Midnight Wolf

I’m about to blow your mind: the IT Crowd has a live studio audience. One of the specials goes over each cast member and shows bloopers and such, and you can see them in several shots. I believe they also talk briefly about the audience, though it’s been a while. If I remember right, they would take the audience reactions of two takes and sort of merge them together.

I love all 3 of those - any more similar recommendations?

Though the mouth, right?

…right?

Tbh, for me there’s just a couple of ‘creators’ I watch that do it for their careers, and they didn’t start that way; the rest (50 or so subs) still do it ‘right’, even years later. YouTube started as a platform where everyone can create and share, and people who saw an opportunity for money helped turn it into the shit that it is today. When you (them) have multiple sponsorships per video, the production quality matching broadcast television, prominently show off your new car, house, jet… You (them) are the problem.

This needs a reset back to goofy video game machinimas, cyber police, hiiii my name is boxxy, arby n the chief; when people who hit record didn’t want money. They were there to share with others.

Oh yeah, you sexy sexy Camry…

Pfft, how scrappy and undignified. I will make you a pair that looks identical, and costs four times as much, so you know it is of only the finest quality.

Hey, I recognize that character…

Choo choo 🚆😏

‘You wouldn’t know our llm, it goes to a different school’ vibe

Not on this machine, though I use it for one of my laptops. But that system also has the pagefile disabled if I remember correctly, as it has 48 gigs.

(that unit has a buggy gpu that fails to resume from sleep and just gives static instead; windows and linux. So hibernate is the solution for ‘sleeping’.)

Shortly after I took the screenshot I fired up Motor Town for a couple hours; when I closed it, the usage settled on 27GB. Like, sure, I have oodles of ram, but why. What does windows anticipate me doing, launching the game multiple times in rapid succession? The game is only like 3GB if I remember right, wtf is it doing that is using 19 + 8 additional gigs on? It’s like this black box that’s all ‘trust me bro’ but there’s no logic to it. Opaque is the term I want, I believe.

It’s been bugging me for a while, just sort of venting. Especially at a restart, I haven’t launched anything beyond startup programs. Why is it trying to guess what I might do? If I launch something, close it, sure, keep it in ram for a couple minutes. But don’t hold onto it like a hoarder, lol.

I don’t anticipate needing all 64 gigs at once, and afaik the only other reason is for bsod diagnostics. Unless there is something I am unaware of…?

In order for left to right:

• AMD software updater
• HASS.Agent
• Sophos Home
• Synology Drive
• Wireguard
• spacedesk
• Haven (discord replacement)
• Vesktop (alternative discord frontend)
• AMD software
• Creative Sound Blaster Command
• Signal
• Rainmeter
• Telegram
• Bitwarden
• Logitech G Hub
• Playnite
• Steam
• Trucky
• ShareX
• KDE Connect
• f.lux
• Wallpaper Engine
• NextDNS
• Windows Security

Steam is far and away the biggest resource hog at 450MB, I’m assuming mostly from the browser engine.

I’m pretty sure I have the pagefile disabled; both C and D are NVMe drives, and D is raid0. I disabled superfetch a few minutes ago, rebooted, and don’t see any performance impact, but the used memory when idle is now 10GB, vs the 19 in that screenshot. No other changes.

I could see the appeal if I was using a platter drive for my programs or frequent data, but it’s not 2008 anymore. I’d rather see actual usage over ‘the computer knows best’.

E: me spell good

I haven’t heard of that since the Vista days, totally forgot about it. Doesn’t make sense, I’ve been all-flash* (E is still HDD for backups, no programs) for well-over a decade. Maybe I should disable it and see if it makes a difference. C is a Samsung 960 Pro and D is a Western Digital Black SN750 in raid0, so it’s not really helping even if it is doing something…

Ehh, my main machine eats up 12-16GB with just background tasks, and that’s on W10. Nobody gives a fuck about optimization since the late 00s.

E: just woke up my system

Really interesting watch, thanks :)

As someone who bought a Supermicro board 6 weeks ago and was super happy to learn about IPMI: oh no.

I flashed the latest bmc firmware and bios the day I got it running (also fuck paywalling the bmc UI for bios updates), but… 😬

E: holy shit it truncates passwords to 19 characters. One of my weakest passwords, in the bottom 10 of like 450 passwords.

E2: I can’t disable KCS, I can’t disable the IPMI (short of unplugging the ethernet cable), I can’t disable the default user or limit the privileges, so I had delete my user, login as the default, then change the username and password to my user creds. Like, wow.

Do you still have to drive on the left when driving the UK, or do nautical regulations override that?

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