I hear you so hard on this one. I’ve been running Windows Enterprise with a tonne of fixes in GPOs for too many years now. I’ve been using Windows since the beginning. Thankfully I’ve also used Unix, Linux, and macOS for almost as long too.

I’m shitcanning Windows in a matter of weeks, even taking time off work to focus on it. I have one remaining Windows box (gaming workstation). But not for long.

And the crazy thing is, with the sorry state of Windows 11, my Linux systems are actually more stable.

Especially when it’s deployed in places you really don’t want immutability (which is basically most scenarios people seem to try and shoehorn it in).

I’d say the second one was even harder too.

Looks like it could be a Bushwillow. Combretum malabaricum / Malabar Madhu Malati ?

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I’m a huge retro board game fan (we just called them board games back in my day) but computer games have been implementing far more complex systems, and far more systems, than board games for decades.

The Campaign for North Africa, for the board game example, isn’t exactly complicated as most of the rules are referenced as you get to the mechanic or scenario. People talk of the 200 page manual like it’s scary but D&D has more pages of rules across the PHB, DMG, and MM alone.

The “complexity” you’re talking of is basically the admin that a computer game does for you in the blink of an eye, without you needing to think about it.

Europa Universalis was a very complex board game that required 6 players and was turn based yet when it became a computer game, the complexity increased, it was made real-time, the number of events taking place across the map increased, and you could finally play it solo (sure, you can play the board game solo but you spend more time doing admin than playing). And the game has been built upon for years, the 5th one just came out.

If it spun out into a board game again, mechanics would need to be paired back again as, without the computer to ease the implementation of mechanics so the player doesn’t have to do it themselves, it’d be the most baffling rule book ever.

Again, I’m a huge fan of board games. But computer games have offered way more complexity since the 90s and Civilization.

Many libraries have expanded the materials they will lend to people; some have movies, tools, etc.

It’s a nice touch and makes your library both a pillar of community as well as adding even more reasons to frequent.

Isn’t 64bit Steam Client due to drop for Windows imminently? They end 32bit support at the start of next year supposedly.

Really well articulated.

Valve have enabled a critical mass of “target platforms” that enables both the community and developers to get things working on Linux, which all other distros are about to benefit from.

I’m likely going to buy all the new Valve hardware out of principle. The Deck is incredible, but I still have my beefy gaming rig. But my living room wouldn’t mind a Steam Machine (and my girlfriend is definitely after both a Steam Frame and Controller 2.

I’m taking time off work in a couple of weeks and I’m moving over to Linux completely - I too have felt the inertia of dual booting and find myself in Windows far too often.

Or if you love surrendering.

Jk. J’adore la France!

“Love handles” I didn’t know existed XD

If he wanted me to celebrate, he’d have made the day a public holiday.

The failure of the Steam Machine is why Valve hosted Khronos group at their office to kick off Vulkan and funded LunarG etc in the early days to get things moving quickly.

Valve took their time but this new hardware range is based on years of learning and solving the problems from their original foray into hardware and Linux for gaming.

And I’m so thankful for it!

What game and what show? I’m confused - I thought this was a new IP?

And while the Link hardware was cancelled, they still put out updates for it. I think the last update was only a month or two ago.

Steam Controller 1 also got cancelled but they’re still shipping updates and showing that device too.

GCompris or TuxPaint are great for younger kids. They’re free/open source and have versions available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Or spin up TES3MP with some friends and experience it together!

Have you had anyone with experience with security look at this thing? There’s a lot of really questionable practices in your schedule shell scripts. I especially find how you’re handling VPN secrets kinda worrying. And the backup_challenge_clients.sh script isn’t robust at all. Your nginx config has a few bad choices like lack of try_files, the regex \.php$. It’s definitely not hardened so I hope people don’t put this Internet facing.

I’ve spent like 5min in the GitHub to get a feel for the project maturity. Personally, I don’t think this is suitable for actual use yet.

If you’ve not done any security assessments on your project yet, you might not want to (a) call it “Safe”box and (b) might not want to start charging money for it until you do.

I worry you’re setting yourself up for a hard-to-shake-off embarrassment should a nasty vuln be found. Maybe a name like “selfbox” etc that drops the connotation of security would be safer.

Edit: Kudos on the project website though! Looks fricking gorgeous.

You beat me to it!

Crazy cool sound. Thumping metal rap. Looking into the artist, they produced the whole thing themselves!