True, forgot about that. They are the best free option that forces you to use webmail if you don’t want to pay (and their app).
I’m not sure if there are any other free mail providers that i’d trust to be honest (if I absolutely can’t pay for one, I’d just live with protons webmail).
Posteo should work for you and it’s very cheap (1 eur).
Hehe idk.
posteo for 1 eur/month? (Heard good stuff)
ProtonMail is a good free option (if I were paying and didn’t care about using my own custom domain posteo seems a lot better & cheaper)
Xbox feels like the biggest one being eroded rn… i don’t think what Xbox is doing is any good nor would it help the main business
I agree we should have better laws to protect people against evil monopolies (google, etc).
Steam has been at the top of pc gaming for a very long time, so they would have enshittified by now if that was the plan, but luckily they are a private company and their leadership caters to their user base.
If someone evil took over Steam somehow then yea that’s bad news and the laws we should establish will help if that happens.
The difference is that a monarchy usually rules over everything and has the last say.
Steam is a monopoly only because every competitor has tried but failed to make a new compelling service.
Steam does have the last say within their platform (usually it’s the correct say), but they don’t disallow competition by lobbying or with other anti-competitive practices.
Some company just has to make a better service.
It’s not impossible, just no one wants to do it because they can’t make bajillions like they usually do in their other sectors where they can freely abuse the customer because there isn’t someone like Steam looking out for them.
So I agree with you, but someone must make a better service before the pc gaming marketplace marketshare can be more evenly distributed, but no one will or has. But keep in mind that Steam isn’t doing anything illegal and by no means should they forcefully be separated or anything by the government (they are not an illegal monopoly like google for example, they are simply a monopoly because they make the best service and no one is competing).
That’s always a possibility, but if it was going to happen, it would have already by now.
It’s very obvious to me that Valves leadership cares about the end goal of making gaming accessible and as easy as possible for everyone.
If they ever become evil, I feel it’s guaranteed to be because of leadership change to someone who is secretly corrupt, we just have to hope the reigns are handed down to someone good.
And if they do become evil and their product suffert as a result, they are going to create an opening for the others to fill.
The market gets harder to join as Steam makes their platform better and better. This is very very good compared to other companies that get to the top and then add physical and legal barries to others to stop them becoming competition.
Xbox has killed itself and I can’t see Playstation going anywhere anytime soon. Steam machines could take some tiny % of Playstation users, but if they do, the users stolen might have been people who wanted to swap to PC anyway. + you can access other stores on a steam machine
Luckily unlike monopolies in other sectors, Steam doesn’t involve itself in evil oractices that more or less stops others from competing.
Someone just needs to make a better store, but they can’t because no company big enough to compete is willing to be as user friendly.
Epic, probably the second biggest store people thing about, can’t even make a good platform. They try underhanded practices like bribing developers and customers… maybe they should make their store work properly first.
There are tools for that, no?
You can install NAS software that turns self hosting stuff into one click installs.
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I’m unconvinced anyone will really legislate this,
The Eurpean Union sort of has it’s head on when it comes to addressing consumer rights, if they legislate this, then the entirety of europe will likely benefit (even those outside the european union like the UK, examples of this have happened before if im correct, see windows 10 1 year extension for eu).
and if it is, it’ll just lead to that country being scratched off the list of where the game is officially supported.
No it won’t. Maybe if it’s a country with no internet and doesn’t have a population interested in gaming, but any major country like UK, Germany, etc enforcing this would force the hands of game publishers bevause these markets are just too big.
No publisher is going to pull out of the UK for example.
Realistically, we need to stop buying online only games where the servers will eventually go offline, and support those that release open servers.
I agree. Unfortunately most people are unaware or have no backbone so they keep on buying the next “big” game, nevertheless I agree, we need to stop supporting anti-consumer behavior instead of defending it.
A separate backup NAS would better than nothing. If losing your data would be a disaster, then don’t overlook backing up your data in a separate location (either at someone elses house or use a cloud backup provider like Backblaze) incase of a fire, etc.
Cloud or any way to backup your data in another location is greatly preferred to having another NAS in the same location just as a mirrored copy of your first.
Usually fine for media only like Jellyfin, since you write every now and then new content, then only read from it for longer periods of time.
I probably wouldn’t go for a SMR drive anyways just because drives can last a long while and who knows what i’ll want to do with it in the future.
(If you use RAID, this advice doesn’t matter, but if you don’t run raid like me and only use it for media like in the example, I’d imagine it’d be fine)
https://github.com/alexta69/metube does this very well already!
Any backup location is secure as long as you encrypt your data securely before you back it up there.
For something as important as a backup that you don’t want to lose, I’d stick with something tried and true like Backblaze B2.
Backblaze is also very cheap for what it is (a great storage solution). You can pay monthly or use more of the regular pay as you go model.
Monthly and pay as you go have ups and downs, but the benefit of pay as you go for me is the ridiculously cheap deal (if you download your backups a lot it may be less so, but I don’t so it works out very cheap for me).
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Sounds nice to have it separate, but it’s not hard to reinstall services or even your whole os (as long as you are partitioned correctly) while your data is on the same machine/disk.
Two machines does sound overkill for Jellyfin (and 99.99% of self hosters).
If it can ensure you are looking at the road, that sounds good.
Not sure if it seems as safe as you in full operation of the car for turns etc around town, but its a good safety feature to ensure you arent distracted.
protect occupants
It doesn’t even do that. You crash a tesla and start a fire, it will glady lock you in the car.
The UK, while in the EU still rejected a lot of ideas/rules by not following them (as far as I’m aware).
I dunno if that’s something each country can do when it’s not a core principal they are denying. They probably got away with it just because they are a big economic force, they can do whatever they like.
A country being in the EU doesn’t change its local laws and stuff though, each can still have their own weird rules. I guess they can’t override EU rules though.
I know 0 about this tho so these are opinions basically ;(