I usually do the later when it happens to me.

Should mostly wipe the OS, so realistically safe. I think some firmware may remain, but overall should be clean.

Well, you are correct, they are more than adequate. I updated my original comment with my findings, but just wanted to say thanks for informing me. I’ll still keep using SSDs personally, because I have lost a few SD cards to corruption over the years, but I can see the appeal of moving between systems easily.

Its not schizophrenia, its HAG - Human Acquired Greebles.

Fat32, its a card for a camera

Read or write? I can hit the write sticker speed on mine, but read is terrible.

Maybe you have better SD cards, but mine are just terrible (150MB/s on the label, but real world reads are 20MB/s, random IO also seems trash but I dont have any numbers for that), so I have a tough time believing that their sufficient, even with streaming IO. Next time I get a chance I’ll install a game on it and give it a whirl, but I’m pretty pessimistic.

Any binaries saved on the SD card would need to be duplicated to both x86 and ARM.

Not manufacturers, experience. I remember gaming on HDDs, it was bad. SSDs were a breath of fresh air. The SD cards I own are so much worse than the HDDs that I own, so I’m very skeptical that they are fast enough.

Do you mind sharing the games your playing? And the texture resolution settings?

MicroSD cards are crazy slow compared to all other storage, this doesnt seem like a good idea

I had a chance to test Watch Dogs Legion on my fastest SD card (Samsung, v30, 170MB/s read, 130MB/s write) and it was perfectly playable, even cranked to ultra. So I take back my assertion.

I guess my camera software must just be crazy slow, because im more used to real world 20MB/s read.

I will still assert that you need a good high speed card reader, I have seen some cheapo ones that are garbage, but given Valve has full control of that, shouldn’t be a problem.

I would encourage you to setup wireguard or tailscale, so that you dont have to expose SSH at all, but SSH hardening is definitely a good start.

Worth monitoring your SSH logs as well, that’ll give you an idea of how constant the automated attacks can be. Even when I was using a non-standard port, I was getting heaps of attacks.

I dont know. I’m in an adjacent industry, and even amongst some of my colleagues who do have degrees, there are some significant knowledge gaps. Companies often have entire teams dedicated to cyber security, and still get this wrong.

There are just so many subtleties that need to be done right. I’m pretty certain that even my setup isnt properly secure, and the only reason things haven’t crashed down is pure luck.

The appliance model is probably the best way to enforce security practices for regular users, but that pushes significant control/responsibility back to the supplier (they must stay up to date with patches, force push out updates so no one is left behind, limit flexibility so everyones setup is relatively homogeneous). Done right (for security), that costs a lot of money, so likely a subscription model. And it rapidly becomes a “cloud” service that runs off your own electricity, which loses all the self hosting benefits.

Sometimes it feels like a portion of the community views complexity as a badge of honour.

Its not this, it’s that there are very serious risks to self hosting (dataloss, hacks etc), and if they aren’t prepared for them, itll be catastrophic.

The gatekeeping isnt just for fun, there are actual risks and downsides.

As for prepackaging an appliance, we already have a model for how that plays out. There are millions of ISP provided routers and IoT things, and every other day there is a new breach involving them.

SSL VPN is the more general term to describe it, and there are definitely some vendors that do that. Not sure about standalone VPN software though.

A VPN wrapped in HTTPS would be basically undetectable. Yes, your ISP could start marking IP addresses as “VPN”, but that would be a wack-a-mole situation, and wouldnt scale at all.

Mango, assert dominance over your colleagues. /j

Look for the additional storage section under the app settings:

I dont have an HN account to roast them directly, so I’ll do it here:

They correctly realised that sending 5 packets at a time is faster than 1 at a time, but didn’t go to the logical conclusion of sending ALL of them at once?

Feels a bit wrong to claim it as their own “syntax highlighting”, when its really their own “syntax highlighting theme”

Does tapping it with a hammer help? Your probably right, and there is a pressure sensor getting stuck. Maybe try find it and tap it with a hammer to see if dislodges?