ColdCreasent

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Something to think about. GeForce Now isn’t about making it so you can play video games no matter your own hardware. It’s a test bed to show that cloud based hardware rental is a viable and achievable goal for the likes of Micro$oft etc. it’s a proof of concept for those companies to “show” that people would be “happier” renting their hardware than buying personal computers.

Long term goal is to price the average user out of the computer market and have them just buy a dumb terminal to do their computing on. This will also have average income gamers not able to buy a PC and instead be forced to rent one. This was M$ goal about 20 yrs ago, but internet speeds weren’t good enough for the ~30% if the population of the world they care about. These days we are getting much closer to that being a high enough % of people with good enough internet to start pricing people out of their luxury gaming PCs. And eventually grandma is going to be buying a preset Chromeb00k style laptop to connect to a subscription based service so she can check her email.

Been drinking tonight, but this idea has been sticking with me for more than a year, punctuated by the recent Micron public statement.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/piracy · 1 pts · 332d

But don’t use the pirate bay…bad place. Other places are much better and have good reputations.

Very interesting, I’ve done full zoom lessons for hours and almost never had connectivity issues like that. Our dish has full open sky view, so that may be part of a difference, as well I think it’s the first version of the dish, not one of the later ones.

Have been using starlink for more than 2 years at this point and can confirm from my view that there are very few connection issues. I’ve almost never looked at my connection as the issue when gaming since getting it. It either went down completely for a few hours (2 times I can remember) or was very solid.

EDIT: Not excusing or fanboying for Musk, as his personal direction has been questionable in recent years. But talking about the technology perspective.

Recently set up Nextcloud, but ran into trouble getting it to connect with a domain because of Starlink being the ISP. Found out about tailscale and have been getting things connected and accessible with Tailscale’s magic DNS that it uses.

Currently trying to figure out how to use the iOS tailscale app to connect to an exit node, which will be my server at home, but it’s not easy. Apparently it can be done through the shortcuts and automation on the iPhone, but can’t sort out a way to connect easily that doesn’t throw errors with no good documentation to say what I’ve done wrong.

on Hard Drive Shucking · c/piracy · 6 pts · 2y

Want to echo what was said here. RAID is not a backup solution. RAID is for always on capability. Do not use RAID as a way to keep valuable data safe. Just have double the drive space and keep a backup of the data on the second drive.

That makes more sense, and a bit beyond my depth as well. But this is not the sites issue at this point, just some honest questions about the online fix.
I was under the impression we needed the online fix for it to work with other legitimate players. It doesn’t make sense to have an online fix if one isn’t needed. I’ll look into that part more, but I can see it being titled ransomware if they redirect queries to another server to make them go to the legit server and bypass the legit check.
Still depends on if we needed the online fix or not from the beginning, and then the question becomes, “how did they make the online check work, and where does it redirect to?”