Honestly, I agree, unless steam aggressively enshittifies themselves, I dont see any rivals catching up either. They are so far ahead, and so far, haven’t started screwing their customers.

And gog selling out to climb doesn’t really solve anything.

Isn’t steam responsible for match making only, and the actual game company is responsible for the servers? Are you sure its not the game servers?

Either way, that would be very frustrating if its happening mid round.

Whichever gaming store I buy into, I am going to spend thousands on games. I need to be able to trust that they’ll still exist in the future.

I trust (whether correctly or not) gaben more than sweeney.

Of course, the smart thing to do is buy from GOG and keep the games backed up yourself, but failing that, steam is the next most reliable store front.

This all boils down to a personal opinion though.

Your not wrong, but I just dont get the feeling that epic is going to transition towards actually being a competitive store. This is entirely my own myopic gut feel, not based on any facts.

My dislike of epic is that they seem to be buying their way into competing, instead of actually competing on features.

Free games sounds good now, but what happens when the fortnite gravy train runs out, and epic needs to start making a profit? They’ll likely have to enshittify fast.

Steam at least has a solid history of being generally good. But who knows what will happen if Gaben ever ascends.

Does steam really have frequent multiplayer downtime issues? I’ve never notice any issues, but I don’t play a lot of multiplayer anymore.

Up-to-date runtimes definitely makes sense, that is where docker shines.

Gitlab is obviously a bit overkill, but maybe you could just create some systemd timers and some scripts to auto-pull, build and deploy?

The script would boil down to:

cd src
git pull
docker compose down
docker compose up --build

Your welcome to steal whatever you can from the repo I linked before.

Its definitely not a lightweight solution. Is the pi dedicated to the application? If so, is it even worth involving docker?

The alley was probably nice and quiet, he could focus on his game.

Yeah, probably, but thats not very common is it? Normally you’d just let the docker daemon handle the start/stop etc?

For such a terrible language, it really has staying power…

Afaik, systemd has nothing to do with docker, except to start the docker daemon.

I think I have done almost exactly what you want to do, I use gitlab CI to build and deploy my application:

https://github.com/cameroncros/discordshim_rs/blob/main/.gitlab-ci.yml

Gitlab is relatively heavy, so I dont know how it will go on a raspi (I run on a Intel nuc). You can run gitlab on a separate machine, and the CI runner on your Pi.

I am also not a JS dev, we possibly aren’t brain damaged enough to understand the perfection.

Its not meant for the commoners.

But just imagine, as you replace your windows for the 4th time that month, you gaze off into the distance and see another majestic bird cruising over the horizon. You let your mind wonder, imagining what it must be like for those elites, saving a whole 2 hours. That 2 hours of pure luxury and decadence. You can only dream of one day getting to take part. Its so moving, you feel compelled to stand at attention, and salute the gilded missile, a tear rolling down your face…

BOOM, SMASH.

Better go get a new panel of glass.

That is not a fun fact. How do I unsubscribe :D

Math.min() == Infinity
Math.max() == -Infinity

Wtf is going on JS…

edit: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Math/min

Its the min value of the input params, or Infinity.

I meant physically squish it, I tried to take a photo of a praying mantis with a 22mm lens, was so fixated on getting close enough I nearly crushed the poor thing. Fortunately the lens hood hit the wall first.

The upside of the telephoto lens is that your less likely to get too close and either scare it off, or for very wide lens, squish it

She could be on testosterone and own a razor. 5 hours spent shaving her monobrow to look good for a 5m fight is time well spent.

Does your button and light have high availability and regular backups and restores? If not, better keep engineering!