Yeah it’s a special game, and a masterclass in “show, don’t tell” exposition.

Disappointed to hear this, but it sounds like they made the decision for good reasons at least. Their games are all standouts in an underserved genre.

Good for them.

The Freespace games are legendary in that genre. Probably second only to TIE Fighter.

That’s awesome to hear. I’m looking to set up some self-hosted stuff, and I see a lot of recommendations for Tailscale for the VPN element.

I’m sure this will work out well for them. The legacy social sites are really on a roll this summer.

Yeah I have no interest in Shorts (or TikTok for that matter), but I’m probably aged out of their target demo anyway. I do think, as a general point, platforms shouldn’t be trend-chasing each other. YT does longer form video well. TikTok does vertical video shorts. I say stick to your core competencies.

Yeah this is just them crying trying to get regulators to allow the Activision merger.

That’s interesting. I had thought of doing TrueNAS Scale as a VM running in Proxmox, but you’re suggesting have TrueNAS itself be the bare-metal hypervisor? What do you find annoying about Proxmox?

Yeah I think this is more a compatibility filter. If it’s an interest of yours and makes you happy, there is no cutoff.

I think as a turn-key solution, the prebuilt enclosures are fine. I have a two-bay Synology that works well. If you’ve already got components though, DIY is probably going to give you a lot more granular control. I’m planning on building out a home server rack including a TrueNAS VM or something similar.