WTF you think happened in 2020? No one could leave their house, so video game went gang busters.
I worked at a video game retailer then, and it was the busiest we've ever been.
They were definitely worth the effort before if you were specifically going for the Mysterious Chests. Now those have been boosted in cost, it may be less worthwhile.
That being said, uniques can now drop from Helltide chests, and drop rates for non-Mysterious chests have been increased so it might be a zero-sum change.
Also want to call out the importance of 4-bay vs. 2-bay. With 2-bay you get 1-drive fault tolerance in RAID mode, which is nice. With 4-bay, you can still opt for 1-drive fault tolerance and with SHR you can have 4 drives active (of varying sizes) giving you much more available space and making the upgrade path of storage significantly easier.
I've been using this for around 8 months now on PC and Deck.
The only things I don't like about them are:
Would still definitely recommend though because you're basically getting an Xbox Elite controller for the price of a standard Xbox controller.
That's quite a few cameras. I would do an audit on how many you will actually need first, because you will likely find you could get by with 5-10.
In terms of what you'll need - any Intel chip that supports QuickSync will likely do for the main ffmpeg processing of the image, but you will definitely want a Google Coral TPU. If you do end up needing 10-15 cameras, you may end up needing the M2 with dual TPU version of the Coral. You will also want some form of reliable storage for your clips (NAS local or NFS), as well as the ability to back up those clips/shots to the cloud somewhere.
I'm personally running 4 cameras (3x1080 @ 15fps, 1x4k @ 25fps) through my ~7 year old Synology DS418play NAS using Surveillance Station as the first ingestion point, then restreaming from there to Frigate. Now that Surveillance Station can accept external events via webhook, I may look to swap the direction, and ingest into Frigate first, then restream out to Surveillance Station for long-term storage.
"Why not directly use Frigate?" I hear you ask. Mostly because Frigate is pretty static. It's all set up via YAML with no config UI currently, whereas I can tweak stuff on Surveillance Station quite easily.
You are very welcome. The more people that play Control, the better!
I'd hold on Cyberpunk. There will undoubtedly be a bundled/discounted version of it when Phantom Liberty comes out in September.
As a counter offer, may I present Control? One of the best action games I've played in decades that also has a really interesting story (if you like trippy Twin Peaks/X-Files style stories) and it's only $10USD currently in the sale. Runs pretty well on the Deck, and if you have a beefy PC to play on as well, has some really great RTX features.
The only other game that really fits your criteria that I would recommend is Hades which has already been mentioned. I put over 300 hours into Hades across PC and Switch (pre Steam Deck), and it's one of the only roguelike games that has a super compelling story.
I think that one of the most disappointing things about D4 is that it actively punishes you for wanting to try new things via high respec costs and gearing/aspect requirements. This is especially true at end game because there is no "Refund All" for paragon boards. Hence why (accurate) build guides are so important.
Another thing that makes theorycrafting difficult yourself is that due to all skills being %age based, it's much harder to plan out the math behind a build.
Finally, while it's relatively easy to try out different builds while you're leveling, the landscape of what is viable when you hit WT3/WT4 completely changes as Glyphs start generating more of your DPS/survivability than the skills in your previous build, which dramatically changes what your build may look like. This change at end-game is great for variety (leveling builds are different to end-game builds), but due to the aforementioned way that D4 punishes you for wanting to try new things, it makes it pretty difficult in WT4+ to play anything but the "meta" builds.
All that being said, the Dev update tomorrow mentioned that they'll be going over Season 1 details as well as a bunch of QoL changes that are upcoming. So my fingers are crossed for at least a "Refund all" for paragon boards, if not multiple "Spec"/Armory slots.
Control got me to build a new PC. I had an average laptop before, but sold the laptop and built a PC with a 3080 in it for the sweet raytracing. Managed to pick the 3080 up at RRP before all the Crypto boom started, so I was stoked! Still going very strong after almost 3 years.
Here's my decent haul. Some of them aren't really in the "Sale" as they just launched but have launch discounts.
Been using this for over 6 months now and have not really been tempted to try anything different. Using ink black linear switches in a self-printed gasket mount case.
With the removal of the Tidal API from Plexamp, I will be sorely missing my discovery recommendations. Will need to give this a shot using Last.fm scrobbling (already supported in Plex).