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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • That’s pretty dependant on hardware. If you host small stuff , like a pihole or something, that can be done relatively cheaply, by using a micro-PC or a Raspberry Pi. Some services don’t need to be always-on either, you only need stuff all the time if it’s mission-critical, otherwise you can turn stuff on and off as necessary, for power-saving purposes. Self-hosting doesn’t necessitate a huge rack and switches, or even your big gaming rig, my favorite thing to do with old laptops is throw Debian on it and find something I’d like to self-hosting from this list.








  • It’s got it’s own dependency manager, and GOG is one of the pre-configured applications in the Gaming section, so it makes sure that everything needed to run GOG is there. I’ve never used winetricks/protontricks on their own, but I think the main difference is the sandboxed nature, the devs recommend installing Bottles as a flatpak, and then it makes it’s own prefixes within that environment. They also recommend making new bottles for each application, so like if you also wanted EGS or the EA store, you’d make new bottles for each of those rather than keeping them all under one “gaming” profile, for example. Here’s docs if you’re a reader like me: