And they want us to stay hyped about games. I refuse to believe any marketing garbage because I know now they’re just measuring hype to determine if they should keep making things. That is not a long term strategy

Oh god I remember that from the Midwest. Oh you need milk? Better get in the car and drive 15-20 minutes one way to get to the closest (and most expensive) store. By the time you get back you brined at least $5 in gas, not counting the cost of the milk.

I absolutely feel you, but the best way to stick it to them is to ride transit as often as you are able with their shit schedules, and walk when you can. Metrics and ridership are what drives investment. Its stupid because it is actually backwards (investment drives ridership) but in america car is the only thing worth spending billions of dollars on.

For most of Americans this is a thought they honestly can’t grasp. Car culture and car brain are real. The first thing I head every time I see a post with a walkable neighborhood is “where is the parking?”. They truly never have thought about what life would be like without a car

If you’re only option is to give in to big corpos, then don’t do it. Go replay a classic game, relive a world you haven’t touched in years. Mass effect, dragon age, halo, skyrim, think of all the old games completely playable on a 360 now that you probably haven’t touched in years. Go back to them instead of giving in.

I truly believe its bad now, but its not going to last. Yes, I know that they want to take computers from us, but their purchasing isn’t going to stay this consistent. Its going to be rough for a bit, but after a few more contracts fall through and these purchases aren’t renewed for year after year (and looking at stock prices investors are not happy about these massive purchases) data centers are going to purchase less, and I really believe we’re going to see hardware crawl back to gaming.

Its up to us to decide which companies deserve our money when that day comes.

Almost like George Lucas saw something happening and based star wars on something

Like a seasons worth of work right there

Like half a day of factory work

Don’t know why you had to make that sexist. I know male servers who have done the same.

Can. Have. Worth it.

Granted its easy when you’re playing a game like Satisfactory

My spouse was roofied while I was in the restroom. I spent the night making sure she didn’t choke on her vomit.

Its true. A great other example is asking any of us nerds what best computer is out there for a family member. I know I personally would rattle off all of the specs and tell them exactly what to get, when all they needed is a browser.

Now I tell them just get something that isn’t on the discount rack and they’ll be fine

As someone who cares about audio fidelity a lot, there is definitely a diminishing returns. You’ll see me here telling people who complain “I have to constantly turn volume up and down for dialogue in movies”. That’s because your sound is TV speakers, basically phone speakers, go buy a sound bar and your life will get infinitely better.

If you want to go further you can get a nice set of speakers, even surround sound, and it’s fun, but it’s not as impactful as the first step.

Then though if you’re already at a sweet 7.1 surround sound system, it’s not going to matter if you get the high end cables, or spend 5k on the most bestest receiver. At that point you’re just wasting money. You may get… 1-5% better fidelity for… 500% of the cost?

Some people honestly don’t have a sense of humor, and think their one joke is hilarious even when it’s beaten with a dead horse.

First, assume they’re not doing it to be malicious, and talk to them, say it was funny the first few times, it’s grown old and you’re tired of hearing it. It started off funny, but them saying it every time has switched to hurtful. Hopefully that’s enough to get them to stop.

If they don’t, then don’t blow up, but next time they drop it start saying “Yeah, you said that last time we were together too”, deflect the humor with neutrality. Jokes like that only work if people laugh, and if other people aren’t laughing then usually it stops.

Just don’t blow up. Blowing up sounds like a good idea, but will make you come off as “they can’t take a joke”

It’s all about your perspective and what you can handle. Housing is a great example. Do you pay for rent for 30 years while you save up to buy a house outright with no mortgage (but having paid rent that entire time on top of paying for the house) afterwards, or do you get the house now and pay the bank a percentage while you also get to live in the house.

The math seems bad when you look at one item, like paying interest seems like a lot. Until you realize the alternatives worse, like paying rent for 30 years and at the end you have nothing. At the end of the mortgage, you have a home.

It’s the same no matter what you decide to take financing on. Personally I agree, I only do it for house and car (although we were very clear about what terms we wanted for the car), and beyond that not much. I have a credit card I pay off every month to keep my credit score high. Beyond that, I never take financing from places.

Good practice. Good luck then! Let us know if you need anything, on matrix I’m @scrubbles:halflings.chat, feel free to DM with questions

That’s how I started too, so very good plan, and good way of thinking ahead. Ssd will be fast so the app will load fast for your users, and images can take a few seconds and no one will mind.

Make sure you have a solid backup plan for both

Basically for a cloud provider s3 storage is just any storage. It’s not a disk that needs to be high availability with programs reading and writing to it with an OS on top, its just blobs of data. Images, video, isos, whatever. Its meant for access that is lower than what a VM would need for an active program.

For matrix this is ideal for its content. An image uploaded will be read a fee dozen times, and then less and less until eventually it isn’t really needed ever unless someone scrolls and scrolls up.

So for hosting, if you store that on a disk you’re saying “this is critical to the operation of the software and must be highly available and optimized for vms reading and writing to it.”. Think like m.2 ssds. Blob storage then analogous to us home labbers to throwing it on a giant nas. Its there, may take a bit to load, but its there.

Then s3 has classes too, where if you need your data even less you can pay even less trading off access times, you can get even better rates if you know you need it extremely infrequently, like audit logs. Tape drives are actually used quite a bit for those opt-in low access tiers because if you think about it the data storage is incredibly dense, but opening up a tape can be minutes or longer to access. No problem if you’re pulling up some archive from 20 years ago.

If you’re running locally on your own system then yes you can use your own. You can use something like MinIO or Garage to self-host an S3 bucket, and then point Matrix to that