The tech has changed significant over the years as well, and that includes both modular, prefab, and mobile homes.

Prefab houses are a thing here, too. I was still kicking around the idea of generating a house on site.

My though is that they failed to understand concrete itself. Concrete works best as a monolith. Literally here, a single rock. As a laminate, it loses strength. From what I was reading, you can do concrete in multiple pours, but people were suggesting to ensure that the rebar stuck out enough between pours and then some other things like bonding adhesive and wetting the layers between pours.

I like the idea of automating the structure. Bricks can be laid as pick and place, and cement can be extruded. This creates a reverse centaur, IMO, where someone is watching the labor and becomes responsible for the quality.

The house is always going to need several different structures added: plumbing, electrical, insulation, HVAC, internal construction and facade, cabinetry, etc, etc, etc.

Being able to shit out as much of that as possible on the spot would save tons, but you still need electrical items whatever. 3D printing may not be the best solution for a house, but it might be a step to something better.

I have been torn apart for cheeky comments even with an /s.

They would have lost nothing fixing his account in the first place.

You are right. I was thinking they provided better login services, but in reality the best they can do is force a port and offload your certs.

I advise strongly against advertising jellyfin directly to the Internet. Maybe through a reverse proxy, but based on the question I have to say no.

Well, I didn’t want to compare it to RTS or arpg games that work better with keyboard and mouse.

I’ll say Hollow Knight was much better played with a controller. My kid used his laptop keyboard and beat the game. More power to him, but that didn’t sound like fun.

A decent gui, not fiddling with settings, widespread hardware specs. Games that expect a gamepad and will work with it. Novel input techniques.

I know I came out swinging on consoles, and I absolutely am biased. Instead of trying to one-up you, the best I can do is explain my position.

My biggest gripe on consoles is that it’s a form of vendor lock in. Unless you follow in the footsteps of someone like Gary Bowser (Canada), you aren’t playing newer Mario, Metroid, or Zelda games on a PC. That’s pretty much the same with all exclusives.

Emulation is just now catching up to the PS5, and I suspect that’s part of why they are moving from physical media. Xbox series x has no emulator, likewise Switch 2. This means that one needs to purchase several consoles to play these exclusives. I’m not going to lie, I have probably spent $2000 on mid-grade hardware over the past decade, but I just finished my major upgrades last year-unless I was need RAM.

As far as the GUI goes, I think it’s fit for purpose. My desktop is configured differently because I use it for many things. If I wanted a gaming system that has a UI built for navigating games I could build one, but that is not a skill or expectation I would have for many. Supposedly, SteamOS can handle this, but we are getting pretty deep here. I think this gets deep into fiddling with settings.

So, as far as fiddling with settings goes, that is one of the biggest strengths a console has. If you have no technical skills, and like most can’t navigate from your documents to your program files, I can’t blame you for buying a console. Or, like some technical people I know, they spend all day fucking with settings and don’t want to touch a computer when they get home.

I’m not sure what you mean about widespread hardware specs. The game is optimized for that particular hardware. Assuming the devs did their job right—and that’s not always true—the game should run flawlessly on the console. Same goes for PC though. I bought a beefy video card last year because my 10-year old system was struggling with Clair Obscure. The same week they released a patch that fixed the issue.

Can you explain about games that won’t work with a game pad? Steam I believe allows you to force a gamepad to work, but I’m far as away from my system at the moment.

For novel input techniques, motion controls are just not making it to PC. I played Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom (both of which I purchased and have hardware to pay it on, TYVM) holding my phone under my game pad to add motion controls. It sucked. I have searched for an alternative, I don’t have one.

Wow, sorry about the roommate.

Like, I get the sinking in the chair and just going feeling, but I don’t feel like I get there that much faster with a console.

It works that way for my TV and sound bar, but it’s not consistent. Sometimes I have to power cycle the sound bar before it works. It’s probably the decade-old sound bar though.

I believe you need to power on the television and the PS, locate the correct input, log in?, navigate to the game, and then play. You may need to locate a controller. I imagine it still has regular software updates, etc.

My process for gaming PC Linux is to awaken my PC, log in, click the game and wait for Steam to launch it. From there, it’s just regular updates. I might still need to go find a controller, depending on the game.

The biggest difference is that the console game is (should be) optimized for that platform. There have been plenty of terrible ports both ways, but you usually know that the game will just work. I on the other hand spent an hour or so getting to know Wine so that I could play og baldurs gate. I could have just bought it again, but once is enough.

Wow. Tell me again the purpose of a gaming console.

Slopware. Shovel-slop.

Honestly, I used to seek out Linux for beginners, Linux for dummies, and Linux+ guides. It’s all relatively similar information. The first two may start a little lower and the Linux+ guide should dig a bit deeper.

Do web searches for terms that you don’t understand, and feel free to ask when you have conflicting information. We love to answer questions where you already tried solving it yourself and bicker about the answer.

I advise strongly against dropping it. That’s only handy if you need to recover data. A shock will most likely reduce the life of the drive. If it doesn’t work as expected after my advice, do not put data on it.

My thought is that the USB enclosure may not have enough power up spin up the drive. I have had up purchase separate ac adapters in the past to spin up mechanical drives for exactly this reason.

The easiest test is to just put it inside a machine with standard cabling and power it up. If it works, it’s your enclosure. If not, move on. Don’t use it.

If it works fine in the system, get a different enclosure. This one should work.

https://www.amazon.com/Enclosure-CLAVOOP-External-SATA-Recovery/dp/B0D6RH6JBH

Find a used one for sale. Bonus points if it has any kind of management. Replace the battery. If at all possible, have it unmount the drive at a certain percentage.

I have nfs shares on my truenas for my docker containers on proxmox. I put the info in my guest’s fstab and they usually mount at boot to /srv folders I created and specified.