I don’t have any small form factor recommendations, but I can recommend - if you’re comfortable going AliBaba/AliExpress - the Ípega brand. It’s about £10, requires an app to configure, but extremely long-life battery and switchable modes. But the best controller for the rare few mobile games that support controller input natively is an Xbox One… one, and any other made after that point

This. Why pay £6/m when, with self-hosting a Samba/NFS/NextCloud instance, I pay a fraction of the corporate cost.

Currently I’m paying ~£15/m as my server now has a GPU for better streaming and local assistant purposes. It uses ~80W. Without the GPU I was paying ~£4.50/m, which gets me:

• Network-wide traffic protection, ads, spam etc.
• Hub to remotely control, secure and automate my home
• Cloud media, frequently synced between devices
• CCTV
• Password management
• Email
• Notekeeping
• Instant messaging
• Streaming for locally stored movies, shows, music, podcasts, books, audio books and YouTube subscriptions
• Multiplayer Minecraft server
• Website/blogsite
• Remote desktop access
• Group video calling/presentation hosting
• 54TB shared storage between everything
• Network-attached storage

Imagine the cost of outsourcing all these services for unlimited access, unlimited* storage, unlimited e-mailboxes, and complete independence** from outside influence. I know I’d be paying £8/m to Google for their 2TB media storage plan alone.

*Limited by the drives you can afford
**Relying only on the developers of the software
It cost approx. £200 for the base parts, £200 for the GPU and £900 for the hard drives. A valuable investment.

I’ve worked out that I’ve had the server running for 3 years. If I take into account the money I have saved by not paying Google £8/m, I’ve saved £40/year. If I account for Netflix £25/m, I’ve completely covered the £900 I spent on storage. Disney+ £15/m takes me well over the remaining hardware costs. The media I own is far less than that offered by streamers but it’s everything I can need for the next 20 years+. I’ve counted. Every other service is just a bonus.

Nobody should’ve bought games published by Amazon in the first place

I imagine it’s more like this

As I’ve seen gaming server subscriptions go from £36/y to £23/m (Xbox) in a few years, and cloud CCTV storage from £40/y to £16/m (Google via acquisition of Nest) in a few months, I say we count our stars when a subscription cost remains fair.

Incroyable!

Pretty much every time I played Oblivion I’d spend a week in the tutorial cave, levelling Agility by using a turbo controller and rubber band, jumping in a corner where the ceiling height is just high enough so you can spam about 5 jumps per second. Later on you can do what you said near a goblin to max Sneak, but I think it’s quicker by that guy you need to kill for the Dark Brotherhood as he’s ill and perpetually sleeping

Yay, sweet! 50% more content, right?

Boycott Microsoft

Block all updates to the games and launchers you have, just in case. Sims 4 is dead, guys

I hear you. I’ve taken to writing myself guides on how to set up things based on what worked for me, in case I need to again, purely because of how complicated each one is. Might write blogs later aha

Yeah, the way things at going I feel like I should protect myself further with a VPN, but it does break some of my services’ access. Just another hurdle in the track to net independence that will be overcome! Heaven knows we’ve overcome many to get where we each are.

No need to bust your brain trying too hard - you’ll find an answer eventually!

I love community.

Rip. I use AgentDVR for security and they do the same thing, but at least with camera footage you don’t want that to be external

I use Emby and it’s flawless, might be worth swimming upstream?

Why is it Epic 😔

It went read-only because the root drive ran out of space. I’ve expanded its storage now. Big whoopsie on my end

Not at all but my god that sounds like that would be recipe for disaster

I would understand if one was the article and the other was the page, but they’re both for the whole page. Should be one, not both.

I migrated to Linux last week. I found out that Rocket League was unsupported (i.e. their servers refused connection) on Linux. So I went to Steam and enabled Proton compatibility for the game, and ran the Windows version with no issues.

Thank you! Definitely looking into that. That’s another thing I’ve never understood, why I lose connection to a local service when the broadband cuts out.

If I get a router with split DNS, and not need an Internet connection… That would be huge.

So that’s DNSSEC… I do have to occasionally let my browser know it’s okay aha, but that’s how Google (I used to use Chrome) added my old admin password to a list of breached passwords…