As a media client, totally. Lots of people run jellyfin on Android TV sticks and things like that.

hdparm

I use nzb360 for this and it’s fantastic, well worth paying a small amount for. Not quite as many apps supported though.

I never wash anything in hot, it’s really bad for your clothes / fabrics. My stuff doesn’t smell when it comes out, and my clothing lasts ages.

The smell is from your washing machine, not the cold wash of your laundry. Doing a hot cycle occasionally will help clean the mold & mildew from inside the machine, even without it having items in it. Even better if you put some bleach or a cleaning tablet in it

I’d also suggest throwing more cores at it than you think it needs, and increasing the nic buffer sizes. This is what finally solved the random 1-2 minute outages I was seeing on lemmy.ca, turns out we were somehow saturating the queues even at relatively low traffic levels. (these issues might be specific to our model nic)

Finally, make sure hardware offloading is disabled, and your CPU type is set to host.

Not for any modern console. Easier to sell you a portable android box that can run emulators.

https://github.com/mdshack/shotshare maybe?

#2 with opnsense

I actually buy their abuse reasoning. I’m sure they’re happy to do it for other reasons as well, but I’m sure they’re just flooded with scrapers and bots. It’s a huge issue even for us lemmy admins.

Personally I’m fine with paid apps here, lots of people use tailscale for example. I think the larger issue is the drive-by spamming without contributing outside of their own promotion thread.

I like the comment elsewhere in this thread referencing a subreddit that requires X comments over Y days in the community first.

They should hang out a while first and not have only posts promoting their software, and not only have comments in those threads.

The lemmy attitude is very anti commercialization, and they don’t know any better. That doesn’t mean we should allow it.

I think new accounts that show up to shil their app should be banned. They’re not actively participating in the community, it’s just spam. There’s been a huge uptick recently.

My dog has watched parts of Planet Earth

For pc, very. I spent hours downloading rips of games off a BBS. One of the few games I bought was duke nukem 3d and that’s just because I wanted the build level editor that I couldn’t find a download of.

For consoles, less so. I had a pirated “100 in 1” nes cart of from China but all the games were crap. Cartridge copying wasn’t a thing.

I vaguely remember a n64 device that could load cartridge images off a zip drive or something. Nobody had one though.

Piracy became bigger again when the ps1 mod chip came out and we had brand new cd burners. Dreamcast too.

I’m quite happy with Thunder

People get into the mood of bidding and lose all rationality.

You can buy 100 marbles for like $10 online

I don’t. Of my 120tb, I only care about the 4tb of personal data and I push that to a cloud backup. The rest can just be downloaded again.

You should post this to https://lemmy.ca/c/canada for more eyes!

Why are you relying on example.com as a health check? To be really blunt about it, if you’re using it then you’ve misconfigured your stuff.

From their docs:

These web services are provided as best effort, but are not designed to support production applications. While incidental traffic for incorrectly configured applications is expected, please do not design applications that require the example domains to have operating HTTP service.

Many (maybe most?) of us just use the all feed, and block the communities we don’t want to see. That makes the specific community / instance a lot less important than reddit.