Just a lvl 29 guy from Finland. Full-stack web developer, Scrum Master and a team facilitator by trade, but actually more into server-side programming, networking, and sysadmin stuff.
During the summer, I love trekking, camping and other hiking adventures. Also somewhat of an avgeek and a huge Lego fanatic.
A furry or something. Why be yourself when you can be a fluffy raccoon on the internet?
I’ve been wanting to replace my Oculus Quest 2 for quite some time but there hasn’t really been viable options for PCVR in the recent years if you didn’t want to break the bank or support Meta/Facebook. Not saying Frame is cheap by any means but it’s cheaper than Bigscreen Beyond, for example. I think that explains some of the fomo.
But if you have 2k disposable, then there are so many better options available than throwing it at a scalper. That’s what doesn’t make sense to me.
That’s the thing, Valve made it so there’s no way to guarantee you’ll get it before anyone else. A spot in the reservation queue only guarantees that you’ll get a Frame from the first production batch, but the order within the queue is randomized and not known. The first orders will start shipping next week, but personally I predict it’ll take weeks at minimum before everyone in the queue even gets the option to pay, let alone actually have their orders shipped. So you could pay a scalper 2k and still be the last person in the reservation queue to get the device (or don’t get it at all, if the seller turns out to be a scammer…)
It makes a bit more sense if you didn’t make it into the reservation queue in the initial lottery and were waitlisted instead. That probably means you won’t be getting a Frame from Valve within this year. But I still wouldn’t pay double the price just to move from one queue to another.
I understand wanting to get your hands on a Frame as soon as possible, but who in their right mind would pay double the price, especially considering that Valve’s own price isn’t exactly cheap? And it’s even worse that these listings are just for spots in the reservation queue. It could still take weeks or months until the spot turns into a chance to purchase, and there’s no way of knowing how long it will take beforehand. So you would be paying 1k extra for nothing basically.
I run Debian on my homelab and manage Ubuntu Servers at work. I haven’t seen any practical differences between the two. Sometimes you might get a bit newer version of something from the Ubuntu repositories than from the Debian ones but not even once has that been an issue and most of stuff I use come from 3rd party repositories anyway.
It works great when you log in as a user like you normally would on a Windows pc. But on a server you want it to run as a service, starting automatically in the background and/or being managed by the failover cluster without requiring a user to log in.
The solution back then was to use netplwiz autologon. Obviously a hack and bad for security, but fine for a homelab. After googling it now, it looks like some other “solutions” are documented in the GitHub issue about this.
Asking out of curiosity: is there a specific reason you’re running Windows on your server? I used to do the same on my home servers because that’s what we used to have at work, and I wanted to learn and test some stuff. But it was a difficult road, to put it mildly. Simple things, like getting Docker autostart on boot seemed almost impossible. At some point I just gave up and switched to Linux.
I’ve been using ldns.pl since I saw a post about it here in Lemmy a year ago or so. Zero problems so far.