sylver_dragon

So, this?

somebody posted on Facebook about a specific injustice they heard about and declared they will unfriend anybody who doesn’t care enough to post about it.

Sounds like they are doing you a favor. The world can be a pretty horrible place, and horrible things are happening all the time. You could spend all of your time posting about all of them online and accomplish exactly fuck all. You’d do far more by focusing on the things around you which you can actually affect. Your local community almost certainly has problems which you could help with. Even if it’s just showing up at a food bank and helping to serve food to the unhoused. There are concrete things you could be doing to make the world a little less terrible for the people around you.

Posting on FaceBook et. al. is just slacktavism at its worst. You me or anyone else posting something on social media does nothing to change the facts on the ground. Assuming you’re in a modern democracy, you do have some power with your vote and the ability to organize and be involved in collective action (e.g. political groups). But, even there the things you post on your personal accounts isn’t going to actually do anything.

So ya, I’d tell the person to fuck off with their virtual signaling, slacktavist bullshit. If they really cared that much, they would get off FaceBook and put their time into actual community service and political action. But, they are too lazy to do the hard work, and instead just want to feel good about themselves with their smug, online pronouncements with no substance behind them.

Also, get yourself off FaceBook, the site is nothing but a cesspit of advertisements and assholes shitting all over everything. Case and point, your rant.

Disk noise emulation as there’s something oddly satisfying about listening to HDD and floppy drive chatter while a game loads.

Yes! I can finally hear the sound of a floppy disk trying desperately to read a failed disk again.

Hopefully this will hasten the demise of EA and some of the IP they are holding on to will have a chance to escape to a company which cares about making good games.

How would that even work? It’s literally a PC. It runs Linux. It’s as open a system as you’re going to get.

You can buy resin molds for the AR-15 lower, which is the regulated part. Then just buy all of the non-regulated parts retail and assemble a “ghost gun”. There’s also things like the FGC-9 which is mostly printed parts. And the Luty SMG if you’re skilled enough.

This genie is so far out of the bottle, it’s lapped the regulators and is going around again.

I started self hosting in the days well before containers (early 2000’s). Having been though that hell, I’m very happy to have containers.
I like to tinker with new things and with bare metal installs this has a way of adding cruft to servers and slowly causing the system to get into an unstable state. That’s my own fault, but I’m a simple person who likes simple solutions. There are also the classic issues with dependency hell and just flat out incompatible software. While these issues have gotten much better over the years, isolating applications avoids this problem completely. It also makes OS and hardware upgrades less likely to break stuff.

These days, I run everything in containers. My wife and I play games like Valheim together and I have a Dockerfile template I use to build self-hosted serves in a container. The Dockerfile usually just requires a few tweaks for AppId, exposed ports and mount points for save data. That paired with a docker-compose.yaml (also built off a template) means I usually have a container up and running in fairly short order. The update process could probably be better, I currently just rebuild the image, but it gets the job done.

But, but, docker, kubernetes, hyper-scale convergence and other buzzwords from the 2010’s! These fancy words can’t just mean resource and namespace isolation!

In all seriousness, the isolation provided by containers is significant enough that administration of containers is different from running everything in the same OS. That’s different in a good way though, I don’t miss the bad old days of everything on a single server in the same space. Anyone else remember the joys of Windows Small Business Server? Let’s run Active Directory, Exchange and MSSQL on the same box. No way that will lead to prob… oh shit, the RAM is on fire.