Flamesolverr still works. Not consistently, but it mostly still works.

Setting a home server this year made me realize this. I had nothing but a synced google drive (which I’ve since migrated to a restic-backed nextcloud instance). Literally nothing else.

Now I have full regular snapshots of both my server and my desktop, routine backups to a cloud bucket, and a large external hard drive I manually back up my media library to once a month.

I still want to set up snapshots for my desktop. I do have restic backing up basically everything but cache folders and game installs right now, but if I need to do a full system restore that’s not going to cut it.

Juggling a lot at once right now.

• Been working on platinums/100% for every single RGG game since Feb last year. Currently on Yakuza 2 (HD PS3 port since it actually has trophies but is entirely in Japanese lmao) and Kurohyou 1. Kurohyou 2 and Kenzan are the last games left after these.

• Deltarune Ch 3 and 4 are gonna eat up a LOT of time this week and next

• Sunk 20 hours into Nightreign, still haven’t beaten the first big boss because matchmaking is a nightmare. Might revisit this when some friends actually want to run it for once idk. Fun game but one bad teammate can fuck the whole run.

This one’s super annoying, I’m glad the tab thing actually fixes it for a bit because I was completely killing my browser every time before I learned about that.

Hope this fix goes live soon

I set this up since this reply and it’s phenomenal, what a difference compared to the old way. Thanks a ton for the rec

Exactly what I use. 1 TB Backblaze B2, Backrest running on my main server, my NAS, and my desktop. I should honestly probably set it up on my steam deck too for the hell of it.

Small daily backups from my servers of configs and such, bigger weekly backups from the server and the desktop.

Backing up the entire media library to a cloud service is out of the question, so I (plan to) run a manual job from each machine to an external HDD once a month, primarily as a media backup but may as well put everything there that matters, and then I shove the drive into my storage unit for a bit.

(I say “plan to” because I just got the NAS set up this past week and used this external drive for the initial media transfer, I’ve set up the jobs but haven’t run them yet)

After trying Code Vein because of similar hype and dropping it 2 hours in, I expected the same from this game, but goddamn it’s phenomenal. Absolutely worth playing through. It feels like a love letter to Fromsoft, rather than trying to just do what they do - the inspiration is obvious, but it still feels like its own unique thing.

Oh shit I hadn’t heard of this one. Soularr feels kind of like a hack and is annoying to wrangle, so a direct integration would be huge.

This is the way. The same goes for media too. Look at the state of streaming services, DRM, and digital storefronts, it’s a shitshow

The entire visual style is also blatantly stolen from an artist who’s been doing it for a decade or more, right down to their artwork and their logo being used in-game.

That’s where I stand on it. Unless Pete Parsons and the rest of c-suite bite the curb and put the actual devs in charge, I’m not touching anything by that studio.

It took 12k hours but I finally stopped clinging on to some sliver of hope that they’d fix the major issues with D2. Quit last November, logged in one time since to check out the new season after hearing good things, logged out as soon as it was glaringly obvious the core issues haven’t changed.

Every single time I check in on friends still playing I just see more slot machines, more power creep, more dogshit ruining pvp, and more bugs. The core changes coming up in their next year look atrocious. Why would I trust them to handle a new game when they’ve been consistently fucking up their only title for years?

What sucks with the entire situation is that the devs themselves are great people who can make some cool shit when given the reigns to do so. But they’re almost never given that chance. Hoping that team branched off to Sony to continue that “gummy bears” thing is given more freedom to cook.

EDIT: I’ll also add on here for anyone feeling the sunk cost fallacy like I did and has put a ton of time into D2 but isn’t happy with the state of things and disappointment after disappointment. Like I said I had 12k hours at the time I quit. Solo GMs, solo Nez, bunch of lowman raids, every weapon that mattered in my vault, 200+ trials cards, etc. I was a small content creator in this space too. I legitimately feel like that game becomes an addiction so fast, I continued to play through both waves of layoffs despite my issues with the studio execs. I wasn’t happy with the state of the game either but kept telling myself “next season will be better” “next dlc will be better” etc. It’s never true. If you’re not happy with the game, take ONE season off, and if you’re the kind of player I was, missing the seasonal offerings and various events will be enough to make you feel like you’ve fallen too far behind to catch back up, and from there the rest of the facade falls apart. Just gotta let it go cold turkey.

TRUE, I knew I was forgetting something else

Was thinking of BL4. Still pretty egregious though

Microsoft (and by extension id and Bethesda) are a priority target for the BDS boycotts against Israel

Let’s see

• The game itself takes away a lot of pieces of the formula that made 2016 and Eternal so good
• $80 price tag
• BDS boycott
• Denuvo

I’m shocked that it’s not selling, absolutely shocked.

I tried Jellyfin for music in addition to tv and movies, but ended up dropping that part. I set up Navidrome with beets - the adjustment is using album artist instead of just artist everywhere.

Full stack:

• Navidrome server
• beets for management
• Feishin client (local on my desktop, though I do have it hosted too for the hell of it)
• Symfonium (mobile app, abour $6 but absolutely worth it)
• Lidarr
• slskd
• Soularr (integrates the two above - it’s a bit hacky but it works fairly well)

In the wake of all the layoffs and such I don’t know if any former employees have (as vaguely as possible) discussed the codebase yet. It seems like such an absolute nightmare.

Steam Controller

Yeah it’s a bit annoying, I wish it could just edit metadata directly instead of having to go through something like beets or picard

I had no idea about the bandcamp Fridays thing, definitely noting that for later