Off-and-on trying out an account over at @tal@oleo.cafe due to scraping bots bogging down lemmy.today to the point of near-unusability.
Most of those artsy keycaps that I’ve seen go do their blingy design and then encase the whole thing in clear plastic shaped like a regular key so that it doesn’t have a weird shape.
Example:
https://www.keychron.com/collections/artisan-keycaps/products/magic-animal-resin-artisan-keycap
I don’t play games multiplayer these days, but probably Carrier Command 2.
A team plays a crew on an aircraft carrier (well, really an amphibious assault ship).
There aren’t fixed roles in the game, but a single player is going to have a hard time handling all the workload in the game (and certainly won’t play optimally). I do play the game that way; it’s possible.
If you’re playing multiplayer, though, I think that you’d have a pretty hard time if all the players on a team are just going off and doing their own thing, without coordinating, though. I mean, they’re operating one ship and having to coordinate logistics for it, allocating ship power, operating various weapons systems and sensor systems on the amphibious assault ship, operating a fleet of support ships, managing construction of supplies, and commanding and operating a bunch of ship-borne vehicles that need time on the amphibious assault ship’s deck to launch or recover or need to be deployed or recovered via the well deck. It’d be pretty unplayable if you weren’t setting up common goals and then parceling out tasks.
I think that he means just put 2-3 days of food out.
If the cat eats wet food, that’d have spoiling problems, but I suppose that it’d probably be okay with dry kibble.
It’s a Linux feature to compress some of your memory and then store it in a RAM disk. For systems with limited memory, it makes it go further.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zram
zram, formerly called compcache, is a Linux kernel module for creating a compressed block device in RAM, i.e. a RAM disk with on-the-fly disk compression. The block device created with zram can then be used for swap or as a general-purpose RAM disk. The two most common uses for zram are for the storage of temporary files (/tmp) and as a swap device.
I have someone coming for check-ins, but they can’t come in 5 times every day to give food,” a Reddit user said.
You can pamper your cat however you want, but your cat is not going to die if they don’t have someone portioning out food five times a day.
I use Super-Enter instead.
Super-F gets reserved for movement among windows, as f, b, p, and n are emacs’s movement keys, and I use emacs-style keybindings rather than vi-style keybindings in sway.
Mother nature is a brutal bitch, red in tooth and claw, who destroys what she creates.
Yeah, the user experience of “just wipe cookies on browser exit” is a lot better than “have a million prompts all over zillions of sites”.
However, regarding “every single damn time”…some sites can have their “do you want cookies” popup just blocked by the Firefox I still don’t care about cookies addon. It’s not a solution for every site out there, but it’ll get a lot of them.
It’s also possible to use another extension, Behind the Overlay on some sites. This does require a click, so manual action, but it tries to identify “pop-over” content that covers up the browser window and remove it with that click. It’s really intended as a more-general solution to “pop-over” stuff, but cookie pop-ups often take this form and can be dismissed.
I was actually thinking that screensavers might make a comeback if OLEDs become the norm. CRTs could suffer from burn-in, even if the problem was minor enough that most screensavers were really for fun, and in the 1990s, screensavers were pretty common. LCDs don’t see burn-in, so screensaver use seems to have kinda disappeared. Plasma displays can get burn-in, but never really hit very widespread use. But…OLEDs can.
Today, I think that most systems have some form of automatic power-down of the display if someone isn’t using it, so maybe that competes with screensavers.
There are also other ATC simulation games, but it looks like that particular developer also sells professional ATC training software, so I’d kinda imagine that that “I’m really good at TRACON” might be a better standard than most ATC games in terms of someone being able to be an actual ATC.
i9 14900KS…Fuck Intel, fuck this CPU
If you’re overvoltaging the thing, that’s on the person cranking the voltage up, but I don’t have a high opinion of that CPU in the first place.
I had an i9 13900. It thermally destroyed itself due to the Intel 13th gen/14th gen problems. I also had it on a 360mm AIO liquid cooler, FWIW.
Then I replaced it with an i9 14900 (this one making certain not to even use the motherboard defaults, as I had with the prior CPU, but the manufacturer’s recommended “safe” settings). It also destroyed itself.
