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

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.

No, not at all, I just don't expect the level of reliability they provide with how complex the stack is, and that is a complicated stack. (For a literal light bulb).

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.

There's a difference between Matter (the interoperability standard) and Thread (The preferred matter communication protocol) and you'll see a lot of devices advertised as "Matter over thread" which is important because for those you'll need a matter bridge device to act as an edge router for the mesh "thread" network the devices create. These can be had cheaply though and if you're one of the like 1 in 3 Americans with an iPad you already own one.

Hue do be having that "it just works" track record. Which is absolutely divine magic in my opinion because if you took one small look at their back end infrastructure stack you'd never imagine it could be... Reliable... Somehow? Like.. Look at this...

I for one, will likely never purchase another intel cpu. ☠️ my 13900k going up in smoke and the 6+ months of blaming/lack of communication from Intel customer support left me with a very sour taste.

It would be fair, but misinformation probably isn't best fought with misinformation. At least not if we want to keep our democracy when the challenge comes.

Say what you will, but this election wasn't stolen. It was lost. Shamefully so, but it's to be expected when you run a vastly unpopular candidate on the curtails of "more of the same" during an economic downturn (caused by social elite); democrats fell far out of touch and it was pretty clear to see, so much so that near 20 million people who'd voted against Trump hot off his fiasco of a presidency decided they just didn't care enough to show up.

Trump sounds insane to you (and me) because you have differing opinions and his opinions are inhumane and immoral, but he was somehow still far more coherent than Biden during that debate. Dementia clearly hit him hard and that immediately disinfranchised a significant portion of voters. Dude tried to hold on for far too long and it might cost the USA it's democracy.

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.

Wait... You want us to pay humans? - Every triple A gaming company since 2010.