pierrebeucher

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Comment · 1 year ago

You're right cost is an issue, that's why Cloudy Pad is mostly suitable for occasional players (up to 30h or 40h / months) in which case it's still cost efficient to use such Cloud providers.

> more or less identical and cost far far less.

I wish it would, for I have tried: the problem is GPU availability which is often low or highly elastic. Considering data are persisted in a given region, there's high chance your RTX 4090 will be unavailable when you want it.

These platforms are great for AI and inference since you can easily hop onto another GPU type and it's not too much an issue if a certain GPU type is not available at a given time. Not so much for gaming purpose :(

Major Cloud providers have much more availability on their infra.

> Check this out; https://github.com/selkies-project/selkies

Thanks, this is one of the project I had in mind beside Wolf and Sunshine but haven't gone as far. A good reminder to try it out again :)

Comment · 1 year ago

Do you also use a VPN like Tailscale for out-of-home / remote access ?

Comment · 1 year ago

Thanks ! Do not hesitate to let me know how it goes if you give it a try

Comment · 1 year ago

Hi there, I'm Pierre the creator. Work is in progress on this, I hope it will be available in a few weeks since it's a highly requested feature :)

Show HN: I built a FOSS tool to run your Steam games in the Cloud github.com

30 pierrebeucher 1 year ago 9 comments

Show HN: secret-sharer – CLI tool to share secrets using Shamir's Secret Sharing github.com

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Comment · 2 years ago

From what I gather it's exactly this in reverse: they already were a consulting company providing development environment to teams as part of their package, and Flox is an internal tool they open-sourced. (interpreted from what I read on their about page: https://flox.dev/about/)

Comment · 2 years ago

I agree. Plain Nix is very complex but highly configurable and allow very complex use case, whereas Flox / devenv are much easier to setup but hide certain Nix features (which are probably not needed in most dev environments anyway, so it's totally worth it given the simpler interface)

Comment · 2 years ago

Wouldn't have said better, devenv and Flox are indeed similar and both uses Nix packages. We can say they are different frontends to the same set of packages, with slightly different features.

Both are great in my opinion.

Flox, a better alternative to Dev Containers medium.com

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Comment · 2 years ago

Not too hard, it's one of the source I plan to implement along with Infisical and others. Feel free to create an issue for this :)

Comment · 2 years ago

Same problem, encountering similar problems with Qwant (though not always)