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Just… don’t. Non-technical people should consider consoles, not PCs. Not even with Windows (which is actually harder to use than some Linux distros). If you want to game together with them, just get them an Xbox. It has much more games with cross play than a PlayStation

Have fun!

They are very different. X4 is more of a grand strategy game where you need to build up your empire. I really like how all the resource production and manufacturing works. You can’t just buy ships. They need to be built. From parts. That need to be manufactured and supplied. If you want to beat an enemy empire then you can attack their supply lines and they can’t produce new ships.

The game starts off much like Elite, just you flying around in your ship. But by the end you usually just sit in a chair pouring over the map and issuing commands while your hired npcs do the actal work.

All the good parts of Ubuntu have long since been integrated upstream. And Debian’s release cycle has increased a lot so you’re not stuck with old versions anymore.

Ohh, thank you! I didn’t find these in my search. Only cheap chinesium.

Their controllers look great, but I wish they had a super simple 8-bit Nintendo controller for PC. No turbo buttons or other extra buttons. Something that my young kid could use.

What is a good open platform for the tech business? My corp want to go full Teams, which sucks even more than Slack. At least most tooling has a Slack integration of some sort.

Yes, JIRA is the worst issue tracker, except for all the others.

It depends. For fixing bugs, text editing speed does not matter. For explorative and iterative design it can matter. It just needs to be fast enough to not distract you or hold you back

I have a few backup lights that are dumb led lights on a smart wall switch. But my HA is pretty much never down unless I am manually restarting it for updates. And my Zigbee network works even when the internet or wifi is down.

Bulbs are mains-powered and should be zigbee routers. The way to prevent that is to take out the switch, wire it closed, and stick a smart button over it.

Which of these is better for Aqara? I recently switched from Conbee to Zigbee2mqtt but I don’t have any aqara devices (yet…)

You can use an ESP32 to ring the mechanical bells via HA when someone presses the doorbell

What do you mean that Reolink is not available? You can get them easily and they work great with HA and Frigate.

Yes, Bruno is great! The only downside is that everytime I start it, I have that damn Disney song stuck in my head 😆

I have the Reolink doorbell, integrated in both Frigate and Home Assistant. It’s been running for 2 years now. It works great!

All the good stuff from Ubuntu has mostly been upstreamed into Debian. And Debian’s rekease cycle is much faster these days than it was back then. So, just run Debian.

It’s called feature detection and it goes a long way back, even before Modernizr popularized it.

ZFS isn’t built-in. I don’t know enough about btrfs to recommend it.

Bog-standard Debian with LVM. LVM can also do RAID, but you could also do mdadm below LVM if you prefer. Keep it simple.