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[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

You would rather power it with natural gas? Because that is what would largely power it otherwise. The datacenter does not turn off at night.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Trees are carbon neutral. They pull the carbon out and sequester it in themselves. When they rot or burn, the carbon is returned.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah, your suggestion is the only thing I could think that would even work, but honestly, it's probably more trouble than it is worth.

An alternative which doesn't quite meet the requirements, but will be much lower effort would be to format the drive(s) as exFat, which both Windows and Linux can read without issue. Then put them up as a network share in both OSes.

If you are wanting RAID 1 with those two drives...this won't work unless you are either using hardware raid (maybe you can set it in your bios?) or if you can find a software raid that both windows and linux use. For RAID, maybe just pick one OS and that will be the one that has the share.

I would also recommend against the SSD caching idea with all this other stuff in the mix, wait till you have a dedicated NAS PC. You are going to pull your hair out otherwise.


OP, do you have an old computer, even an old laptop? A NAS doesn't require much computing power. You can plug your drives in via a SATA to USB adapter. Then you will have a dedicated NAS box and all these problems get 500x easier.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Valve needs to start banning games from their store for retroactively breaking Linux support.

Valve did recently mandate games will have to share if they use Kernel Level Anti-Cheat. If nothing else it allows people to better see what games want to own their systems.

If you play with your friends, the shitty anticheat situation means you may need to keep Windows around.

Highly suggest the new Factorio expansion with friends. Game is a shitload of fun and there is no anti-cheat BS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have never found HDR to be helpful. Every time I turn it on it seems to think what I want was not better colors, but for all my colors to be extremely washed out on every screen.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I made the switch to Mint recently and have been pleasantly surprised with how much of a non-issue it is. Open steam, hit install, hit play. Game runs.

Only thing I had to do was enable a single checkbox in steam to enable Proton for Windows games: "Enable Steam Play for all titles"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Everything in low earth orbit (LEO) decays and falls back to earth due to drag; as there is a very, very small amount of air there. The starlink satellites are all in LEO.

Space junk is mostly a problem higher up. In the higher orbits, old satellites move themselves to graveyard orbits; places where nobody really wants a satellite.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Personally, I use TVs as a simple screen and watch everything through other devices (Roku, or a Linux PC running MythTV).

This would be my suggestion. Get a mini pc or dongle and use the TV simply as a display. Internet connected TVs are never well supported.

Also, highly suggest disconnecting the TV from the internet. They don't get security updates and they are notorious for spying on people's viewing habits.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Of course not, who would put a power button on the back or bottom of the computer? Front, side, or top are the places it goes for almost every computer out there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As long as no vents are blocked, should work fine. Anything with a fan is orientation agnostic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

but you expect them to disable USB devices waking their computer?

He expects people to turn off their computer when they are done with it, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to expect. Apple is deliberately making it harder to use this computer in a way many people use their computer.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This was the reason they made the API changes. They wanted to charge for easy access to the content. Sure, you can scrape every Reddit page, but nobody has time for that. Pay up and hoover down Reddit comments for you AI training.

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