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Anon is a nostalgic gamer
  • When is "back then" for you?

    I played counter-strike during the beta days and team fortress when it was "classic" not "2"

    I definitely had a handful of favourite servers (1-2 favourites, 2-3 backups) that I would play on and knew the regulars like an old country pub.

    Now things are set up so that it's almost impossible to develop relationships with random folks online. Not just matchmaking but also more closed-off (hard to discover) groups on Discord etc..

    CS1.6 and TFC was the golden age of online gaming and it's been downhill since then. Literally nothing has been improved upon and the community has become immeasurably more toxic.

    We've lost IRC and dedicated servers and replaced it with matchmaking and Discord. Both objectively worse.

  • In the 1980s perfect strangers drove you places.
  • I think your experiences are clouding your judgement. Just because you grew up then doesn't mean you have knowledge of everyone who grew up then, nor on everyone growing up now.

    I am not much younger than you and I distinctly recall parents and police responding to several incidents. But same deal, just because i saw it doesn't make it universally true.

  • Why self host a password manager?

    I'm going to move away from lastpass because the user experience is pretty fucking shit. I was going to look at 1pass as I use it a lot at work and so know it. However I have heard a lot of praise for BitWarden and VaultWarden on here and so probably going to try them out first.

    My questions are to those of you who self-host, firstly: why?

    And how do you mitigate the risk of your internet going down at home and blocking your access while away?

    BitWarden's paid tier is only $10 a year which I'm happy to pay to support a decent service, but im curious about the benefits of the above. I already run syncthing on a pi so adding a password manager wouldn't need any additional hardware.

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