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  • BoM asked to explain ‘what happened here’ after cost of website redesign revealed to be $96.5m

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  • More likely mismanagement, miscommunication, rewrites, and incompetence than corruption.

    All projects of sufficient complexity overrun their cost/time estimates. That's not even accounting for designers and programmers trying to hit what is likely a moving target.

  • My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones.

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  • Because Teslas have dogshit reliability and all have OTA updates, whereas other brands don't suffer from these issues.

  • I wasted all my generational luck for this

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  • Only 5.4 hours before you hit a UUID collision. That's insane

  • Junoir vs Senior

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  • I have the same preference, but companies keep giving me macbooks to use for work no matter how many times I ask for a cheaper (or better specced at the same price) Linux laptop.

  • Handled a ThinkPad today. What distro should I go with? Ubuntu? Arch?

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  • If you don't upgrade the RAM, go with Linux Mint with the MATE desktop. If you do upgrade to 8GB RAM, probably LMDE? You don't need to be on a bleeding edge kernel with a Windows 8 era laptop, modern optimizations will not affect perf much.

  • We* emphasize exclusive access to objects (not sharing) more than we ever did.

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  • Bigger than ever in post industrial society, maybe. Pre-industrial times almost everyone shared almost everything. The ones who didn't share were rich, and even they often would invite guests to stay for a whole season semi-regularly because of their ridiculously big houses and desire for entertainment.

  • 'The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace situation with Disney+ positive views on AI generated content

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  • Jellyfin, my one true platform

  • Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller

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  • Basically, the Frame eyetracks you, and it uses that data to prioritize which parts of the overall scene are rendered at what detail level.

    That's an accurate description of foveated rendering, but what the Frame has is foveated streaming. Foveated rendering needs to be incorporated in the game, typically at the engine level. Foveated streaming can happen at the system-wide level because it's not reducing the rendering load, but instead reducing the bitrate of the streamed video when you're streaming wireless VR over wifi from your desktop PC or Steam Machine.

  • Steam Hardware Announcement - (This is wild)

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  • Hell, there's gaming oriented mini PCs that are 1/2-1/3 the size of a PS5 Slim, with double the performance...

    Sure, for triple the price. Steam Machine's draw here is that it will likely be around PS5, possibly PS5 Pro level performance for around the same price (they said entry level gaming PC, so I'm guessing base price around 600).

    Also, kudos for GabeCube, perfect nickname

  • CyberGhost DMCAs Our Story About Their Bogus DMCA (Yes, Really)

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  • AirVPN has given me no trouble for many years

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    When Xfinity has an outage, I don’t pay for those days. The government’s been shut down for 39 days so can I pay 39 days less in taxes?

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  • Yes

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    When Xfinity has an outage, I don’t pay for those days. The government’s been shut down for 39 days so can I pay 39 days less in taxes?

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  • If they keep it shut down I suspect individual states will split off as their own nations eventually.

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    Logan Roy is objectively and factually a better father than Clark Kent

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  • Hey, so, I know those words sound really satisfying in that combination, but "objectively and factually" there's no single system of morality nor metric of quality for fatherhood that anyone could judge by, so "objectively and factually", your thesis is an opinion statement and by its very nature cannot be a fact or objective truth.

  • Billionaires are extremists

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  • Well yeah, they exist at the extremes of society and push almost exclusively for their own further empowerment.

  • My Dream of a Home Router / Server

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  • I suspect you could get the price on something like this down to maybe $100-$150. Basically a small low-power Intel box with an SSD and at least 8G of RAM could handle all of these services.

    The hard part would be pre-configuring each of them and building/adapting software to make this kind of stuff easy for end users.

  • How to play multiplayer with a copy of BG3 acquired a certain way

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  • Pretty sure even pirated copies can make a Larian account and add friends thru that.

  • Recommend Battery Packs?

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  • In general I turn to Anker or Belkin for power banks, just make sure it can provide at least 25W of power.

  • Every single time I think of restructuring my homelab storage. What do you use for storage engines and how does it benefit you?

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  • Happy to help!

  • Every single time I think of restructuring my homelab storage. What do you use for storage engines and how does it benefit you?

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  • I just use mergerfs and SnapRAID so I can scale dynamically when I can afford new drives. Granted it's all fully replaceable media files on my end, so I'm not obsessed with data integrity.

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