I think the risk of losing data naturally leads to people seeking out the most robust storage solution possible when 90% of those people would probably be better off with something simpler with less that can go wrong.

I can’t answer each bullet (and a couple are dependant on other things like drive speed, activity, and network throughput) but I’ve been using shucked external HDDs for over a decade and would recommend it. I used to use OpenMediaVault running in a VM on Proxmox and briefly tried TrueNAS, but I’ve since migrated all of my VMs to LXCs, so now I just have the drives mounted on the Proxmox host directly combined with mergerfs (not managed by Proxmox’s storage pools) and I pass it through to a Turnkey Linux file server LXC via bind mounts to share over SMB/NFS. Less overhead and LXCs can share CPU/memory dynamically while VMs can’t.

You should be able to replace that /mnt/external directory with no issues as long as the structure is the same within.

You’re sure you wouldn’t rather switch to moonlight: vendor lock-in edition?

Lame, I knew they were out there but I guess I’m lucky I haven’t witnessed anything that blatant yet.

I’ve played a bunch of Deadlock but I haven’t suspected anyone of cheating yet, what are you seeing?

I can’t even stop windows from stealing focus on the same desktop with window rules anymore.

Yeah, I wish the PC corporation that makes all of our PCs would stop paying devs to make their games PC exclusive all the time.

Horrendous take.

I just add the search to firefox and you can get the same functionality without needing to use another site to get to the one you want to search on.

I don’t think you realize that if your goal is to have a simple install method anyone can use, even redirecting the output to install.sh like in your examples is enough added complexity to make it not work in some cases. Again, those are not made for people that know bash.

If you can’t review a bash script before running it without having an unnecessarily complex one-liner provided to you to do so, then it doesn’t matter because you aren’t going to be able to adequately review a bash script anyway.

If Netscape had a large paid install base and still failed because a free browser became ubiquitous, what makes you think doing that now when the free browsers are already ubiquitous would work? Especially when it also has to compete with what is essentially already what you’re describing, Librewolf (or just Firefox + Arkenfox).

Showing people that are running curl piped to bash the script they are about to run doesn’t really accomplish anything. If they can read bash and want to review the script then they can by just opening the URL, and the people that aren’t doing that don’t care what’s in the script, so why waste their time with it?

Do you think most users installing software from the AUR are actually reading the pkgbuilds? I’d guess it’s a pretty small percentage that do.

I would walk around with a kishi shoved up my ass for storage before I would try playing a platformer using that d-pad.

There is no reason for this to exist. You can already just use your phone with similar controllers, except designed by someone who has actually played a video game before.

That’s any recompilation, the game has to be decompiled manually first.

That reddit thread is horrible advice, it’s just mapping the LXC root user to the host root user, which is just a privileged LXC with extra steps (and maybe less secure).

The reason you’re probably having issues is that your root user in the LXC is mapped to the host user 100000 by default, and that user doesn’t have access to the share, but you can change that with mount options or creating a user with 100000:100000 and adding it to a group with access.

Gnome is very functional, it’s just meant to function one very specific way.

This is just a non-VR version of Bigscreen, which has been around for close to a decade (still in beta lol)

I use Tautulli, but I’m not sure if that is going to cover all the same use cases.

I haven’t gotten around to spinning it up yet, but I was just looking into this myself and was going to try out Pinchflat. If anyone has used it and has any feedback I’d love to hear it.

I was between it and Tube Archivist.