enough” category for what I’m looking for, and that’s good enough for me. And I’m willing to be it’ll also be good enough for a lot of other parents in a similar life stage to me.

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  • I'll have to see if I want to go to the rigamarole of setting up Wallabag on my home server or if I just fall back to using GoodLinks on iOS exclusively and forgo articles on my e-reader.

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  • Count me in the group of people sad to see it go because it made it very easy to get articles onto my Kobo e-reader. There are other ways, but they're all too labour intensive to be practical. Probably should have seen the writing on the wall, though.

  • Hockey @lemmy.ca
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    Jets end of season media availability: Coach Scott Arniel & GM Kevin Cheveldayoff

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    ‘Heartbreaking’: Jets season comes to end with gut-wrenching OT loss

    www.winnipegfreepress.com /breakingnews/2025/05/18/heartbreaking-jets-season-comes-to-end-with-gut-wrenching-ot-loss

  • Should home prices go down? ’No,’ says Canada’s new housing minister

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  • If you still have a mortgage on your home, you’ve lost a lot because you may no longer have equity to cover your mortgage. Which, probably not a huge deal if you actually plan to live in it and not treat it like a medium-term investment. But there can be a tangible loss there.

  • [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - May 2025

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  • Have you had a chance to play it since the recent update? They completely re-did the controls on the Deck, right? I’d love to hear how it plays now, I’ve been eying it for a while.

  • Is Mac Mini suitable for self-hosted server?

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  • I bought a M1 Mac Mini second-hand and it's great for home server purposes. Like others have said, you'll be using containers a bunch, so bare metal doesn't matter quite as much as it used to. They're power efficient and offer good performance. If you're in the Apple ecosystem, there's a bunch of other benefits to having a Mac set up as a server (e.g. content caching for updates/iCloud content).

  • What's holding you back from trying Codeberg?

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  • I've been self-hosting Forgejo for a while now and I really quite like it.