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I wish all the best for Death Stranding. It is art.

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So is there a sequel called "A Few Missions More"?

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Ooh! Looking forward to this. Guild Wars 1 was a really great game and plays very differently compared to GW2. Glad they are giving it attention.

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Won't be watching as I dislike award shows immensely. I'll check out any game announcement trailers if I find any interesting afterward on youtube.

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Thank you so much everyone for all the insight! This is super helpful. So I think I will definitely look at doing the following sometime in 2027 / 2028:

1) steam machine in living room under tv.
2) some form of storage server (dell poweredge or similar) with whatever is at the time the cheapest way to get to around 100 tb worth of wd red nas drives (or similar at the time). And have this running something like OMV.
3) install plex and jellyfin on the steam machine and network connect all the directories from the storage server.

Not sure if I'll continue using the current wd red drives I have or if I will spring for new ones as the current ones will be 7 / 8 yrs old. But new ones are SO EXPENSIVE. It'll be almost $2k to get 100tb worth of those damn things.

Thanks again everyone!

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My predictions in the categories I know anything about (holy shit there's so many categories wow). These aren't what I would chose as my personal winners, just what I expect the committee will chose:

goty
expedition 33

direction
yotei

narrative
death stranding 2

art direction
silksong

score and music
expedition 33

community support
bg3

indie game
expedition 33

rpg
expedition 33

anticipated
gta 6
LOLOLOLOLOLOL

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it's so funny, I updated my deck yesterday and went looking for this feature but couldn't find it. Now today here it is! Love these updates :)

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Hope it improves, I'm a fan of the original skylines but got disappointed at the whole "made in unreal demo" that turned up just like a skylines 1 + mods looking version

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I believe Riot has a history of doing this sort of thing, allowing developers to leave with their IP if things don't work out. Glad for this studio, hope they can make it successful on their own.

On a completely unrelated note... It really is kinda terrifying that so much of the internet relies on Cloudflare not going down. Elune help us if Cloudflare ever does actually get hacked and taken down. 90% of the websites I visit did not work for at least 2 or 3 hours now.

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They have been freed from their corporate bonds C:

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I'm surprised screen off downloads wasn't a day one feature, but I guess better late than never.

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Does it work with the trilogy edition?

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How many times will they flip between BT wake up and no BT wake up?

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It's good to see feature like this. I also hope they will soon resolve wake up using BT on LCD version as it's disabled again :/

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I assume this has nothing to do with DirectX12 Ultimate games, like Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, right?

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Keyboard whitelisting is weird, you can claim to be any device of you control the device. Gadgets like rubberducky wont be more than a generic cherry keyboard.

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OMV had a huge overhaul with version 7. Much better than V5. This said, I'm not saying you should drop Proxmox. Can't go wrong with that.

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I used to use OMV many years back. Ended up building a custom Arch Linux based setup and used that for a longtime. Giving Proxmox a go currently.

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Yeah, radeonsi switched to aco by default not long ago.

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I'm using OpenMediaVault on a 4-bay Dell PowerEdge R430 that I bought refurb. It's Debian based and founded by the same guy that started Freenas, so I read. Pretty neat.

Nice web interface. It has lots of plugins easy to setup like NUTS to manage a UPS and do a clean shutdown when the electric grid goes down.

Dockers is also supported (integrated to the web interface via a plugin). I run a Plex server and a Nextcloud instance, thus.

I know there are other as valuable solutions, but OMV should not be overlooked, imo.

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Maybe it's just me, but I feel like this article was really really good - it condensed a more complicated and long topic to concise points in simple-enough language (to the audience made of me anyway 😅) and achieved all of this using select direct quotes!

Thank you, Liam!

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Yeah, I've stayed away from the off the shelf NAS systems as I have friends who have run into various such issues with them. I used to have an HP N40L years back but I've mostly used random cobbled together systems put together myself since then. However they can have their own issues and can be a lot more fiddly to work with. I've been very happy with this T430 and a load of 14TB drives, and I'm considering getting another with more bays.

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@supay you think a storage server like that would be better/cheaper than an off the shelf NAS device? (pretty much the same thing at the end of the day I guess)

Don't do an off-the-shelf NAS... I learned the hard way what a silly idea that was, because they all use proprietary software on the NAS (I had a NETGEAR Stora in which one drive failed, now I have it sitting in the wardrobe until I can work out how to extract the data, because it's no longer supported).

