Yeah I feel this even as a millennial. The tech we grew up with was exciting, constantly improving, generally not exploiting us, always getting cheaper. For gen z they’ve grown up when tech was abundant but always getting worse, more expensive and more exploitative.
Probably beating a dead horse here on Lemmy, but Linux genuinely gave me the joy of tech back. I spent about two hours last night setting up a VM running a headless factorio server, and every minute was fun… Well, maybe not fun, but engaging at least. I ran into like 2 hoops I had to jump through, had to tinker with my router settings, and had to modify some config files using a text editor in the console, and of course the directions were wrong/incomplete, so I had to do a little bit of reading to see exactly what needed to be done. Now I have a server for my friends and I to play on, I learned some new things, and I got more confident with some other things.
Also, if anyone is curious, dual core and 8GB RAM is absolutely overkill for a Factorio server VM. I’m using like 2GB max, and ~5% of a single processor under “load”.
I really appreciate even just not having the feeling that whatever current problem is caused by greed of the company I gave a bunch of money to for the most important bit of software. And not asking no one the rhetorical question of who fucking owns my PC anyways, me or MS. Even if I had to refund one game that looked really fun (logistical iirc, or something along those lines wanted some msvc or .net dll and I gave up before I got it, though others on protondb mentioned getting it running).
But, the multiplayer server finder still has tons of servers listed.
I was thinking about advertising mine there so my friends wouldn’t need my direct IP to connect (and also, I don’t have a static IP at home, so it would take care of some possible recurring IP issues).
Yeah I feel this even as a millennial. The tech we grew up with was exciting, constantly improving, generally not exploiting us, always getting cheaper. For gen z they’ve grown up when tech was abundant but always getting worse, more expensive and more exploitative.
Probably beating a dead horse here on Lemmy, but Linux genuinely gave me the joy of tech back. I spent about two hours last night setting up a VM running a headless factorio server, and every minute was fun… Well, maybe not fun, but engaging at least. I ran into like 2 hoops I had to jump through, had to tinker with my router settings, and had to modify some config files using a text editor in the console, and of course the directions were wrong/incomplete, so I had to do a little bit of reading to see exactly what needed to be done. Now I have a server for my friends and I to play on, I learned some new things, and I got more confident with some other things.
Also, if anyone is curious, dual core and 8GB RAM is absolutely overkill for a Factorio server VM. I’m using like 2GB max, and ~5% of a single processor under “load”.
I really appreciate even just not having the feeling that whatever current problem is caused by greed of the company I gave a bunch of money to for the most important bit of software. And not asking no one the rhetorical question of who fucking owns my PC anyways, me or MS. Even if I had to refund one game that looked really fun (logistical iirc, or something along those lines wanted some msvc or .net dll and I gave up before I got it, though others on protondb mentioned getting it running).
where does one join such server , maybe I’ll save it if I ever come back to factorio
Private server, sorry.
But, the multiplayer server finder still has tons of servers listed.
I was thinking about advertising mine there so my friends wouldn’t need my direct IP to connect (and also, I don’t have a static IP at home, so it would take care of some possible recurring IP issues).