Worked for the dotcom bubble. It blew up and we were left with corporate hellscape internet, not so/interesting independent internet, and the dark web.

AI will blow up leaving a few massive players, the Google/Facebook/etc equivalent. Some independent people doing interesting and not so interesting things. And a dark web.

I used to keep a liquid starter because I preferred the dairy flavour over the vinegary one. Also, I just got more consistent results over a stiff starter. Cleaning is easier because it’s watery AF. Cheaper maintenance feeds. Doesn’t expand out of the jar. Lot of good in a liquid starter.

So 5:1 water to flour Ish. To use it I’d just subtract the starter from the water in the baker math and it’d mostly work out.

I can’t vouch for it. But my understanding is that DOS is it’s own wild west of Case By Case Basis. My understanding is that if DosBox pure would be happy with the .zip you give it, Romm may or may not be. If DosBox won’t fire it up with no tinkering god help you.

I got fallout to run in a desktop instance, but it still didn’t run on Romm. Gpt suspects it’s the nested folder structure

/INTRPLAY/FALLOUT/[game stuff here including data folders]

Gpt is wrong more than it’s right though.

I’m fine with people paying for the Just-Works™.

I’ve just ventured into DosBox stuff, starting with pre installed game folders (best case scenario). Just mount the .7z into dosbox and… Wait, unarchive it, make it a .zip and… Wait, just unzip it and remake the folder structure to match the .cfg, rezip and… Wait, unzip and re-write some of the setting in the .cfg, re-zip and… Wait, mouse support on a touch screen, why is the keyboard unresponsive?

Tinkering is fun, but I just wanted to play fallout 1. Romm just added dos support. I was elated. But all my games are .7z. and the 2 I tried (FO1 and a 1-0 soccer, it was first on the list) both didn’t fire up, fallout 1 required tinkering to fire up in a DosBox instance. A fun project, I wasn’t gaming though.

I guess a third position is then that “gender is meaningless, but just play along”.

Thrice you’ve asserted gender as meaningless. Twice I’ve shown you it isn’t.

A house isn’t just a building. It’s society that gives the building meaning and power. Turning the construction of brick and glass into a “house”. Society gives the construction “House” meaning, it gives it power, it gives it protection. Just because without society all that meaning falls away, doesn’t mean it doesn’t have meaning at all. It has the meaning society is currently giving it. Now thrice I’ve shown you it isn’t meaningless.

Abolishing the idea of gender entirely seems more rational

Perhaps. It’s probably a good idea to try. If nothing else we can stop using gender to oppress people. If gender doesn’t have any meaning, what idea would you be abolishing? Your second point undermines your first assertion. Why abolish something meaningless? It’s meaningless.

It might turn out that there is a “man” chemical/gene expression/brain structure. All I can tell you is that I am a man. Where my “Manness” comes from be it societal construction, or some biological function I don’t know. I’m comfortable being a man, I’m comfortable being labeled a man, I’m not forced to confront it.

However, some people make it an aesthetic and romanticise it.

What is it that you think makes it attractive to them? The meds? The surgery? The bigotry they face? The gender dysphoria? Is it the chosen family because many of them were disowned by their biological one? The shorter life spans? The increased chance of having violence visited upon them? They go through these things because not doing so would be worse for them personally.

Sure, you can be assigned a gender at birth, but if gender is meaningless then why would you feel the need to change it?

But it isn’t meaningless. Society gives meaning to gender. Woman means dresses, man means beard. It’s discordant when you see a person with a beard in a dress. Less so now, as we’re pushing against gender being what defines fashion.

A house has meaning, there are specific laws and regulations that govern how you and I interact with it, but there’s nothing fundamentally "House"y about it. Remove all society and that building is just a building.

That doesn’t mean that “House” is meaningless, it isnt. “House” could be meaningless, but it isn’t currently. We give it meaning.

If men and women are equal in capability of skill, then I don’t see why you’d want to change it.

Taking the least gracious interpretation of transgender: gender is entirely performative. A person assigned Male at Birth grows up thinking that: how 'Man" is performed sucks, but how “woman” is performed is awesome. That’s still, as we agree, a valid experience.

Honestly, I don’t think that Trans people want to be trans. What about the trans experience is attractive to you that makes you think people want it? The meds? The surgery? The bigotry they face? The gender dysphoria? Is it the chosen family because many of them were disowned by their biological one? They go through these things because not doing so would be worse for them personally.

Sure, I can respect how other people identify, but if gender is simply a social construct, then I don’t understand how someone could be transgender.

I don’t understand how you can’t? Society constructed it, so it exists. Take a rudimentary construction.

A house. There isn’t a “house” partical/chemical/gene/brain structure. Does that mean the house doesn’t exist? Society didn’t have to construct a house, it could have constructed a road or a bus stop, does that mean the house doesn’t exist?

The house exists, we can point to it, we can point to the effects it has on the world: it’s a house now, you can’t just walk in without the owner’s permission or society will punish you.

I have no idea whether gender has a physical component particle/chemical/gene/brain structure/… But, even granting it doesn’t, it doesn’t mean gender doesn’t exist. Gender not having a physical component could mean gender doesn’t have to exist.

