astrsk

joined 8 months ago
[–] astrsk@piefed.social 7 points 5 months ago
[–] astrsk@piefed.social 1 points 6 months ago

about:blank with a dark theme is the only new tab experience I will ever use.

[–] astrsk@piefed.social 1 points 7 months ago

Literally the only reason I decided to buy it.

[–] astrsk@piefed.social 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

$500 for 120TB!?

I spent about $1200 for 100tb of spinning rust for one of my NAS boxes. Please tell me where I can get 20% more for 40% less!

For clarity, at the $240 per 20tb CMR drive, assuming no inflated cost due to novel production processes, it would be around $1440 for one drive. I’m going to assume ~$1600 minimum. Also, I’m not going to buy one until they can prove it doesn’t have the same issues as shingled drives.

[–] astrsk@piefed.social 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I have been thinking about starting a blog.

Any recommendations for self-hosted blogging? The setup itself might be worthy of a post :)

[–] astrsk@piefed.social 12 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Good tips, but how does one practice them? Often times I see advice along the same lines but no offers on how to improve these skills.

[–] astrsk@piefed.social 1 points 7 months ago

Nice!

NUT is fantastic and so easy to setup, it’s pretty magical watching all my machines and services shutdown during a simulated power outage to verify functionality.

[–] astrsk@piefed.social 65 points 7 months ago (2 children)

No, valves fees are completely reasonable. $100 one time fee, then 30% for any game key sold by valve with something like a million guaranteed impressions. Also it’s 0% if you generate the keys for free and sell them elsewhere like on your own website. All with the benefit of the steam network and hosting. I’m tired of people believing Tim’s lies under the facade of “he’s and asshole but he has a point”. He doesn’t have a point. He’s throwing a tantrum because he doesn’t have what he wants which is hundreds of millions of paying customers and he doesn’t want to put the time and investment needed into building out the infrastructure to achieve the same feat. He’s a greedy little fuck that wants to do the bare minimum to get rich while valve has been coasting as a market leader because they built the whole freakin market!

[–] astrsk@piefed.social 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, like, what do people expect? Of course they’ll do good things to get re-elected. That’s literally how this works! I don’t get the people who argue “it’s just for getting votes”. Yes, that’s how it works.

[–] astrsk@piefed.social 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’m just waiting to see what Kate Lowerton has to say about all this.