For a practical test, search for kbin.social (and then ctrl+f for it also to get the direct results). Or, just look at a community: [email protected]

The only thing that appears missing is the avatars images. Though I assume the text content is doomed in the long-run when it comes to new instances, as I doubt re-federation (3rd-party federation) is a thing. Unless of course, someone manually crossposts said content.

All I can think here is

On the other hand: anything anti-consumer like this (like bricking game consoles) has potential to backfire in a myriad of ways when the inevitable exploits are found.

Ransomware customers, target people you don’t like (perhaps even by employees), or simply brick devices to cause returns and/or drive up customer support costs, or just cause a scandal to tarnish the brand itself (or force recalls/end of sales in places that actually have consumer protections). EDIT: Also imagine a dealership where no truck can even be driven off the lot, especially if they all need something like the computer to be fixed/replaced.

The closer to a real brick it is (rather than just a soft lockout), the more potential there is for disaster. Also it reinforces exactly the sentiment that’d cause people to look for said exploits.

On paper sure they are villages, but I think a US village and one from elsewhere would likely feel drastically different. Lacking actual community (see Bowling Alone), or just look at all of the things that the village lost (shops, train station, industry etc) and what it still has(franchise dollar store, gas station etc).

It could just be coincidence, though “retirement village” is a term (also ecovillages) so maybe not. Aside from decay, I’d imagine the common perspective of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it (unless you stop for gas/maybe breakfast) probably doesn’t help with image either.

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It could include all that you’ve mentioned

Well, tell me if you find some better sculpting option than Blender. A lot of promising options (clay-like or SDF) are locked behind licenses etc. (and obviously I care more about low/medium-poly aesthetic)

Other stuff probably has its own limitations or is just more suited for environment (such as voxel terrain or CSG).

Would be clearer if you gave an example.

I’m guessing you mean VR painting. Or something similar like 3D sculpting (with some device setup that feels more immersive)?

There’s also texture painting and vertex painting*, but those are only part of working on something 3D.

* and no I don’t mean in the behind-the-scenes way it’s often used for some technical feature, I mean vertex color that is used for the final (likely low-poly) result. Like

I guess you could even mean mini/model painting (I say because you also posted this on the 3Dprinting community).

Hey, give a little credit to our public schools (poorly-optimized eye-candy) new games! (where 10-20GiB is now considered small)

I still see it being an issue of pricing and questionable value (over older/used/already-owned) of a bottlenecked part, particularly when it ends up with users who aren’t esports users (for a multitude of reasons). In other words: stagnation.

It’s more obvious with AMD selling new 4GB cards still in the budget category rather than ultra-budget, as in they aren’t raising the floor. The jokes still work:

EDIT: There were even polaris GPUs with 8GB

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Even if so, PCIe 5.0 x8 connection so it’s probably less useful for older systems with PCIe 3 (or even PCIe 4) which many on a budget will want to keep using.

Likely will have the issue (that B580 has) with older/weaker CPUs as well though that might be more of a gaming thing not sure about workstation use… I mean if it is a bandwidth issue with the architecture itself (with a CPU not being able to saturate the data for whatever reason) maybe.

I’ve seen reports that the B580 may have lower performance with non-newest CPUs (possibly related to how ReBar being off can lower performance). Some of the options I see for that are also PCIe x8 as well.

I’m also on Linux, and from what I’ve heard it’s a bit behind there compared to the already expected beta-test. I mean, unless things (on either platform) have improved in the last 5 months.

That’s the thing, that’s way above my price range.

I’m still happy* with my other parts that I got on sale in 2019 (Ryzen 2700, 16GiB RAM). Also crazy to me that an entry-level GPU had 4GiB VRAM in 2016 and it still hasn’t moved much beyond that. I guess the market never fully recovered from crypto. Or maybe I just really threaded the needle when it comes to value.

* I don’t really play high-end/newer games though, so even with the GPU some of the issue is just that I worry that the fans are eventually going to die. So it’s that and the nice-to-have of something that could maybe fit in a backpack.

It’ll probably be a while. And it might even be some other tech like ARM, or maybe some new luggable PC even if that happens to just be some second-hand portable with no battery.

It (along with AMD’s habit of not having the full x16 capability, general gpu prices) does not inspire confidence that I’m ever upgrading away from my 1050Ti any time soon.

I may instead have more luck with an APU in a minipc (when the spec and price eventually makes sense).

This would require both the air and surface to be free of dust. Maybe in a lab that could be true, but probably not in the real world.

If would be more productive to encourage blocking by making it more powerful/less of a chore.

• general categories/tags to filter out (plus allow-list) rather than manual blocking
• put ‘block community’ in more options so blocking can be done with less clicks (/for nsfw comms)
• a way to limit how many posts from a community are shown on the same page, or from the same user (maybe an option like only show most relevant post per hour/half-hour etc)
  • ideally communities would allow setting how posts are sent to all, even if it’s just a post setting
  • or posts could be more aggressively grouped, similar with crossposts (or things that were not detected as a crosspost but likely should’ve been)

Also honestly once a block list is 50+ it already seems like named blocklists are needed to properly manage things.

I just went to the doctor the next day and got medication

If it were that easy sure, but it doesn’t work that way here (certainly not walk-ins, phone doesn’t work for me). That was my thinking when replying to your top-level comment, that most people (in the US at least) will have more trouble getting there.

I’m well aware, I ride my bike on a trail (though not many destinations and heat can be an issue) and I even reorganized my room recently. Though it seems like it’s impossible to control/sustain.

For me (carless) it’s more about the distance to even picking up medication (more-so care esp not-the-closest-hospital), paperwork and appointments, time slots and waiting lists. Family is anti-doctor. Many of my issues likely won’t be helped much by standard medical options, even depression (particularly when something like a personality disorder is part of it) already seems like a coin flip.

Also with the current administration I don’t trust that if I got started I’d still have access before getting stable (plus you cannot just take a break from most brain meds w/o tapering off).

I don’t live in the 21st century, I live in isolation and without medication. And I assume others in the thread are similar.

No I can’t imagine any path to even living in a different place in the US, let alone getting out. Even some of the edge cases I likely won’t ever have the connection(s) for it to be a possibility.

alarm-clock-applet allows custom commands. So put systemctl suspend into a timer, bingo.

rtcwake to wake the computer up, for-better-or-worse the music will still be playing.

Someone else mentioned android, VLC there does have a sleep timer (just to stop the music) I didn’t see an equivalent option in the desktop version (at a quick glance) though.

In SMPlayer I do see the option ‘shut down computer’ as a sub-option for `close when finished playback’ (general options)