Quoting: DrMcCoy

Quoting: TheSHEEEPE-mail wise, I thankfully host my own (or, well, pay a provider to host it for me)

Yes, and then Google just randomly throws half the mails you send to people with gmail accounts into their spam folder, where the recipients never see them...

I have a VPS in Digitalocean running a mail server for over 3 years and didn't really have an issue with that. There is, https://postmaster.google.com [External Link] where a domain can be included so Gmail validates the authenticity of said domain. With that in place, everything goes to normal inbox.

Having said that, using a provider like some mentioned in the post is more reliable, painless and in most cases cheaper too.

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Email: https://www.posteo.de [External Link]
Nextcloud: https://www.thegood.cloud [External Link]
Article vault: https://www.wallabag.it [External Link]
Password manager: https://bitwarden.com [External Link]
Comms: https://www.matrix.org [External Link] (Any client will do, the official is https://element.io/get-started) [External Link]
Video-conferencing: https://meet.jit.si [External Link]
External Backups: https://backblaze.com [External Link]

All of them can be self-hosted too, except Backblaze, but if you lack the time, technical skills, money or simply don't want to worry about backups, configs, etc the above are my favourite providers.

Edit: Posteo itself can't be self-hosted, but a mail server is easily hosted in a VPS. For those cases, https://mailcow.email/ [External Link] is a very good out-the-box solution. They also provide it as a service.

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Has there been a trend of more Norse mythology based games lately or is it just me?

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Quoting: SeegrasPatent systems are very broken and need to be abolished.

For anyone interested, here's the book, where they show that in most fields (except chemistry/pharma), patents don't even work as they should according to the patent system itself. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.27.1.3 [External Link]

In chemistry and pharma aren't working either. The fact that a lab creates a vaccine and is not immediately available for every other lab to palliate with a disease, whether that is a solving erectile dysfunction or a pandemic, but rather they can prevent others from doing the same, or getting rich by leasing the patent, is utterly annoying. It could only come from the mind of a psychopath.

A bit more in topic, the years when innovations, economic boost, etc had their peak in most advanced countries is when patents were least overlooked. I read an article in theconversation.com that explained this better than me, with special mention to China, but can't find it :angry:

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Quoting: JuliusAnd the back-paddle buttons are probably the most useless part of the Steam controller anyways...

I profoundly hate them. Usually, they're to be forgotten until in the heat of action, pressing a trigger, my pinky does a reaction and there you go, jumping like a maniac in the middle of a bullet frenzy exchange. I can recall the Tomb Raider games specifically on these.

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We're closing our first party studios.
We're not closing Stadia (for now).

Are there numbers anywhere on how many people signed for the platform, how many are active, how many are Pro subscribers, etc?

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The game interests me but playing a pig puts me off.

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One of this with 30W TDP for a small server on a CPU from AMD without GPU, to use with Jellyfin for Hardware decoding and Nextcloud for Image Recognition would really hit the spot for self-hosted hobbyists.

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Tuxedo, please, stop releasing equipment with soldered 8GB RAM chips...

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Quoting: EzequielWhile I do like the work System76 does, It's wrong to call this laptop's firmware open source. It is not.
They are using Coreboot as a wrapper for Intel's binary blob. The blob is what ultimately controls the system, and it still enables the Intel Management Engine.
Source for this? The very same repo linked in the article. It uses Intel's FSP binaries as a dependency.
https://github.com/intel/FSP/tree/c80123384aa74ee0a0b011ad4e8a0afc533c8195 [External Link]

What is the benefit of this? You get your own custom and fine grained firmware control for all the laptop internal capabilities, from fanspeed to power states, ram settings and cpu clocks. Yet we are still running proprietary code on a CPU controlled by the management engine, which has network, storage, cpu and ram access.

Can the IME be mitigated by this firmware? Yes, it can be halted by doing some editing, yet we are still running the proprietary code, and "trusting" that we actually stoped the IME.

I'd prefer if this articles talked about this, Purism does this as well, there are very few real Open Source Firmware projects out there.

I wasn't aware of this, thanks for sharing the info!

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