I have the first part, but I am not exactly sold on it. I really like the idea, the historical precision, etc., but the gameplay, especially the fight mechanics are a bit putting me off to a point that I have never completed it. Is the second part better in that regard?
Fair point, and I am happy that we can engage in a civilized conversation without turning toxic. So kudos for that and for your openness.
Regarding the issue of the radio silence. It might seem odd to you, but you should also understand that sometimes when you are a solo developer you need to prioritise tasks and define what is more important. Whether it is the continued development of the project and bringing new features to the table or answering the security concerns of a handful of people. He said that addressing this problem is rather complicated and time consuming and perhaps he was procrastinating on that just because he didn’t want to deal or spend time on this issue.
My point is that it is better late than never and let’s give him the benefit of the doubt. Because I would rather believe in the inherent good nature of people than suspect everyone of ill intentions.
My problem is that a lot of people are giving a lot of shit to open source developers, who are creating great software in their free time.
Instead of enjoying their free time, they give a lot of it to the community, and then they get accused of wrong doings if the quality of their code isn’t at enterprise level. The problem is that people are being toxic to them and this makes them less likely to continue doing that. I am trying to give credit as I know how hard it is to build and support some software and I want the open source community to thrive and not turn into a toxic cesspool.
Jia Tan was a big warning for everyone, I admit, but if you look at the big picture he was a single person in a sea of open source projects and honestly speaking if we are talking of state sponsored attacks, I would say that big corporations like Cisco, Fortinet, etc. would be more of a target than small open source projects. I just wish we could give the guy some credit for all his work and at least let him prove that those blobs are harmless.
I also think a big part of your qualms is the fact that he is Chinese and you are less likely to trust because of your bias.
The guy is trying to address the issue and he is building this in his free time. Give him some credit at least, I am sure this is consuming a lot of his free time.
I personally find this Ventoy an amazing piece of software and he also seems to be willing to address the issue and be more transparent in the future which is also commendable.
Nowadays games are very repetitive and grindy. That’s very unfortunate as it kills the game. Very few of them have engaging side quests that don’t feel like generic AI generated crap. So longer gameplay doesn’t automatically equate to better quality games.
I agree, this game is a piece of art, really well made.
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Absolutely, the best upgrade you can make.
I just wish the SD was a bit more powerful. Recently especially with those UE5 games we need to install some custom scripts just to make them playable and usually they don’t even look good. I love the Deck, but Steam should really update the APU.
Hate to say it, but Docker compose is giving you the best flexibility and portability of your files. Any of those services can decide tomorrow to enshittify their services and you will be left with nothing.
Look at Plex, now they require Plex pass to stream your own content.
Why don’t you do some bash scripting and route files to different buckets depending on their extensions or mime types? You can easily do that with rclone for example.
Intel B580, hands down is the best bang for your bucks.
Check the performance per dollar charts here: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/gainward-geforce-rtx-5060-ti-8-gb/35.html and pick a GPU that’s not from NVIDIA. Or this https://www.techpowerup.com/review/sapphire-radeon-rx-9070-xt-nitro/36.html. AMD 6800, 6800 XT, 7700 XT, but you can also wait for 9060 and 9060 XT.
How did you do that? Did you re-format Steam Deck?
Not a huge games uplift though. Anyway, congrats mate. Hope you are happy with your new toys.
Yes, and Nix is another bag of worms. My suggestion is first try to backup your Docker compose file and the configuration files, you can define in .gitignore which files or dirs to ignore and not backup. You don’t need any automated installation for your server, as it is fairly standard but you can easily do that if you run it as a VM on top of Proxmox and just create a snapshot of your VM.
That’s actually better than I thought though. I am also tempted into a 16:10 aspect ratio, but that’s only on the third gen which is unfortunate. Thanks for the link.
I found a good T14 gen 1 with Ryzen CPU and 400 nits low-power display, but I read that the 4650U CPUs don’t support amd-pstate and only auto-cpufreq, meaning that it will affect negatively the battery life. The T14 gen 2 are unfortunately with the 300 nits display, which is quite mediocre. How much worse the battery would be on the gen1?
True that, and I generally prefer bigger screens. As I said what I don’t like is the price.
I agree with you, I just don’t agree with the GPU advice. I would not buy a 4060 at the moment. I don’t know what your budget is, but I would say buy something with at least 12Gb VRAM. Even for 1080p, 8 will be insufficient in the future.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html#section-rasterization-gpu-benchmarks-2025 and https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/ can give you some more idea what to buy. I would even go as much as saying buy second hand as the new GPUs all are underperforming and you might score a better deal buying second hand.