MentalEdge

There’s a third person mod for it if that style of gameplay would suit you better.

It’s an absolute masterpiece, but it requires your active attention. You have to put the pieces it gives you together, or you won’t get that expansive “more than the sum of it’s parts” effect that really good art can do.

Obviously.

There are a total of seven indicators, the only one that is labeled with numbers is the one that estimates how much VRAM will be used.

The rest are just unlabeled bars for “Processing Load” and visual effects categories. They don’t ACTUALLY have anything to do with how much your system is able to do, they just indicate what a setting does in relation to themselves. (checkmarks show which bars the currently selected setting affects)

I feel like instead of the “settings have been optimized for your hardware” pop up that almost always sets them to something that doesn’t account for the trade-off between looks and framerate that a player wants, there should be a “these settings are designed for future hardware and may not work well today” pop up when a player sets everything to max.

I’ve noticed some games also don’t actually max things out when you select the highest preset.

I also really like the settings menu of the RE engine games. It has indicators that aggregate how much “load” you’re putting on your system by turning each setting up or down, which lets you make more informed decisions on what settings to enable or disable. And it in fact will straight up tell you when you turn stuff too high, and warns you that things might not run well if you do.

I finished the whole game on a core 2 duo, and some nvidia gpu from the same era I don’t even remember.

Please let them bring back Studio Japan and Studio Liverpool.

They don’t need to produce mega-expensive projects. I just miss there being some real variety in Sonys first party titles. They axed and consolidated so much that they basically just make one game in different flavors now.

They’re all great games… But like, adventure game with a balance of platforming, combat and “listen to some characters talk while you run around” gets a little old.

Also, you’re digressing.

I merely consider it necessary to function in modern society, and hence a service a government might conceivably provide.

You really like making assumptions about what I mean, and twisting my words, huh?

You classify email and internet search as non-essential?

And what does how they are classified have to do with the ability/inability of government to provide them in a sufficient manner?

You claimed something that HAS HAPPENED, could not. There’s no comeback here for you to find.

Those are some pretty specific additional qualifiers. Did I hit a nerve?

I’m responsing to someone claiming governments inherently cannot be good providers of essential services, which is patently untrue.

The nordics are home to numerous government institutions, providing a variety of services that are perfectly satisfactory, and often excellent.

Are you claiming that email or search engines not being among them today, means the rest mean nothing, or that they never will be?

If the current services are anything to go by, those things getting added to the list, will be fucking great.

I live in the nordics, would you like a list?

Yeah, even that feels outlandish.

But I was a lot less knowledgeable then than now so it may have some degree of user error.

TBF, eerything getting deleted should be straight up impossible no matter what the user does.

Did you ever find out what the actual cause was there?

Nothing like this has ocurred for me in over a year of use. And if it does, my nexycloud data folder is on a btrfs volume with regular snapshots, and backed up onto off-site storage.

If it’s still a problem I’d love to replicate and help with a fix.

I used to use google keep, and also struggled to find something which would work between my phone and desktop.

Eventually Nextcloud notes improved enough to be the replacement that satisfies.

It’s all markdown, existing as files in your nextcloud folder. That meant exporting my google keep was easy.

The desktop and mobile app are both simple but sufficient IMO. Make sure to install the rich text editor app for nextcloud, or you’ll have to write plaintext markdown.

The downside is that if you don’t already run nextcloud, setting it up is beyond overkill. Then again, you may find use for the many, many other things it can do, too.

They are genuinely useful devices, in that they simplify the process of running what is essentially a home server, down to something the average person can pull off by just buying a box and slotting some drives into it, then use a simple UI to configure whatever basic services they like.

For just the hardware, they’re absolutely robbery. You’re paying for the software to hold your hand. If you don’t need that, they’re pretty much pointless.

I think it’s fine.

The first party device has existed over a year now, proved its worth, and become more widely understood by gamers.

Android suffers from fragmentation, sure, but it being used by a variety of manufacturers hasn’t stopped people from understanding that android is android, and can do similar things whether you buy a phone/tablet for 200 bucks, or 2000.

A laptop is a great place to start.

I like using desktop components as I’ve been able to incrementally upgrade the ram, CPU, and drives as the years go by. A lot of people also really like using single board computers.

The only thing I’d recommend against are pre-built NASes. Theyre proprietary AF and so overpriced for what you get if you don’t need the handholding of the consumer NAS software.

One thing I recommend doing, is keeping step by step notes on everything you set up, and keep a list of files and folders you’d need to keep to easily run whatever you’re running on a new system.

That way, moving to a new system, changing your config, or reinstalling the OS is so much easier. A couple years down the line you’ll be thanking yourself for writing down how the hell you configured that one thing years back.

Almost every problem I’ve had was due to me not accounting for some quirk of my config that I’d forgotten about.

And that would apply with a VPS, too, if you end up going that route.

Yes. Yes they can.

Good companies will have measures to ensure customer privacy, all the way up to ridiculous level stuff like keeping servers inside electrically touch-sensing cages with biometrically locked entrances that can only be entered with a customer representative present.

So generally there shouldn’t be a cause for concern with any respectable provider.

Then again, running a server at home isn’t that bad. My dad did it, he still does it, and now I do, too. We are each others’ off-site backup.

The main issue is usually whether you have access to a suitable internet connection. If you want to access your stuff out-of-home, that is.

The hardware can be almost anything. Depending on what you want to run, you usually don’t have to be picky. My machine was built, and gets upgraded, using dirt-cheap parts off the used market, always a couple generations behind the latest hardware.

The only thing I buy new are the hard-drives.

If you like the combat and the quarry, the Jukebox lets you play a bunch of challenge levels in locations from the same dimension as the quarry is in.

Russia?

Yes.