SpikesOtherDog
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- Comment on “MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph Circe” New Visual 3 days ago:
X-wide pauldrons. Looks like it could transform into something very large.
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts' 5 days ago:
So it is!
- Comment on “To Your Eternity” Season 3 | Key Visual 6 days ago:
The wedding visuals have always seemed a bit ominous to me. That nokker has always wanted to fuse with Fushi. Maybe it will create something new.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 1 week ago:
Alton showed me a few things and taught me that if I was patient I could figure it out the rest of the way. That was almost 20 years ago. Now I happily share cooking duty with my wife.
I named a dog after him. It didn’t stick, and my daughter named the dog after a kid in class’s little brother, but the through was there.
- Comment on [News] "The Ghost in the Shell" (2026) New Key Visual, PV 1 week ago:
I realize it’s unorthodox, and to be fair it was only a brief consideration after having watched SAC.
I honestly think the supporting characters are a bit flat in the movie. It adds some depth and personality to some of the scenes as well as explains the social political environment a bit better.
Neither are canon to each other, nor the manga (which I am about to investigate to confirm), but the manga was quite popular so fans already had an understanding of so much when they watched the movie.
Now, outside of the fact that the new anime appears to be continuing with the Tachikomas of Stand Alone Complex, the rest of the franchise appears to be watchable in about any order.
- Comment on xkcd #3201: Proof Without Content 1 week ago:
The proof cannot exist without the conjecture.
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts' 1 week ago:
Trump has a special Bible that cuts and pastes the bits and pieces of the Bible that says what he wants.
- Comment on [News] "The Ghost in the Shell" (2026) New Key Visual, PV 1 week ago:
Anyone on the fence about GITS, I strongly recommend it. I know the movie came out well before the series, but I suggest watching season 1 of SAC, then the 1995 movie, season 2, then GITS movie 2.
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts' 1 week ago:
May 2001
It’s based off New King James, which is the official Catholic text. This is the Orange Catholic Bible.
Don’t forget the official White House image of Pope Trump. x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1918502592335724809?lang=…
- Comment on Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps 1 week ago:
I do it in sprints. I’ll set up a service, test it, get it working, then share it with the family.
I hear you on the instructions. A lot of these are pet projects that just happen to work well enough to share, so a bit of work is needed to implement them. If you document for others, you find that you can’t ever put every step in there because you can’t control all the variables.
- Comment on My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer. 1 week ago:
Yeah, but in this case it’s less a sword and more a lump of plastic.
- Comment on It's a Furby! 1 week ago:
I feel like the fae is built out of fairy tales, promises, and the uncanny valley.
- Comment on Almost a quarter of UK GPs are seeing obese children aged four and under 1 week ago:
Shared fault for not creating public spaces and for nimbys chasing away kids.
- Comment on Real and True 1 week ago:
I only have 2 monitors, and when I play Minecraft I have the game stretched between the two in a wide angle about 30% to the right.
- Comment on Real and True 1 week ago:
Gaming
- Comment on Beyond the Familiar: Top 5 Sci-Fi Anime of All Time - Wealth of Geeks 2 weeks ago:
I SAW THAT but I didn’t say anything because I didn’t want to make it weird.
- Comment on Beyond the Familiar: Top 5 Sci-Fi Anime of All Time - Wealth of Geeks 2 weeks ago:
The latest season is a prequel. I am dying to watch it. My only concern is the animation style changed to 3DCG.
ALSO, while I was double-checking my facts, I saw that a new season is releasing this year.
- Comment on Beyond the Familiar: Top 5 Sci-Fi Anime of All Time - Wealth of Geeks 2 weeks ago:
Did you know there are two more anime after that?
Also, I loved both the JoJo and Kamen Rider references.
- Comment on Beyond the Familiar: Top 5 Sci-Fi Anime of All Time - Wealth of Geeks 2 weeks ago:
I think the animated series somehow went under the radar.
Just finished a rewatch of SAC and it’s mind-blowingly on point and relevant.
- Comment on Wildlife cam setups? 2 weeks ago:
There appears to be many wireless options available. While there is no off the shelf option available, you may be able to automate connecting to the Wi-Fi of the cam and pulling the files from a Windows share. From there, you could put the files on a share for a service like photoprism.
If the only way up interface with it is through an app, and you don’t have an old smartphone to run the app, then you could consider running an android emulator.
- Comment on Wildlife cam setups? 2 weeks ago:
Are you buying a cam or borrowing the same one? If you are borrowing again, you know the model? That will help us give better advice.
- Comment on Valve stress again that there'll be more Steam Machine Verified games than Steam Deck ones, with "fewer constraints" in their testing programme 3 weeks ago:
Just read through article and it directly addresses this.
The reason the criteria are relaxed is because of higher hardware specs for the Machine and the fact that the Deck has a small screen. Basically, the Deck has more physical constraints. As the Deck ages, less games will remain compatible.
- Comment on Valve stress again that there'll be more Steam Machine Verified games than Steam Deck ones, with "fewer constraints" in their testing programme 3 weeks ago:
Clair Obscura still looks like ass on a steam deck? There was a patch that came through several months ago that increased playability. I was playing with a 10yo video card and originally had abysmal graphics. I didn’t push settings, but I was able to get to the point where terrain and people made sense.
- Comment on How do you Sand Coloured PETG without loosing the Colour? Are there any Methods to Preserve or Regain the Colour? 3 weeks ago:
I got a cheap 862D combo soldering iron from Amazon for $50 about 5 years ago. It goes down to 200°C.
Just remember to put it on a separate power strip and turn off the strip when you are done. These are super cheap, and I wouldn’t recommend leaving them plugged in unattended.
- Comment on After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes 3 weeks ago:
They won’t let me do it for for free. They think I’m doing bad things if I don’t charge for it.
Thanks for the list!
- Comment on Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 3 Teaser Visual .Season 3 to Broadcast This July 3 weeks ago:
Wow, they go VERY far in S3. I was expecting one more season after Eris.
- Comment on After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes 3 weeks ago:
I was doing okay with 4-5 tabs on a core 2. Used Facebook as a test.
- Comment on After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes 3 weeks ago:
I can’t say how your firmware will recognize a PCI-e to NVME, but as long as your aren’t chasing boot time records a SATA SSD should be more than sufficient for boot. You could just use the NVME for speed.
Another option would be to set up 6 SATA SSD drives in there with ZFS2. The striping and read-write speeds should significantly fill the SATA buffer of 6gbps. Due to the striping, you might actually avoid filing the read buffer and be about to sustain a longer high write speed.
The drive farm is also super viable. I have a 6-port board and a SAS card installed giving me 10 or 14 ports, I can’t recall. I have a similar strategy as I described, but I’m only using it for a NAS. I looked into getting a 12-port board, but used it was still $350. It makes more sense for me to buy another SAS card instead.
- Comment on After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes 3 weeks ago:
Sandy bridge still has a little life in it. Most those systems top out at 8-16 GB memory, which is serviceable. You are probably missing out on NVME. The PCI version might also be a gotcha if you upgrade your video card, so double check the compatibility.
Finally, your previously-suggested video card may require new power connectors. While you might be able to find adapters, confirm that your are not approaching 80% of your PSU capability and upgrade if you are close. Power supplies degrade over time, so if you are at 65% it’s time to consider an upgrade on a 10yo PSU.
- Comment on After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes 3 weeks ago:
I’ll absofuckinglutely assist in providing an alternative.