Make sure you use something completely Open Source, from start-to-finish (whether you buy something like FreeNAS or make your own).

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@jarmer Some of the NAS devices are decent, and they are small and quiet. Probably also more power efficient, you do need to factor that in as well. However they can be more expensive up front and limiting on size and expansion later

I'm running a Dell Poweredge T430 (got it cheap) and it's been solid. Updated the firmware to latest really easily, it has a remote management idrac tool, can take up to 1TB RAM, has two NICs, has two power supplies, and has two CPU sockets. Here in the UK you can pickup the 3.5GHz 14 core/28 thread Xeons for it at £30 each.

I'm using it in the 8x bay setup with a load of disks in a Snapraid array. But it has hardware RAID if you want that. And a bunch of spare internal mini-SAS connectors that you can convert to 4xSATA each and mount drives internally as well. I'm running the OS on a RAID1 mirror that way, with two SSDs mounted inside. It's surprisingly quiet, has been temporarily sitting in our lounge and not disturbing us. Lots of easy expandibility options.

Not sure what prices are where you are but you can get them in basic setups for only a couple of hundred £ in the UK, including RAM and some drives. There is also a 16x bay option for 2.5" format disks if preferred. And they do rack versions as well. I have been very happy with it. The ability to add a lot more RAM and CPU cores cheaply also means it works really well as a hypervisor, so can do more than just provide storage.

[eBay example](https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/236080350655?_trksid=p2332490.c101429.m2460&itmprp=cksum%3A23608035065563d55c32582d4bafa7b848932409f7f7%7Cenc%3AAQAKAAABQKxsCgy5i7ztWhjg%252FVuODCBGFXnymLLtCQPw0Pb%252BAnnUrEh3Uicx%252BzponjKRRstuhNepgyA9zsxxm9WkU4eJhJNc0FnE3sWn9QNPQ9BsfycWHf4xsNkj50TMSN%252FYu8xkfNTCiAJvbQs%252FzyiZpxwPqVBfGTgQ1CoIPPrI1fprhMJskU4tRCVy2cBVctAvaQ4hJyVCAGZspa725QMzVfRDu%252BsFRqC60M4OZIINxxyEDmFFWo7oTKpQ87x5AmViFjY7C0drPl8hEIEGYTXzCZPEUVQ6e31yJCbqyjpIPD1%252FFg9MStG82tr9GdHY0nb3QYqqIANRnqcTwqUQtkcqPwocDpInZJpjY4q1sAK6AfKaEQvxFdz1RFAe4MaAqb7hY9Qk%252FwRUFS8EL4EzfEfLaJm2PSluDLda3NeyBVKaqxmyaYx0%7Campid%3APL_CLK%7Cclp%3A2332490)

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So - looking into it a little deeper, that particular bug fix looks to be this ticket: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/14087 and that sounds like a GTK / Gnome + Vulkan issue that they're working around.

The bug I'm looking for, however, is here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1856 and, good news, but it sounds like that did get a fix recently: https://lore.kernel.org/amd-gfx/[email protected]/ ... in the kernel. That patch shows up in [the changelog for kernel 6.17.8](https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.17.8) (search "drm/amd/display: Fix incorrect return of vblank enable on unconfigured crtc"), so either way I have something to test, even if it turned out to be unrelated to the Mesa update here.

Carry on!

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Wonder if Photoshop on Wine is fixed, it doesn't draw canvas if vkd3d is installed.

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so now we can finally play RDR2 in DX12 mode - amazing!

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Wonder if some of the Proton forks like GE will include the FSR4 flags for other GPUs, or is this not how this works ?

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Not that surprising. I'm still baffled how many people were crying for a sequel to fix all the issues of the first part (outdated graphics, horrible memory management, wonky mods, etc.). Whenever I saw that I thought that those people a) have no idea about development and b) underestimate the Paradox's greed. It's hard to develop a worthy sequel considering all the official content (bazillion DLCs) and huge number of mods that are considered essential. The first game is still a niche game, so obviously the sequel would have to be a bit more mainstream – which leads to mechanics like the automatic traffic fixing. Even with unlimited time and money it is very hard to start from scratch and have something comparable at release.

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