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[Naturegirl1999]

Dunno, I guess the bread just never came up

[TamerVirus]

Seems like it’s more of a UK type of thing

[itisnotlogical]

God, gamers are impatient nowadays. I remember leaving a demo downloading overnight--and checking it the next morning to find it still not done. Come home from school and somebody had inadvertantly closed it, or killed the connection, or nuked the entire computer by downloading a virus... Which would invariably be blamed on me.

Oh, you have to wait one hour for a game to install? Go watch a movie or something. I would have killed to have an entire game in one hour basically at any point before the present day.

[Reelya]

Yeah it's not like there's any shortage of other media to consume while waiting for something to happen. Even if you're dirt poor, if you getting video games at all then you have almost unlimited hours of content for free or nearly free available at any time.

If someone sits there staring at a loading bar for one hour, it's nobody else's fault, that person is an idiot. Rather than blaming the person that made the thing they're loading that person jut needs to examine where their life is at.

[wierd]

Word.

The typical gamer has what-- 3 to 4 whole game SYSTEMS just sitting around?  I am one of those filthy casuals, and I have

Wii-U (loaded with every emulator that can run on it)
Switch
Xbox 360
Xbox One
PC

just sitting there in my game lounge.  Also, I have my NAS configured to download all by itself.

Suppose I have Steam downloading something;  It can do the needful, I just flip the source selector on my surround sound head unit, and play something else while it does the thing.

[Reelya]

Haha, I'm pretty much a dinosaur as far as consoles go, and the stuff I got just while on unemployment includes: Nintendo DS, PS3, Android phone, Android tablet, 2 laptops, 3+ PCs. Pretty sure I could find something to do at any time.

[Kagus]

I've only got a PC (laptop), but I've also got music and a book.

...and I live right next door to my favorite pub, so there's that too.

[Frumple]

PC, tablet nowadays. Consoles got too expensive to justify, heh.

... but yeah, if I'm waiting for an install I just... read or something. If for some reason the net's down and I don't want to play a different game while I wait, I got a small library just plain ol' downloaded on this thing. Even without consistent internet we're pretty spoiled for choice these days so long as power and rig is steady.

[wierd]

I have been on a bit of a retro kick lately.  The Wii-U is a pretty solid little system, that was hacked wide open, just like its predecessor. (though the predecessor got more love from homebrew makers)

I have been in the process of getting it to run dosbox properly, and with loading up a huge dos games collection. 


Truth be told, I enjoy meddling and configuring stuff more than I enjoy actually playing things anymore. 

[Bumber]

How come you guys look at the rabbit and go "Oh, of course, easter." and not know about the bread?

The bunny. The bunny.
Whoa! I ate the bunny!
I didn't eat my soup or my bread, just the bunny!

[Imic]

Heh. I have a PC and an Xbox 369 both wired to the same screen that can’t be positioned close to the wifi, so I need to drag the physical PC across the floor with extension cables if I want any downloads to take less than half a year.

[wierd]

That's what a good remote controlled NAS is for.


It sits right next to your router, on a wired connection.  You either tell it to pull the file with wget over ssh, or (if it is one of those eeeeeevvviilll torrent files) I feed it to the built-in Transmission daemon, and let it handle things itself.

[Imic]

You vastly overestimate my budget.

[wierd]

You vastly overestimate my budget.

This listing is for a broken single bay MyCloud.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/WD-Western-Digital-3TB-My-Cloud-Personal-Network-Attached-Storage-NAS/223818962353?hash=item341ca655b1:g:YIYAAOSwooFeBmiF

The sticker on the bottom identifies it as a second gen single bay unit.  It is user-serviceable, if you have some savvy, and know what you are doing. The PCB inside is clearly still good; It gives a red indicator, as shown in the image.  That only happens when the system encounters a problem; If the PCB was hosed, it would not light.  This is most likely a bad drive inside.

Replacing the drive with a SATA drive of your choosing, then following the debrick procedure will land you a functional unit.

You can put whatever capacity sata drive in you damned well want.  If you have a 20TB drive, you can pop that in, and have a 20TB NAS. 

That particular NAS supports "user installed" applications, with some prodding.
https://community.wd.com/t/wd-mycloud-gen2-enable-apps-install-tab-apps/177885

One such package is a full debian chroot. (meaning you can get that NAS do to basically anything a small linux server should be capable of doing. This includes such things as running a minecraft server, etc...)


Cost is not a barrier if you know what you are doing, and can scoop up deals like that one, and turn trash into treasure.

[Imic]

Thank you, but I really amn’t tech savvy enough for that.