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  • I bookmarked this post a few days ago, but only just had the time to set it up today. Installing it as a custom app on TrueNAS was very easy, if only I had known it would just be a 3 minute job :D

    I am running TrueNAS as well, and I keep snapshots for about a week. When I set up snapshots, I noticed the same issue as you: On a Linux client there seems to be no convenient way to browse these snapshots using the file manager (like “previous versions” on windows), and the only way I was able to browse snapshots was using ssh into the TrueNAS system.

    While inconvenient, I figured that’s good enough for me, I don’t really tend to accidentally delete files off my system and on the rare occasion that I do, I can just use the command line. So far, I didn’t have the need to access an earlier snapshot.

    But having a convenient way to browse the snapshots using a webUI is great, Thank you for creating this application, so far it works great as a custom application on TrueNAS, I was able to successfully browse and download files from previous snapshots :)

    Some things that can be useful, although I don’t know how easily they can be implemented:

    • When viewing a snapshot, highlight files (and possibly folders) that differ from the current state (deleted files in red, modified files in yellow, for example)
    • Downloading entire folders, that would probably require timeship to zip them up beforehand, though.





  • Personally, that reads to me that there already is en expiration date on the plugin version as well as the GOG extension.

    Either way, while they are free to charge what they see fit, I was flabbergasted by the high price and it being a subscription. I’d argue it should never be their bread and butter. I see the target audience to be too niche for this to be a fulltime gig, I dont believe there’s going to be enough users for this to be sustainable, which is (I guess) the reason they went for a SAAS subscription model.

    Yes, the plugin version is open source, but I don’t believe anyone is going to bother to fork it. Simply because there already is a sophisticated, quite advanced community project (Heroic) that does the job well on a steam deck, also works very well on the desktop, and uses the same backends (legendary, gogdl, nile) as JS.

    And it really irks me, that they rely on free, open-source components for their proprietary, closed-source software to function. From what i understand, they are not in breach of the GPL license if they just invoke the binaries, but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.


  • I’ve just watched the installation video and when they install Doom64 from Epic (around the 3:20 Minute mark), it mentioned legendary, a free and open-source alternative to the epic launcher. A bit of further digging we notice that junk-store uses gogdl and nile as well. I am absolutely baffled by this. This closed-source, proprietary $40/p.a. software is a wrapper (albeit a fancy one) for other, open-source launchers.

    Now, i am sure theres a bit more to it than just invoking the binaries of these launchers, but personaly, I consider this shady.


  • The plugin version remains and will remain free according to the husband and wife team behind Junk Store. They’re very easy people to talk to if you need anything at all, and they have a passion for what they’re doing. I think it’s super shitty to call them greedy because they’re offering a paid option alongside the free one.

    I’d like to point out, that the subscription to JS 2.0 is absolutely not there to keep the free version free. In their own FAQ on discord they are already on record stating that if the paid GOG plugin drops of in sales (not usage!), they are going to scale back or even stop maintaining the paid plugin as well as the decky version of JS.





  • I am definitely not going to pick this up.

    I don’t see why I should pay $40 for a yearly subscription to an app, that

    • doesn’t do anything other tools like heroic don’t already do just as good or better
    • doesn’t even come with all the features promised.
    • doesn’t even provide an actual continuous service that justifies a subscription (games are hosted by epic/gog.

    When they launched the initial app, they promised a one-stop-solution, but actually only worked with epic.
    Then they promised a GOG plugin that would become free after testing, but then decided to not do that and instead make an entirely new app.

    I have no confidence they can deliver on their promised features for their app, or suddenly do another rug-pull on the scope of their app. I can see them changing course any day, and putting further store plugins behind yet another paywall.

    Compared to solutions that already exist (heroic), they offer access to the same stores, as well as amazon. The $40 junk-store can do less than the free and open-source heroic.






  • I have PC2 in my collection but haven’t tried it on the deck yet. I played quite a lot of the original Project Cars, which has a career mode, but that one is just seemingly linear progression, “moving up” in the series. It’s unfortunately lacking the entire car collecting aspect, checking which of your cars works for a specific event/series, and if none fits, “go shopping” for a car that does.

    I also have Assetto Corsa and Assetto Corsa Competizione on steam, and they are great sims to sit down in front of the tv, set up a wheel and go racing, but they, too, lack the entire car collection aspect. You start a race or series, hop in a car that’s provided, and once done, you move on to the next series, abandon the old car, and get in a new one.

    Really the best thing I can play is GT4 or Forza 4 on an emulator, and Forza 4 doesn’t currently work on the 360 emus :(



  • Racing games are my absolute favourite genre. I played quite a few of them on the deck, here’s a list of games I can recommend:

    • 80s Overdrive
    • Burnout Paradise Remastered
    • Dirt 3
    • Horizon Chase Turbo
    • Make Way
    • Mudrunner
    • Need For Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered
    • New Star GP
    • Project Cars
    • Race Condition
    • Spintires
    • Split/second
    • WRC 10
    • Wreckfest

    Note: some titles, namely Dirt 3, Project Cars or Spintires are no longer available officially, but can still be purchased on key resellers for reasonable prices.