mindustry is also on android on f-droid. I remember playing a bit when I took a lot of long airline flights.

Why my firewall is a fanless sign PC. Never really heats up, and I don’t need to worry about the unreliability added by fans.

“They can’t keep getting away with this!!!”

To be fair, and this is coming to someone who is fully sold on LibreOffice and hosts Collabera, the two word processors can open each other’s documents, but cannot produce identical outputs for the same files.

For 99.99% of things switching between the two is going to be just fine, but every once in awhile that 0.01% will really bite you, especially if it is something important such as equations which I have seen first hand don’t properly migrate to LibreOffice.

Depends exactly what you’re doing on that old PC.

If you just need to connect for administration and the like, VNC is decent. It’s my default.

If you want to watch videos or the like, I’d definitely suggest Sunlight and Moonlight. It’s a streaming remote desktop that’s meant for streaming gaming, and so it’s really good at video and audio.

Oh, and for anyone who has never used it, Apache guacamole is a really neat tool for centralizing configuration. Effectively, you can set it up as a website with a username and password that will transfer through ssh, telnet, VNC, and RDP, so if you need to hop into something while you are outside the home, it’s going to be effective. That’s something that I wish I had known about earlier, it would have made a lot of rough days a lot easier.

On the topic of dns, I still use GoDaddy. People ask why, it’s because GoDaddy seems like a good idea in 2003 when I got my first domain, and 2006 when I got my current one. At that point it’s just inertia, I tend to buy several years in advance because I don’t like annual payments, I know it makes me a weirdo. That means I’m locked in for several years and it’s not enough of a problem to do anything about.

Anyone who uses GoDaddy knows that they turned off their dynamic DNS option quite some time ago. My system is pretty stable so I don’t usually need to change it, but if I have a power failure at home or I need to reboot my router, I obviously need to change my DNS at those moments.

When I’m away from home, I end up having to use TeamViewer to hop into a jump box vm I have set up for that purpose. The two obvious problems with that are first of that TeamViewer is a proprietary product, and the second of all that they see me hopping into a jump box regularly and they assume that I’m a commercial customer. There is apparently a way to tell them that you’re just a hobbyist, but I haven’t gotten around to filing that.

What I did do is set up a script that compares the current IP to my DNS IP, and if they are different then I send myself an email that contains the old IP in the new IP. This way, I don’t need to hop into my network to find out what the new IP address is. I also added a little bit there to save the last successful IP address sent by email to /tmp/ so that if I lose my IP address but I’m doing something where I can’t hop onto the GoDaddy website to fix it, I don’t get 100,000 emails with my new IP address.

I killed my house power a couple weeks ago, and the whole system worked exactly as intended. I was pretty happy to see that.

Ubisoft has been getting it’s nuts kicked for years now. During the last quarter, its profit margin has been -24%.

Under these conditions, money > people for anyone. If you made 50,000 a year and every year you were coming up 12,500 short, you’d be looking to make major cuts to your spending, and if someone was going to get hurt as a result, you’d have to just apologize and move on because that’s not sustainable.

Anyone who holds Ubisoft stock for the past 5 years hasn’t made a profit. In fact, they bought a stock at around 80 dollars that is 4 today. Without changes, their investments will go to 0, and every worker at Ubisoft will lose their jobs at that point.

It may appear as if this is a unique feature of capitalism, but under any economic system, underperforming systems need to be cut. People aren’t buying the games, people aren’t playing the games in great enough members and at high enough prices to justify having so many people working on each game, so there just isn’t a good reason to keep giving resources to all the workers.

Hopefully someday these places make murder illegal so people can’t kill others without violating the law.

Erm… Yeah, that’s matrix with encryption enabled on the room.

A lot of things people say about matrix don’t apply to conduit. I’ve run it on an Intel Atom d2550 and it ran fine.

People end up incorrectly utilizing a modernist historical lens, and they don’t realize just how much of our history is barely transmitted.

2,000 years is a long time. Even this article points to exactly one remaining architectural treatise from the first century, of the entire field which was almost certainly written down somewhere given that the Romans were and still are world famous for their architecture.

If we were to step away from the digital environment which may lose every piece of information it has in a century or two, how many pieces of paper have your name on it, and how many of those pieces of paper are likely to survive over 2,000 years?

Anthropologists looking that far back have a real challenge. So much so that many people are still taught things that were just embellishments by angry contemporaries of certain political figures who’s writings on the topic of their enemies happen to be the only one to survive.

They used to say history is written by the winners, but now I say history is written by the people who write and maintain history. It certainly would be nice if a famous historian looked over at the populist Jew in the 0th century would gain quite a following amongst the lower classes, but in the absence of such a piece of documentation, and only having a verbal testimony that was much later written down by a state which had captured those stories for itself, that’s what is there.

If we were to take the epistemological stance that people who weren’t explicitly recorded didn’t exist, then no one would exist in the Americas outside of a few civilizations (and even then the books were burned so no). We have all kinds of tools and buildings and the like, but no one would exist because outside of those civilizations, many of the indigenous Americans didn’t have a writing system.

Another uncomfortable reality is that outside of a few examples such as ethiopia, great zimbabwe, and Egypt, most people on the entire African continent would disappear if this was the required epistemological framework. Even today many of their stories remain unrecorded, passed down only by verbal tradition. Which by the way is an absolute tragedy because based on the few that have been recorded, there are some fascinating stories on the continent.

The thing is coming in the modern era, one of the most interesting discoveries was that many verbal stories passed down Did contain empirically true facts. A number of incredible archaeological finds in Greece were discovered by archaeologists attempting to check the locations where ancient poems suggested there might be something. Before Homer wrote down or had written down his stories, many of the tales were passed down over millennia. The Minoan civilization of crete, for example, was only found incredibly recently, and besides the old stories we can’t even read their writing.

Really sad that we haven’t found more context, but it suggests there’s a huge trove of new discoveries to be found.

Very good point.

No, Rockstar has been pretty consistent on shutting down all mods for their games. There is a source Port of vice City and GTA III I got shut down too, and it wasn’t for sale.

I’d be worried about having some of the voat stuff on a hard drive I own.

I’m surprised GitHub hasn’t automatically nixed the archive.

The first 4-5 episodes of Trigun (the 90s version) are so bad compared to the rest of the series. They’re structurally necessary but annoying and lame compared to the rest.

Hydroelectric.

I always end up looking like I hate green energy because I’m critical of wind and solar, but geothermal and hydroelectric are actually super practical.

My NFTs may be down 98%, but they’re going to the moon!!!

I dunno, some of the games I’ve bought on GOG just aren’t very good either. Especially stuff on gog that isn’t good old games.