Mechanically, it would make a great hack and slash like Devil May Cry.

It could also be fun if done well like The Witcher.

Sadly, for every success like The Witcher, there are 20 Wheel of Time games.

My son and I heard it the first time when my wife was scrolling shorts. We chimed in together repeating the first line of the book. It was a pleasant surprise, finding that source.

I think I might have one I can’t use. Might be 2 TB.

I bought it as an experiment to use with my NAS, but my SAS card is running in SATA mode and won’t recognize it with an adapter.

If you or someone wants to have me ship it to you (you pay postage and send me the pdf for the label) PM me.

https://youtu.be/cs9u4PPgie0

I used Ubuntu for a while until about 7-10 years ago when they started bogging down the interface. I moved to Mint because it was easy to not have to learn new stuff. Here is a list of some of the grievances:

Advertiements for Canonical in the OS.

The telemetry is consentual and optional, but it still gives Linux users a weird itch.

Snaps are the default packages, which is not completely FOSS. I use Fedora now, and flatpack is a similar tool, but it is less bloated, FOSS, decentralized, sandboxed by default, and asks you too update packages instead of automatically doing so. Snaps seem to be easier for maintainers and supposedly has better security. https://itsfoss.com/flatpak-vs-snap/

People were irritated with the Unity interface when it came out.

Also, it’s corporate and that bugs people.

Debian is upstream of Ubuntu and a bit more simple. Mint is downstream and includes many of the QOL fixes in Ubuntu without the above grievances.

I did not, but if you want to link it offended page I can give it a whirl.

I’ll link what I think is your page you were viewing and try it here.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/linux-desktop-environment-face-off

Edit: No change. No odd behavior.

I tried to recreate this in Firefox, but also couldn’t duplicate it.

It’s possible they are trying it out, but I’m also concerned you might have a browser highjacker. Do the links go back to Tom’s Hardware, or do they lead somewhere else?

Hah, if you are near Cincinnati, I have a system with 6 SATA ports I just rebuilt for $30.

Look, if you were looking to have more options handed to you, you are in the right place!

TrueNAS is a great diy option. I have it running on an old box of mine. The one real caveat is that you will need enough hard drive slots (don’t just hang them unless you go full SSD), 4+ SATA ports or add in a SAS card, enough PSU to handle all your drives, and enough memory.

I am running one SAS card and 16 GB of DDR 3. Since the attached image I have taken pics of the serial numbers and labeled the drives.

Pretty sure that gps is a plaintext broadcast. It’s nice because it’s universally accessible, but it’s a target now that people rely on it.

Back in the 90s my head was full of maps of my region because I drove a lot for work. Mobile online GPS is a game changer, since you get traffic updates in real time. While I suppose you could review your route ahead of time, there is not a known way to get relevant traffic updates unless you have a radio station just to that effect.

My real concern for you would be a sudden information blackout.

It’s available in the software catalog with a click of the button in Linux. Also, it makes running mods simple.

Ah, Cheaphotel.

Wow, this is a GameStop ad dressed up as news.

Also, buy 2 get one is fine, I guess.

CS 2026. Comes with the latest dossiers on real operators. Features American terrorists.

I hoped this was going to be direct air capture. Then I realized that all the excess gasses would be valuable, and the system would oxidize faster pulling in atmosphere.

Yeah, I still opt for the ‘lower-cost’ options when buying appliances. There is always the used market, so by the time I must but one I’ll probably have a strategy ready to go.

Maybe I’ll have an old phone I’ll put on a separate vlan WiFi with a special account just for that. A service account, if you will.

App-controlled appliances are absolutely one of my pet peeves. I would much rather prefer an analog knob.

I was debating just now burning a DBAN disk just to use the ancient HP I recovered to wipe old IDE hard disks.

That idea broke down when when I realized that the ribbon connector was actual floppy and there was no IDE connector.

It broke down further when I tested the optical drive with another disk to see if I could stubbornly use it with a USB IDE adapter. The drive didn’t seem to spin up and I’m not wasting my time burning a drive when I have other options.

I finally grabbed a Linux Mint live USB and another computer. I’m supposedly running shred on the drive, but I forgot to include output so I’ll just know when I get back in to work Monday. Top does say shred is using processor cycles, so I guess it’s fine.

It’s any unfinished project that I can probably finish in about 20 minutes. Just 20 more minutes. Don’t worry, I’m almost done.

I absolutely agree that attempting to regenerate 30k lines of code into another language is incredibly overconfident. I’m sure you could probably generate a few hundred lines of code that function as expected. To generate that much code, I expect constant maintenance of the output and a moderate up deep understanding of both the old and new code.