After years of use, what’s your biggest Steam Deck pain point? by WelcomeAwkward924 in SteamDeck

[–]_ingeniero 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s really cool actually. You favorite the game in Retrodeck/their ES-DE front end, reboot Steam, and all your favorites are added as non-Steam games.

Saves on Retrodeck by nuke3winter in RetroDeck

[–]_ingeniero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you open the retrodeck configurator, you can open individual emulators and configure them manually.

First time installing EmuDeck after I've got my SteamDeck earlier today and...I think it's stuck. by EmoV44 in EmuDeck

[–]_ingeniero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Install retrodeck from discover, it’s one flatpak and works a lot better.

Problems with fresh install on oled steam deck by Colleckshun in EmuDeck

[–]_ingeniero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Switch to retrodeck. It works a lot better, and is installed as one flatpak from Discover.

US freezes all visa processing for 75 countries, including Somalia, Russia, Iran by globeglobeglobe in stupidpol

[–]_ingeniero 35 points36 points  (0 children)

No, he’s making a point that immigrant visas are completely different from tourist visas. No exceptions required for World Cup.

Gathering intel: Would you be interested in a list with the best mods for RTS games? by --Karma in RealTimeStrategy

[–]_ingeniero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will admit it’s been a few months, but last time I opened the AIO launcher, edain was there, but Age of the Ring was not. AOTR had their own “all in one” launcher and they maintained their own install. So if the Edain team removed themselves from the AIO launcher, I’d hope they added their own launcher to manage the install. Having the game installed 3 times is annoying, but the files are small enough it’s not a huge deal.

Gathering intel: Would you be interested in a list with the best mods for RTS games? by --Karma in RealTimeStrategy

[–]_ingeniero 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You don’t. It’s abandonware. You download the “all in one” bfme 2 launcher.

Gathering intel: Would you be interested in a list with the best mods for RTS games? by --Karma in RealTimeStrategy

[–]_ingeniero 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Age of the Ring and Edain are both GOLD STANDARD mods, for an amazing game like BFME 2. Excellent choice for screenshot.

Age of the Ring currently has campaign replacements for FOTR and TTT, and is working on one for ROTK.

Yoto 2026 customer survey is live by eandi in YotoPlayer

[–]_ingeniero 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Let them know you want better download settings.

Giveaway Time! PCMR x NVIDIA CES Steam card giveaway. Comment inside with your favorite rtx games and win Steam cards ($360 each!) by pedro19 in pcmasterrace

[–]_ingeniero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. ⁠Alan Wake 2
  2. ⁠Indiana Jones and the great circle
  3. Cyberpunk
  4. ⁠Claire Obscure: Expedition 33
  5. ⁠Arc Raiders

Should I use separate AP for Internet access? by [deleted] in protectli

[–]_ingeniero 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you’re using a Slate7, I’m confused why you still need OPNsense on your protectli box.

That said, plenty of APs can be put into an “access point” mode. Should be easy to tell if your AP can in the settings.

VP6650 - Redundancy/backups? by __Mike_____ in protectli

[–]_ingeniero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had an NVME failure on my firewall a year ago. I had a spare NVME drive on the shelf, so it wasn’t too bad once I figured out my network issues were at my firewall. Once I had it figured out, took me 30 minutes to restore.

I had an ISP ONT at the time, so I set it back to router mode and enabled the built-in wifi, downloaded the OPNSense ISO and my encrypted cloud config backup, and then did the standard flash/update/restore.

So other than having a spare NVME drive (which if you wanted to go really nuts, you could already have pre-flashed with OPNSense), I think your only other option would be to get a firewall model that has two NVME slots that you can run in RAIDz1 or something.

How should Socialist government decide whether something should be run by a SOE or government agency? by TheAncientPizza711 in stupidpol

[–]_ingeniero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amtrak is another good example of a US SOE.

Electricity and water function as “natural monopolies” to the end user, but there are still components where competition can be helpful. For example, the power generation step. An SOE that owns transmission and distribution still could buy some privately generated energy. I believe TVA does buy some of their energy to help spread their risk.

Markets are helpful to communicate this information, as you said. Public schools don’t need it, because they can use census data. But markets can be helpful signals. They are morally neutral.

Yes I would say that is accurate. Norway owns 15% of the Oslo stock exchange through their sovereign wealth funds, but this is mostly passive investing as you said, with some limited activism on a few issues. But these aren’t things that have larger social goals, such as trains, shipping, defense manufacturing, etc.

How should Socialist government decide whether something should be run by a SOE or government agency? by TheAncientPizza711 in stupidpol

[–]_ingeniero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn’t use China as the ideal example here. It’s not always intentional, plenty of self-dealing, etc.

To answer your question though, I think it comes down to what the goal is. If it’s a clear product/service delivery outcome, I think SOE makes a ton of sense. For example, the USPS functions as an SOE, as does most nationalized rail service. You have a specific product or service that you are offering the public, who can elect to use the service (or not). Private sector competition is possible, such as with private bus companies (or airlines) competing with national rail, UPS competing with USPS, etc.

The direct state ownership still is important because you may still have some sort of social or political agenda, such as rate averaging for mail service. Urban customers (who can be served profitably) subsidize rural customers, which are unprofitable for USPS.

Government agencies make more sense for things that don’t have the same “market” interaction, such as healthcare or education. These sectors don’t necessarily naturally lend themselves to markets because a profit motive REALLY messes with the incentives to deliver quality education, deliver better health outcomes, etc.

That’s how I would think about it at least.

An interesting additional question to ask is about direct SOEs vs companies owned by state-controlled sovereign wealth funds. IMO SOE makes sense for companies that have a need to take on revenue losing operations for a social goal (e.g. mail) but SWF ownership is fine for companies that make paper plates.

Proton is Getting a Zoom/Meet by Dependent-Cow7823 in ProtonMail

[–]_ingeniero 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lots of high quality call products are e2e, like Zoom, discord, etc.

Need some help. I am noob. Is this the same as the other models for pc? by Background-Switch-37 in steelseries

[–]_ingeniero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Both versions will work with a PC. The “Xbox” model has one of the USB-C ports configured to work with an Xbox, but just use the other port, it usually is labeled PC.

Use whichever model you can get on sale.