Leave the battery in and you have a free UPS. Perhaps set it capped at 80% charge to increase its lifespan.

My server is always my old desktop hardware. It’s a 4th-gen i5 with 16GB RAM and it’s keeping up fine. I have thrown quite a lot of work at it too. If you avoid containers, you can serve 20 services off it no problem.

I too, was worried about power costs. Every time I do the maths, the new hardware will be obsolete by the time I make the money back in savings. If you’re concerned about environmental impact, the initial manufacture of hardware does more damage than running it over its lifetime.

Dedicated (1U rackmount) servers are always loud and power-hungry. I they idle at 130w and sound like a hairdryer that’s been left on.

Find secondhand on Facebook marketplace. Dive into an e-waste bin if you have to.

The photoshop page doesn’t even have a download link.

0/10 would not download.

OMG Hypnotoad HTPC is so much better! Why didn’t I thnnk of that?

Server (big iron): Bender

Desktop (main character): Fry

Laptop (for accounting): Hermes

Netbook (small and dumb): Nibbler

Phone (held to my head): BrainSlug

HTPC (one big viewport): Leela

I just went on Youtube and watched the real song that was posted 15 years ago.

The comments are flooded with “RIP Rick Buckler” (drummer) from 15 days ago.

Now I’m ruined.

I first visited London only a few months after this came out. It was stuck in my head the moment I got on the platform at Heathrow.

Game consoles are solid-state and tend to not wear out like cars.

That said, my car is from 2003.

My local Costco recently removed the coin locks. Almost immediately, trolleys were fucking everywhere except in the bay.

The coin locks never bothered me because I have a pick for them on my keys. And yes, I return the damn trolley every time.

Well… shit. My company just sold my department to another company. The phrase they use in the office is “a Microsoft shop”. We’re talking Windows, Teams, Azure and O365.

The transition is going to be shit. After the transition is over, it will be shit.

I might just operate my workflow entirely out of WSL2 out of spite.

Also: This was on kernel 6.11, which does not have the new NTSYNC driver (coming in 6.14). It’s going to get even better soon.

CS2 was tested on proton, but CS2 runs natively. It’s not a useful comparison.

Edit: Someone pointed out that Nobara has already manually backpatched NTSYNC into its kernel.

That’s basically it. My Ubuntu server is a router, NAS, plex server, public statum-1 NTP server, wordpress server, nextcloud server, security camera NVR, SMTP/IMAP mail server, CUPS print server, tor relay, and probably a few other things I forgot about.

You can do a lot with a single CPU from 2015.

I don’t have hostapd on it anymore. I now have dedicated APs on OpenWRT. The main problem with using a WNIC for an AP is that they don’t typically have a very strong broadcast output. I had to add an amplifier, and even then it wasn’t great.

I’ve done this before on Ubuntu. You can install nftables for routing, then install hostapd for a wifi AP.

If they know who is on Linux and who is reported as cheating, they wouldn’t use such a speculative metric to conclude that the cheaters are using linux.

I would find it very hard to believe that they don’t know which OS each client is using.

Are they seriously suggesting that 33% of cheating is coming from the 2% of users that run Linux?

That is an absolute bullshit figure that I refuse to believe.

I don’t even use it. Once I got SPF/SSL/DKIM/DMARC working, there was less spam than what I get on gmail.

The owners closed the restaurant and started a new one so I let the domain lapse.

Am I doing it right?

I wonder if it will be available in both PAL and NTSC.

I haven’t looked in a while, but I thought the assets and binaries are separate, and it’s possible to switch binaries.