I was planning on getting one, but I decided not to. I don’t use my steamdeck often (only on trips) and I’m more interested in SteamDeck 2 that’s a much bigger upgrade. I’d really love OLED and the battery life improvements, but it’s not a big enough upgrade to justify losing $300 on my current one.

The latest version isn’t always the best version. In a home lab or home network, this is rarely a big problem, but in a production environment, I wouldn’t recommend it.

As much as I rarely use my steamdeck (I only use it when I am on a trip), I am so thankful it exists. It is probably the biggest thing for Linux in ages. At least for desktop/gaming Linux.

Without even looking, yes. If it is on the Internet, it is being attacked.

No. I rarely use my steam deck, only when traveling so I am fine. I use my pc when I game 99% of the time. Not worth the loss in value trying to make the switch as it isn’t a daily driver for me.

0.13 would save me a lot of money

If you want to protect data on your local network (and you should) you will want a reverse proxy to allow you to use SSL on all your services. A reverse proxy allows you to easily implement SSL on apps that are only exposed as HTTP (unencrypted).

I remember the problem I was having, I was constantly getting complaints from Google throttling me and asking for captcha. Do you get this?

this is a better solution

I have been happy with NordVPN. It is able to give me nearly 100% of my 1.5Gbps connection, and with almost no latency difference I’m able to game without turning it off.

I tried SearxNG a while ago, but I had a lot of problems. You having good luck with it?