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For a single file, I just use Bluetooth. For a lot of files, or a really big file, I plug my phone into the PC and set it to storage device.

Almost 3TB this month.

Most of that was from downloading Stalker 2 and the updates for it, though. Game was fucking huge and a couple of the updates were as big as the whole ass game.

After 3 upgrades since the game came out, I can get a pretty consistent 40fps in Arma 3. 😤

As more of an outside observer here:

When I was still using Reddit, it looked like most people in that community were just running personal home media servers using basic as fuck raspberry pi setups or just old hardware that could handle it, like maybe a modded Xbox or something.

Here on Lemmy, it looks more like you’re all actual networking specialists hosting damn near everything from home automation to business-level server systems for your home business. You guys are serious; Reddit isn’t. Respect.

A bit of both. It really depends on the game. Some games are super simple, just launch an executable and hand out the IP. Others are needlessly complicated or just horribly coded. My example game is just an absolute mess all around even just as a player; running a server is no different. And since the actual game is all user-made, sometimes the problem is the server software, and sometimes it’s how the mission you’re running was coded. Sometimes it’s both.

For my local media server? Practically none. Maybe restart the system once a month if it starts getting slow. Clear the cache, etc.

When I hosted game servers: Depending on the game, you may have to fix something every few hours. Arma 3 is, by far, the worst. Which really sucks because the games can last really long, and it can be annoying to save and load with the GM tool thing.

I don’t do anything that warrants it, but if I did have sensitive data that I was worried about being stolen, those drives would be in a system completely cut off from the Internet to prevent remote theft, and encrypted in the event of a physical theft. If I was especially paranoid, I’d booby trap the drives to wipe themselves if they are tampered with.

Nothing aside from losing any traffic if people don’t know the IP address directly to the server. All a domain does is redirect traffic to the website with an easy to remember name.

I still use Keep. That have yet to fuck it up, but I’m sure they will eventually. Just like every god damn thing they do.

Who are these people that are smarter than us? Do you know them? What are their qualifications?

“Have you poured through the data yourself? The numbers? The figures?”

I was on Lemmy for a month before I realized this was a community about hosting servers, and not the Lemmy equivalent of a self.post from Reddit. 🤦‍♂️

Being aware you’re buying a TV is probably a good idea. It will, at the very least, avoid later confusion when you have a new TV but don’t know where it came from and are also missing the exact amount of money a new TV cost.

I use Remote Desktop, BitTorrent, and play games, so I need some things open for that. I used to be super paranoid about hackers and viruses and shit like that, but it’s not like those things are looking for regular, everyday users and even if they did get in my system, I don’t keep anything important on my computer so I can just wipe it all out and reinstall everything.

I used No-IP for this very thing many years ago (using a domain on a server with a dynamic IP, anyway). I don’t know how it is now, but a quick search shows it is still around.

The only thing I would remotely be interested in for the purposes of what Steam does, but on a decentralized platform, is having multiple backups in case of server outages.

Ideally, I don’t want a service like Steam at all. I just like having an off-site backup to my games. I also don’t really want to have “crack pipe download” be in my search history.

I have to be careful and ration my bean memes.

Isn’t selfhosted started by the same dude that started lemmy.world? Meaning it really is selfhosted? 🤔