Yes I do have experience, in fact it’s core to my job.
The cost to design is significant and wasting a few years of development is not a light decision. So Valve either had to scrap the design and waste the development cost, or price it according to the current PC parts prices
You are right that people can DIY, but it always was an option and people still buy ready-made computers, so that’s a moot point.
The price for comparable parts and same form factor isn’t far off from DIY.
My guilty pleasure was playing Fallout 76, but the seasons and predatory monetizing put me off.
Do you have any experience in product development? They went through a design process and unfortunately for them, when came time to choose a storage and RAM solution, they had to do it through the current price crisis.
So they either had to table the design and lose their development money or go through with it with the current storage and RAM cost.
It’s both RAM and storage price. A 2TB NVMe cost upward of 300$ CAD.
Because almost every game has timegated content nowadays so that studios can try to milk their playerbase more.
So now, multiplayer games feel like a chore if you want to access the cool event.
They will sell it to another big studio that will milk it dry
You have a good employer if he can recognize that your work in IT has added value
The IT Paradox :
Great, then I will probably switch to that then.
VC money is the end of the product. The enshittification has started and will never stop.
I am testing out Syncthing right now and will switch to an offline password manager
Can keepass store files?
That is way above my database knowledge. I will need to read up on that.
Thanks for the input
You say it’s easier to back up tightly coupled services and databases, but why?
Because it is set and forget in my docker compose. I can backup the container and bring it down without affecting other services.
But that is my inexperience talking and this is is why I wanted to see what other people were doing, and having perspective like yours to learn.
That’s a good perspective.
Also I hate docker in general. I understand why people use it. It’s the same reason I use it.
I am the same. But many services offer docker as the main installation method and many times, the bare metal method is poorly documented.
So docker it is. And it’s a good skill to have no matter what since it is so widespread.
I never thought about the issues of setting a docker service with an external database. I don’t mind dealing with the users and tables of a database, but having to dig deep in docker compose settings is always a bad time.
And since the value is low, small claims Courts are specifically made for that.
I bought some low capacity SSD for 20$ each to install Proxmox and Proxmox Backup Server and was lucky that they both had only roughly 800 hours only, so that at least worked out for me
Fun story:
I restarted playing volleyball after more than 10 years of not playing.
The reflexes were kinda still there (i’m getting old so I am slower), but the muscles weren’t.
First block I do, I hurt my shoulders stabilisators. They still hurt to this day, but I never really stopped to recover until now.
So they might remember, but they need time to reactivate and become strong again haha
Curious is a word associated to Charlie Kirk forever for me.
Tales as old as KPI.