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I never thought game subscription would take of. The entire concept is stupid to me. Pay per month to *acces selected games but not own them? Take into accoumt 90% of people will play at most 25% of the catalogue. Let’s do some math if PS Plus Essentials, where you get 2-4 random titles per month is taken, which costs 9€ per month which if you play down to 25% of the catalogue goes up to 36€ per month (that is you basicly pay 36€ to play that single game which was chosen at random and you still don’t own). For that ammount of money I can buy a REAL game I OWN or 5 good games on Steam Sale or GOG.

Still I guess if it sounds good people will smoke it.

To be clear these statistics are purly “Trust me bro” but I doubt someone will play Core Keeper, Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed and NFS: Unbound all in one month enough that it makes sense, and if you can more power to you, but I know those are not most people. Most people play Minecraft or Elder Scrolls or COD or GT etc.

Still feel free to express yours opinion.

Not buying untill they open their fuvking bootloader!!

Since there are a lot of OptiPlexses with different specs I will give you a general advice for making home servers.

Use newest desktop you have and/or the one that took the least beating since you will need all the perfotmance and uptime you can get.

If you opt for used storage (like some hard drives you have), make them into RAID with redundancy (at lrast one possible drive failiure, preferably two if you can).

Also look for power efficiency, so if you have a laptop (and can add at least 2 drives in it for RAID) or a recent i3 or i5 dekstop (or even i7 if undervolted) that would be your best bet.

Also look for decent network interface card. Try to avoid 10/100mbit and look for 1gbit, though I doubt that old PCs can even push 1gbit. Also make sure that the LAN plays nice with linux.

For the OS, use something stable like debian, or if you want to thinker Alpine is fun and also really stable. Also Ubuntu Server is a solid choice.

When deploying services like a file server if you just want something that works (or at least should be easier than other options) YunoHost or CasaOS are your friends, but you can learn docker (or run without encapsulation) and nginx (or other reverse proxy I don’t care).

For a file server everyone has their preference, but I use SeaFile since it is crossflatform and simple with good integration.

As I said, for any questions about selfhosting just hit c/selfhosted and ask away.

How old are we talking?

• Anything before core iX series is not recommended to be used as a server (missing instruction sets, low efficiency etc.).It could still be used for fun projects like installing gentoo or old redhat with plasma 2.
• If you have Core iX cpu (preferably 3rd gen or newer) you xan host some services, but look into c/selfhosted if you’re interested in that.
• You could also experiment with Kubernetes and combine lots of bad PCs into one less bad PC.

In the end PCs are useful only if you can run useful sodtware on them, but besides nostalgia there ain’t much use I see in them.

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I have few things to say.

• firstly I might be trippin but does your sysfetch say you have 17.4 Gb of RAM? HOW?
• also I see you’re using bash. at this point you might as well try zsh with omz.
• and why VScode when already you are using neovim (or other terminal code editor)? If you reeeally need the ecosystem try Codium. I doesn’t have all the exstenaions but if it has the one you need it is less bloated vscode (and gentoo users hate bloat)

also the setup is nice ig

Since people allready recommended Thinkpads and Elitebooks I can only add up on that.

If you don’t mind thinkering a bit you can buy old cromebook for really cheap. You can install linux on them and they usually have pretty nice screen, even if specs could be lacking (but for linux and web browsing it would be fine)

In my honest opinion Sony Xperia (1 or 5) lineup is best Android has to offer, especially with LineageOS.

Nothing is good if you like the design, but it is expiriencing enshitification at a rapid pace.

Samsung is a no go (at least flagships) for their size, AI bullshit and forcing Samsung garbage on you (Samsung account, Samsung appstore, Samsung pay, etc.) .

Motorola is ok imo, just not much support from Lenovo.

Pixel is huge, underpowered and google is ruining it day by day.

Ther’s a Python version… not sure why you would want that

Just guessing but maybe for different architecures like RiscV and PPC? It might still be possible to compile from source, but if you have python why not just take a shortcut

My bad, fixed it.

I’ve heard good things about xnview

It has nice ui, support, is cross-platform and foss

Edit: it is freeware, not foss!

when buying xperias just buy used or older model. You can buy new old stock xperia 5 IV for 450€ or used for ~300€.

Yes you will miss the newest SoC, but after installing custom ROM with no bloat it feels better than newest Samsung.

Figured it was a stupid question and I could just go and see for myself using WorldWideWeb, but thanks for clarifing.

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I am not defending Nothing in any way, but they do have easly unlockable bootloader at least, and not like most other phones where yoi need to go to their webaite for unlock code, or you can’t do it at all.

Also apperently their headphone and earphones are good, but can’t confirm first hand.

My friend has a terminal disease, and I’m not in sudoers. Please pray for him. 🙏🙏