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[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

Depends on the game. Apex, Riot, ubisoft, and EA all ban vm players. A list of other companies do as well.

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Easy way to get yourself banned in online games just an FYI. Most online games will detect and ban virtual machines now since they've become commonplace in cheat/hack communities.

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 103 points 1 week ago

Reddit is dead to me, and given their stance on their apis, should be dead to pretty much all hobbiests deeply interested in self hosting.

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

I'd recommend against it. Apple's software ecosystem isn't as friendly for self hosting anything, storage is difficult to add, ram impossible, and you'll be beholden to macOS running things inside containers until the good folks at Asahi or some other coummity startup add partial linux support.

And yes, I've tried this route. I ran an m1 mac mini as a home server for a while (running jellyfin and some other containers). It pretty consistently ran into software bugs (less maintained than x64 software) and every time I wanted to do an update instead of sudo whateveryourdistroships update, and a reboot, it was an entire process involving an apple account, logging into the bare metal device, and then finally running their 15-60 minute long update. Perfectly fine and acceptable for home computing, but not exactly a good experience when you're hosting a service.

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I spot a furry.

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How I imagine you responding to your singular downvoter:

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I see what you mean and understand you. It's very idealistic and I appreciate the thought of it, but it just won't apply to a modern world full of varied people in the way you wish. The reality of it is that most people simply are not interested in participating and it's not in the best interests of any project to expect to change that. Contributions from someone who shares no passion or interest will be less qualitative at best. That's not even to mention that you're likely missing the forest for the trees, as most open source software is built upon hundreds of other projects. You cannot reasonably expect participation on that scale. You can encourage, desire, or structure an income stream to support it; but you cannot expect it as it's just not rational.

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Not sure what part of the open source community you've been diving into, but the expectation of contribution to the project is not realistic nor logical as there's not "always" something a person can contribute and you'd absolutely run afoul of "too many chefs in the kitchen" (even Wikipedia acknowledges this and has structured editing in a way to help alleviate the issues). Though open source for me, and a lot of others, has always embodied passion, a desire to aid the community, and a drive to prevent closed alternatives. None of that is based around "co-op" style expected contribution development. Hell, even Stallman famously addressed my "free as in beer" statement, saying that open source is more akin to "free as in speech" overall, but since this particular project is not monitizing and are GPL 2 licensed, they are absolutely free as in beer.

(https://www.wired.com/2006/09/free-as-in-beer/)

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I understand this, but we need to be reasonable and avoid extremes. This software is extensively free (as in beer) and requires development support. As long as the prompt doesn't cross any lines into exploitive territory I think it's fine. It would be nice for them to have explored other fundraising avenues first though and have saved this as an exhaustive "final" option.

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the psa op

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

We don't ignore them. We scope out implementation plans constantly, it's just when they hit the MBA managers desk they tend to end up in the shredder.

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Like it or not, most cyber insurance policies require all endpoints and hosts be secured with industry approved edr solution. Crowdstrike is a very popular multi platform player in that space. 🤷‍♂️

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