You’ve got excellent taste, my friend

aaaand then I dream about it, and wake up at 3 am with an epiphany as to how it could be done. Too bad it never works for my own projects…

Downvoting due to rules, but this is a favorite of mine, the music is obscenely good, too

Damn…Vimms Lair was my favorite, friggin Nintendo doing what it does best…

We must work at the same org, we got that recently too

This has me curious, not to derail the topic, but I always hear that ClamAV is the best way to go for Linux. Is there a free solution that you would recommend in place of it?

Not to be that “aktchually” guy, but Microsoft actually ends up paying OEM’s to ship with Windows, in order to drive costs down to be more affordable than competitors. You can still reimage with Linux, which I know, is an extra step from it shipping with Linux, but in a wild turn of events, we can thank Microsoft for driving down the prices of our to-be-Linux machines ;)

Not to be flippant about it, but I just recommend trying it and seeing how it works for you. You can have both Xorg and Wayland installed, you just change out which one you’re using at the login window

Woohoo!!! Well I’ll be looking forward to this, thank you!

So far so good gaming-wise on the 3080 ti, not to deny I don’t bump into other random issues thanks to nvidia

This particular OP tends to be fairly contentious, I’m surprised Beehaw didn’t ever take action on his account.

Ah, details…What M137 said

Now I'm wishing I'd gotten the chance to play Gigantic! If you discover a playable client and server, lemme know, because I'm loving how that looks

Good timing, too, Talos Principle 2 was just announced

God, this made me weep at work

I hear that! Admittedly, I’ve gotten grumpy at myself a few times for “not being able to make something practical,” but I’m reminded when my wife thanks me occasionally for our home server setup (she loves Nextcloud), that it is practical and we use it all the time.

I’ve got my Wireguard I’m hosting on OCI (they give you 2 free VM instances), and looking to use the second instance to host SearXNG, then have Azure AD for free Active Directory, Home Assistant & Mycroft on Pi’s, and otherwise, hosting local VM’s via Proxmox on some older servers. I haven’t gone too hard into clustering or orchestration yet, though I’m looking to replace most of those VM’s with Docker instances at some point here, reduce compute reservations. Most of my power reduction has been through logical means, not yet through hardware, the costs involved keep me from leaping too hard quite yet. (Hard to drop big money on servers when rent is over half of my income) But I’ll get there! I love seeing how much I can do with very little, so it at least scratches that part of the brain in the meantime :)

I host it on my own server at home :) Low latency and secure. Partially because I don’t trust myself to keep things secure, so the less I can have things publicly accessible, the better I feel

Self Hosting. I love optimizing my securing my life while improving my family’s privacy. Nextcloud to store and backup media, contacts, and knowledge base. Hosting a free remote VPN on OCI, remote encrypted backups to a fellow enthusiast’s server…I love that while my data is local, if my house was to burn down, the years of pictures and precious memories will still be available. I also like being able to use this tech to help people close to me, doing backups for them, sharing ISO’s, etc.

Phew! Good to know, thank you so much! I’ll keep looking, then :)

Aaah, I’d been looking at Edmonton, hoping that the dense population would cause it to lean more progressively. The housing prices there are pretty mind-blowing, hadn’t seen many places with that low of monthly cost. I’ll dig East - any places you might recommend? I know Toronto’s pretty spendy right now \

Also, thank you so much for your response, this is helping me immensely, it’s a big move to make, and I want to make sure I’m as informed as I can be :)