Feels like Sony has gone full “bean counter” mode in the last year or so. Maybe because of the AI bubble and the general state of the economy, but could also be due to changes in leadership.

A third take is that they are unhinged cult members who are high on their own supply. Although I expect it’s a mix of both types (maybe within the same people).

For tailscale, unless you need different ACLs for every user, you could instead have additional friends share a single user and then you’re only limited by the quite high device cap. Or self-host headscale on a VPS and then there are no user limits.

If you’re in the US, it’s because all of the major ISPs siphoned up much of the ipv4 address space so they can still offer it to everyone.

In Australia, on the other hand, most ISPs provide CGNAT by default, although most of them offer a free opt-out and have ipv6. Mobile services are also typically CGNAT, although many offer ipv6 + 464XLAT (an ipv4 compatibility mode using ipv6).

In developing countries some sort of ipv6 solution is almost universal, particularly those with higher populations such as India, since it would cost an absurd amount of money to buy up that amount of ipv4 address space today.

It’s the framing that anti-bike/transit types have been using since the 2010s. Supporters are adopting it to argue there should actually be a war on cars.

All his posts are like that. They are a great “chuck on your ereader” type thing.

Have you tried koreader? It’s not perfect, but if the screen is large enough it normally works pretty well. I use it on a Kobo reader, but it works on Android as well (not sure about iOS).

This website is like 10 years old from memory, well before grid-scale batteries were widespread (well they still aren’t in many countries).

You can always self host forgejo, but yeah, codeberg is an opinionated place, I suspect primarily due to resource constraints. Not a github replacement and not really trying to be.

I’d say there is a decent chance this will release on GOG, if not straight away, given the last few games have all ended up there (the newer trilogy plus the remasters of the older games).

Also:

I integrate Miniflux with readeck, which is then combined with a readeck plugin for koreader, allowing me to easily read articles on my ereader, without relying on a paid service.

I’m also one of those people that still uses custom ROMs on Android, and since the backup and restore situation is still kind of dire if you don’t use Google (and sometimes even with) it’s easier to have most of my configuration and state stored on a server, and so I can wipe a phone with relatively little risk.

This could easily be in Australia too.

You could use tailscale or netbird. Alternatively, you can use a dynamic DNS provider which usually provide free subdomains, if you don’t want to pay for a domain. And even with all of that, Jellyfin doesn’t require HTTPS, although there may be clients that do (make sure you’re behind a VPN in this case).

Effective as of the end of this sentence. This sentence I’m speaking right now. Period.

It’s been years since I played it, but Ephemeral Fantasia was this kind of fever dream of a RPG on the PS2 that I remember enjoying that had a time loop thing like Majora’s Mask. I think I was actually sick when I played it so that added to the fever dream vibe.

It’s more about FEX + ARM handhelds, than those in isolation. Only in the last few years has FEX started to become viable, and more and more Linux ARM handhelds (not Android) are starting to appear.

The Switch represents a floor of what is possible, with weak hardware, unofficial Linux support, and likely poor GPU drivers. ARM handhelds that aren’t Android may have better long term support, and will become closer to the experience of a Steam Deck (albeit slower), at a much lower price.

I think they are hoping they can make a bunch of businesses so dependent on them that they can’t afford to leave. Which could work, but probably not enough for them to become profitable.

On the individual side, maybe they are hoping to exploit a bunch of whales but I can’t see people on average be willing to pay for what it actually costs.

This is a hard one as I generally just ignore games that don’t appeal to me, so I forget they even exist.

But I guess games that have FOMO mechanics that don’t respect your time and push you towards playing every day.

Just start with Persona 5 Royal which is on Steam and is regularly discounted. Fanatical currently have it on sale.

While there is debate about which game is the best, if you don’t at least somewhat like P5R, you probably won’t like the series.