Oh, what’s the speedtest server?

I’ve not run into that yet myself, but I’d love to have one of those.

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Or gained it?

Maybe Yotsuba&!

But the one you should really read: “Interviews with monster girls”

It’s about demihumans integrating into human society (think vampires and other mythical creatures). Except in the story, they’re more like mutations that can occur, like an unusual eye color. Except of course the changes are much more severe.

The narrative uses this as a stand-in to make commentary on how we should treat people who are “different”, as long as they don’t do harm. With acceptance and understanding.

The main charachter is a teacher in a school with some of these demihumans (both students and faculty), and he goes out of his way to try to understand them. It is a series about accommodating the needs of others, especially when they are different in ways that you might have to have a long conversation about what it is like to be them, to really achieve that.

murdermitten

Yup.

It makes you think about not just where you point it, but everything it might “slice” as you handle it.

Or even how you set it down, or move around one sitting on a table.

Yes.

Essentially always pretend there’s a deadly and infinite laser coming from the muzzle.

Bad enough to replace actual people with AI fakes, but maybe let’s not have them puppeting the corpses of the dead, yeah?

He was gonna teach her gun safety, with a loaded gun while not respecting trigger discipline or the laser rule?

I’d say that’s “a likely story” but the man’s a Trumper so it’s exactly the kind of stupid I’d expect.

You can get headpats as a guy.

Source: Guy that gets headpats.

I have.

But Redout isn’t big enough to bring a lot new AG players in.

This, by virtue of having a budget behind it, and hence marketing, will.

And that’s the kind of thing that keeps the genre alive. BNG is fantastic, but it’s mostly being enjoyed by people who got into the genre through WipEout.

You can nest spaces.

A space is just a group of channels. So to get groups of channels inside the space, you just create “spaces” inside the space.

This is how my discord servers show up in my matrix accounts since I use discord via a bridge.

Neat!

I literally don’t care that it’s star wars.

I’m just happy to see AG racing still be alive.

WipEout and F-Zero are gone, seemingly never to return.

But there are no hacks required to install it on old hardware.

Yes there are.

If you used rufus or ventoy, you’ve just applied them without knowing.

Unmodified Windows 11 ISOs will refuse to install on any hardware with a CPU older than Ryzen 3000 or Intel 8000.

In fact there are less hacks required to install / upgrade to windows 11 then there are to install any Linux distro.

What?

On the vast majority of systems, the vast majority of linux distros will install and run with zero “hacks” of any kind. Literally just boot the ISO as-is and have at it.

genuine copy of windows will receive all and any updates

No. On many machines, while windows will install just fine due to the modifications to the installer applied by rufus/ventoy, the yearly major version updates can fail catastrophically.

A lot of hardware will update without issue, but there ABSOLUTELY is risk.

Windows is just an os. As long as it is compiled for the correct CPU architecture, it is just as supported as any other hardware. The hardware is supported by individual drivers, normally provided by the hardware manufacturer, not Microsoft.

You are confusing functional, and supported.

Something can “technically still work” without being officially supported.

Not being supported means Microsoft can make breaking changes in updates, because they made no promises your hardware would be accounted for in the future.

Just because it works today, no longer means it will tomorrow.

The only way I see John Wick working as a game, is if they do something like Sifu.

Screen Burn, had to look it up because they were formerly “No Code”, devs of Stories Untold and Observation.

I mean I’ll play a PS2 game instead of eating, period.

Every year or so.

My NAS is self-built.

I used to buy one more drive whenever my pools would start getting full. I’m now in a place where I can discard data about as fast as I get more to store, I don’t predict needing new drives until one fails.

I’ve re-arranged my volumes to increase or decrease parity many times after buying drives or instead of buying drives.

Mergerfs makes access easy, the underlying drives are either with or without parity pairs, and I have things arranged so that critical files are always stored with mirroring, while non-critical files are not.

I rather enjoy the added storage capacity.

So do I.

It’s just that I use btrfs, mergerfs, or lvms to pool storage. Not RAID.

Making changes to my storage setup is far easier using these options, much more so than RAID.

Mergerfs especially makes adding or removing capacity truly trivial, with the only lengthy processes involved being bog-standard file transfers.

Hard drive storage is pretty cheap. And the effort it takes to make changes to a raid volume as my needs change over the years, just isn’t worth the savings.

Rebuilding parity requires processing power. Copying a mirror does not.

There’s also the fact that the rebuild stresses the drives, increasing the chance of a cascade failure, where the resulting rebuild after a drive failure, reveals other drive failures.

It all results in management overhead, which having to “just tweak some parameters” makes worse, not better.

In comparison to simple mirroring and backing up offsite, RAID is a headache.

The redundancy it provides is better achieved in other ways, and the storage pooling it provides is better achieved in other ways.