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Cake day: August 19th, 2023

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  • I know my case is specific but having a Jellyfin running on a Steam computer looks to me as good case for having a computer in the living room. Adding a TV applications to Steam such as Netflix is also a case. Then there are people who have their workstation close to the TV so they can use it instead of their laptop and just switch displays with one of these HDMI branching dongles.


  • We are both actively exploring the stars and the ocean. There’s still a lot we don’t know and there’s still plenty of species being discovered in rainforest all the time.

    Bacterias and viruses are also something that you can never finish exploring and there are for sure weird creatures like tardigrades that are still undiscovered.

    You’re just in time to discover genetics, epigenetics, biomechanics of nutrition, chemistry, biochemistry, how to make custom creatures from DNA building blocks, protein folding applications, mysteries of how the brain works and even math as mature as it is also has tons of undiscovered parts.

    Sure you might be too late and to early for a couple of specific things but science discovery is absolutely exploding and random average Joe types are discovering things all the time. I think on the contrary now is one of the most likely things where you can just flat out discover something about the world that nobody has discovered before.



  • I really hope VR takes off. I haven’t been able to play VR because of Linux support issues or needs a PS5 and not that many titles I’m interested in are available, there is No Man’s Sky, Serious Sam, Skyrim and some others. But fuck, I imagine playing Armored Core 6 with VR would be bonkers. Like having strapping into a Mech with a HUD and rockets flying all over.

    I imagine retrofitting games to provide two provide two camera views instead of one wouldn’t be super crazy work so just having more people with VR would increase the title count by a lot.

    I’m currently looking at it costing me a fair bit of money to actually get a setup. Probably $500 for a used GPU and another $1200 for the headset that I barely can use with a young baby at home but in 5 years I could see myself getting into it.

    One other thing that is understated is that this time it’s a buy once for a more than adequate system that has forward and backwards compatability with the Steam catalog of VR games.



  • I live in Iceland and we try to predict volcanic activity all the time and it’s off by weeks or months. To be fair, that’s a blink of an eye on a geological scale so it’s pretty accurate but the nature of the problem is that you have so many forces that all interact with each other.

    It’s pretty similar to “how far can you tip the chair back before it falls” but we don’t know the size, weight and shape of the chair really well. You just need one fracture in the rock from previous earthquake to throw all the calculations off.

    I don’t know the context of the post but I imagine it’s media related, like a seismologist saying “could be as soon as tomorrow” and the journalist just saying “earthquake tomorrow”. Also seismologist don’t shut up is true.