Like the house, it didn’t have to exist. It doesn’t have to be protected by society the way it currently is. It doesn’t always have to be a house. It still exists though.

For my own anecdote. I identify as a man, but I don’t really identify with how man is performed. Like “man” is a what I am, not so much a who I am. So, I’d lean that gender has some physical “what” component.

Equally, no-one can see my man partical/chemical/gene/brain structure/… but they have no problem identifying me as a man, (though not a particularly manly one), so who the fuck knows.

I’m privileged enough to not question my gender, or have it questioned. So, what I think means diddly.

I run 2 instances of pihole/unbound as lxcs on my main server and local back up, works great.

If I didn’t have the two big boxes I’d use my pi4/zero2 to run two instances of pihole/unbound.

If I didn’t have my pis, I’d run 2 instances of pihole/unbound on literally anything I could install it on.

What I’m saying is that I consider pihole/unbound to be essential infrastructure at this point. I’m also trying to say I’ve broken my only instance of pihole enough times to understand the importance of redundancy.

I use Pis as a (sort of) hardware key to get family and friends onto my Tailscale VPN. They all have pihole too. I haven’t convinced any of them to get a pi0 as a redundant box, but I’m sure they’ll learn eventually too. No doubt it’ll be my problem.

Which is why I would be comparing the steam machine with Beelink and Minisforum. Can I get a reasonable uplift in performance at an affordable price? Yes, at this point the decision to relace my 970 is made, and I’m looking at what to replace it with. Valve, Beelink, minisforum, geekom…

I’m too lazy to research, design, collect parts, and build my own pc. So a Mini PC home console replacement is absolutely where I’m going. I’ll give valve some premium chops too. Although I run a couple Beelink minis as a home server, I trust valve to have better lifetime and 3rd party support over [insert generic Mini builder here]. Mostly the research if I’m honest. If someone gave me a pcpartpicker list beating the UM780 XTX in price and performance I’d probable do that, I’m just lazy.

I think I’m going to buy a PS3/XB360 era emulation capable mini (easily doable for sub $700 according to RetroGameCorps mini pc spreadsheet), I would like it to be Valve, I’m ok with it not being.

Can confirm with my 970. But I would be comparing it to offerings from Beelink, or Minisforum, not the computer I already have.

The difference between a million and a billion is about a billion. Millionaires are closer to zero than they are the ultra rich.

Cleanuparr+huntarr

Add a bunch to Prowlarr (filter by public, Torrent, Language, category) and then monitor the stats in Prowlarr to remove the ones not working out for you.

MagnetDownload has the highest number of successful grabs for me. Followed by TorrentProject2. I run a Bitmagnet instance though, and I have that as highest piority.

Congrats on a finished project.

I don’t do woodworking, but I do undertake projects. “Finishing the project” is a priority all of its own.

WAF has consistently held me down to earth. “What will that enable you to acheive that you can’t do already?” With a couple mini pcs and a rpi I’m good. I’d love shiny things, but beyond LLMs there’s not much it would enable me to achieve that I can’t already.

That, and other hobbies. I don’t want to be an amateur system admin during the summer. So all winter long, while I’m tinkering, I’m adding up how much it adds to my maintenance schedule.

Honestly, I wouldn’t.

I only run it this way because a VPS had 0 WAF, and I’m terrified of opening ports. VPS is the well trodden ground, there’s tonnes of guides. Mine’s a hack job borne of necessity, it works though, and I am proud of what I cobbled together.

It was my first time solving my own problems. I had my meager skill set, a basic idea of what I wanted, some vague notion of how I was going to achieve it, and a thick forehead to smash against the problem till it gave way for me.

I am going to keep running it this way though. To access my server you need to HAVE a relay rPi, and you need to KNOW a password. That’s two authentication factors right there, just built in.

I use tailscale for my non-tech family.

I run a rPi with tailscale, pihole and nginx on it in their house. They connect to the their WiFi, get adblocking for free. They go to “http://homarr.sever/” pihole captures the request, sends it to nginx which reverse proxies to a homarr LXC on my server. From there they can click links to the services which are at “https://service/######.xyz”. Again, pihole captures the request, sends it to nginx which reverse proxies it over Tailscale to the appropriate LXC.

One poor soul runs a mini pc with 2 mirrored ssds attached, it runs everything above plus Syncthing. They have the privilege of running the remote back up for the server.

For apps on their phone, I intend to set their phone up with Tailscale and then just have the app go to “http://dockge:1337/”… Just as soon as I learn to write the access controls to allow admins to access everything, users to access services, and services to access nothing. I just looked and there’s a gui now so I could maybe do it this winter.

There should be both. Minimal config + gui options for people just getting into the hobby, or just want the thing. And a more open option for people who hit the limits of the first, or to do interesting shit, or to repeatably build a thing.

I go back and forth on my server. During summer I wish it was all Docker YAMLs so I can press “update” in Dockge and then enjoy the weather.

But, I also do non-typical things. Users have a rPi in their house that captures requests and routes them through Tailscale to my server for remote access without a VPS or opening ports.

I’m not too technical so I often struggle setting things up, and documentation can be less than helpful at times, sometimes I really wished there was a gui or wizard, but it’s doable.

I’m in the UK therefore: no.

Omw, a replacement for Vikunja and Joplin? Sign me up!