Engie, Gunner, Scout (with single-target focused loadouts) do tend to perform best in dreadnought missions. Driller plays more of a support role, but can do decent chip damage and make pathways to ensure cover for teammates. There are also tactical support strategies such as fully freezing dreadnoughts while weak points are up and having a teammate do a massive burst of damage.

You can build single-target damage builds as driller with overclocks and they will work decently well, with the caveat that the weapons used for the build will lose a lot of their normal utility.

How locked down are the Chromebooks?

Remote VM seems overkill if you can just enable “Linux for Chromebook”, which gives a sandboxed terminal at which point you can setup and install software like Blender, PrusaSlicer, etc.

It won’t be the fastest because they are thin clients, but even modern thin clients do decently for ‘light’ work.

I went ahead and made a few small edits to hopefully better explain things for most desktop environments if anyone else stumbles upon this thread.

Scrolling through their Discord, that particular mod doesn’t work on the latest version of the game as it’s long out of date. You aren’t likely to find another client or server that is hosting it with it actually working. Checking the mod listing page, it just claims untested on latest version.

Unfortunately a lot of the more useful information for the RaftModding ecosystem is all gated behind Discord.

I had written about this in their Discord in a thread:

using this shim script I made, do the following:

1. Install Raft with Proton 9.0-# prefix
2. Place the shim file into the game directory
3. Mark the shim as executable
4. Set Steam launch options to: WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winhttp.dll=n,b" ./shim %command%
5. Launch Raft once
6. Place RMLLauncher.exe into Raft game directory
7. Look for a plaintext target file that should be created in the raft directory
8. Copy the location of the RMLLauncher.exe (exact folder and filename) (right click > Copy Location in KDE / Steam Deck desktop mode)
9. Paste this location into the target file and save
10. Launch Raft
11. Go through RMLLauncher first-time steps
12. Press Play
13. Stop the game and add mods into Raft mods folder
14. Launch the game and load the mods in-game
15. Play Raft modded through Proton

(Instructions adapted from both mine and Discord user YumiChi’s)

This method doesn’t require custom installations, messing with bottles, nor wine runtimes other than Proton.

• Git
• (Less so now that it’s preinstalled in Windows) OpenSSH
• Using the file manager (dual pane support in dolphin, most have tabs built-in, renaming files in dolphin with large directories doesn’t jump the view position around)
• tabbing out of exclusive fullscreen applications
• installing and updating most applications
• installing the OS
• using AMD, Intel Graphics (somewhat less awful if drivers actually autoinstall in Windows)
• Not getting screen tearing in games

If you’re running an email server for more than a handful of persistent users, I’d probably agree. However, there are self-host solutions that do a decent job of being ‘all-in-one’ (MailU, Mailcow, Docker-Mailserver) that can help perform a lot of input filtering.

If your small org just needs automation emails (summaries, password resets), it’s definitely feasible to do actually, as long as you have port 25 available in addition to 465, 587 and you can assign PTR records on reverse DNS. Optionally you should use a common TLD for your domain as it will be less likely to be flagged via SpamAssassin. MXToolbox and Mail-Tester together offer free services to help test the reliability of your email functionality.

I’m currently going through a similar situation at the moment (OPNSense firewall, Traefik reverse proxy). For my solution, I’m going to be trial running the Crowdsec bouncer as a Traefik middleware, but that shouldn’t discourage you from using Fail2Ban.

Fail2Ban: you set policies (or use presets) to tempban IPs that match certain heuristic or basic checks.

Crowdsec Bouncer: does fail2ban checks if allowed. Sends anonymous bad behavior reports to their servers and will also ban/captcha check IPs that are found in the aggregate list of current bad actors. Claims to be able to perform more advanced behavior checks and blacklists locally.

If you can help it, I don’t necessarily recommend having OPNSense apply the firewall rules via API access from your server. It is technically a vulnerability vector unless you can only allow for creating a certain subset of deny rules. The solution you choose probably shouldn’t be allowed to create allow rules on WAN for instance. In most cases, let the reverse proxy perform the traffic filtering if possible.

It doesn’t.

The game was under exclusivity contract for Epic Games, but they were still allowed to sell copies of the game on their own website. Now that the contract is up, the game can be sold on Steam. Granting players who bought the game from the website free Steam keys is a nice touch.

Ocis/OpenCloud can integrate with Collabora, OnlyOffice but don’t currently have things like CalDAV, CardDAV, E2EE, Forms, Kanban boards, or other extensible features installable as plugins in Nextcloud.

If you desire a snappy and responsive cloud storage experience and don’t particularly need those things integrated into your cloud storage service, then Ocis or OpenCloud might be something to look into.

Given the Linux initramfs targets a block device as a file that then gets mounted as the persistent root filesystem, I don’t think it would really be possible to unmount / and replace the location with a file. Root isn’t represented as a file or directory in any filesystem structure and is a construct of many Unix and Unix-like kernels.

Under what means? The target is public sector and the OS to replace (Windows 10, Windows 11) would be a relatively compatible release target. Fedora is a competent leading edge (Wayland, Pipewire, BTRFS) distro that runs as a 6 month point release. I wouldn’t see many reasons to not go with Fedora Workstation as a base unless going for an immutable base or a different core distro (OpenSUSE or Debian mainly).

EDIT: Missed that this is going to be immutabe, so it is likely being based on Fedora Kinoite, meaning there really aren’t many alternatives besides OpenSUSE’s offerings.

Authentik has blueprints, which while not as simple as Authelia’s config, do provide a functional way to have version-controlled configuration.

Certainly a failure but at least it wouldn’t actually be as harmful as it reads, given / is a directory and the assumption you’re not root.

You’re not referring to this satire article by chance?

The explicit denial I saw is multi-genre, multi-artist in ID3 v2.4 I won’t be parsed.

EDIT: The source.

Rockbox will only pick up one of a tag (RIP Vorbis) and will only parse up to 500 bytes on higher end players, 240 bytes on other players of the grouped tag (RIP ID3 v2.4).

Rockbox unfortunately is built with “dinosaurs” in mind. As a side effect, the project does not intend to properly handle modern ID3, Vorbis tags.

I could use an older Android phone, but would have to find a suitable device to de-Google and load a custom music player app onto (such as Vinyl). Neither my Pixel XL nor Pixel 5a that I own currently are suitable targets (neither have microSD support, my Pixel XL has a damaged headphone jack and needs to be repaired). If you have any recommendations for something used that has a headphone jack, microSD slot, and can bootloader unlock via adb, let me know.

NMap through a terminal emulator like Termux?

Before buying anything to supplement your hotspot, it may be worth checking to see if your issues are even caused by poor signal strength. Depending on the cause, buying better antennae or a signal booster relay may not provide any tangible benefit. As you say you live in a rural area, your issues may be unsolvable by different hardware as your device may be throttled by your carrier instead.