Do they all come with windows? I was thinking of getting the EQ14 but don’t want to give Microsoft anything.

But I don’t want to go to hooters and I don’t need to poop

For ChatGPT or other AI models? Aware of others but didn’t know ChatGPT would do this too.

I will elaborate: Look at Civitai. Now sign in and disable the content filter, refresh the page.

Mmm I’d love some venison

I think Americans use the word “bangs” instead of fringe.

I kinda like flatpaks being an option, not sure when they are the only option though.

The best anticheat is whitelisting. More coop games, why does it matter if the enemy force is a computer or player? As long as the AI is good enough.

Do it, just don’t play the games that don’t work on Linux. I switched 15 years ago and didn’t look back. There are so many games at this point why bother with the ones that only work on Windows?

Mine likes cucumber

Thanks to medical advancements at least you have a better chance than people born in 1899. And thanks to The Event you have a significantly better chance than people born to the radioactive hellscape of 2199

60w is like £120 a year, these costs add up to the point that low spec servers pretty much always cost more in energy than hardware. Of course it also depends on where you live and your energy rates.

You could buy a 20 year old server that is going to use 800w, or you could buy a mini PC that is probably more powerful and uses like 10-20w.

Then again, I used to live somewhere that energy was included in the rent so short of starting a bitcoin farm usage wouldn’t really get noticed too much. In that case it would make sense to just go cheap hardware.

Your energy is clearly a low cheaper than mine then.

Oh I am not saying specifically get a raspberry pi, personally looking at a bee-link N150 mini PC. It isn’t even that much more expensive than the 16GB raspberry pi and as its x86 I can just run normal debian installs in proxmox.

Power consumption is a massive reason to really not do that. Its cheap for a reason, its takes a shitload of power to be shit and you will pay more in energy than you save in hardware unless its only powered on for short periods of time - a server typically isn’t.

This is actually something that applies to cheap products too. Was in Asda a little while ago and saw 2 LED bulbs with the same lumen rating. Cheaper one used 3w more and you only saved £1. Running it for 8 hours a day for a year would cost double that saving in electricity. For a server you are looking at almost £2 per watt each year. Does that ewaste look so good to you now?

Some things are absolutely worth getting second hand, but you really should be careful considering the power cost as well.

Quick edit: If you don’t need it running 24/7, consider something like AWS too. I love selfhosting but if its not running much it might be cheaper to not bother buying hardware.

If you take a picture while someone is throwing a molotov, could inverting the colour of their clothing THEN blurring it actually help? As they wouldn’t be able to see clearly but they would be trying to look for other pictures of someone wearing the wrong colour jumper.

I can’t write well with either hand

Well our eyes didn’t really evolve for flat LED displays

That’s normal for electric brushes, just change the head

Am I going to have to buy a lifetime supply of brushes now before they enshitify…

If I ever have a kid they will be the one that has friends over for Minecraft LAN parties.