Thanks. Do you have any sense as to why those linked firewall devices even need to hit that $500+ range when there are $200 options? Is it just for some advanced use case that normies like us are unlikely to need?

In that case, if I’ve got some port forwarding set up on the router, it would no longer apply once the firewall is in there, right? And I’d have to port forward from the firewall once it’s in place? Or the firewall is literally just one other hop on the network that the router doesn’t care about, even if the router connects to the firewall’s WAN?

Teamspeak lived long enough to see an exodus from Discord, but that doesn’t mean Discord is dying.

Did you run into the same problems I did with self-hosting? And if not, how did you avoid them?

Why not?

Thanks! I feel pretty good about the power draw based on what you wrote, even though HDDs are going to add to that, and that’s good to hear about the mini PC running Jellyfin, which gives me some hope for the on-board server in a NAS like the one I’m eyeing. And even if that doesn’t work out, I’ve got my own mini PC that I should be able to leave in place most of the time.

Oh, sorry, haha. There’s a lot of jargon thrown around in a place like this, and I thought this was one I missed.

Sorry, but the SEO on “Q2” is pretty bad. What are you referring to? And what are the actual risks of a port being exposed to the outside world via an off-the-shelf router? Surely they can always hit my IP, and if this port is only exposed for Jellyfin, it would be just as vulnerable as any other port that calls out, right? I ask that knowing that it must be wrong, but I don’t understand how.

It had worth to me, as someone who was stuck in a place where it was unacceptable to watch a video but was acceptable instead to read a summary quietly.

The old games were beaten by a Twitch chat sending little more than random inputs to the game. Maybe the newer ones are worse, but let’s be real.

There’s a disclaimer that says not every Switch 1 game will work, but I think it will play on the new Switch with the same lousy performance it has now unless you buy the Switch 2 version.

Are you prepared to have to buy the game again to do that? I don’t know it for sure, but it’s how I expect Nintendo to operate.

Sure would, but I’m going to set my hopes very low for that one. The best way to make this happen would be to only buy and play their competitors that are more future proofed.

Nope, but there are surely deals that are locked up in this thing’s launch, and I’ve got an unannounced 3D Mario game on my Fantasy Critic roster.

Plans can change in the course of a year. At the time, that probably was their plan, and that it didn’t happen doesn’t make it a guess. We’re hearing this same reveal on the 16th from multiple corroborating sources at this point.

No worries. There are lots of kinds of games we used to get a lot of back in the day, but their successors or spiritual successors don’t get the kind of attention or marketing that the industry giants do. Often times, if you miss a certain kind of game, just start searching for “modern games like X”, and you’ll probably find it.

In the past it’s been ported by a different company, and now it’s seemingly got a Linux port done in-house, so there’s reason to expect crossplay. But even if it didn’t have that, running the game through Proton ought to solve for that too.

This game runs on the first Switch, so I think it’ll do just fine on Deck at some reasonable settings.

Game Pass subscribers and people who play games with kernel level anti-cheat do.

Two of my favorites are Vagante and Streets of Rogue. Vagante is a great challenge with all sorts of build variety and interesting choices to make along the way. Streets of Rogue is comedy and chaos. Both are a great time either single player or in co-op, either local or online.