I would argue that gambling sites and gacha games are much worse.

There is an HACS addon for Meross to make the calls all local. I haven’t messed with it too much but it does work. The issue with my garage door opener is purely an issue with my Ubiquity setup and the fact it’s connecting through an exterior wall.

I have Meross smart plugs and they don’t cycle unexpectedly. They do use older wifi chips though and my Meross garage door opener has issues staying connected for some reason . I’ve not had an issue with their power plugs though, been using them for 3-4 years as well.

That’s really unfortunate as I bought NRftW at EA launch and love the game. Any EA takes time and they really are putting a lot into it.

They recently launched a ginormous patch that basically revamped a lot of the combat and performance issues in the game, requiring a new character be made. I was upset when I first heard the news, but after reading the gigantic patch notes released it makes total sense why my old character just won’t work anymore. It’s still playable in a different version too, they didn’t out right delete the character.

I don’t think multiplayer is available yet which may be a huge gripe for everyone as they said at launch it was their next main objective, but the game plays really well as a single player.

The only complaint I may have is that loading times are abysmal, but I play primarily on Steam Deck and have to say the latest patch has addressed many performance issues outside of load times that it suffered from on previously. Lots of love going into the game and I suppose it’s time for me to post this on Steam for their support!

I’m convinced he just has a vendetta against the American system. He’s been raised with the connotation that America is out to get him. Failed businesses, failed casinos, failed non-profits. NO! It’s the system that’s fucked up, not ME! A tyrannical dumbass that can’t accept failure and realize his own issues. He instead blames it on everyone else. Well guess what, he’s in charge and going to game the system in his favor now, or take it down trying.

I bought a WiiU refurbished directly from Nintendo shortly before the Switch came out. I did it purely because the first big hax was released and I was able to easily port my GC\Wii hacked HDD to it AND also have WiiU games hacked games available. WW and TWP were also a big part of that purchase decision for me.

I got a Switch and BotW ultimate CE on release, but will be skipping the S2 for some time. Likely until the next Zelda comes out if the Steam Deck can’t easily emulate other S2 titles by that time. I’m bummed I’ll be missing the new DK game (only 10GB file size though so not very big) and Hyrule Warriors game as the last one was amazing, but it’s a basic beat em up so no love really lost there.

Not sure if you’ve de-googled yourself or not but there is a Google Drive Addon that has a whole slew of options for backing up your HA config. I’m sure there are alternate HA add-ons. This may require HACS but not certain.

I’ve had two QNAP NAS fail on me, never again. The first failed shortly after the 3-year warranty expired and was MSRP $600. The second failed right before warranty expiration with MSRP $1200 thinking a better unit would be less prone to fail, but alas.

Thankfully I was able to RMA to get my data back (proprietary RAID), and while waiting on RMA to return, built a custom TrueNAS server I can service all parts on myself for around the same cost of a new NAS. Sold the RMA unit on eBay to recoup some cost as well. All I ever ran on those units was Plex and Samba\NFS file shares. Never again.

Less known band, but I head banged hard to Accept in my teen years for a short spell. Balls to the Wall was their big single but I remember liking most their stuff short a short time.

If you think steam deck is walled garden, I have news for you!

It felt really bad during the third party showcase for games like Elden Ring and Hogwarts that have been available on the steam deck since launch.

I just bought a refurbished steam deck last year for less than the price of the Switch 2 and will have a hard time justifying the purchase. I do love Nintendo though and typically buy a good chunk of their first party games. The new 3D DK looks amazing and I loved the BotW Warriors title, so I have high hopes for the new as well.

Proton is amazing though. I got Lego LotR working on my steam deck by installing some DirectX 9 dependency to fix a graphical glitch with the game. Runs like a dream.

What instance did you go to then? I don’t keep up on “the best” instances, or those that defederate or block certain things. I was part of kbin.social at first, then moved to .world.

Guess I better borrow it before it’s hard to find!

My boss puts it best. WebEx for Calling, Zoom for Meetings and Teams for Collaboration (the actual Teams function).

Do you have internal DNS set up? I have my wire guard deployed on both of my pihole servers, which have local DNS entries for my internal services, which point back to my internal Traefik container for NAT translations. I know that sounds a bit complicated, but that’s how it works for my environment.

It’s literally maintained by Fedora. Not sure why he claimed that.

After I kbin.socials constant issues I moved to Leemy.world and like it a lot better. I miss magazines as opposed to communities, but it’s pot-ato po-tato and there don’t seem to be any outages.

I’ve been running mailcow for almost 2 years with no issues. I’m not doing anything major with it, mainly using it to send myself alerts on the environment, but it does work for external purposes if I want it to as well. Updating is easy and seamless. I did get greylisted almost immediately though, so I use SMTP2Go and it works great as a free relay for the amount of mail I generate.