• 0 Posts
  • 70 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: November 7th, 2023

help-circle







  • i mean its just a matter that app makers avoid the windows store. the only companies i recall I remotely use on the windows store are nvidias control panel (which is ironically being depricated for nvidia app and updates itself).

    companies just don’t want to use the windows store aome because of the fear at some point if microsoft wants to take a cut of profits, they could strong arm it like android/ios/game console OS. Linux has the advantage that people will trust that repositories wont be paid.






  • gacha have element of chance, but usually speaking, gacha especially in asian games tend to also be tied to some form of power and is not purely cosmetic.

    ao its not just purely, i want this character/costume/weapon because it looks cool, but theyres stats attached to it.

    western game loot boxes generally sit more often as coametic, so the desire to pay isnt as bad (but can still be bad) but of course this doesnt apply to all western games either. an example of gacha based power is ultimate teams for sports games, which its gacha has players stats tied to them for team building.

    gacha and loot boxes are fundamentally the same, but connotatively, gacha usually implies power and lootbox implies cosmetics, but technically not incorrect to use it either way.

    if you want a dumb comparison, gacha is seen like trading card games, where power of the card also has value.

    lootbox is sorta like sports cards where its collective in nature and really is about rarity/how the card looks







    • What’s the cheapest and most flexible NAS I can make from eBay or local? What kind of processors and what motherboard features?

    cheapest is some decade old oem desktop ideally with as many sata ports as possible. the most flexible is whatever gives the most pci-e lane bandwith as they can be converted to most things. processor features most dont matter unless the NAS is also a media server, which you want an igpu that can do hardware encoding to whatever usecase you have.

    • What separate guides should I follow to source the drives? What RAID?

    i dont have a reccomendation on drive, but if you value drive redundancy, raid 1 (mirror) or raid 6(if youre using zfs, that would be zfs z2, this layout is basically requires 3 drives to die in order to lose data)

    • What backup style should I follow? How many cold copies? How do I even handle the event of a fire?

    its on you on how you want to handle offsite backups be it cloud, or you having a clone that you manually backup offsite. pick whatever suits your needs