The metro games. It is a survival horror genre, the first 2 games being linear and the last one open world (not ubisoft bullshit openworld, but an actual good one). The story, atmosphere and gameplay are all amazing, specially in Exodus.

https://www.gog.com/de/game/metro_franchise_bundle - currently 8.99 euros for me, I am 100% sure you will enjoy it for the price, all 3 are fucking amazing.

Get a .ca domain (assuming you’re Canadian), it’s the same price as a .com and the prices don’t change much since they’re controlled majorly by the govt.

Check out orangewebsite, they are from Iceland and are pretty private. Ive been using them for around 4 years and have had no issues!

p.s. I only use their domain registration service and not the hosting, so I cannot comment on that.

A couple of my favourites :

• Days Gone
• Metro Exodus (I would recommend you play the 2 previous games before to understand the story. They are linear, so if you do not like that, simply watch a playthrough of both of them. BUT. I highly recommend you play and experience the atmosphere of the first 2 games, just my opinion)
• Older Assassin’s creeds (BF, Unity, Creed, Brotherhood, etc)
• Witcher 3
• FFXV
• No Man’s Sky
• Need for Speed Unbound/Heat (which ever one is cheaper, I prefer unbound, but they are pretty similar.)

And, if you have a good computer that can emulate switch games, I would highly recommend BOTW and TOTK as you’ve mentioned in the post. The best open world games there are.

Even you got it wrong! They were talking about the micro figurines for transformers! How you could miss that!!!

I would rather just making a wireguard vpn and having control of my data, but privacy might not be his concern.

+1 for Deemix. ARLs are easy to find and the metadata is flawless for the 1-200 or so songs I have.

It was also my first JRPG, and I would say it’s pretty easy to grasp the concepts of it.

No, it’s a separate story line.

I feel as if it is worth the price its currently at. I got 60 hours out of it, without even doing 100% of the acheivements.

https://esc.sh/projects/devops-from-scratch/ is a good resource. Most questions you have (that are more specific) are easily searchable on the internet.

ways to safely connect to home servers over the internet while away

A couple methods include :

• Installing Wireguard on the host machine
• Reverse-proxying with a VPS
• Cloudflare zero-trust tunnel

when it may be better to spin up services on a VPS instead

Most services you probably won’t need a VPS to do, but off the top of my head a couple services which would be better hosted (not saying self-hosting them on your own hardware is bad) would be services which proxy a service. Example SearxNG, Invidious, Proxitok, etc. This is so that traffic can be shared among multiple users, and not linked back to your home IP.

Switch emulation is actually pretty good now, so we have hope.

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I don’t watch it though, it’s simply recommended, as I mentioned in my comment.

Not really, it’s just becoming way more popular. I’ve seen (been recommended) 25+ videos all on the steam deck this month alone. There’s a shit ton more compatibility with games, custom OSs, etc, which also adds to the numbers. It’s literally the Nintendo switch, but 100x better + it can play switch games too.

It’s 100% fair of you to be suspicious of these crazy increases, but you have to keep in mind it’s literally the only good and affordable option in this type of gaming. Sure, you have Nintendo switch, but it has ass performance on a lot of 1st party games (TOTK 20fps in some areas…). The steam deck is also easily fixable (diy repairs such as a battery replacement) and easy to maintain. The switch, on the other hand, is almost like apple with their “right to repair” stuff, and you cannot upgrade the inner components (like ssd, battery, etc) - only by adding a micro SD card can the storage increase… To each their own.

Really like homepage. Simple to install, easy to modify and “beautify”; though it’s barely used in my household since my family only cares about Jellyfish and nothing else…

To connect via a domain name I would recommend using a VPS as a reverse proxy to your server. This is easily done by initiating a Wireguard connection to the VPS, then connecting to your home server via the domain which points to the VPS’s ip. Quick google search got me this.

And for wolfgang’s blog, all he’s doing is setting up NPM then pointing Nextcloud’s ip+port to his domain name (which is a DuckDNS). For truenas scale I found this, which basically says that Traefik is a better reverse proxy for scale.

Note: I have not used TrueNAS Scale at all, so take my info with a grain of salt. I personally feel as if using Proxmox and then making 1x TrueNAS Core and 1x Linux containers would be easier, but I digress. Let me know if you have questions.

No, you’re right, it does not sync. Usually I do this on longer durations without internet, else I just use a webapp (on mobile) or the website on PC.

I honestly prefer Kavita even though I do not download comics or manga. Their reader is so nice, specially with the themes. 0 issues on my end except for indexing, which the dev promptly fixed after I reported the issue.

I use Moon+ Reader pro on my android, and on my iOS I simply make a “webapp” of the website.

I actually enjoyed the cartoon effects, super refreshing for an arcade racer. But, I didn’t like the other parts of the game.

Hope they don’t fuck this one up and go back to their roots.