Starfield is where the studio died for me, and it’s not because it was a bad game. It’s actually nothing to do with Starfield directly, but more that I realized they just don’t know how to make any other type of game, and the world has left them behind.

Skyrim came and went, and then Fallout 4, which was great, but then you got the Witcher 3, and Red Dead 2, and the bar has been raised for open world RPGs. It’s not that Bethesda is bad, it’s that they haven’t modernized their gameplay or engines.

Starfield had a great idea, but they couldn’t execute on it. 16 loading screens to jump between planets, annoying clunky animations, the game felt like it came out in 2013, not 2023. Even if ES6 came out next year I wouldn’t trust it simply because I don’t think they know how to make a modern RPG anymore.

This video did a decent job summing up my thoughts

Got frigate set up, more mature than I expected!

I’ve learned it really depends on the device. It’s completely a mixed bag, and that’s why I can’t trust it. Half the time it lasts over a decade, the other half less than a year.

For example, I got their “Enterprise” Switch 8 PoE with 2 SFP+ ports. I plugged it in in my garage, where it was 50 degrees (F) at the time, and it overheated. I googled it, apparently the SFP ports simply overheat. Turns out while it has a fan, it doesn’t turn on and simply overheats because they “Didn’t want a noisy fan on someone’s desk”. Which… uh, doesn’t matter if it doesn’t work. Their enterprise term means nothing.

That being said, my rackmount switches have been solid, oldest one is 10 years old. However that unknown makes it hard to justify purchasing new equipment.

I never even thought about Aqara, I have a lot of their things already. Do I need an NVR or something with that?

Really?? Is that all? Best I can think is that the transformer doesn’t really protect the device at all, I’m guessing there was a surge at some point

How do you use Reolink? I’ve heard other people mention it, meaning do you need an NVR, or HomeAssistant, does it work in Unifi, curious how you use it

Yeah, and everyone’s opinion of low effort is different. Idk, if all we see is pictures of a homelab or dashboard that’s boring, but at the same time I love seeing things people have worked super hard on and are proud of! Previous mods were pretty eager with that trmove button for that.

Ah my mistake, you’re the developer! Stand by my comments but wish you luck. I was looking to see if anyone had set it up and what their opinions were. I have a stack at home and could stand one up, deciding on it still now. I prefer fedi everything, but there are celebrities/professionals that only use insta and stuck with it.

How is it?

Things like this have to be constantly maintained for that reason, look also at yt-dlp. For that, I’ll give it a month, see how they’re doing then before setting up a personal interest. Worried they’ll abandon it

I literally do mean pedestrians, and it literally does mean being able to take a sharp corner. The hood design is deadly to pedestrians, and you’re so high up that you have massive blindspots. It is a machine that can and regularly does cause front-overs, meaning running pedestrians and children over. I absolutely hate how the most unsafe hood design is considered normal, and have and will continually lobby for them to be removed from the roads.

I do not care how safe someone feels inside. To everyone outside the car they are massive liabilities.

Learn up on them.

Edit: LITERALLY 2 POSTS AWAY FROM THIS ONE ON THE FEED. Happened yesterday.

Bicyclist swerved because sedan unsafely opened their door while parking, and large truck ran them over, killing them

They designed that vehicle without regard for safety. Then it was rated poor for pedestrian safety and people still bought it. They made the street safe for the people Ford and the buyer ignored.

Great point, I didn’t see them talk to any pedestrians or cyclists!

If he can’t make that turn he both bought too large if a vehicle and also is a shit driver.

Nah it’s okay, unless you want to for history and reference. Link

Ironically I had so much help in finding the info before it was removed that all I did was eyeroll at it’s removal. Will be looking forward to the update!

Bringing in both your threads, I agree. With only a handful of active communities, saying “this isn’t the right one” without pointing to an active community where it is a good one seems… destructive. Personally, if no hardware remains a rule, then it seems natural to then start a sister community which is hardware focused and Rule 3’s text then would recommend that community right in the rule itself. May not be such a bad idea now that I’m typing it.

As a mod myself on much smaller communities, that’s my view too. Even if there is something I personally dislike, it’s not my community, if it’s getting upvotes then obviously people are enjoying it. If I get reports I look into it, but it has to be a pretty blatent violation for me to step in. Why would I want to hurt engagement? There’s so few of us already here.

Oh my GOD that’s probably what happened to mine! I was discussing something on my last post and then suddenly the mod removed it because of “Rule 3”. Because we were talking about selfhosting. Which, all selfhosting is on our own hardware…, but I think my post leaned more hardware than the mod liked. Super annoying when you’re having a valid conversation, people are chiming in and helping, and then suddenly Removed: Arbitrary rule violation.

Thank you! Looking forward to hearing from you!

My only request/suggestion, is Rule 3. Rule 3 I think has been used way too often to justify removing posts seemingly arbitrarily. A blanket “No hardware” rule is restrictive when homelab and selfhosted are a venn diagram that are very close together. For example, you can’t talk about Unraid without also talking about what drive types you use. Or a post I’m thinking about posting, “What doorbell cameras do you prefer with HomeAssistant? and What NVR should I use?”. All selfhosted, all homelab, all interconnected… but I am afraid of posting it because of the iron fist.

Yeah I think this is a tool worth having for mods. Maybe going through deleted posys and seeing who are repeat offenders.

To me, that isn’t building a community, that’s extracting from one. It’s no better than AI scraping. You got your answer and then keep it for yourself.

Huh, til. In programming it’s simply a way of ensuring something happens exactly one time