Analogue likely doesn’t emulate the hardware at the transistor level, as it’s far more difficult than doing what most software emulators do.

From an interesting (altough non-conclusive) HN-thread [1].

Without seeing the code, it’s impossible to know where Analog’s implementation falls on the spectrum of software emulation vs hardware simulation. There is nothing magical about FPGAs that automatically makes anything developed with them a 1:1 representation of real hardware. In fact, there are plenty of instances where the FPGA version of a particular console is literally just a representation of a popular emulator only in verilog/vhdl. In many instances, even the best FPGA implementations of some systems are still only simulating system level behavior. Off the top of my head, one famously difficult case is audio, where many chips have analog circuitry that cannot be fully simulated.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37901381

FreeTube does not have controller support, and for AndroidTV I’d recommend SmartTube.

Kodi/LibreELEC is able to do all of it, but IMO it’s not a good experience for browsing YouTube and I don’t know how well the third party Steam Link integrations work.

This is why I’d also recommend LineageOS Android TV, which supports Pi’s thanks to konstakang. But I’m not sure why it’d work better than a FireTV stick, since both run AndroidTV.

Edit: I’ve had an issue where the Pi 5 wouldn’t boot AndroidTV, until I tried to turn it on again after a few weeks. So I’d recommend sticking with the FireTV + SmartTube + Jellyfin + Steam Link (unless you’ve got a Pi 5 lying around anyway).

Edit 2: The Pi 5 + Android TV had issues with HDMI-CEC of the TV, so I had to buy a remote with a USB adapter. This sends the wrong signals (e.g. keyboard enter, not what Android TV expects), which is fixable with some app remapper. Maybe it’ll work better for you, but the FireTV is likely the easier solution.

Yes.

If VPN’s actually won’t be able to protect its users from copyright claims anymore, there’ll still be anonymisation networks like I2P (at least so long as encryption isn’t banned).

Yes, it’s slow atm, but if it was included in more torrent clients and enabled by default, speeds would likely get better.

Because they use the official apps/web-vault, they don’t need to implement most of the vault/encryption features, so at least the actual data should be fine.

Security audits are expensive, so I don’t expect it to happen, unless some sponsor pays for it.

They have processes for CVEs and it seems like there wasn’t any major security issues (altough I wouldn’t host a public instance for unknown users).

Vaultwarden is one of the few services I’d actually trust to be secure, so I wouldn’t worry if you update timely to new versions.

Yes, Bitwarden browser plugins require TLS, so I use DNS challenge to get a cert without an open port 80/443.

The domain points to a local IP, so I can’t access it without the VPN.

Having everything behind a reverse proxy makes it much easier to know which services are open, and I only need to open port 80/443 on my servers firewall.

Fully agreed.

Accessing Vaultwarden through a VPN gives me peace of mind that it can’t be attacked.

Another great thing about Bitwarden is that it’s possible to export locally cached passwords to (encrypted) json/csv. This makes recovery possible even if all backups were gone.

Great to hear you found my comment helpful.

Just make sure you make backups regularly. Especially with used drives, I wouldn’t count on them surviving the stress of a rebuild. If a second drive fails in a RAID10, all data might be gone.

Edit: I’d be thankful if you could report back how the test goes. I need a drive for a backup ;) and I’m considering buying from eBay too.

I will test them upon receiving and see how it goes from there:)

I don’t know where exactly you live, but if your in the EU customs/taxes + shipping will make the deal worse, but better than expected.

E.g. for Germany, this drive would cost 382€ with UPS Saver Duties & Taxes included, instead of 273€ for the drive itself.

I’ve found the same drive with a local commercial eBay seller for 420€, including taxes and shipping.

A new 24TB drive would cost 485€.

Edit: IMO a better deal would be 22TB drives, which have the same price per TB but are new. But then again, their used/recertified price is also ~10% lower than new.

Why LVM + BTRFS instead of only using btrfs? Unless you need RAID 5/6, which doesn’t work well on btrfs.

This does not apply to difficult projects like emulators.

E.g. suyu, a yuzu fork, does not seem to get much development. Most of the changes are build or documentation related. [1]

Those emulators will work fine for the currently supported games, but without new competent people trying to stay anonymous, I don’t see how these emulators will improve.

[1] https://git.suyu.dev/suyu/suyu/commits/branch/dev

Nintendo didn’t put legal pressure on emulator devs for decades at this point, which made devs less cautious about preserving their pseudonymity.

Now it’s too late and they can’t stop Nintendo from finding out who they are and which mistakes they did at some point over the years.

Maybe a new generation of emulator developers will be more protective of their identity, by using hosting providers like Njalla or privacy networks like i2p. The latter would limit access (as it requires i2p), which isn’t desirable for most users.

Blocking incoming traffic and accepting outgoing traffic is usually the default for distributions anyway.

I’m not the creator of the survey, but I’ve just send them the link to this discussion on Mastodon, so they can take the feedback into account.

There’s an issue with posts about which games work and which don’t.

https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/issues/311

Thanks for the correction. It’s a shame that sysadmins balcklist middle nodes too, since they won’t see any TOR traffic originating from your IP address anyway.

Make sure to not refresh the page, else it seems like all progress is lost.
I found out simultaneously that I enabled pull down to refresh the page in Firefox Android.

Edit: The survey wasn’t created by me, I just shared it.

There’s different types of relay, including exit relays, which are the legally problematic type. Middle, guard, and bridge relays don’t face the same issues with law enforcement and IP blocking.

I disagree with the notion that it’s better for the cheaters to have an easier time (and less chance of being detected), but you’re right, BattleEye doesn’t solve the cheating problem for GTA.

Rockstar should fix their netcode and run game server on dedicated server, instead of their customers PC’s. I’d think decting aimbot isn’t the biggest issue, while cheaters are able to break entire lobbies…

IMO no game should require client side anti cheat except for shooters, where looking through walls and aimbot is actually difficult to detect server side. At least for those is it possible to find valid arguments (except for being lazy).