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I think you deliberately skipped this part.

Damn, I can’t believe I accidentally sexually abused Kate Winslet by pirating Titanic.

I think the risk of losing data naturally leads to people seeking out the most robust storage solution possible when 90% of those people would probably be better off with something simpler with less that can go wrong.

I can’t answer each bullet (and a couple are dependant on other things like drive speed, activity, and network throughput) but I’ve been using shucked external HDDs for over a decade and would recommend it. I used to use OpenMediaVault running in a VM on Proxmox and briefly tried TrueNAS, but I’ve since migrated all of my VMs to LXCs, so now I just have the drives mounted on the Proxmox host directly combined with mergerfs (not managed by Proxmox’s storage pools) and I pass it through to a Turnkey Linux file server LXC via bind mounts to share over SMB/NFS. Less overhead and LXCs can share CPU/memory dynamically while VMs can’t.

You should be able to replace that /mnt/external directory with no issues as long as the structure is the same within.

I’m playing through Morrowind for the first time right now (past a few hours in at least), and I’ve been blown away at just how much more interesting of a plot and setting it has compared to everything Bethesda ever made after it. The miss chance, spell fail chance, and non-regenerating magicka were always enough to scare me away before, but I finally understood what a huge impact fatigue has on everything, and how much more terrible you are at low-level skills compared to their later games.

I also like the progression of my character walking around slow as shit at level 1 taking forever to get anywhere vs running around at 30mph jumping from canton to canton in Vivec like it’s nothing now.

You’re sure you wouldn’t rather switch to moonlight: vendor lock-in edition?

Lame, I knew they were out there but I guess I’m lucky I haven’t witnessed anything that blatant yet.

I’ve played a bunch of Deadlock but I haven’t suspected anyone of cheating yet, what are you seeing?

I can’t even stop windows from stealing focus on the same desktop with window rules anymore.

Yeah, I wish the PC corporation that makes all of our PCs would stop paying devs to make their games PC exclusive all the time.

Horrendous take.

I just add the search to firefox and you can get the same functionality without needing to use another site to get to the one you want to search on.

The viewmodels and their animations look way better now.

I’ve never used EndeavourOS or Manjaro, but if you’re looking for something similar to Bazzite (gaming-ready, not immutable) and Arch-based I’d check out CachyOS. I’ve been using it for a good while now and I really like it.

I don’t think you realize that if your goal is to have a simple install method anyone can use, even redirecting the output to install.sh like in your examples is enough added complexity to make it not work in some cases. Again, those are not made for people that know bash.

If you can’t review a bash script before running it without having an unnecessarily complex one-liner provided to you to do so, then it doesn’t matter because you aren’t going to be able to adequately review a bash script anyway.

If Netscape had a large paid install base and still failed because a free browser became ubiquitous, what makes you think doing that now when the free browsers are already ubiquitous would work? Especially when it also has to compete with what is essentially already what you’re describing, Librewolf (or just Firefox + Arkenfox).

Showing people that are running curl piped to bash the script they are about to run doesn’t really accomplish anything. If they can read bash and want to review the script then they can by just opening the URL, and the people that aren’t doing that don’t care what’s in the script, so why waste their time with it?

Do you think most users installing software from the AUR are actually reading the pkgbuilds? I’d guess it’s a pretty small percentage that do.

I would walk around with a kishi shoved up my ass for storage before I would try playing a platformer using that d-pad.

There is no reason for this to exist. You can already just use your phone with similar controllers, except designed by someone who has actually played a video game before.

That’s any recompilation, the game has to be decompiled manually first.