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Issue This evening, I was struggling to access my new “7 Days To Die” server after provisioning a new Rocky Linux 8 VM to host it on. As a preface, I have plenty of experience hosting both bare-metal and VM game servers. For Steam games, my tool of choice is typically LinuxGSM by Daniel Gibbs. This is a fabulous piece of software that abstracts some of the nitty-gritty away (which definitely helps when running servers from multiple games)....

The Question? Should a software engineer use tabs or spaces when writing code? The Answer? Use tabs, no really. In your favorite text-editor or IDE, simply set the tab length to 4 spaces. Why? Tabs take only one byte, whereas the equivalent (4 spaces) takes four bytes. Realistically, this doesn’t matter nowadays with compression, minification, and large HDD/SSD storage mediums available. Tabs allow you to set the visual-width to your liking....