At that point, I switched to AMD, after decades of using only Intel CPUs.
It’s not just that the defect made it in. CPU defects happen. It’s that it took Intel over a generation of CPUs to even identify a very prominent problem, and they didn’t stop shipping new product in the meantime, even after they decided that there was a problem, and long after people were talking about the problem on, say, Reddit. You have to have multiple serious QA problems for that to happen. They may have patched that problem via firmware, but I just don’t trust their QA on at least their high-end desktop CPUs.
I’ve used ispropyl alcohol on a few such devices. I don’t know if it’s as effective as acetone—it did take some rubbing—but I did manage to eventually get it off, so I know that it can be used as well.
EDIT: While I’ve run into devices that have seen a range of this, the worst was a Grundig G6 radio. Searching, at least according to this page, it looks like the manufacturer recommends “Purple Power”:
https://swling.com/blog/2021/01/getting-the-grundig-g6-out-of-a-sticky-situation/
If you’ve been an SWLing Post reader for long, you’ve also no doubt read our numerous posts about cleaning off this mess. There are a number of solutions, but it seems the most positive long-term results by employing a de-greasing product called Purple Power (click here to read archived posts). Indeed, it’s the solution Eton Corporation recommends and the one I used to clean my Eton E1 XM.
I have not myself used the stuff, so I can’t personally vouch for effectiveness.
Based on this, it sounds like the solvent that uses is diethylene glycol butyl ether.
EDIT2: Also on that site. Might be a good idea to look at what you’re buying if you do try some:
Ron notes that “Purple Power” is not the same product or formula across the globe
We’re shared a number of posts here about how well the product “Purple Power” cleans the sticky residue off of portable radios than once had a rubberized coating (the coating breaks down over time and becomes incredibly tacky).
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, RonF, who writes from Australia with this important note:
Tip for non-USonians: what’s sold as “Purple Power” (and “Simple Green”, and several other frequently-recommended cleaners for this sort of thing) are not necessarily the same products around the world.
For example, in the US “Purple Power” is an ethylene glycol based cleaner/degreaser; here in Aus, if you ask for “Purple Power” you’ll get a sodium hydroxide based degreaser.
One will clean the gunk off your radio; the other will clean the gunk and most of the labelling off…
It sounds like it’s other countries in Europe as well.
https://old.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1vkgf1k/valve_notifying_hardware_customers_about_a/
They do use same partner. As I got the email and based in UK.
This was why MMO experience was sought out.
—The Far Side, October 15, 1990
Hmm.
A lot of these are going to be just request-driven. That is, they aren’t really doing anything while idling. Thus, they don’t really need to be actually running.
If the idle memory usage is an actual concern — and honestly, the OS is probably just gonna page things out if the software is truly idle and it needs the memory for something else and it has paging space…I kind of assume that someone has built some sort of system that works like inetd, which avoided leaving non-containerized servers running. You register a port, and then inetd listens on it. When someone connects, it starts up the daemon in question (say, Apache or whatever). Just need to start a container on demand here. Maybe close it down after a long-enough period of inactivity.
EDIT:
https://old.reddit.com/r/docker/comments/72sdyf/startrun_a_container_when_incoming_traffic/
Start/run a container when incoming traffic detected
Sounds like you’re looking for inetd.
A more modern version of this is systemd socket activation.
Podman supports socket activation since version 3.4.0 (released Sep 2021).
how i dream of buy a few 12 tb drives.
Rotational hard drive prices are up, but not that far, not like RAM, especially if you’re not getting the largest drives possible.
That’s maybe a doubling on 12TB drives from the trough. I mean, sure, it’s significant, but if you were already talking about getting several, you can certainly get one.
It appears that most people don’t care about spending $100 on a video game.
I’m fine with spending $100 on a video game. I mean, said video game needs to provide reasonable value, but the amount of time I play a game varies way more than game price, is the dominant factor.
I didn’t really like what I played of GTA 5 and probably won’t play this one, but for the right game, sure. If I could get a game I like similar to Oxygen Not Included, which I’ve played for many, many hours, I’d do $100 happily.
pre-orders
Now that I will agree with being a problem.
Maybe it’s for older cards?
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1036438779/gold-greenman-14k-solid-gold-with?show_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details