I got 2 dirt cheap second hand Wii's last month, with some accessories. I never owned one and now that i'm a dad i wanted to introduce my kid to video games and play with him. Installed homebrew on one and keeping the other one as a backup. We love it. I was surprised with how well the games hold up, Super Mario Galaxy is amazing. My kid loves Kirby's Epic yarn, which I must admit is absolutely stunning visually and in gameplay.
Someone else mentioned getting a small form factor pc and then do emulation, that's also a great low budget idea. The only thing with that i found is finding the right input devices. Especially wii emulation is hard because of the wii remote and nunchuck, which is why i went on the hunt for the hardware. But the emulation route is very viable otherways. I run bazzite linux and can recommend it.
I did this about a year ago, and started with tailscale. But for some bizarre reason, tailscale would cause my entire internet connection to drop. I had the internet provider come out 5 times to fix it, i got a new router twice, they even checked for cable problems between my house and the neighbourhood switch. All to no avail. I would lose internet connection several times a day until i would reboot my router. I then found someone on their forum mention that tailscale was causing problems, so i turned it off. The problems stopped. I found no way to mitigate this.
I ended up running wireguard, which works great for me, but does have a bit of a learning curve. I have rented a tiny cloud server which is the central hub, and all of my services run in podman with their own wireguard config. I run my own dns for the lacal domains. It took me a bit of effort, but is now running very stable.
I'm also cautiously enthusiastic. I'm curious about the gaming experience, but i'm especially interested in a desktop experience, having as many virtual screens as i like. I'd be very curious to see how that works in day to day.
I do the same. I have a real domain and certbot does a dns challenge. It was a little fiddly and took a moment to figure out, i think that was because i couldn't gat caddy to work, but traefik worked a charm. Self signing is more complex i think because you'll need to accept the root in every client (browsers especially?), which is even more fiddly.
Thanks for answering. I don't self host it but am interested. It's still a company that i entrust to store highly sensitive data with, hence my interest in self hosting. Usually folks promote self hosting, so i was curious about your comment to not. Agree, that's not something to consider lightly.
I take it as the families of Israelis affected by the events of 7 October, and the entirety of the Palestinian Gazan people. How this is dehumanizing language is beyond me tbh.
If I'm the only one doing it then I'd prefer to stick with sqlite. But the reality is that everyone I work with does these kinds of things in excel, and it's a shitshow. Yes, u could say 'don't blame the tool', but it's ms shoving it down our throats and they could've done much better with the time they had.
I get that. But it's a case that's just so incredibly common. Tagging/categorization. We end up with multiple columns like 'cat 1', 'cat 2', etc. Or doing pivot tables. I guess to me there's pretty much always something that can do the job better, but the reality is that in the corporate setting I operate in everybody uses Excel.
Excel is such an incredible piece of shit. There's many reasons to hate it for me, but what i hate the most is not being able to do relationships in any meaningful way. So often i need to have one to many relationships and this garbage makes it impossible. Data consistency? Nope. Opening a csv? Fuck you! Why the fuck are there online tools that are better at this shit? You had 40 years ffs. No amount of AI is going to fix this turd. God I hate Excel.
I hear good stories about vimm's lair