That just sounds as they aren’t using it property or having way too high expectations of what it can do from all the hype around.
GenAI can definitely help and accelerate your work, but when it is used sensibly. If you let it do most of the work, it will generate so much crap that you will not have capacity to review nor shape it to a desired state.
This is the way.
If router works, you got access to your lab. If it doesn’t, well redundancy was not a requirement / too much hassle to set up.
Maybe it’s just me, but 2026 looks pretty dull for PC gaming.
I did pretty much the same, but then Kerbal 2 happened. I had that game in wishlist for like 5 years and damn they played us dirty.
You are like hitting a data protection layer. Basically your corpo does not want you to exfiltrate data (accidentally nor maliciously).
Your options
rosettastone.com is something I used like 15 years ago. Kind of a desktop Duolingo or that’s how I remember it.
I have an idea for a game, I know how to code, but I’m clueless about gamedev. Hell yes I will use AI to help me with it. That is if I’ll find time for it, because it will be insane amount of work to have something playable.
Some people seem think that you write a couple of prompts and you can ship it as an early access game.
All my banking apps work on GOS. Flawlessly, well, except N26 which a bit unstable and crashes quite a lot. Nevertheless it works enough to be usable.
Probably games around year 2000. Not so much recycling back then.
Well that settles my idea of entertaining AM5.
At least in EU it just could have been just the right pricing with models in 800-900 EUR for 9070XT. Still outrageous price…
Then you have 5070 that’s the “low” model of 50s Nvidia that only maching 9070XT with “you can do AI and RTX” and 5080 arguably better than 9070XT, but in most cases over 1k EUR.
I was sorting somethingting similar some time ago with https://www.dwarmstrong.org/remote-unlock-dropbear/
Also there is https://github.com/latchset/tang and https://github.com/latchset/clevis
Then I changed it so my server boots and offers basic functionality like DNS and any encrypted data would wait until I unlock it. When I fiddle with it could be annoying, but otherwise works very well considering I need to unlock it just a few times a year.
Out of curiosity why?
It seems like the perfect thing for BFUs…
I’m running it for about a year and I never noticed any instability. To fair Android app did not always work well.
Nevertheless I never had a problem with updating it once every couple of months. Changlog and upgrade instructions always covered everything.
At such volume it is difficult to come up a service that does not break a bank. Storage is expensive.
Perhaps immich + monthly backups to S3 glacier. That is if you don’t have a second and third site available
How about something sized as iPhone SE or smaller? This just looks like a mediocre brick that already exists on the market.
If my lab goes down, it sucks, but that’s it. I have no critical service running there.
I have some recoverability, but it requires for the main router to run. If it isn’t running it’s either a HW failure, which I will not fix remotely anyway or power is down. In which case, not much I can do about it neither.
I have router with OpenWRT with Wireguard and main server (NUC) on a smart plug. If the router runs and server is mishaving to the point where I cannot reboot it, I can power cycle it via the smart plug connected to the router.
You mentioned your brother lives 30mins away - well put some tiny server in his house. Having everything at your home is not build for redundancy at all. That’s just the risk management, if you absolutely need access to your server, then 1 site is not going to cut it.
I have been on the same boat a while ago. Of course it was a deployment that caught on and was serving longer than expected.
I don’t recall how many versions I skipped exactly (1-2 years worth of updates). Of course no backups set what so ever.
I looked at change log of I need something specific, there were changes in docker compose file. Did my best effort to make it succeed.
My worst case scenario was that I will have to import everything again and made sure I have all my labels, tags and settings backed up.
Nowadays I’ll just snapshot the whole VM in Proxmox.
Maybe it isn’t such a bad news. To get ppl hooked on any paid services, they need a good product first.
They can get lost with anything like Kerbal 2. That is if they relese something in pre-alpha state and ask $40 for it.
Damn, I would have thought that glacier would be cheaper and they would claw your eyes out on egress and access.