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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I have a slightly different setup personally! I am actually happily running a Windows Pro server.

    For my Drivepool redundant storage, I am utilizing a cool tool I came across years ago called https://stablebit.com/DrivePool and I’ve been really happy with it!

    I RDP into my server a lot for coding projects, and misc things, almost like a secondary computer. Additionally, I enjoy being able to Steam stream several games from it to my phone or laptop on the go. A surprising number of games are playable in this fashion.

    Outside of that, I do selfhost multiple serices:

    • Plex, I actually heavily use it as a self-hosted Youtube alternative by leveraging yt-dlp and some personal tooling I wrote that collates downloaded youtube channels into Collections within my Plex (No ads!) – Shameless plug tomy tool - https://github.com/KJBurnett/plex-youtube-channel-collections
    • Rocket.Chat for chatting with my close friends
    • code-server - a self-hosted vscode environment. You can literally code on an iPad with the capability and power of a Ryzen 7 behind it. Very cool and fun.
    • gitlab (although it seems fairly heavy for my needs, unsure.)
    • Overseerr - Movie/tv show requesting web app tied into my Plex
    • airsonic - Plex also does music but sometimes it seems to be pretty resource heavy. I run Plex with Plexamp simultaneously with airsonic for the service redundancy currently.

  • My advice would be to pick the GAME first, then, depending the type of the game, that decides your device. I personally own a Miyoo Mini (not the + model) and it is a very cool albeit tiny device, I can’t see myself doing precision controls on it, such as street fighter. And games like Shining Force are just a little bit too small for the screen, I’m currently running Chrono Trigger and Fire Emblem on it though, which I think is perfect and “casual” enough for its size.

    I find the Steam Deck the best choice for when I want to run Gamecube or N64 Emulation, owning the steam deck has allowed me to cut the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion because why pay for a subscription of N64 games when you can play them on the Steam deck? :)

    Lastly, you actually have more options! EmuDeck recently came out with cloud-based save states. Your Steam Deck and Miyoo Mini + both are wifi enabled and could take advantage of that!

    https://www.andrewbaker.uk/tutorial/emudeck-cloud-sync/

    https://www.emudeck.com/