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  • [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - November 2025

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  • Recently finished another playthrough of Half-Life 2, and now I'm back on Hades (not 2, waiting for that to go on sale). I've just had the first successful run but I've got a long way to go before I'm up to the same point I was at on the Xbox.

  • What is the most controversial TV finale?

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  • Controversial as in it ruined an otherwise great show? Dexter.

  • Thoughts on Philips Hue Lights

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  • I have a mix of normal Hue bulbs and some Innr brand GU10 (spotlight) bulbs. The difference in quality of light from both brands is quite noticeable, with Hue being far and away better in terms of colour blending and accuracy. There's a reason the Hue bulbs are 2-3x the price of the competition

    That said, I've had multiple Hue bulbs either outright fail or one LED die so that it still works but the colour is completely wrong. It's frustrating for bulbs that are supposed to last decades but maybe the latest generation are more robust.

    They're also regularly on sale for Black Friday and the like, so I'd advise planning your purchases around those events.

    I wouldn't worry about leaving them on. Standby power draw is very low and I think even at maximum output they use about 7W each. It's just not a big deal.

  • jotty·page - Checklists & Notes made it easy

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  • It's more like £150/year, but it's charged every 3 years. Still very expensive compared to .com for sure!

  • jotty·page - Checklists & Notes made it easy

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  • This looks really good and I'm enthused with how responsive you're being, will definitely give it a try.

    It is a bit of a shame you didn't call it Jott as jo.tt is available as a domain, but then the tt TLD is pretty expensive so maybe not!

  • What are you all using for a 2FA token manager?

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  • It's niche but I like to point it out whenever I get the opportunity: if your workplace uses Bitwarden Enterprise, every licensed user gets a free family plan that can be linked to any account. I haven't personally paid for BW for years.

  • Does anyone else use their steam deck as a PC? How's it?

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  • Bit late with a reply but I bought one with this use case in mind, thinking it could be a cost effective family PC, but immediately fell foul of the lack of proper user switching. You can sign in to different Steam profiles but on the desktop everything runs under a single predefined user with admin rights. Fine for a single person but no good for a family needing multiple distinct user profiles and access controls.

    I've installed Windows as a dual boot setup but it makes the whole thing much more of a faff, so it doesn't get used. It's back to being exclusively a handheld gaming machine.

  • Recomend a Mini PC to host home assistant on

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  • This is the sort of nerdery I'm here for! Pray tell, how would you go about using those temperature glyphs with a phone keyboard?

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    Do I need the ISPs home router?

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  • This right here. In the UK we have a little box (ONT) where the fibre comes into the home that essentially acts as a modem and converts the fibre to ethernet and back again and then they provide a separate wireless router that plugs into it. Other than for my current ISP where I had to specifically request that they enable bridge mode (which they did for free), I've never had any issues plugging my own router into the ethernet side of this box.

    If your ISP's wireless router plugs directly into the fibre then you should be able to request that it's set to bridge mode so that it becomes just a dumb ONT box like we have here. Albeit a large and clunky one.

  • A domain I like has expired, how do I go about registering it for myself?

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  • Contacting the registrar is worth a shot and could be your best bet. I recently did a similar thing except the expiring domain was on a pretty obscure country-TLD with only one registrar. They told me how long the grace period was and then I setup a script to check the availability every minute and alert me when it came up.

    Probably not feasible with a .com or similar but they might be able to help in some regard. Edit: though having read about drop catching, that's definitely your best bet if it's likely to be sniped!

  • What's your most pointless or silliest automation?

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  • My fancy toaster came with dire warnings to not leave it plugged in when it's unsupervised, presumably because the cut-off on the mechanical timer can fail. Instead I plugged it into a smart socket with an automation to kill the power if there's a continuous draw for more than 4 minutes.

    Not for fun but probably my most pointless. Other than when I was testing it I don't expect this automation to ever fire.

  • introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server

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  • This is very impressive and I'm highly likely to give it a whirl. My question is, though: would it be something that my very non-tech savvy wife could use?

    Eg. I'm thinking setup the app on her phone with a default location and when she asks me for a file I can just tell her that I've "put it in the app", and she'll be able to easily retrieve it. Also same thing but vice versa, though the video seems to cover that via the Android share menu...

    Again, super impressive. Good job!

  • Intel Confidential CPU?

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  • I used to work at a games studio that would get these delivered fairly regularly, usually paired with a particular motherboard and presumably a custom BIOS.

    I think we were technically supposed to return them but the manufacturers never enforced it, so once the chip was actually released to the public - and assuming the sample was stable enough for general use - the PC would rotate into normal stock and eventually get sold for cheap to staff or end up in the spare parts bin.

    While it was cool at first to get pre-production chips before anyone else, it became pretty mundane and I'm not at all surprised to see them out in the wild decades later. Interesting piece of history though!

  • Microsoft dives into the handheld gaming PC wars with the Asus ROG Xbox Ally

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  • I tried so hard to make that combo work for me, but ended up back with the sticks. Maybe I need to try something other than Half-Life 2.

  • Microsoft dives into the handheld gaming PC wars with the Asus ROG Xbox Ally

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  • Conversely I bought a Steam Deck specifically because of the trackpads but I find I only ever use them on the rare occasion that I need to go to desktop mode. I love my Deck but I've discovered that could easily live without the trackpads if they weren't there.

  • I got a free HP DL380 G5, so I blogged about it !

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  • My workplace ran off DL360s (the 1U variant of this) of various generations for 20 or 30 years. I remember getting the first G5 in and being really impressed by the way the components all slotted in so easily and pretty much everything was hot-swappable. And the no-nut rail system was a revalation.

    They were great systems for their time but that power consumption is crazy by today's standards!

    As for feedback, you have a very confusing sentence about 2.5" and 3.5" drives being the same size. Took me far too long to realise you meant capacity and not physical dimensions!

  • Vaultwarden selfhosting, or bitwarden service?

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  • Just a PSA for anybody reading the thread, though it doesn't really help with the question at hand... On the very slim chance that your workplace uses Bitwarden Enterprise it's worth knowing that every licensed user gets a free family plan that can be tied to an existing personal account, provided it's hosted in the same region.

    We do use it but very few of our own users are even aware of the perk so I like to spread it around when I get the chance!

  • Update policy?

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  • I skim read the changelogs for breaking changes but mostly just YOLO it whenever I'm in the mood to update or a new monthly release drops.

    That said, the VM that runs HAOS and the Z2M addon is snapshotted every night with two week's worth of retention, and I let HA do its own scheduled backups in case a snapshot restore doesn't work for whatever reason. So far I've never had a need for either but I rest easy knowing the options are there.

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  • This isn't a Valve thing, its a USA thing

    Good point. I was going to say that Valve could voluntarily offer a better warranty but isn't the standard in the US something like 90 days? Insanity.

    Still, they could choose to match globally what they have to offer here, which is 2 years.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    TedZanzibar @feddit.uk

    Recommendations for running VMs on a headless server?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    TedZanzibar @feddit.uk

    Just how secure are the various reverse proxy options?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    TedZanzibar @feddit.uk

    How safe is self-hosting a public website behind Cloudflare?