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  • Or adding microtransactions to a single player game.

    Or considering any franchise with an entry that has lost money dead and gone, as if it didn’t still sell millions. Like, just budget the next one to fit the demand?

    Or their total allergy to doing anything actually new. They keep shedding IPs yet only ever back existing franchises.

    Or spending almost as much on marketing as development, as if you can just force people to be interested in a sequel for a game they didn’t play or a genre they don’t enjoy.

    I don’t know how Squenix games can be so full of developer passion with execs this braindead.

    And what the fuck does 3D Investment mean their publishing is a loss? NO SHIT. THAT’S HOW YOU FIND THE NEW FRANCHISES.

    VCs, as shitty as they are, at least get that backing 30 small projects makes sense because that improves your chances of being on board with the one that blows up big enough to pay for the rest.


  • 3D Investment blames this on the underperformance of Square Enix’s console and mobile game sectors

    No.

    as well as exceptionally large write-downs related to cancelled games.

    Yes.

    Interestingly, they also consider the company’s arcade and publishing sectors to be “non-synergistic” businesses that are ultimately pulling down the company’s value with lackluster performance.

    Fuck no.

    Squenix’s problem is that they keep going too big. They are trying to be a Sony or Nintendo, when they’re really more of a Devolver. They have franchises with big fanbases, but they’re trying to force their games to become COD levels of HUGE by just increasing the budget. And when the return doesn’t keep up with investment, they keep missing the point.

    It happened with Tomb Raider. It happened with Deus Ex. And it’s happening with Final Fantasy. The games do have passionate fans, but they simply aren’t for everyone. And that’s not a bad thing.

    What Squenix refuses to accept, is that they’ve hit a growth ceiling they can’t break through by spending more. But instead of growing wider by diversifying with new IPs or more titles at more reasonable budgets, they keep trying to focus on their latest big thing and grow it taller and heavier than it can support.


  • Then my first assumption is that the session token is not being correctly stored in kwallet. It can’t restore the session after kwallet is closed.

    You can open kwallet manager, and delete the wallet. This will prompt your system to re-create it next time you go to use something that needs it (wifi, nextcloud).

    This will allow you to essentially reset the default wallet.

    The typical settings for it are “blowfish” encryption with either a blank password (which encrypts nothing, but allows the wallet to always open reliably) or using the same password as your user (which allows the wallet to decrypt automatically upon login).

    Another user also commented with useful links, the arch wiki page on kwallet is also potentially useful.


  • In that case, something is invalidating the login. Are you sure that it is happening due to leaving your LAN, and not just coinciding with that?

    Does restarting the laptop log you out, or temporarily disconnecting from the internet? Could you test by switching to a wifi hotspot on your phone, and switching back, for example?

    The client stores your session token in the OS credentials manager (kwallet for linux kde, for example) and the issue can lie there, as well.










  • I enjoyed Vivaldi for a bit.

    But the second time I opened it to find my tabs, browsing history, and literally all other user data, gone… Months apart, with thousands of saved bookmarks and hundreds of tabs lost each time.

    I never went back. Deleting everything is just completely unacceptable.

    I never found anyone else who’d had it happen, but twice was a pattern I didn’t care to repeat.




  • I also need to work out how to do automatic certificate renewal and if that’s even worth doing

    This is what certbot is for. For example, with nginx, you just set up the webserver to be reachable via your domain.

    You then install and run certbot, and it will aquire, install and configure, and then set itself up to auto-renew, a certificate. All with just one command.

    With Nextcloud specifically I also don’t like the fact that you can’t change the domain after the initial setup

    Yes you can?

    I’ve done it thrice now.

    Is this some limitation of the docker AIO stack?




  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyztoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldDo I need a NAS ?
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    No sane NAS should work that way.

    Unless you have a giant raid array, where you need all the drives running at the same time on the same system, plugging in a single raid 1 member, for example, via usb to sata adapter, should let you access its contents just fine.

    Provided you’re on an OS that can read the file system. That can require some extra effort on windows.

    But yeah. Beware of the pre-built NASes. The vendor lock-in is real.