LazerFX

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[–] LazerFX 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't do this - plugging in an infected drive can infect the secondary computer; you may wish to plug it into a linux or other hardened system to get the data however. The post by @silverdiamond is a better response.

[–] LazerFX 1 points 2 weeks ago

LOL! Blast from the past... Dead n00bs scattered everywhere.

[–] LazerFX 7 points 2 weeks ago

And this is how you handle responsible disclosure... 34 minutes for simply an e-mail list, no login details or private information.

[–] LazerFX 2 points 3 weeks ago

Elbow, knee, hair, lighting, reflections, arse, wrinkles on clothes, writing and numbers... It's spectacularly bad.

[–] LazerFX 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

There are places where it's used well. The Matrix, for example. Someone elseThread said Max Max: Fury Road, and I agree on that. Those are... at the moment... the only two that aren't abominations of decolouring, though.

[–] LazerFX 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Caring for others is good for you. Even if you look at it shellfishly, it is still true.

Had to.

[–] LazerFX 2 points 1 month ago

I've never free-swam, but when I was a kid (up to early teens, maybe 14?) I had swimming lessons. I was always told the lessons of the waterways, which I vaguely remember now, but one of them was kick off your shoes because they will kill you. We had to recite those back at the start and end of the lessons, what to do if you fell in. Kick off your shoes because they will kill you.

Only lesson I remember, funnily enough.

[–] LazerFX 2 points 1 month ago

As Terry Pratchett, via the voice of Sam Vimes, once put it, "This is love-in-a-canoe coffee if ever I saw it."

[–] LazerFX 5 points 1 month ago

They've explicitly acknowledge the overpromise in the part of NMS (And, thanks to the continuous, rolling, free and global updates to NMS, have more than delivered on everything they promised and then a load more that they didn't promise, including next-generation graphical updates, and entire new procedural generation systems that have added even more to the environment).

They've gone above and beyond to deliver, I'd even hazard a guess that they've over-delivered as far as any bureaucratic or financial director is concerned. They're working full-time on NMS nearly 10 years on from release! They've done enough to warrant a modicum of trust.

I'm not pre-ordering, but I'll be watching with interest, and will likely buy on day-one.

[–] LazerFX 2 points 1 month ago

That's what the guy said. Money isn't "intrinsically" real - it doesn't have something in-and-of itself. It's extrinsically real - it represents something in the society we live in, a system of arbitrage and barterage that we use to represent an amount of work (Poorly, and with little benefit to a large number of people).

So no - if the extrinsic reality changes, then the barter or arbitrage currency will change - bottle caps, for instance, take over. But for a large society to function, a commonly accepted means of representing "value" has to be agreed upon. I can't just say, "Well, I've got the worth of x hours worth of time spent on projects to provide", instead I'll say "I've got x pounds to provide".

Originally, this was made more explicit, and it still exists on UK currency: "I promise to pay the bearer..." At that point, the notes had a (Bank-enfornced) intrinsic value. The words meant a promise to provide the currencies face-value in Gold. Now, we've done away with gold-backed currency, and the raw value is arbitrary, it has no intrinsic value but that set by extrinsic realities.

[–] LazerFX 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's pseudo-realtime; things happen on a tick, but that tick is pretty generous in timings and you can pause the game at any point.

[–] LazerFX 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sodium Ion battery cells (From the article):

  • Energy Density: 145Wh/kg (How much Weight)
  • Energy Desnity: ??? (How much Volume)
  • Life cycle: 1,500 charges (Normal temperatures)
  • 92% capacity at -20°C

Lithium Polymer (From Harding Energy - https://www.hardingenergy.com/lithium-2/ - assuming this is representative)

  • Energy Density: 100 - 158Wh/kg (How much Weight)
  • Energy Density: 185 - 220Wh/l (How much Volume/Size)
  • Life Cycle: ~500 (No temperature comments)
  • Operable Temperature: -20°C - 50°C

That feels to me like the reported characteristics are on-par or better. Whether the real-world characteristics are the same, and if they really last as long is an open question.

I'd love to find out the Wh/l - i.e. how much physical size is needed to store the same weight of battery. It's not such an issue with the likes of an e-bike, or even so much a car, as there's spaces to shove it, but in something like a phone (Especially when people are so fixated on 'super slim devices' to the detriment of all else), if it's 2 or 3 times larger physically, I can see it not catching on in those areas.

Searching on the Wh/l for Sodium batteries, I found nothing that seemed authoritative.

 

So I'm looking for a new client, specifically mobile, that's FOSS, easy to use, allows for browsing communities on other instances easily (not just searching for instances, but actually viewing the list of instances, etc).

I'm a dev, so happy to put some legwork into it myself. So my question is - technically, is the UI tied to being run on an instance "directly", or could it be detached, electron- or atom-ified and put into an app?

I can do the work, but before starting I'd like to know :⁠-⁠)

 

I love this concept and think it really has legs as a fantastic RPG idea...

My comment on the original post: It takes the *humanity *out of *alien/foreign/different *races. If done properly, you can easily conceptualise different views of the world. Something like the sort of thing John Scalzi has done with his works - let’s work through how a different viewpoint actually works and then work out where the jagged edges are - all of a sudden, the different races are fighting with each other because they see the world diferently and don’t communicate properly so they assume all of the others think the same way (because they can’t concieve of anythign else without looking that far into it) and boom you’ve got a realistic world with in-built fracture lines…

 

So I'm looking to build my own CM4-based NAS appliance. I figure that I've got the time to build it, and it'll be cheaper, more powerful and more capable than an off-the-shelf appliance (such as a QNAP or Synology device).

I'm looking to use it for self-hosting, probably 2 - 4 SSD's to run it (Happy to spend the money on the drives, as I can spread that out over time)... will likely start with a relatively cheap 2tib 2.5" SSD like the Crucial BX500 and scale up as I go...

I'd like a relatively neat box - something like the Argon EON. I'd like to use the CM4 because it's got the PCI-E so you can use a relatively full-speed ACPI interface to the SATA ports, which rules out the Argon EON (Except, possibly, as a donor case). I don't have a 3D Printer, but I'd be happy to purchase a printed model from a makers group or similar. I'm happy to actually build up a unit (setting up fans, etc.) but I've no soldering experience whatsoever.

Software-wise, I've already got a RPI4 which I've been playing around with... Seems pretty good, and I had pi-hole running on it for a while (until SD card unreliability took it down).

Does anyone have any experience with a build like this? Any advice on what cases to use, what hats for the PCIE-to-SATA work best? Anything at all, really, that you'd advise?

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