No idea about their storage boxes. But I’ve rented dedicated servers from them for a long time. Both as a corporate and private customer. Never had a problem. Support was always great. Sometimes even Mr Hetzner himself would step in.

There are ratings in Discover on Linux. I have absolutely no idea where they are pulled from but that might be the right platform.

Du machst das sehr gut. Ich bin stolz auf dich!

Maybe try the Steam flatpak. Perhaps you are missing some dependency.

Isn’t one of Cloudflare’s biggest strengths that they have a shitton of servers around the world and can thus provide DDOS resilient caching?

Having a shitton of servers is kind of the antithesis of self hosting.

Definitely keep it simple for the first game. A Smash like was recommended in the other thread. I think that’s a fantastic idea. Start with a small roster of two characters and one stage and improve from there.

A smash type game would be great! Add characters from Tux Kart and from other open source projects. Maybe a paperclip and apple as well, as villains.

I loved my N95. It showed what an oldschool smartphone could look like.

Until the N900 came along and defined for me what a modern smartphone should look like. Thus killing my enthusiasm for all future Android phones.

But the N95 was sturdier. I still have it in my backpack as a backup phone.

Meh, the Sailfish guys made the same mistake that Nokia made in not open sourcing their work. That has kept me away from them so far.

Then again their company is still in business so maybe it wasn’t such a bad move after all.

Just look at the Lemmy UI vs basically every third party app. Same utility but vastly different usability.

Gas is expensive over here.

Da oben fliegt ein Reiher!
Von unten sieht man seine…

Ach ne, das ist ein Kranich!
Der hat ja sowas gar nich.

Suddenly the Angry Bird designs make more sense.

I back up all user data, for me that’s some folders in /var, all of /etc (don’t need everything, but it’s small enough), mysqldumps and pgsqldumps of my databases and the output of dpkg --get-selections. And the backup script itself.

Everything is rsynced to a server in another location.

I want to switch to Borg backup but haven’t found the time yet.

For the first time in forever I am playing multiple games at the same time.

Lands of Lore: Throne of Chaos. I had that game as a kid but I don’t think I ever got any further than the first enemy. And it’s amazing! The whole game is dubbed. And it has four protagonists to choose from, each with their individual voice lines about basically any situation or item you come across. And all the NPC’s lines match them and they address you by name.

And the graphics are super beautiful. Pixel graphics but with great details and animations. Like when you get your spellbook you get a super elaborate T-1000-like animation of some droplets forming a scroll.

X-Wing via XWVM: The old X-Wing game with updated graphics and quality of life improvements. Just awesome! It’s still an alpha but basically plays like a beta. I have hardly any bugs, just occasional crashes, and none are game breaking. And supposedly they are already pretty far along with TIE Fighter compatibility. Can’t wait to play that. TIE Fighter TC is nice and all, but stuffing everything into the X-Wing Alliance engine feels pretty clunky while XWVM just works.

Cyberpunk 2077: My son bought it on sale and I wanted to try it as well, although I don’t really like cyberpunk. Too realistic. But the game is great. Plays like a combination of Deus Ex and GTA. I’d say it feels more like the original Deus Ex than the newer Deus Ex games. Maybe with slightly less open levels. But not much.

Limbo and Inside: The games are about to be delisted from GOG so I got them quickly. It’s chill to play which suits me well. Love it so far.

Yeah, he’d have to keep them in his bra for that.

At school we had an anonymous grievances box. So that the kids could safely air their grievances. It was rarely used. But one day a note read “I don’t want to be called Willy anymore.” And amazingly it worked. Even the biggest bullies and class trolls called him William from that day on.

When I applied for a job at this company, my last interview was with “Joe”. For everyone else I got the first and last name. And email addresses were also firstname.lastname@example.com. But not for Joe. Joe’s was just joe@example.com.

Same company after I was hired. I got on at about the same time as Peter-Michael. Whom we all called Peter-Michael. Because he was introduced as Peter-Michael. A few months in he revealed that he’s only Peter-Michael at work. Everyone else just calls him Peter. It just happened like that because he used his full name on his application and then went with it.

I know several people who go with their second name as their usual name when around friends. Either because they like it more or sometimes because the parents chose that order because secondname-firstname sounded weird.

That’s actually what it used to be like before time zones. Every town would have its own time. Wouldn’t be much of a problem when you had to travel to the next town by foot, horse or cart.

But I think when trains started to become more common they had to synchronise times.

Gotta check if my GPU even supports CEC.