Power, Domain Name (if using a standard paid one instead of the cheaper route), VPN are the 3 that I pay for that I feel are the bare minimum.

I pay for a domain that’s $12, but you could easily get the $1 ones for the same purposes. I pay for a static and service VPN with Windscribe, which comes out to be like $35+$89 respectively. So that’s already $136 a year excluding the cost of power. I could cut that cost easily, but I use them for more than just my selfhosting so I feel like it’s a fair price for what I get out of it.

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I think that’s a really key point - back in the days of the PS2 to 360 era, it was all about Xx_Graphics_xX and there were so many 30fps games that dipped to 15 at times, making “30FPS” feel worse than it was.

That said, 30FPS can still be rough. IMO Dragons Dogma 2 running at 30 on the PS5 is pretty rough. Even excluding dips, but it has them. But the game Heroes Hour on the Steam Deck running at 30 is perfectly fine. Similarly, setting Red Dead 2 to get a consistent 30 is fine too.

Consistency is huge, for sure!

Should discussion posts be labeled other?

Wild to see so many AAA sided games, like over half the list. I wonder how many is their first time playing these, or if it became the preferred format.

I personally finally tried out Vampire Survivors this month, it was alright. And for old times sake I checked out TBoI on the OLED.

My main game has been MH Rise, but I’ve been playing downstairs on the TV with the Deck docked and using the Steam Controller. Other than that I’ve been trying out games that I wouldn’t normally play on my PC - usually indie titles. I found Revita, a twin-stick rogue like, and ScourgeBringer from the same publisher. Earlier in the month I was playing Ubermosh and Kingdom: Two Crowns.

I don’t know why pixel style games don’t feel “right” on desktop anymore but man do I still enjoy these games on the right type of console. I knew this from the Switch but it really has sunk in the last few months using the Steam Deck to play games I haven’t tried before.

Yeah but so what? They can also go as low as $15 so it’ll just depend on the package size. I mean frankly, they are the ones who need it most and OP is clearly in a position where they are able to take some kind of L trying to sell it.

May as well be a good guy and pay it forward. Few around the states would be likely to buy it when the availability from official sources are just simpler and safer.

Besides, I bought a guitar from eBay from AUS. If they can charge me only $217 after shipping and the guitar itself, then a Steam Deck can get a nice price too ;)

I feel like selling it internationally is your best bet. Find someone in Australia and sell it to them for fair shipping.

Selling it locally is just going to make you tear your hair out. You’re trying to sell a popular device that has just had a refresh and a fair sale, outside of Facebook Marketplace or somewhere where a buyer is, quite frankly, not knowledgeable, I feel like your chances are just very slim.

On the other hand, Australian’s are looking at ~$1,200 AUD for a “new” high model that someone else bought and supposedly didn’t use.

You’d be doing the Steam Deck community a favor by selling it to an enthusiast without charging them extra just because they’re down under.

If I had to guess it’s not “that it takes roles away” or that it “affects the writing” like so many try to claim, but that it infringes on the power fantasy. Back in the day Charlie’s Angel’s was good because it plays into the mastermind behind the femme fatales,

The thing is, many of the movies that get complained about frankly get complained about for the wrong reasons. Some genuinely do have (usually minor) issues such as being written during filming with little motivation to reach an end-goal in mind, just not the rage bait that gets media attention. The reality is that it’s a bunch of small decisions that make the wider movie as a whole weaker, but these idiots just hop onto the “it’s bad because it’s woke” train. Like, for fucks sake people. Marvel isn’t bad because it has focused on female characters just like Sony isn’t bad because it’s woke. Morbius was a train-wreck led be a cultist and yet where is the rage for that mess? None, it got meme’d to death so hard Sony thought it did well and brought it back to theaters…

I guarantee that if 2005 Elektra were remade today and happened to be not so great it wouldn’t get the Morbius treatment, it would get the Phase 5 Marvel/Sequel Star Wars treatment about how the focus on female characters is detracting from something, all too happy to ignore the production issues behind the scenes.

On an aside, I still don’t understand why Sony is getting a pass with the awful villain movies. The first Venom was OK but the sequel with Carnage was abysmal and the real leaked script for Kraven didn’t look much better… I’m not entirely enthused about the upcoming projects they have because I want them to do Madame Web well and… I just hope they get it together but I personally was not a fan of TASM 1 and 2 (though 1 was far, far better by comparison). Mostly nothing to do with the cast and most of the cinematic scenes, it was just the bland changes to the story that ultimately didn’t lead anywhere. So many frameworks are all set for them but instead of following it they just recreated images in live action - the side by sides are beautiful, the films are pretty terrible. That’s the one thing that Sony doesn’t have against DC and Marvel is at least the attempted re-imaginings of character arcs in DC and Marvel are sort of making the framework their own. Rant within rant over, thanks for reading.

