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I'm a total newb when it comes to Linux but have been able to get to the point in this tutorial (thanks very much for this btw) where I start up docker containers. How do I point to my network shares? -v /home/USERNAME/cache/steam/data:/data/cache \ I plan on having my data stored on my windows shared drives, I have a 4TB dedicated drive just for caching. My network share is on //192.168.1.200/steamcache I managed to get it so I can see it in the Ubuntu file explorer. But what to do next? And can someone please explain what this path means? -v /home/USERNAME/cache/steam/data:/data/cache \ what is the /data/cache on the right side of the : for?

I currently have a Windows Home Server 2011 used basically as a file server, streaming media, and running a minecraft server for my kids and cousins. I'm planning on changing it to use just good old Windows 10 Pro because WHS is antiquated and has limitations, and am hoping to do more with it, including using it as a Steam and Origin cache server (any way to make it work with GOG?) My primary question: I have a spare 4TB hard drive I'd like to put in my Windows 10 file "server" to use as a Steam and Origin cache server. Is it advisable to run Linux with Docker in a VM? I'm not too adept at Linux, and this may be a trivial question for you seasoned Linux vets, but how do I only mount the one hard drive to use for Steam and Origin cache? Do I just mount and run the VM from the drive I want to use? It's not going to get a lot of heavy traffic, just trying to cut down on monthly bandwidth. I frequently download to my desktop and laptop, and my kids download to their PC's as well. I've run close to my 1TB monthly bandwidth limit on many occasions and this should help cut down on that.

Does anyone use hard drive compression on primarily an external hard drive used for backup/storage? I have a USB hard drive that I used primarily to backup my Steam games library. With games running 50-100GB it's just quicker to copy from USB hard drive to PC instead of redownloading all the files again if I delete them off my PC for whatever reason. Drive compression has been around a long while, and I know older PC's (like 10+ years), the CPU wasn't much up to the task, but is it really much of a burden for even a mediocre fairly modern CPU?

Nevermind ... seems someone already tried it and it didn't work. Thanks for the rapid responses though:

This is a question for the ultra compact GPD Win 2: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gpd-win-2-handheld-game-console-for-aaa-games--2/x/13428275#/ It only accepts M.2 2242 (42mm) size SATA drives, and 512GB are hard to come by and expensive. Transcend ones are about the only reliable ones around, but are hard to come by and expensive. Toshiba just released their 480GB RC100 M.2 2242 drives but are NVMe: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12819/the-toshiba-rc100-ssd-review https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820168037 and are affordable with higher confidence than Kingspec which is about the only other M.2 2242 512GB SATA drive available.

Will an NVMe M.2 drive work in an M.2 SATA slot? If it is B keyed, I know it will be only 2x PCIe, but also B-keyed for SATA. So not sure if that means NVMe will work as a SATA drive if in a SATA slot or a SATA drive will work in an NVMe slot...

I just realized that gif says "Hellmans" on the tube... Mayonnaise.

I agree 100%! I used to help friends and family, but ended up getting blamed for so many things entirely unrelated. No to mention becoming that "bitch" that works for free as you mentioned. "Just send it to Wingnut, he'll fix it". Or frantic calls in the middle of the day while at work, or late at night. I ended up just refusing to help even if they offered to pay. Not worth the headache unless they want to pay me $100/hr. I actually lost some friends over it. Realized they weren't really friends in the end, I guess!

I dunno. I've been doing it for 25+ years and never found much difference short of gobbing it on or putting way too little. There's a lot more room for error than people make it out to be. I've even managed lots of laptops with thermal paste where it's more critical to get full coverage since there is never an IHS. Best recommendation is to apply liberally like in that gif.

I have this... will this help?

I just like my Alexa for music and setting timers and such. My kids love it too. I am a bit concerned about the whole privacy thing, but nothing goes on in my life that I have to worry. If someone wants to listen in to our daily boring conversations, go ahead.

For desktop CPU's, I think it's hard to do too much paste. Yes, you don't want it to ooze all over the place, but I'd rather have a little bit more than not enough.

I know this. Just was wondering if something existed like Logitech unifying software for Amazon mice. Something to pair a different Amazon mouse with a different Amazon mouse wireless dongle.

So then how does Logitech do it? It shouldn't be a lot different than Bluetooth anyhow. Read and pair device ID.

I have a perfectly fine AmazonBasics wireless mouse and a perfectly fine dongle. But they don't match (lost dongle from it and mouse that it was paired to was broken). I'd like to pair the different mouse and dongle together. I don't see any software or way to do this. Anyone know of a way? Thanks.