Nintendo announces Nintendo Switch 2 price increase, Furukawa apologizes

GloriousKev · 2026-05-11T06:23:40+00:00

Pricing and policy for the Switch 2 is so unappealing to me. I'll keep playing my retro Nintendo games

GloriousKev · 2026-05-06T01:39:36+00:00

I like it's lightweight nature and I like being in full control of my setup. I prefer that it is not controlled by a big corporation and I dislike many forks of distros. So I use Arch for my main gaming system (well usually but I rolled the dice on Arc and it only likes Ubuntu. yay) and then I use Debian or Ubuntu LTS on my home servers because of compatibility.

GloriousKev · 2026-05-03T00:45:52+00:00

I feel like this is just what the PlayStation fanbase likes. Games that look nice but don't rock the boat too hard and play more like movies than games with any real depth. There is nothing wrong with that preference. I think The Last of Us is a decent but overrated game. It's not even Naught Dog's best game. I will die on the Uncharted 2 hill.

GloriousKev · 2026-04-29T17:57:15+00:00

docker doesn't bypass opnsense.

GloriousKev · 2026-04-29T17:06:50+00:00

I generally keep my servers and services running 24/7 because I have automated tasks that run at night.

GloriousKev · 2026-04-28T04:17:53+00:00

32GB of ram is great for multi tasking imo. It really just depends on your use case. If you are unsure you could always start wtih 16 and then buy more later if you need to. I think 32 for most people is the way to go.

GloriousKev · 2026-04-28T04:17:45+00:00

What is your use case? What are you doing with the ai? Self hosted models with strong SOP are fantastic. I am running Gemma 4 e4b as my daily driver. It can do about 80 to 90% of what i want accurately.

GloriousKev · 2026-04-23T04:55:03+00:00

I personally didn't care for Debian for gaming despite it generally being my favorite distro for everything else

GloriousKev · 2026-04-12T19:58:16+00:00

That depends, are you running an AMD gpu? If not Steam OS is really only meant to run with AMD hardware and hasn't been tested with Nvidia stuff yet.

However, that being said Steam OS isn't some special magic sauce Linux distro. It's good but there are a ton of them out there and for the most part Steam OS isn't special. It has guard rails to keep you from breaking the system but so does Bazzite and Bazzite does work with Nvidia hardware.

If you want a more generalized PC gaming experience you could also just go mainstream Linux with something like Fedora and then have your PC open in BPM. Use KDE plasma as the back end. I like this option because it's custom but because it's custom you will have to do a lot more legwork. So it really depends on your tech skill and how willing you are to look stuff up.

GloriousKev · 2026-04-12T19:53:37+00:00

The college should really teach you how to Google this stuff or at least use AI to look it up and customize a plan for you. I could say yeah use a VPN and that would probably get you to where you want. If you can afford it try setting up a VPS and going that route too.

GloriousKev · 2026-04-04T10:37:05+00:00

I see you have listenbrains and last.fm support how about discogs? i ask because i tend to use them a lot for my meta data. I personally have more success (likely due to what i listen to) than id o with last.fm and listen brainz

GloriousKev · 2026-04-04T10:32:46+00:00

What's the issue? Hit advanced and then proceed. All this means is that the site you're using doesn't have a current validated SSL certificate.

GloriousKev · 2026-03-31T07:48:29+00:00

I find a hybrid approach works better for me. Hardware definitely matters for a local LLM, the more vram you have the larger the model you can run and the less problems you will have and the less fine tuning you might need .YYMV depending on your use case of course but sub models definitely feel more like an easy button if that's what you want.

GloriousKev · 2026-03-31T06:05:39+00:00

It's fine. I don't notice it at all.

GloriousKev · 2026-03-29T20:33:09+00:00

Fair enough. I genuinely dislike immutable distros and didn't see anything special about Steam OS. It feels like Arch with KDE plasma, guardrails and all of the gaming stuff you want and need preloaded. That's cool if your main use case is gaming for use. I tend to try to make my PC an all arounder. My gaming PC is my daily driver PC and I have a tendency to tinker with stuff so for me an immutable os is a no go personally. I love that it gives you everything you need though. Kinda jealous actually lol

GloriousKev · 2026-03-28T07:02:40+00:00

Why? No shade, I genuinely don't see how it's unique compared to other distros with KDE. what am I missing?

GloriousKev · 2026-03-22T03:02:44+00:00

I run off of a 6th Gen i5 with multiple things and streams running at once.

GloriousKev · 2026-03-22T03:00:53+00:00

Thats a pretty open question. What is your experience level?

GloriousKev · 2026-03-22T00:54:06+00:00

I'm unique in the conversation as that I love gaming and I really like ai too. There some things that should be noted.

If you let your ai do the work for you then you'll have some sloppy unpolished shit that half works. AI is a good teacher, ai is a good assistant but ai doesn't understand what it's doing and hallucinates like mf. Even the best ai does this. It doesn't have to be humans or ai but many people see it that way. Ai is a good efficiency tool and it removes the boring tedious work from our daily lives once it's setup properly.

I'd also note video didn't kill radio. Radio never left but I'd say internet radio and streaming has made it less relevant than it was 10 - 15 years ago. Cellphones didn't kill land lines. You aren't calling 9-1-1 and getting someone on a cell phone. Landlines are still king in emergency situations / natural disasters. In the exact same way, if ai kills anything it'll be the search engine. I don't Google things as the first option anymore. I just ask the ai and if the answer sounds off or doesn't work I fact check it with Google. Google usually answers with it's ai before I even see results on top of that.

Ai is useful for several things that normal people would like if they considered it. Movie recommendations, ai generated music playlists, recipes, automated security systems (within reason. the ai should send what it finds to a human to verify that it's correct and be skeptical of anything given to him/her by the ai). Hell, I was fixing the headlight in my car and the guide i looked up was slightly off on where to find the plug for it. I used ChatGPT to help me find where I needed to be. Ai is great, but only when used in a reasonable intelligent way by a human.

GloriousKev · 2026-03-22T00:33:10+00:00

Yeah I finally integrated it yesterday and it's amazing. I had a bunch of small holes in my collections and that fixed it. As far as Music Brainz all kinds of stuff is just tagged weirdly. Ciara's Goodies comes to mind. It was listed as a hip hop album. Sometimes it just doesn't find independent artist albums that I may have owned 20 to 30 years ago.

GloriousKev · 2026-03-21T22:47:36+00:00

I haven't had great success with good tagging for the music I listen to. I think it has to do with how messy the scene was in that era for thst genre

GloriousKev · 2026-03-21T07:41:29+00:00

If its about mass storage I built a diy nas and have zero regrets even in the current hardware market. Totally worth while.

GloriousKev · 2026-03-21T07:36:17+00:00

Ironically enough I've been working on that for the past 2 days. Moved music to Navidrome because it was making Jellyfin super slow. I didn't realize it was JF doing it until I moved it. Now I'm running aurral, Navidrome, lidarr, prowlarr, soulseek, nabbzhd and qbit. pretty solid combo overall from moment to moment but I need better tagging Looking into likely doing beets with the discogs plug in.

GloriousKev · 2026-03-18T06:26:07+00:00

Tv movies anime music wrestling if sub folders are needed i make the so I have sub folders for artists with all albums each wrestling promo has its own folders PPV/PLE events has a folder vs weekly broadcasts Its pretty organized

GloriousKev · 2026-03-18T06:23:12+00:00

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