NixOS because it’s declarative kind of does it all for me.

The .nix files serve as their own documentation and if I need to do anything outside them I add a comment to the .nix file.

Tbh, like the 3DS, will definitely get more expensive as well.

I’m hoping there will be a renaissance of smaller, low-stakes, offline capable dedicated handheld gaming/media on the go by the big boys but it’s wishful thinking at this point. I was speaking to a younger colleague the other day and one of my favourite things about the PSP/DS era of gaming was Game sharing where some games enabled you to send over a limited version of a game to a second device to play ad-hoc local wrireless multiplayer even if only one of you had the game.

This is a missing recipe in today’s gaming landscape IMO.

Ow, my back xD. I’m struggling to think of some other key-value mapping that’s available in the real world that works tbf. I was gonna say TV Channel numbers to Channel names…but then I’m really showing my age lmao

A website is just a html page that lives on some computer somewhere and is being served by a program which tells the computer which html page to show when given a port + path to follow.

All internet connected computers have IP addresses that we can use and DNS is the phonebook that connects IP addresses to domain names. (To test this, ping google.com in terminal, then copy and paste the IP address ping shows you into your address bar).

The webserver/reverse proxy in this case is our program which tells your machine what to send and when: these are programs like traefik, caddy, Apache, nginx et al. On top of this, it doesn’t have to be just HTML files, it can be actual files, or services or programs you’ve written.

External computer: “I want the contents of 10.11.12.13:443/some/path”

[DNS Machinery and Tubes]

Hosting machine: “Someone wants the contents of port 443 and some/path. Found the contents, let me send these back to them”

[Internet machinery and tubes]

External computer: “I have received the contents”

As an aside, if you’re behind Carrier-Grade NAT (aka, you can’t actually reach your machine from your external IP address because you actually share it with a bunch other people) then you can use a VPN like tailscale (or headscale) to have a tunnel connection between the machines you require to interact/

Yeah, SD2Vita is the goto and works pretty well with micro-SD

This but PS Vita*

I use Caddy with the WebDAV extension. Works beautifully.

• Devil May Cry 3
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) - especially this one; multiplayer was broken but laced with something special.
• Battlefield Bad Company 2
• Battlefield 3
• Final Fantasy VII: OG and Remake
• Breath of the Wild
• A Link To The Past
• FIFA 07 and Pro Evolution Soccer 6
• Mirror’s Edge

I think these are very much the games that just have immaculate systems that are simple and rewarding, yet coupled with a layer of polish that when all the parts are combined, you’re left with something even greater.

??? What’s wrong with a simple cron job / systemd timer with a bash script?

I am one of those anecdotal people. I want to play the Last of Us Factions online, I refuse to pay for PS+, therefore I do not play my PS5 at all. Every other game already has a PC version that runs and looks better and supports modding…it’s a no-brainer.