What kind of machine is this? If it’s something like an HP/Dell/Lenovo, it may have a boot blocker enabled somehow. It wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense since you managed to install Ubuntu, but they may possibly be creating different types of boot volumes.

You’d normally see a message like “HP Sure Start” at the boot screen, for example.

It’s pretty hard to totally “crash” a running Linux kernel, so understanding some details about what symptoms happened, during, and after (screen freezes, sound stops, mouse stops…etc) would be helpful to discern if this was a kernel thing, or just apps crashing. Almost always ends up being a hardware issue or resource constraint though.

As for game logs and crashing, here are some guides and info:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3287870137 (This shows some debug steps in detail) https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/6650 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=285102

First: there is no cheap way to back this amount of data up. AWS Glacier would be about $200/mo, PLUS bandwidth transfer charges, which would be something like $500. R2 would be about $750/mo, no transfer charges. So assume that most companies with some sort of whacky, competing product would be billed by either of these companies with you as a consumer, and you can figure out how this is the baseline of what you’ll be getting charged from them.

50TB of what? If it’s just readily available stuff you can download again, skip backing that up. Only keep personal effects, and see how much you can reduce this number by.

I want to say Sonarr has a regex renaming feature, but I may just be making that up as I’m not looking at my instance right now. Doing whatever renaming based on a pattern would be preferable during the download phase in order to keep the metadata of each service clean.

Failing that, if you have a predictable list of release group strings you want removed from filenames, a one liner with sed or similar would take care of this. You’d then break the known locations of these files by any service tracking them of course, but they will eventually be reindexed.

Seems kind of pricey for that specific unit, but it should work well for just hosting simple services.

That’s probably some libinput confusion.

Try adding Sunshine as a non-steam game under Steam, launch, then see if it maps properly like that.

What kernel are you on? 3.15+ has full support for these controllers, so it should work flawlessly.

Get a replacement. I know folks who have just gotten bad units. In general,no feel like their QA is a bit lacking, but if you get a good one, should work pretty flawlessly.

What might simplify your thinking about this is called “Semantic Versioning”.

You have a big codebase of all kinds of features, but at a certain time you want to release it to be able to differentiate between a point in time and release number so you can tell when a regression happens and address it.

Proton is released by version to be able to see this exact thing. They keep all the old versions available for users because they know that not every single point release will work for all games, and there will be regressions.

This allows users to be able to identify a stable working version of Proton for a specific game, and stick to it. If you try to upgrade for a newer release for some reason and find a problem, you can always go back to the previous working version and know for certain it will work without issues.

For your specific scenario, just check ProtonDB for games and see if people have posted tweaks and config combos for a specific game. Great resource for this exact reason.

It’s a dumbass AI-powered recommendation engine with an awful GUI. That’s about it.

As far as it being malicious, that’s really up to you.

It starts with the hardware first. You started well with tuning your CPU/MEM frequency settings, but that matters less if you’re running giant PSUs (or redundant), more drives than you need, and a huge number of peripherals.

Get a cheap outlet monitor to see what your power draw is and track it at the wall. I just got these cheap Emporia ones. I’m sure there’s more reputable ones out there.

Don’t go crazy with your networking solution if you don’t need them. PoE switches draw tons of power even when idle, and a 24-port switch is a huge draw if you’re only using 3 of them.

Consider getting a power efficient NAS box for backend storage, and low power Minipc for frontend serving instead of using a power hungry machine for all your network apps.

You can dive deeper into any angle thing, but these are the basics.

Well it’s the default, so something broke on your end.

1. It’s not a detection problem with the controller because it works in Steam
2. It’s not a Steam problem because steam-input seems to work fine.

Joystick calibration: depended what desktop you’re using. Just search up your DE and joystick calibration ". Might solve your issue.

Again: specs weren’t even posted before my comment, as I’ve said before.

There’s only so much reliability you can build into a simple home setup without it being a major loss on investment. In a datacenter situation, you’d have fault tolerance on all the network ingress: load balancers, bonded interfaces, SDWAN configurations…etc.

Unless you want 3 of everything you own, just do the basics, OR I guess consider hosting it elsewhere 🤣

Focus more on why the service is going down, and solve for that. Make it reliable by restarting automatically in the face of failures. A Reverse Proxy should be dead simple, and not change states between restarts, so it shouldn’t be dying in the first place. Having it restart on failures should be simple and reliable.

That behavior in Steam is normal. That’s the steam-input library mapping your controller for use in Big Picture Mode before starting a game. That means your OS detects the controller.

Are you using this on USB or Bluetooth? Did you get the native joystick calibration?

Hmmm, it does seem they’ve finally raised prices. Well that’s a huge bummer.

I can’t say the 3 options you posted are really good deals, but maybe that’s just the market in Australia. I’d check to see what the max RAM in those are and upgrade to at least 16GB though. It should still be cheap for non DDR5.

Anything can be a “server” in your use-case. Something low power at idle will not cost an arm and a leg to run, and you can always upgrade later if you need more.

Check the Minisforum refurb store and see what you can get for under $150.

Care to reference what you’re talking about?

Newp