They’re offering to pay you to watch ads, same as what Brave does.
You’re going to get people who fall for the “free money” aspect, same as always.
(Also replacing a site’s ads with their ads is exactly the same shit Honey is doing, so it’s nice to see that the founder has a single idea and is going to keep going after it.)
I was excited until the article clearly outlined that it was a multiplayer, online-only game.
Alas.
Not quite.
We’d need the waymo cab to start screaming about how the robot just jumped right out in front of it, and how they should stay the hell out of the way.
Then we’ll have reached parity.
Stuttering and texture pop-in makes me immediately wonder if your SSD shit itself.
Maybe see if there’s anything in the system logs and/or SMART data that indicates that might be a problem?
The $95 million is about nine hours of profit for Apple
I’m sure this will stop them from ever doing something like this again.
(Also I can’t wait for my $0.48 check three years from now.)
Sir Lord President Muskovitch owns an ISP, so he’s on the side of whatever makes him more money, which is always going to not be the one that you’re on.
US yes, maps no.
There are less dumb dumbphones that do a bit more, but I went for quite literally phone-calls-and-sms-only.
I have navigation in the car that works fine, so I personally don’t need that, and am using an iPod, so I don’t need any media functionality.
The camera is shit, but again, if I’m going somewhere specifically to take pictures then I’ve got a reasonable DSLR.
Like I said, not for everyone but works great for what I want and makes it where I basically spend zero time on the internet unless I explicitly sit down at my desk.
I’m with you on phone reduction, and I’m closing in on like 8 months of using a dumbphone.
If you’re really serious about removing distractions, a Nokia that feels like it fell out of 1996 is a shockingly good way to do it.
A bit harsh, perhaps, for a lot of people and I won’t deny there’s a lot of compromises you have to make, but if your goal is to reduce distractions and be in the present, it’s pretty much the gold standard.
No social media, no group messages, no email, no push notifications, no advertisements masquerading as ‘important’, nothing. If you want me you can call or text, and if you don’t want to do either then I guess whatever it was turned out to not actually be that important anyways.
Also mine lasts like 10 days on a charge, and doesn’t cost $1000.
My compromise to survive in modern society was an iPad mini. It’s loaded down with all the crap my phone used to have, but it’s also something I do not take to bed or out of the house, so I can still do banking apps and totp 2fa, and take and send pictures via email and all that stuff without it being a device that’s attached to my hip most of the time and thus in easy reach of noise and nonsense.
Not shocking? There’s probably zero ROI on bothering to invest in R&D for consumer gear.
You can’t sell enough premium drives to offset the fact they’re down to commodity pricing now: the market for a $45 1tb SSD is much larger than a $100 one, and frankly, I wouldn’t be on the premium side of that business either.
High-spec big and expensive enterprise drives are 100% the way to go.
Same thing already has happened with GPUs and CPUs, so storage being next is not surprising.
Cloudflare tunnels are the thing you’re looking for, if you’re not opposed to cloudflare.
You run the daemon on your local system, it connects to cloudflare, and presto, you’ve bypassed this entire mess.
I think the thing a LOT of people forget is that the majority of steam users aren’t hardcore do-nothing-but-gaming-on-their-pc types.
If you do things that aren’t gaming, your linux experience is still going to be mixed and maybe not good enough to justify the switch: wine is good, and most things have alternatives, but not every windows app runs, and not every app alternative is good enough.
Windows is going to be sticky for a lot longer because of things other than games for a lot of people.
A thing you may not be aware of, which is nifty, is the M.2 -> SATA adapters.
They work well enough for consumer use, and they’re a reasonably cheap way of adding another 4-6 SATA ports.
And, bonus, you don’t need to add the heat/power and complexity of some decade old HBA to the mix, which is a solution I’ve grown to really, really, dislike.
The chances of both failing is very rare.
If they’re sequential off the manufacturing line and there’s a fault, they’re more likely to fail around the same time and in the same manner, since you put the surviving drive under a LOT of stress when you start a rebuild after replacing the dead drive.
Like, that’s the most likely scenario to lose multiple drives and thus the whole array.
I’ve seen far too many arrays that were built out of a box of drives lose one or two, and during rebuild lose another few and nuke the whole array, so uh, the thought they probably won’t both fail is maybe true, but I wouldn’t wager my data on that assumption.
(If you care about your data, backups, test the backups, and then even more backups.)
You can find reasonably stable and easy to manage software for everything you listed.
I know this is horribly unpopular around here, but you should, if you want to go this route, look at Nextcloud. It 's a monolithic mess of PHP, but it’s also stable, tested, used and trusted in production, and doesn’t have a history of lighting user data on fire.
It also doesn’t really change dramatically, because again, it’s used by actual businesses in actual production, so changes are slow (maybe too slow) and methodical.
The common complaints around performance and the mobile clients are all valid, but if neither of those really cause you issues then it’s a really easy way to handle cloud document storage, organization, photos, notes, calendars, contacts, etc. It’s essentially (with a little tweaking) the entire gSuite, but self-hosted.
That said, you still need to babysit it, and babysit your data. Backups are a must, and you’re responsible for doing them and testing them. That last part is actually important: a backup that doesn’t have regular tests to make sure they can be restored from aren’t backups they’re just thoughts and prayers sitting somewhere.
I don’t have a specific place; just some of the private general-purpose trackers I’m on will occasionally have someone come by and dump a pile of STLs from various places on them.
(The private part, unfortunately, means I can’t actually share more, sorry - fight club rules and whatnot.)
There’s some cryptobro projects about sticking distributed file sharing on top of ~ THE BLOCKCHAIN ~.
I’m skeptical, but it might actually be a valid use of such a thing.
There’s a ton of commercial/locked-behind-patreon stuff, usually around things like RPG scenery or figures and such.
Like, an immense library of shit that’s not free.
Spoken like someone who’s never even looked at the qualifications for a TS/SCI (which is what these “good jobs” are going to require you to get).
It’s an absolute giant investment in time and energy and the requirements disqualify a shitload of people - it’s not just “be a US citizen”.
And, even if you don’t step on any mines while getting it, keeping it is also not a guaranteed thing: there’s a lot of shit that can wreck you later, too.
Only 200? Try harder, noob.
(I’m at 410, and my Epic library is now three times the size of my Steam one, lol.)
+1 for Frigate, because it’s fantastic.
But don’t bother on an essentially depreciated google product, and skip the coral.
The devs have added the same functionality on the GPU side, and if you’ve got a gpu (and, well, you do, because OpenVino supports intel iGPUs) just use that instead and save the money on a coral for something more useful.
In my case, I’ve both used a coral AND openvino on a coffee lake igpu, and uh, if anything, the igpu was about 20% faster inference times.