Personally I would do this

Find an old laptop, desktop, any computer

Put proxmox on it. It's free and lightweight

Create a Plex LXC. Also free and lightweight. There are community scripts to do this.

You should get pretty good performance on Plex, you can manage the computer through a web browser and it only costs you whatever the cost of finding some hardware to put it on is

I had a surface book at work about a decade ago. Honestly if apple came out with something like that I would maybe consider it. But compared to an iPad this will just feel bulky. And compared to a MacBook does the touchscreen even add anything?

I've used partsavatar.ca a couple times, I used to compare their prices with rockauto and order whichever was cheaper. Generally rockauto is cheaper but then once you add the shipping they're about the same price.

The alternative would be a physical store like Napa, PartSource, Lordco or Auto Value but generally their parts are more expensive because they have a physical location to operate as well

I've been running LM Studio on Bazzite and I had to do nothing to get it working. Just go to the LM Studio website and download the .appimage for Linux. If you open it with Gear Lever it will install like an app from the app store and show up in your launcher with an icon.

From there I have just been able to download models and use them from in the app. In fact I setup a local server to connect to my IDE and have been trying out local models for coding. It's pretty cool

If you plan on gaming on atomic Fedora it is basically just that with everything already preconfigured. I chose it because it came with Nvidia drivers, codecs, a bunch of tweaks and gaming utilities preinstalled (protonqt, distrobox, lutris, etc)

You could install all of this on Fedora but IMO it's convenient to just have everything already configured for you if you were going to do it anyways

I also like that it is atomic. Builds on the same image tag guarantee an identical build, which completely fixes the "works on my machine" problem when helping my friends. Two users on the same release will never have mismatched shared libraries or rogue packages, everyone on the same tag has the exact same environment. Plus, it makes rolling back bad upgrades incredibly easy

I'll probably buy it for PC but they haven't even announced if they're making a PC port. The PC version of GTA 5 didn't come out until 2 years after the original release date and wasn't even based on the original version of the game. The PC port was based on the enhanced edition.

I wonder if by time the game launches for PC if there will even be an ultimate edition or if it will just all get rolled into an enhanced edition or something.

You should consider looking into fail2ban or Crowdsec.

I recently added Crowdsec to my firewall and it seems to work pretty well. I don't host any public facing services on my network. But maybe someone else with more experience can chime in about it. I believe both tools are pretty good for stopping bots

How many times did they "sunset" gear over the years?

4 or 5? I'm surprised they kept doing it with how much it seemed to alienate the player base every time

I've always thought the licensing for Jetbrains IDEs is a pretty fair way of licensing software. If you stop subscribing you still get access to the last version of the software you paid for but you don't get new versions anymore. And if you stay subscribed you get a loyalty discount after your first and second years. So it provides an incentive to stay subscribed long term but if you do leave you still get access perpetually to the last version you bought

Are they going to go back to calling it Cortana?

This sounds like it could've been a story about a featured build on CPU magazine. Maybe some cube shaped open air PC and how it was going to change the future of case design?

As far as things that are going to change everything performance wise maybe 3D caches? I could see there being promotional art of that with a blue cube showing how memory layers are stacked.

Windows 95 with the Microsoft Entertainment Pack