I'm curious others thoughts on when (or perhaps if) this supply issue with chips and GPUs comes to an end. I have to think it will at some point, but I don't follow PC stuff much.
Reasoning is I'm trying to solve a dilemma. I was about to sell off my old Radeon card, I only replaced it because the fan was noisy. I fixed the fan, then got distracted and let it sit in a drawer. Now I'm in drawer clean out phase. So I put it in my PC to test it. The thing is, it is still more than enough graphics card for me and I've got a friend offering me $100 more than I paid for my GTX 1660 in December 2019. I think they are fucking insane myself (it's not even a good card), but the prices check out when I look online.
So, I'm thinking about selling it, because I'm pretty much only a couch/TV/console gamer. I may convert to PC and build a totally new HTPC when my Xbox wears out it's welcome, but we are talking 2023-ish. I can't imagine I'd even want a GTX 1660 in 2023. Do we think it will still be impossible to get hardware by then?
I don't do much PC gaming, and I generally buy on GOG so I don't have to deal with these screwy launcher spy apps running on my computer for DRM. Well, I wanted to check out Hades so I installed Steam again and bought/downloaded it. This morning for the second time it's screwed up my save files.
I played Thursday night for a bit, 3 escape attempts I think. When I was done and exited I went through the main menu and saw it had the new save data there as the number of attempts was correct. Totally exited game, haven't touched Steam or anything since, I had totally rebooted into Linux partition even.
Today, I decide to play some more, and my data is back to as if I never played Thursday. I dug around some in the folders and found the save files and they are from Jan 2. WTF?! I am at a loss. They aren't corrupted, missing, or anything of the sort--they are just straight up different.
Any of you had something like that happen?
I'm continuing my push away from big tech and want to upgrade my storage and backup solution so I'm not using their "free" cloud stuff or at least not reliant on it.
Requirements:
- Remote/mobile access: meaning I still want features like if I pic/screenshot on my phone it uploads it to the NAS like I do with a cloud now.
- Caveat to remote access: not reliant on third-party servers (excl. a dynamic DNS service)
- Automatic offsite backup -- I'm fine with it backing up to a hostile service, as long as it's encrypted and I control the keys
Bonuses:
- Plex Media Server support
- Dual hard drives: I'm not convinced this actually buys me much particularly with an offsite backup, but it lets me get more space on the cheap too.
- The more configuration the better, but I don't want to have to build a "server" from the ground up either for this.
Synology seems to be the closest I can come up with, but I'd love to save some money and/or learn more, so I figured I'd ask. There seem to be people here who would have experience with these things.