P.S. for anyone else view Phase 4 Marvel as 2020’s Phase 1. Endgame basically reset the universe, the actor-heroes are tired so in between the Multiverse movies they’ve been doing single-character focused films. Black Widow, Shang-Chi, Eternals are all pretty much stand-alone characters (with minor cosmic roles to come). The shows Hawkeye, Ms. Marvel, and She-Hulk are also completely independent character-driven shows that I really liked.

WandaVision was pretty much a setup for ending the aftermath of Endgame and leads into the movie Multiverse of Madness. Falcon and Winter Soldier had a different script about a plague being used by terrorists, then Covid-19 lockdowns happened so the show was changed and suffered because of it. With that in mind, it’s an OK show. Loki S1 is pretty good, S2 was a let down but the finale set up the future well. Moon Knight had no action sequences and wasn’t planned so it suffered. (Surprise surprise, all Marvel shows that sucked completely unrelated to… “wokeness”, whatever they mean by that).

With that in mind, Phase 5 is simply continuing this trend. It’s mostly character driven movies with a few being tie in films. Ant-Man 2 was OK, I liked it more than people online did it seemed and I honestly found Kang to be the weakest part of the movie for me. Guardians 3 was very good, but it does hinge on you caring about the events of the characters from Guardians 1, 2, and Endgame. But it’s the closing chapter of the gang, so it’s a good sendoff. And now we have the Marvels, which I haven’t seen yet but from my understanding is another semi-introduction film for Ms. Marvel and Monica Rambeau (from WandaVision). Deadpool 3 looks to be a tie-in Multiverse, and then we’ll probably get a few more character oriented movies and shows.

So honestly, while I understand the burnout for Marvel content, as of November 2023 if you’ve seen Endgame then you can watch the Phase 4 and 5 marvel films and shows in basically any order so don’t let that be a real excuse. I listed everything except for What If (animated but canon) and Thor: Love and Thunder (production issues, I liked it but it needed tonal consistency).

It’s how long archeology has said we have had permanent settlements.

In reality it’s likely far earlier than that, we only just found a settlement from 11,000 BCE in Turkey, Gobekli Tepe which was likely a sanctuary/shrine, as well as other towns in the surrounding area likely having started before even then.

Big archeology pushed back to say that that’s not 100% certain and that humans were still nomadic, despite all the evidence showing otherwise. It was finally just recognized officially a couple months ago.

This just in - 3 female super heroes count as politically correct. More at 11.

I can’t speak to what you’re looking for specifically, however I can give you an idea of the level and type of noise you could expect.

With a local server I built with 3 standard 8TB HDDs, the “noisiest” part of the whole computer is the fans itself - it’s very quiet compared to say, a fanned air purifier on full or maybe even half power. I’ve never actually heard my hard drives from any of the computers I’ve built in the last 6-8 years, and I’m usually right by them. If I listen very closely I may hear some ticking/spinning if they happen to be ramped up.

So under load, there may be a chance of hearing some of the spinning disks in a quiet room, however I haven’t actively heard an HDD since 2012 - though the size you’re going for could be different as you mentioned. I can’t speak for the 18tb sizes. As for the smaller external HDD’s, I have 3 6TB ones running in tandem and it’s pretty much the same, I’ve heard them ramp up slightly but it’s nearly silent even under load it’s more of a gentle hum. If there were any noise sources like music it would be unnoticeable. But again, the size may play a factor.

You mentioned it’s right by your bed but would your active hours align with the backups? I.e. if you run them overnight from 2a to 8a, you’d already be asleep for the backup. If it’s noise that prevents you from sleeping that may help.

If it’s just file management (which for emulators, it is) I would just use FileZilla. It’s a basically GUI for SSH but I like it.

The Deckmate has a nice injected plastic mold which sounds like exactly what you’re looking for.

It’s a bit dated by now I’m sure but I’m a fan of my Rakk Ang Lam Pro (or for me, the Falcon Elite TKL - same thing) that I got from Flashquark.

~$80 board with media scroll wheel and a Win lock. Hotswappable so your favorite switches likely work. It is just a plastic housing but it’s sturdy and there’s no major flex or wear after ~3 years.

Spilled a beer on it and washed the board, all still fully functional.

That’s too bad, I’ve always liked Tails. Was lucky that it ran on a mid 2012 MacBook Pro, but the non-working hardware list is pretty large. Some people prefer Qubes and Whonix anyway

I was just reading a couple weeks ago about a smaller web project. Lemme see if I can find it

Edit: here it is, https://kbin.social/m/selfhosting@slrpnk.net/t/476826/What-is-the-Small-Web

I personally run Tails OS as a daily driver. Not only does it keep others safe, but it keeps me from tracking my own online presence.

Just some other suggestions, there’s also Syncthing (for backups and syncing devices) and PhotoPrism (like the user who suggested Immich, for gallery view.)

Good find on the solution, there’s some good alternatives from the github Monolith as well. However, MoW looks great, too bad it’s Chrome only from what I can see :(

I did attempt it a bit but I was having issues. Definitely the way I’m trying to go though!