Quoting: scaineYeah, I should have said, I actually got into Arch because of Endeavour. It's a great O/S. I mentioned CachyOS here because it attempts to fix the issue of non-GUI software-centres by including Octopi, which isn't ditro-specific, but is pretty limited in what it can do address this lack.

Octopi gets the job done, but OH BOY is it clunky and difficult to learn / use for a new user. I've been on linux for decades at this point, and the first few times I used it I was so confused. I like that there's a GUI front end to manage all the packages, but man alive it could use some work. Oh well, if that's about the only thing I have to complain about with Cachy, then I think it's doing a damn good job!

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I always like reading these articles. Thank you for the series Hamish!

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Right now I'm into some Kingdoms of the Dump on my Deck, and Outer Worlds 2 on desktop. I bet I'll finish up OW2 before christmas, then I think I'll take a short break from desktop gaming and do some reading instead. Get back into a proper isometric turn based rpg next year.

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watching this one until it releases out of EA. Looking good so far with the updates though!

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oh wow! I had completely forgot about these legends! Thanks for the mention :)

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Not really into platformers but man the art style aesthetic they have going here is amazing.

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Quoting: SupayHDD prices have gone up so much. I went to refresh and replace some of my 4 and 8TB old ones with 14TB, and was horrified at how expensive 4 and 8 still are compared to when I bought them years ago. It's why I went with Snapraid and mergerfs for my big media array. Can use any mixed sizes and types of disk, parity is confined to specific disks, only disks in use spin up, and if the array fails then I can still read each disk independently so only lose the disks that died. It's great for WORM type setups, doing the overnight sync and able to recover from disk loss if needed. I have had to do that, and it worked perfectly.

If you do get a Poweredge or similar, I recommend putting something like Proxmox on to start with and then out OMV on that. Keep to a very basic config for Proxmox, don't try and learn too much to start with, and then pop OMV on as a VM. That'll let you then be able to add other VMs/containers and nodes to the system later as you learn it. Though OMV can do a little of that as well, so can always just install that directly and get used to the options that provides first.

thanks again for the advice :)

and agree on prices. I think I will just try to keep those old wd red drives spinning for as long as I can, I just don't want to put down almost $2k for new ones. Holy shitballs.

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What's the general consensus here on the AI usage inside Arc Raiders?

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YES! Been looking forward to this. But now, alas, I don't know what to do. Do I either play this or Quartet on the Deck as my next game? CHOICES!

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^ the "indie" category has always been that way. It's so dumb. They have been told a million times to fix it and they ignore everyone and continue to put massive studios in that category. My all time fav was dave the diver. Just insulting. Nexon has 7000 employees, $3 billion in revenue, and is one of the largest gaming companies on earth. Get outta here with that nomination.

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