They can’t sell this at a loss, or at least it would be incredibly risky. This is (intentionally) “just a PC”. It ships with SteamOS but you can of course install whatever you want, including windows. If it is (much) cheaper than a roughly equivalent normal PC, companies might just start buying them in bulk but obviously not generating the supporting sales needed.

Multiple times a day and many times a day isn’t necessarily the same thing. Also just having a 1-2 hours long timeout might still be a viable option preventing repeated spin ups, but still allowing spin down during longer unused periods.

While probably not worth it for your particular case, it might will be for others reading this. Ideally, one could observe the access patterns for a while a find a suitable timeout setting.

While that is still true, unless you spin them up many times a day, it’s a non-issue. Set your timeout to at least 30 minutes. Most jellyfin servers are not gonna be used fir many hours at night, for example. Or when everyone is at work/school.

These days, power is expensive for have people. If I keep my drives spinning 24/7, it’ll cost me around 150€ per year. If they spin when needed, it’ll cost me whatever percentage they are spinning, so in practice they are on for like 1-3 hours a day. So let’s say 20€ per year.

Tailscale is WireGuard under the hood, if you didn’t know. It’s an overlay network that uses WireGuard to make the actual connections, and has some very clever “stuff” to get the clients actually to connect, even if behind firewalls without needing port forwarding.

Using WireGuard directly basically just changes the app you use, which may or may not help with your issues. But the connecting technology is the exact same.

Valve and therefore Steam is still privately owned, never went public. No share holders demanding things surely is a major factor.

They can literally setup an instance themselves. By the time it is identified as such, the damage is basically done. Just make a new one. Or use one of the many instances not requiring approval. Or fill out the form with ai. They don’t actually need an insane number of accounts for their subterfuge. Having just “some” and keeping them tied to conversational themes/topics seems sufficient?

I assume you mean unsolicited phone calls with this? I haven’t gotten any of those in about a decade, if not more. And those were isolated cases as well. We have laws against that sort of thing. It’s not been a problem for a very very long time (early 2000s or so).

If I’m hosting Stirling myself, I don’t mind it being sent to the server obviously. Being fully open source of course is a big plus.

I’d suggest looking into TeamSpeak, like others have mentioned. Trivial to self host, too.

Edit: to be clear, this would cover the voice call aspect of discord, not the chat channels and other community tools. While it’s can do text chat, it’s more of a side feature rather than core. I didn’t think it does images or video, but it’s been a hot minute.

Who cares what it looks like as long as it works? They want to get 2fa sms in their desktop, I highly doubt “pretty” is high on the requirements…

See my reply in this thread to artyom, I assume that’s what you’re looking for?

but you can do everything without it.

yes but why would you? There’s a reason we use GUIs, especially when new to a field (like virtualization).

The 3$ isn’t a component price but also retail already.

Those hardware generators you mentioned have been around for at least 30 years. A TOTP app is just software that does the same thing as those hardware generators.

I’m aware, but you’re not getting the secret token that you’d need to put into your TOTP app. At least not that I know of. I also haven’t checked in a very long time if there are open source reimplementations of the photoTAN apps. They all got their own flavors, but it’s also just a slight variation on a theme (initialize app with qr-like secret, then scan a similar code as a challenge/response using that secret to generate token). Probably should check that at some point.

The actual hardware cost of these devices is actually minimal. Basically any wifi capable microcontroller, a camera and depending on implementation some storage (or a micro sd-card holder). So that price is only cheap in comparison to existing products.

For reference, said microcontroller with basic camera can be had for like 3$ or something.

They aren’t forced to lock them down, or prescribe any app store afaik. That’s the banks that do. Some lock it down, some not at all. But you’ll need some form of 2 factor “photoTAN” app. Unfortunately, common 2fa codes aren’t used (or allowed), I think this legislation is actually older than them becoming common.

And that’s quite all, they also offer hardware token generators. Not sure if they are required to, but i think so. You do have to pay for them once (20 or 30 bucks maybe?). In reality, this is somewhat impractical for a variety of reasons…

That’s impossible in the EU, they all do by law.

The number of people that actually remember this line from playing the game, and those that just heard it are probably very different though. Not sure the distinction matters.

Narrator in Bastion. Just glorious.

Sorry but the theoretical price of cells isn’t relevant to the consumer. The price of products containing them is. This thing costs currently on the official site 900€ (with some sort of sale going on). The Elite 100v2 with comparable capacity, but using LiFePo4 (included in the same current sale) costs just 550€. To add insult to injury, it also outperforms the Na model in nearly every aspect except sub-freezing performance (where it at least still works, but nowhere near normal spec values either). This includes an abysmal solar charging efficiency for the Na of roughly 50% at normal temperature. Somehow.

Again, once the price reflects the cell cost, this could be a very attractive option. At the moment, unless you’re into camping in sun-zero climates, it’s just a very bad deal.

Edit: to be clear the Na model also doesn’t have a better life expectancy, not according to the spec. Both models are specified to “over 4000 cycles”, not there is no percentage threshold specified for the Na model. The LiFePo4 model includes “to 80% capacity” in that definition. If this is specified somewhere for the Na model, I can’t find it.