I was in grade school. Doing an experiment where we sliced off a section of fruit to put under a microscope.
My dumb ass, with a plastic butter knife, managed to get the worst cut my thumb has ever seen.
That thing was rough and ragged, and got infected and was a bitch to heal.
Just saying, with enough stupidity, you can really harm yourself with harmless objects, lol.
Pretty sure checking a post on their site, say for a BG3 build idea, doesn’t constitute abuse.
The powers that be sacrificed their only value, their user base, to make money quick. We’ll see how it plays out long term, but I’ve moved away from social media. My lemmy use is only on my desktop at this point, and I get precious little time at it, so most of it isn’t spent on lemmy.
I mean, 8 gigs of RAM is overkill depending on what you’re doing.
For general computing sure, but if you build out a device for a specific purpose, you can really cut down on a crap ton of resources including memory.
Unix principle, adopted by Linux. Do one thing and do it well.
Applies to more than just software design.
Restaurants absolutely shouldn’t.
However, people suck and it happens, probably more often than you would want.
Everyone’s favorite Witcher mounting Yen, lol.
I’ve got the hardware to use VR on my gaming rig.
But between the entry cost for the actual VR equipment, and the sheer lack of games that look interesting I don’t see the point in it.
Then again, the lack of games that look interesting isn’t just a VR problem - to me at least.
Repeating patterns of slight upgrades to visuals, mechanics I grew bored of a decade ago, etc.
I used to rip on Madden/FIFA/Sports games in general for that crap, but it seems to be the trend.
That being said, I’ve felt jaded about games since I was a teen, and that was a long time ago, but there was always something to keep my attention.
Don’t really have any other majornhobbies though, so I’m at a bit of an impasse on that subject. I do spend more time with my wife though, lol.
Performance isn’t key. But I like performance, lol. I also wasn’t aware of their more recent practices. So thank you.
I’ll have to check out the HP mini. As I said, just barely scratched the surface on researching this, and its more of a thought than a project at the moment, lol.
I just can’t afford (and cool) enterprise level stuff at home. It was free (to me) so no big loss other than buying a better CPU used ~50 bucks. I’ve spent more on worse ideas lol.
Cost and a personal bias, also I’ve seen more helpful communities amongst Linux and FOSS advocates than trying to deal with a big brand.
I’ve done a lot of IT stuff in my life, even before working in IT.
I’ve seen too many issues from big brands, and its usually caused by the company.
I have a Pi 2 from way back. I’ve thrown so many distros at that thing over time, and without fail I don’t run into any problems I didn’t personally create while learning or through human error.
I understand all too well that those big brands have support for businesses, warranties, etc. It makes them cost effective long term for business. At a personal level I just don’t see the benefits outweighing the negatives.
Again, personal bias. Same core reason I avoid apple products, bias, though I mainly dislike apples cost combined with their closed off, well, everything.
I’ve got enterprise level hardware, rack moubtable all that jazz.
Between the cost of power, and the heat it generates (which uses more AC and thus power) its not feasible to run it.
I’m looking into clustering some raspberry pis for a more power (and heat) efficient hardware as my next project. Barely scratched the surface of research though.
So hey, if anyone has any tips or links, it would be much appreciated.
Personally I prefer simple connectors, but I’ve been making cables for 20+ years.
I understand OPs frustration though.
Then again, I’m the type to put in my own drops at home, and include a service loop so I can repunch/crimp whatever I need to without yanking the cable from upstairs to down lol.
I was more thinking it’s to test the waters.
A buck is affordable to most everyone who has the means to access Twitter.
Of course next year it’ll be Twitter++ subscriptions for 20 bucks a month, as they phase out the 1 dollar tier.
I never cared for Twitter, and watching Musk’s spin on it has been hilarious as someone with a long history in corporate IT.
Pre-edit: At the moment I’m refusing to refer to it by a tween edgelords name~ Musk’s name for it.
I use proton pass currently.
My life is changing in less than two weeks.
I have an enterprise grade server that I can’t run for a variety of home reasons.
When me and the wife… for lack of a better term, escape, our situation, I’ll be able to self host. I know its gonna be a struggle, I have things to learn, and that is why I’m so excited.