AAA publishers would irreversably delete all games more than about a year old, if they could.

Just to force you into buying and playing new games, regardless of whether you’d rather play something “old”.

The closest thing I can think of, is Soulseek.

You can find almost anything on there. People share their entire collections, and almost everyone has some niche stuff they like.

I’ve spent hours exploring other people’s curated libraries, finding stuff I’ve never heard.

I don’t see how this would work financially, tho. Soulseek doesn’t make anyone money, except when i go out of my way to buy something on qobuz or bandcamp when I really like something.

Music is art. Like visual artists, it’s simple enough for one or a couple people to produce, but unlike visual art, it’s less commonly done on comission. Which means freely sharing your music, doesn’t typically put food on the table.

Hence, musicians sell albums or singles. Preferably directly to their fans. Souncloud, YT, and Soulseek regularly help me find new artists I like… But for actual listening I pull up Symfonium, hooked up to my Jellyfin server, serving my carefully curated personal collection.

Nuggetopolis?

Nah.

Just do what Valve did with Wine.

Officially fork and contribute to Heroic.

My current setup, is as follows:

Personally curated music I buy and organize using Picard into folder A.

Lidarr is configured with folder C, which is a mergerfs volume consisting of folder A and B. Folder A is read-only, and any writes on C go into folder B. This way Lidarr can “see” all my existing music, while any automated downloads go into folder B, keeping them separate from my organized files.

Lidarr actually works, because it is hooked up to Soulseek using Tubifarry with ytdl as a fallback. I also have an import list hooked up to my last.fm recommendations to automatically download new stuff I might like.

When I feel like it, I go through folder B using Picard, moving things I want to keep into folder A.

To access my music, I use Jellyfin, also through folder C. My clients are Feishin and Symfonium.

In Symfonium, I use smart playlists for discovery. These playlists populate based on stuff like “unlistened tracks” or “multiple plays without being favorited” and “recently added from favorited artists”.

My favorite feature however is the tag-based endless playback which allows me to pick a track to start with, and then swipe through music with at least some kind of logic to the progression. This is my main way to browse my library.

It works extremely well, with the exception of files that don’t contain many tags. Hence my main pursuit has been to find a good way too add at least some genre tags to ALL my files. I haven’t found a final solution.

For iOS support, look at Navidrome for the server and maybe SubStreamer for the client.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HDR

Arch wiki says NVIDIA should now work, too.

As of Mesa 25 it should just work. Even if you’re on a distro that doesn’t have it working yet, seems HDR on NVIDIA is not far off, and can be made to work right now if you know how with arch.

For my setup, I literally just enable the setting in the KDE display settings.

My screen only does HDR600, but it does work.

It looks a little nicer than with it off, so I do keep it on. SDR content does not suffer.

I’m on KDE wayland with an AMD GPU.

I’m referencing this.

I’m antitheist, personally.

We have the power of god and anime on our side.

The actual one.

How did you install kopia? What system are you on?

I’m not yet sure about that

It needs to be running, if it is, it will follow the policy. Systemd can start it with the system, but you can also start it some other way. Or you can execute snapshots without it constantly running, via cron/script. It’s up to you.

Abrubt power off shouldn’t damage the drives, but it can absolutely corrupt files that are being written, and even entirely delete things in the write cache.

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Depends. If you are running it as a service that starts with the system (sudo sysemctl enable kopia should work with most install methods, as kopia comes with a systemd service you only need to enable) then yes, it will use its own scheduler.

If you want to use your own scheduling, you’d use anything that can execute a command on a schedule.

The main advantages of Kopia, are speed and destination flexibility.

The off-site storage does not need to have Kopia installed. It can be a mounted network location, an FTP server. Whatever. A generic cloud storage bucket like Backblaze B2.

That’s why just a router with and external drive hooked up is able to suffice.

For all of these, you can connect multiple Kopia instances to that same destination, and each client can browse backups, restore from them, and backup their own files to the destination. It even performs file deduplication across different source device. All while that destination device or service, has no access to your encrypted files.

With borg, you need something like a Pi that can have borg installed. (You can also do this with Kopia, in which case the Kopia instance on the destination device is also able to manage the backups).

Kopia also beats borg and restic in speed. My daily backups typically complete within a minute or two. I used to use Duplicati, with which it was common for it to take up to an hour. When it started regularly taking more than an hour, I switched to Kopia.

Kopia is not the fastest for initial backup. The speed of this varies depending on destination type. It does not compress by default, but you can enable almost any type of compression you want. No, what it is fastest at is updating backups. If there is nothing to update, it does not take forever for it to figure that out. Kopia does it in seconds.

Yeeeees.

Make more of them AM4 X3D chips please.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000098345/graphics.html

Looks like you can add VP9, and need to remove VC1

No. The idea is to stop people from acccepting a better deal to go work for a competitor. Non-competes applying when being fired or when your company gets shuttered, would leave the employees literally unable to work in their field no matter how their employment ended.

Even if that were how these contracts worked, good luck to ubisoft enforcing a non-compete for employees that worked for a legal entity that no longer exists.

Forreal.

Every time this happens, a couple years later: “oh wow look at this new indie studio, they are seriusly punching above their weight”

Looks inside.

Industry veterans.

People you fire, are free to compete. And it’s been biting a growing chunk of the market for a while now.

Pronouns can be colored?