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Two definitions of self hosted
  • Self refers to oneself as in, a person. I never associate selfhosting with a company which runs their own servers. Technically they do self host but is it a company asking questions on an online forum and referring to itself as oneself? Is a company a person? What is a company even? Philosophical questions we dont have time to discuss.

    To me, self hosting means a person is self hosting things. Some have racks and use 1kW of power on idle, some have micro servers. In any case, just one paragraph explaining what you have at the top of a post is sufficient to get the point of what you know across.

    Id say a more important distinction is persons who self host software only (VPS) and those who do hardware as well.

  • Anon reflects on e-sports
  • Lets see If I get this right, input lag is the time it takes from when you make an input (move your mouse) to when you see it happen on screen. So even the speed of light is at play here - when the monitor finally displays it, the light still has to travel to your eyes - and your brain still has to process that input!

  • Steam owner Valve accused of ripping off 14m UK gamers
  • Forcing you to sell at the same price as on steam when customers will be downloading from steam servers anyway is not sketchy but very fair.

    As a developer you could set the game price on steam to a high number and sell keys on your own site for cheaper. Anyone who buys a key then used steam resources to download it. The dev keeps the 30% since its not a sale through steam. Yeah id like free file hosting with terabytes of bandwidth too please.

    If you sell the game yourself and provide the files, you can set lower prices. This is fair and valve doesn't restrict that.

  • What's your server wattage?
  • I run a NUC11 so about 10W. 15-20€ per annum assuming a single tariff at 0.17€ per kwh. It can use up to 30W but only during heavy load which may be like 8 hours a week. But electricity is also cheaper during off peak hours so it averages to about that (we have 5 tariffs).

    Load is NAS, media server, homeassistant and a usb zigbee router, *arr stack.

    Power usage was my main concern and wanted something eco friendly.

  • EPYC for Desktop: It's finally here! (and cheap too)
  • For what use case though? Intel has nice 10-30W cpus. The trick to power consumption is to look at modern CPUs instead of digging out an old 2500k just because you still have one and aren't using it.

    What id actually love to see though is ARM in the compact desktop space. If nothing else, just to see how well it can do against x86-64.

  • How are you making services remotely accessible?
  • I use nginx as a reverse proxy and assign each service either a subdomain or a specific url. SSL is configured once so all services get https. Its not the best though, some services don't like being behind a reverse proxy or don't play nice with the url, subdomain management can get cumbersome and if the service doesn't have a login page, it is open to bad actors.. i was thinking of making a website with login and exposing other web services through an iframe but i don't know how viable that may be.

    A vpn would probably be the best way to go from a security standpoint but accessing services may be a pain on remote devices where a vpn isn't supported - like how would a TV on a remote network access tour jellyfin server if the service is only accessible through a vpn tunnel and the tv has no way of connecting to it? Not sure.

  • Install Nextcloud with reverse Proxy
  • I used docker to get nextcloud and nginx conf to reverse proxy to it. It works well and is not difficult to set up by following their guide on github. It works pretty much out of the box.

  • Overwatch 2 story missions future uncertain after January layoffs (according to ex-devs)
  • They took away access to a game we payed for and replaced it with an inferior product with the hopes and dreams to one day have single player content.. which you would have to pay for anyway. Thats all i have to say on the matter of overwatch. Fuck blizzard.

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