That, is a pretty good deal. Better start picking up some MD1200s!

Its a going. One day at a time.

But, it has no network connectivity! That is against God’s will.

(Thus, no telemetry either)

Very interesting os though. Lots of very cool concepts

Home assistant vs Homeseer.

Home seer will cost you 300-500$.

It’s add-ons and extensions are all paid.

Home assistant is literally better in every way possible.

Bitwarden / VaultWarden also does totp

nextcloud.

Proton* Proton is the way. Granted, proton uses wine… but, makes getting games running nearly effortless is the majority of cases.

Also, has a nice website, protondb.com, which tells you how well / if a game works on linux.

Yup.

For me, that would have been over 15 years ago. Even my NAS from 2014 was pushing 16T or so.

As long as you don’t break it, things will be just fine!

But, the second you break it, it’s going to be a long night for you, with lots of pain.

All of the same emulators you use on windows, works in linux too.

Although, I have honestly not emulated anything newer then a ps2/wii, so, I cannot speak to the switch.

But, https://dolphin-emu.org/ can do gamecube/wii effortless, and runs native on linux.

Likewise, epsxe runs native on linux too. https://www.epsxe.com/download.php

A few years back, I built a HTPC for streaming games to my Livingroom TV.

https://xtremeownage.com/2020/09/29/htpc-retro-build-complete/

This PC has long since been repurposed, into a part of my server rack… but, it did its job wonderfully well. It ran Manjaro.

Now, one cool thing I did, is setup multiple “desktop environments”. IE, I could either load into retroarch, or a desktop environment just by selecting it at the boot screen.

Retroarch, would hands down, be my preferred way to emulate on linux, as it consolidates everything into one easy place. however, years back when I did this, I still had to run ps2 separately. But, it did gamecube/wii perfectly.

It’s very effective.

Just try not to mess up your xorg.conf.

That typically ends in pain.

Manjaro. Its a “user-friendly” version of arch.

Have also used Kbuntu.

Both worked well.

Well, my wife’s gaming PC ran linux for the last few years. And, as a non-technical person, she never noticed, nor had issues playing games.

My method was easy.

Completely removed and eradicated windows, and forced myself to adapt and learn Linux.

Used it for gaming and everything. No regrets.

incumbent homeowners have locked in interest rates that make it irrational to sell, so those homes stay off the market, too.

That is the exact reason I want to move, and build… but, am not doing so. My current interest rate is under 2%. If I were to get a new mortgage, it would cost me a LOT of money due to the current interest rates… Especially when I want to buy a house worth quite a bit more than my current home.

Its only a problem when you get the electric bill! (Or the wife finds your ebay receipts)

Eh, it’s not about people trying to get rich…

There just literally, is a huge shortage of housing right now. Pre-covid, I could easily find 100-200 houses for sale, near my small town.

Now? There are hardly 20 houses for sale at a given time.

Everyone is looking to rent/buy, but, there is hardly anything for sale/rent.

When COVID hit, builders basically stopped building houses. But- people didn’t stop reproducing.

Ya know…

Around a decade ago, I picked up my house for around 110k USD. Nothing fancy, a nice little house, with a decent amount of room inside and outside.

These days, the exact same house is worth over double that. Supposedly, its worth 200k.

Now, that sounds absolutely fantastic, except for- the process to build my dream house, went from costing 200k, to nearly 500k now.

Guess, i’ll be stuck in my now tiny house (kids. lots of kids)… until the damn housing market returns to somewhat normal.

And… upgraded. Thanks!