Volume encryption would either mean typing a password at boot, or needing to use the TPM, which would get stolen with the NAS, so either very inconvenient, or useless.

And I dont think anyone breaking in to steal a NAS is going to do it to read the data, they’ll sell the hardware for cash. Anyone who would break in for the data is likely a far more sophisticated threat, which is a bit paranoid.

1 vote against truenas scale. I am happy now that it’s setup, but it was such a pain to get working. The GUI insisted that the disks had no serial numbers, but I could see them clearly in the commandline. I had to commandline setup the zfs, which they dont doco, and it has diverged from the published BSD instructions.

I also get the impression that unless you are using commercial grade stuff, truenas dont want anything to do with you.

Do you really need encryption if its all local? You should be able to trust your network is safe, so encryption in transit is the most you need to worry about? And if your NAS is on 24/7 its decrypted 24/7 anyway, so no real win having disk encryption.

Or you drop something heavy nearby and the disk skips and aborts.

Very expensive mistake if you messed up the disk during the write period.

The readers and writers are pretty pricey as well.

I use bluerays, but have seen mold (finger prints!) growing between the layers of plastic, so definitely not a long term solution.

You could make new hardware, but realistically, it doesnt happen. The secrets get lost, the skills get lost, and the medium dies.

There is no chance that there is a working reader in a few thousand years time, let alone billions.

All that said, I agree that we need stable long term storage, my point is that billion year storage is just a fantasy spec. It looks good to investors, but doesnt hold up to reality.

Of course, but that is still a very long time.

360TB x 500Mb/s write == 73 days to write

https://www.omnicalculator.com/other/data-transfer

Thats a long write time. Also, I have to assume that most of the read/write hardware can’t live that long, so that’s all a bit theoretical. They’ll stop producing the hardware shortly after selling all the discs.

Well, you are correct, they are more than adequate. I updated my original comment with my findings, but just wanted to say thanks for informing me. I’ll still keep using SSDs personally, because I have lost a few SD cards to corruption over the years, but I can see the appeal of moving between systems easily.

Fat32, its a card for a camera

Read or write? I can hit the write sticker speed on mine, but read is terrible.

Maybe you have better SD cards, but mine are just terrible (150MB/s on the label, but real world reads are 20MB/s, random IO also seems trash but I dont have any numbers for that), so I have a tough time believing that their sufficient, even with streaming IO. Next time I get a chance I’ll install a game on it and give it a whirl, but I’m pretty pessimistic.

Any binaries saved on the SD card would need to be duplicated to both x86 and ARM.

Not manufacturers, experience. I remember gaming on HDDs, it was bad. SSDs were a breath of fresh air. The SD cards I own are so much worse than the HDDs that I own, so I’m very skeptical that they are fast enough.

Do you mind sharing the games your playing? And the texture resolution settings?

MicroSD cards are crazy slow compared to all other storage, this doesnt seem like a good idea

I had a chance to test Watch Dogs Legion on my fastest SD card (Samsung, v30, 170MB/s read, 130MB/s write) and it was perfectly playable, even cranked to ultra. So I take back my assertion.

I guess my camera software must just be crazy slow, because im more used to real world 20MB/s read.

I will still assert that you need a good high speed card reader, I have seen some cheapo ones that are garbage, but given Valve has full control of that, shouldn’t be a problem.

Thats hot. And I am going to assume this is canon from now on.

Ok furry artists, you know what to do, I wanna see the filthiest Visa x MasterCard art you can dream off. Payment process me baby

100% agree, this is probably a soft launch so they can go hard later.

Super scummy.

Smoking is also quite common, it still harmful.

Betting isnt required for sport, millions of kids manage to play sports without betting.

So we’ve established at the onset that Riot-owned broadcast and social channels will stay betting-free, which means no ads, no sponsored segments from betting partners, and no betting partner logos on team jerseys

Good, as it should be.

No mention of age controls, and I’m sure it’ll be the scummiest of gambling companies (tautology?) that signup for this.

Riot has a lot of children who play their games, this is a really disappointing decision from them.

Hardisks also. Dont store important data, they are due to fail eventually.

I’d be resistant to reuse the power supply. Its long overdue to fail, and if it fails and takes out your brand new stuff, you’ll be a bit unhappy.

Contact the app dev, its their problem.

Honestly, I agree, unless steam aggressively enshittifies themselves, I dont see any rivals catching up either. They are so far ahead, and so far, haven’t started screwing their customers.

And gog selling out to climb doesn’t really solve anything.

Isn’t steam responsible for match making only, and the actual game company is responsible for the servers? Are you sure its not the game servers?

Either way, that would be very frustrating if its happening mid round.

Your not wrong, but I just dont get the feeling that epic is going to transition towards actually being a competitive store. This is entirely my own myopic gut feel, not based on any facts.

My dislike of epic is that they seem to be buying their way into competing, instead of actually competing on features.

Free games sounds good now, but what happens when the fortnite gravy train runs out, and epic needs to start making a profit? They’ll likely have to enshittify fast.

Steam at least has a solid history of being generally good. But who knows what will happen if Gaben ever ascends.

Does steam really have frequent multiplayer downtime issues? I’ve never notice any issues, but I don’t play a lot of multiplayer anymore.

Cry’s in 100/20Mb

Exactly this. Company statements have zero basis in reality, they should be ignored unless they actually back them up with evidence or data.

It’s why shareholders (ultra wealthy people) are the enemy of art and why publicly traded studios all go to shit after enough time.

No arguments there…

Your probably right, but gaming company’s do plenty of other risky stuff, like Concord etc. Would have been nice if they had at least tried to make a sims along the way.

The games industry is more than happy to throw away billions churning out copy-cat games, that compete in incredibly crowded genres, so it would have been nice if they had at least tried to compete in the one genre with only a single competitor. Its kinda funny that TS4s biggest competitor is TS3.

Its a big piece of work sure, but there haven’t even been attempts (that I know of).

And sims is priced so high (with all the expansions) that getting in that market seems feasable if one of the big names wanted to try.

Seems worth an attempt, rather than churning out copy-cat FPS/dots/battle royals/flavour-of-the-month games :/

EA have been pulling their shit for decades though, so its surprising no one has tried to eat their lunch before now.

Its kinda bizarre that there are so few Sims clones/replacements.

If you want to go the AML SBC route, check out https://nexdock.com/

They are portable touch screen monitors, and if your lucky, its at most a USB + HDMI to get the touch screen working. They’ll also supply power to your SBC, which might help the portability aspect.

You can get similar portable monitors from Aliexpress as well.

Edit: just realised they now have WiFi. The nexpad has no WiFi, otherwise look for other portable monitors.

I think you’ve been underspecifying the problem a bit :) You dont want any 2.4ghz signals at all? Does airplane mode still give off 2.4ghz noise? Are you sure the noise is from the WiFi chip, and not the CPU?

So like an airgapped device? Have you considered getting a cheap off the shelf tablet and cutting the antennas? It wont connect to WiFi or BT anymore after that?

Sure, but a device with no radios is gonna be an uphill struggle to get anything useful onto as well. And airlines let you use a tablet/phone during ascent and descent right now, there is no need to remove the radios or use airplane mode anymore.

Why? What is your use case?