LazerFX

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[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I've got the Feb 1980 (5th printing) edition of Basic Computer Games - Microcomputer Edition sat on the shelf next to me... looking forward to comparing the dialect differences :)

[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

LOL! Blast from the past... Dead n00bs scattered everywhere.

[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

And this is how you handle responsible disclosure... 34 minutes for simply an e-mail list, no login details or private information.

[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There are places where it's used well. The Matrix, for example. Someone elseThread said Max Max: Fury Road, and I agree on that. Those are... at the moment... the only two that aren't abominations of decolouring, though.

[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Caring for others is good for you. Even if you look at it shellfishly, it is still true.

Had to.

[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

I've never free-swam, but when I was a kid (up to early teens, maybe 14?) I had swimming lessons. I was always told the lessons of the waterways, which I vaguely remember now, but one of them was kick off your shoes because they will kill you. We had to recite those back at the start and end of the lessons, what to do if you fell in. Kick off your shoes because they will kill you.

Only lesson I remember, funnily enough.

[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

They've explicitly acknowledge the overpromise in the part of NMS (And, thanks to the continuous, rolling, free and global updates to NMS, have more than delivered on everything they promised and then a load more that they didn't promise, including next-generation graphical updates, and entire new procedural generation systems that have added even more to the environment).

They've gone above and beyond to deliver, I'd even hazard a guess that they've over-delivered as far as any bureaucratic or financial director is concerned. They're working full-time on NMS nearly 10 years on from release! They've done enough to warrant a modicum of trust.

I'm not pre-ordering, but I'll be watching with interest, and will likely buy on day-one.

[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's pseudo-realtime; things happen on a tick, but that tick is pretty generous in timings and you can pause the game at any point.

[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

Genie vs Jafar... you can tell by the colour ;)

[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

Google Translate says, "Husband's side hooks up with Fang Juxing, the best girl on Wannu.com!"

[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

I got screwed over with the motherboard, as it had to go back because of bimetallic contracts in the SATA ports that could wear out and stop it working so there was a big recall of all the boards... Was an amazing system though and if I hadn't seen the computer I'm currently running for an absolute steal, I'd probably still be running it with a 3060 as a pretty potent machine still.

Of course, then I'd never have the experience of just HOW FAST NVME IS! :⁠-⁠D

[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I had an i5-2500k from when they came out (I think 2011? Around that era) until 2020 - overclocked to 4.5Ghz, ran solid the whole time. Upgraded graphics card, drives, memory, etc. but that was incremental as needed. Now on an i7-10700k. The other PC has been sat on the side and may become my daughters or wife's at some point.

Get what you need, and incremental upgrades work.

 

So I'm looking to build my own CM4-based NAS appliance. I figure that I've got the time to build it, and it'll be cheaper, more powerful and more capable than an off-the-shelf appliance (such as a QNAP or Synology device).

I'm looking to use it for self-hosting, probably 2 - 4 SSD's to run it (Happy to spend the money on the drives, as I can spread that out over time)... will likely start with a relatively cheap 2tib 2.5" SSD like the Crucial BX500 and scale up as I go...

I'd like a relatively neat box - something like the Argon EON. I'd like to use the CM4 because it's got the PCI-E so you can use a relatively full-speed ACPI interface to the SATA ports, which rules out the Argon EON (Except, possibly, as a donor case). I don't have a 3D Printer, but I'd be happy to purchase a printed model from a makers group or similar. I'm happy to actually build up a unit (setting up fans, etc.) but I've no soldering experience whatsoever.

Software-wise, I've already got a RPI4 which I've been playing around with... Seems pretty good, and I had pi-hole running on it for a while (until SD card unreliability took it down).

Does anyone have any experience with a build like this? Any advice on what cases to use, what hats for the PCIE-to-SATA work best? Anything at all, really, that you'd advise?

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