• Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection
• Slay the Spire
• Tetris Effect, Connected
• OpenXCom
• Olli Olli

Thanks a lot!

Yeah, if I go down that road, I’ll probably just add a git commit hook on the repo for the Raspberry Pi, so that I’ll have a ‘push to deploy’ workflow!

You are asking exactly the right questions!

I have an Ansible playbook to provision the Pi (or any other Debian/Ubuntu machine) with everything need to run a web application, as long as the web application is a binary or uses one of the interpreters of the machine. (Well, I have also playbooks to compile Python/Ruby from source or get an Adoptium JDK repository etc.)

Right now I am flirting with the idea of using Elixir for my next web application, and it just seems unsustainable for me to now add Erlang/OTP and Elixir to my list of playbooks to compile from source.

The Debian repositories have quite old versions of Erlang/OTP/Elixir and I doubt there are enough users to keep security fixes/patches up to date.

Combined with the list of technologies I already use, it seems to reduce complexity if I use Docker containers as deployment units and should be future proof for at least the next decade.

Writing about it, another solution might simply be to have something like Distrobox on the PI and use something like the latest Alpine.

Thanks for the idea! I try to keep as little ‘moving’ parts as possible, so hosting gitlab is something I would want to avoid if possible. The Raspberry Pi is supposed to be sole hardware for the whole deployment of the project.

Wow, thanks a lot! Your answer is exactly what I hoped for when posting on Lemmy: I didn’t even know the docker-tarball thingy is a thing, it fits my problem space very nice in combination with cross building and it seems as easy as it can be. Excellent! :-)

Thanks, didn’t know about buildx, but it looks exactly like what I need to solve cross compilation.

AFAIK Podman only supports quadlets from version 4.4 and later, I am on version 4.3… so, technically you are right and it would work (for me end of the year or next year, when Raspbian gets an update to Trixie), I am mostly interested how people achieved this and automated this and if there are different/better approaches than the ones outlined by me above.

My development machine is an AMD64 and the Pi is an Aarch64… I have no clue how complicated cross-building images for a different architecture is?!? (I am thinking about using something like Erlang/Elixir, so I honestly don’t know at all.)

I am not totally opposed to use a registry (free or payed), but, correct me if I am wrong: If I just build the image on the Pi, it is already exactly at the one spot where I need it, so what problem is solved for me by using a registry?

Edit: Someone above mentioned docker buildx, so seems cross compilation is solved.

Thanks for the link!

Exactly, this is what I am doing right now (just for binaries, not execute Docker or Podman).

Would it be a problem, that my development machine is an AMD64 and the Pi is an Aarch64?

Thanks, you are spot on: Playing Street Fighter 6 casually and even bought a SteamDeck to have a computer with enough power to run it. :-) For me it is the 3rd, after 3rd Strike (ha ;-)) which hooked me, although I have to confess Fightcarde and 3rd Strike are still peak Street Fighter for me. Street Fighter IV never ‘clicked’ for me, and I didn’t like the presentation of Street Fighter V at all.

Hope we run into each other in an online match, though I hail from Europe so we might not be in the same region.

Yeah, for DS1, I totally respect the artistic vision and that they simply created a game against the trends (back then) … at the same time I made it trough the swamp under the Orc-City w/o the ring which allows immunity to the swamp poison. When I looked up how to get this ring (back to the Asylum) I was just like: WTF, I have a real life, how should I have figured this out by myself? … this turned me away, although I still have a lot of respect and love for DS1!

• Street Fighter II in basically any edition. Was my entry point in fighting games and to this day it just feels ‘right’
• Street Fighter III, 3rd Strike (It is that good and to this day one of the highlights)
• Slay the Spire
• Contra (NES)
• Super Mario Brothers (NES) (What an utterly brilliant game)
• Castlevania 3 (NES)
• Vampyre Survivors (Ok, maybe just pure dopamine addiction)
• Sudoku
• Final Fantasy 1 Pixel Remaster
• XCOM
• Open X-COM
• Olli Olli
• rogue
• Tetris
• Into the breach … and Quake

Contra (NES) is my all-time-favorite action game, ever. Just the absolute perfect pacing and difficulty. Back in the day I could basically play it endlessly and flawlessly. Just the perfect game to relax and have a good time.

Nice, what an underrated gem of a game! One of my favorite NES cartridges back in the day! I have never played anything like it afterwards. Any recommendations for a combination of Zelda and Top-Down shooter beside Guardian Legend?

Yay, on of my top 5 games of all time! :-) I just cannot play it as a comfort game, when I replay it, I have to have time for uninterrupted immersion and enjoyment of this masterpiece! :-)

Scrolled too far down to find one of my favorite comfort games… bought it multiple times so I can play it on every device I own. Works perfectly on everything from my smartphone over my netbook, laptop to my SteamDeck. Just brilliant game design and I am looking forward to part 2! :-)

Shame on me, never finished even Dark Souls 1, but damn I had a lot of fun failing and dying. :-)

Nice, and I fully agree: The best turn based 4x Civ I have played so far. Music, fractions and the story are all perfect. The factions play quite different and allow for diverse strategies to win. Surprised that there are not more copy-cats that try to pull it off.