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how much power does your system need?
  • Running an old 7th gen Intel, It has a 2017 and a 1080 in it, six mechanical hard drives 3 SSDs. Then I have an eighth gen laptop with a 1070 TI mobile. But the laptops a camera server so it's always running balls to the wall. Running a unified dream machine pro, 24 port poe, 16 port poe and an 8 port poe

    Because of the overall workload and the age of the CPU, it burns about 360 watts continuous.

    I can save a few wants by putting the discs to sleep, But I'm in the camp where the spin up and spin down of the discs cost more wear than continuous running.

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    2024 Was the Year the Bottom Fell Out of the Games Industry
  • Ehhh, a bunch of studios have things in the works. Just because very little came out in 2024 doesn't mean that the industry imploded or anything.

    There were plenty of layoffs all over the tech industry. I'd argue that big tech was hit harder than games.

    It takes many years now to release anything big. Good blockbusters are relatively infrequent. Star wars outlaws hit in October, It wasn't stellar but it wasn't a bad game. Civ 7 is due out in February.

    At worst, I'd say we're in a little bit of a lull.

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    Anon gives a piracy history lesson
  • I watched the entirety of Blair witch project the week before it came out in a real player at 300 by 200 pixels. I kept rotating between watching it thumbnail sized and watching it regular player sized. Both were equally inferiorating

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    Honda and Nissan announce merger to form world's third largest car company
  • Our take on capitalism has no incentive to change. No one is competing anymore; they're just colluding and controlling, oligarchs buying up any competition. We're dragging them kicking and screaming into EV.

    Same with Temu and Alibaba. We don't even try to compete and make anything locally.

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    Please use .config 😭
  • I've been using Nix for a little more than a year, I don't think I've touched my configs in better than 6 months. I'm honestly not entirely certain what would constitute a dumpster fire in a Nix config

    I've probably only modified 50 or 60 lines of the default configs.

    I do have a folder full of shell.nix files when I need to do a special workflow, like I have one that kicks up wine and sets up mp3tag, another that sets up rust, another sets up Python, and one that sets up for yt-dlp. But I don't carry anything in my base configs that I don't use in a given week

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    Fireworks explode during house fire in Massachusetts
  • No they're making a joke about the TSA saying they caught a woman the other day with 71 fireworks in her luggage. Turns out it was an open box of black cats. Yes they're illegal, yes she was wrong, But the image they release to the press had them laid out like a cocaine trafficking bust, when the actual fireworks in question were slightly more than glorified bang snaps.

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    The Greatest Cover Song of All Time?
  • I stopped listening to radio and spotify some time ago. I only pop out a few times a year and look for new stuff to add to my repo. I had heard this came out which is a bit unusual. New tracks don't make the news very often.

    I expected it to be good because Cash is historically good. I expected it to be just another cover that I would like and respect but not like as much as the original.

    The first time I heard it it was very strong, I didn't really shed any tears though. I knew Trent's history with the song, and I knew he put his experiences into that song.

    I think it was when I read the piece the independent did on his cover before I realized the actual gravitas.

    When cash recorded this, his wife was on her deathbed and he not far from it. You can almost feel him slipping away while he's singing it. It's the last prayer of a dying man.

    That's some amazing work.

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    Distro suggestions for a dumb-dumb who only knows linux through meme osmosis
  • Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora or one of the offshoots like Mint or Pop.

    As long as you don't go too far into the weeds with Arch, Silverblue or NixOS, You're probably going to have a pretty decent experience, as long as you don't dig too far under the hood too early most things that you're going to want to try are just going to work out of the gate.

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    The Greatest Cover Song of All Time?
  • Hurt was always a great track. But Cash picked it up and put a folk singers life of real pain behind it. In addition he picked it up and blessed it right squarely in front of the faces of the original nine inch nails fans that are starting to age, like you saying see what's coming. It almost made it personal.

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    Google to court: we’ll change our Apple deal, but please let us keep Chrome
  • Individual developers develop on Mac hardware. They do primary tests on Mac mobile devices.

    For production and QA, our CI pipeline builds on a cluster of bare metal Mac Minis. Basic unit tests happen during the build. We deploy to mobile devices.

    Mac doesn't make any server equipment anymore, We could technically run VMs on the minis. But they're not so expensive that we can't just have a cluster of them around. We even tried to do the hackintosh route with VMs. It was incredibly difficult to keep it stable, and every time we had to do a xcode update, It needed an OS update and it fucked over the hackintosh. I would have had to keep somebody on staff full-time just to keep the hackintosh VMs going.

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    The quest to save the world’s largest CRT TV from destruction
  • They had terrific brightness. (At least until they started to wear out)

    The resolution was a mixed bag. They couldn't handle the resolutions we have today, But when you were running 800 by 600 on a 1600x1200 they looked pretty crisp. It was a problem on LCDs before they got their pixel counts up because they were driven purpose built for a given resolution and anything else was a hack.

    Nowadays 800 by 600 on a 4K screen looks pretty decent.

    The biggest problem we're dealing with replacing CRTs with LCDs are the sharpness was crap so the content looked good soft. We have to throw shaders and all kinds of crazy stuff on ROMs to degrade the screen enough to make them look good. And then any light screen devices that use pixel scanning for location just don't work because newer technology doesn't work that way. The best in the light guns are going so far as to use camera sensors to detect location.

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  • I just tooled around on sites for the top-ranked Futurama episodes, and no two media outlets even had similar lists. I was wondering what it would look like with a small group of diehard fans here.

    Once the votes stop coming in, (assuming they start) I'll tabulate the results.

    Just give up to 5 episodes in a comment and we'll see if any of the different outlets got it right.

    **Update: **

    8 Voters

    25 Candidates

    Assuming everyone's #1 is their best choice candidate and they decrease in order:

    In a Ranked Choice Vote Single-Winner and Dual-Winner scenario, it takes 4 rounds and "Devils' Hands" takes first place. Luck of the Fryish takes second place with two.

    I tried to recalculate it RCV style for a list of 3,4,5, but we don't have enough votes to make it work.

    In other voting calculations:

    Jurassic (4), Godfellas(3), and Devils' hands(3) won with the most overall votes.

    Jurassic Bark won with the highest number of top votes after 2 rounds.

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