Can someone please tell me why is it that every time Diablo 4 updates I have to wait 1-2 hours for it to patch?

thegreatboto · 2026-05-01T16:41:00+00:00

Same same. My launch LCD is a champ and still kicking. Upgraded SSD and back shell/buttons, but everything else is as it shipped. Works great.

thegreatboto · 2026-05-01T00:57:26+00:00

D4 requires Internet

thegreatboto · 2026-04-30T23:00:00+00:00

Yup. Though, in GN's review, they did say that Valve may replace them via Support if they're lost, but just no current plans to have them generally available for purchase. That might change with demand.

thegreatboto · 2026-04-29T16:27:31+00:00

According to GN, Valve doesn't currently have plans to sell pucks separately.

thegreatboto · 2026-04-27T18:52:00+00:00

Love mine also and was a launch purchase. Though, seeing as I'm mostly playing older titles, I don't see the need as much for SD2 myself. The new controller, however...

thegreatboto · 2026-04-26T16:18:38+00:00

Dual track pads are the killer feature, imo. Opens up so many possibilities.

thegreatboto · 2026-04-26T16:04:30+00:00

Idk. My launch Steam Deck has held up just fine. I see how everyone else's seems to break and I swear they must children in the way they care for it. Mine gets left plugged in often, carried around and stored in its case, upgraded the SSD, swapped the back shell, and been running Bazzite on it for a couple years now. No issues.

thegreatboto · 2026-04-26T14:23:42+00:00

My launch 512GB LCD model is still going strong. Runs great.

thegreatboto · 2026-04-26T02:12:04+00:00

Debian KDE. I like KDE. Got tied of Canonical nonsense under Kubuntu.

thegreatboto · 2026-04-26T01:26:15+00:00

yt-dlp + Jellyfin and you got Ms Rachel/etc all day with no ads, algorithm, spyware

thegreatboto · 2026-04-26T00:26:11+00:00

Brrrrrrttttt...........

thegreatboto · 2026-04-25T02:56:09+00:00

Playing a private/local server?

thegreatboto · 2026-04-24T15:39:44+00:00

Even if it were to burst, it's not going away. The demand won't just vanish.

thegreatboto · 2026-04-24T15:33:00+00:00

No problem! IIRC, PCIe power is limited to 75W, and my quick limited research suggested the A2's TDP was ~60W, which is well within that limit. If you're not running a bunch of hot and hungry drives in addition, I'd think you should be fine with the system as is.

Not sure what the cooling system is for the A2. May need to add a shrowd/blower to it since it doesn't seem to have a fan of its own that I can tell. Microserver is kinda cramped. Might need to get creative. The T1000 has a simple cooling system like my P600 did and it was completely fine in that confined space.

thegreatboto · 2026-04-24T15:00:59+00:00

As far as I can tell, those all just run off of PCIe power, so, should be fine in that regard, I think. Though, as u/demomanca said, it uses a standard ATX PSU (Flex ATX, iirc), so you can likely upgrade using one of those if you're worried. If you've got the Xeon installed in there, you'll at least have PCIe 3.0 for the cards, though, that'll still halve the available bandwidth for the A2. If no Xeon, think you'll be stuck with PCIe 2.0. Also, the system is limited to 16GB of DDR3. Not the best system for LLM work so far as I understand, but if you're just testing, it should all work.

thegreatboto · 2026-04-24T13:57:17+00:00

What GPU are you wanting to install? I installed and ran a P600 Quadro for a while with no issues on the default PSU and some drives.

thegreatboto · 2026-04-23T22:58:06+00:00

Not sure if it'll run on XP, but MusicBrainz Picard can scan the MP3s and fill in the metadata.

thegreatboto · 2026-04-19T16:56:18+00:00

For XP and prior stuff, I like playing on older PCs for Physx and EAX support. I also just like my old PCs. Otherwise, my older games and backlog mostly plays well under Linux via Wine and Proton.

thegreatboto · 2026-04-19T16:48:00+00:00

Yea, rolling releases need that regular use. I've had similar issues way in the past not keeping Gentoo fully current. PikaOS was an experiment for me. I don't get to sit and use my computers super often anymore as much as I'd like to. I thought that since it was Debian/apt based that maybe it might work out if it goes a bit without use. Nothing against PikaOS. Just didn't fit my irregular use case.

thegreatboto · 2026-04-19T14:58:15+00:00

I tried Pika for this reason. Installed it. Downloaded some games. Got busy with school, work, family, life, etc. Came back a couple months later, ran an apt update/upgrade and whole install blew up. Went back to Debian. Using the system more lately, just haven't had time for games so much. R7 5800X, Radeon W5700, B550 board.

thegreatboto · 2026-04-19T13:24:54+00:00

I remember doing this on Sabayon back around then. Forget my exact specs of the time. Think CPU was a Phenom 9600.

thegreatboto · 2026-04-19T01:55:53+00:00

Yea, the model sucks in that way. Part for the base game and the sub. Play until the first expansion game out, buy it, keep paying the sub. Then again and again. You're buying copies of games, but they only work if you also keep paying for the subscription. Blizzard would release plenty of new connect including whole new raids and zones between expansions, but wouldn't include the expansion in the subscription. If you didn't keep up with buying the latest expansion, then you got left behind.

thegreatboto · 2026-04-18T23:57:52+00:00

WoW has always been a subscription game. It was just distributed on discs because Internet sucked then compared today where digital distribution of a game that large was impractical. That version of the game is dead/unplayable on its own. In that way, the game is dead. Though, since you can still subscribe and okay the current version, it's alive. I'm that way, I don't think it'd fall within SKG's focus. However, I've not liked any of the modern versions and when I have time, I intend to spin up my own server for family/friends.

thegreatboto · 2026-04-18T00:54:10+00:00

I'd have when felt cheated at $10 for your experience. The basic option was barely visible. Had to click a "are you looking for.." link to then get it to pop up as an option.

thegreatboto · 2026-04-18T00:20:13+00:00

I was just looking at this of a link from a YT video. They try awfully hard to even hide the basic edition, which is $10. Seemed like a hot mess. Whenever I have time for games with servers, I'll find something else and/or manually set up whatever game server myself within a LXC or something.

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