OpenAI recently updated ChatGPT to be able to reproduce images in a specific style, and a lot of people posted Ghibli-style versions of things. So all of a sudden, it’s a big deal.

Oh, that’s definitely how it should be (but pretty much never is). That’s good to hear.

The thing I like about Unraid that’s dead simple, which I’m sure more technically-minded people can do with many solutions, is use drives of different sizes as long as each drive is less than the size of the parity drive(s). Since content shares are automatically distributed across drives, and those drives are different sizes, is that not very similar functionality?

I guess my question is, is the hybrid RAID solution above different only in that the array presents as a single drive to the user, rather than a single (multi-drive-apportioned) share?

I can’t say I understand the reasons for that.

But the flash drive content is very minimal and in 2+ years of using it, anecdotally I haven’t had any problems. The cache drive is separate (I use an SSD for that in addition to my 3.5" HDDs), and once booted my understanding is the entire OS is in memory, so it isn’t a bottleneck. The OS flash drive is small and just settings, and one-click backup, so I don’t have anxiety over data loss.

The future is great!

Interesting, I must have missed it when investigating. It seems a little “Linux power user”-y, though - is that accurate? It says for home office, but is it good for movies/music/etc hosting?

https://www.openmediavault.org/features.html

I can figure out how to get things done when I know the goal (I learned plenty of command-line, docker containers, etc setup with Unraid). So not a beginner. But to be honest, I can’t even understand if the features on this “features” page are things that are important to me because I don’t know enough acronyms and foundational knowledge, so it’s a little imposing.

I don’t regret building my home server with Unraid at all. It’s great, use any drives, don’t even have to be the same sizes.

https://unraid.net/

The pricing is reasonable, but one issue is that they changed their pricing scheme recently to only give a year of updates for all but the costliest license. I was grandfathered in unless I upgrade my license, but it’s something to consider.

They’re still a corporate entity, and they still want access to markets to make money.

Sure, I just mean, look how long BOTW has been sold - it will be a fraction of that length of time before Switches cease being sold. Mostly I was pointing to the system refresh as not only a chance to reissue BOTW, but to reset pricing expectations.

There will be a future where BOTW S2-edition is still being sold and the Switch is not. From them on, BOTW will be a $90 game, since it will be the only way to get it.

Pretty soon you won’t be able to buy a Switch, once manufacturing ceases.

Nintendo famously never discounts. But this is actually Nintendo’s way of not only never discounting, but increasing the price over time.

This is a good list, and to add:

• Consumer sentiment in general is terrible. A large part of the population are stressed and exhausted, and that’s not a “let’s go see something fun” mindset for many, it’s “let’s get through the day and watch comfort content.”

• This is a time of the year in general where studios bury releases they don’t have confidence in.

• Because of that, while many have reasonable Rotten Tomatoes scores, when you do that year after year, audiences start to stop paying attention around this time.

I’m just waiting for a nice breakdown of society that somehow happens with working electricity and no danger or difficulty obtaining food, and then I’m set.

The IA doesn’t have funds to pay what they’re demanding, so if there’s a settlement, it’ll be other concessions.

They’re going to burn down part of the IA library, aren’t they.

So they didn’t say whether it was illegal, but they won’t stop it.

Very cool upholding the rule of law, guys. Nice job.

The great taste of Ovaltine, of course!

“Free TV” means “TV paid for with your time and attention.”

Know what else pays you for your time and attention? Your job. We can quibble about how hard work it is to watch ads, but that is what’s happening: you’re just working, bartering and using up irreplaceable portions of your life with inevitable unavoidable ads, when you use these free TV services.

The same with Google’s recent Doom demo, this is just for headlines and nothing else. Non-deterministic AI generation is antithetical to what a game is, unless it’s an art game focused on the very fact it’s non-deterministic.

For example I played Super Mario Bros. and notice now if there’s even a 5ms delay in the controls. It’s instantly frustrating that my actions are non-deterministic in that small way. You need the game world to be persistent and reliable, and there is an extremely efficient way to do that right now, with code.

Making AI generate it is a parlor trick that is doubly worse - both unreliable and far more expensive to generate.

There are enemies in the demo. Like Superhot, they don’t attack until you move and the AI redraws.

Yep. “My draconian DRM loosened the straight jacket a little.”

Yayyy.

Thanks, I didn’t see this, there was a different embedded FAQ that didn’t have the specific Q & A below.

But, if anything, it seems to confirm the ad itself is just legitimately clicked from the user’s IP address and hidden from the user, and that there is code execution protection, but not that there is any privacy protection? It’s still very ambiguous.

How does AdNauseam “click Ads”?

AdNauseam ‘clicks’ Ads by issuing an HTTP request to the URL to which they lead. In current versions the is done via an XMLHttpRequest (or AJAX request) issued in a background process. This lightweight request signals a ‘click’ on the server responsible for the Ad, but does so without opening any additional windows or pages on your computer. Further it allows AdNauseam to safely receive and discard the resulting response data, rather than executing it in the browser, thus preventing a range of potential security problems (ransomware, rogue Javascript or Flash code, XSS-attacks, etc.) caused by malfunctioning or malicious Ads. Although it is completely safe, AdNauseam’s clicking behaviour can be de-activated in the settings panel.