This is all assuming it’s a spinning disk and not an SSD, so ignore me if that’s the case:

Given SAS drives are usually used in data centre storage array applications and 3TB disks have been kinda small for that use case for a fair while, there’s a fairly high chance it was in heavy use for a good number of years. I’d bet it’s probably well on its way to being a paperweight regardless of your connectivity situation.

If you do get it hooked up, don’t store anything on it you wouldn’t be okay losing.

I still don’t know why this architecture went for a Double XOR as the NOP, I guess they were just flexing that the reference chip design could do both in a single cycle

Okay no exclusivity

This bodes well for ff7r2

This guy watches Acton Retro, doesn’t he

He’s apparently always been an asshole from the many accounts that have come out over the years

IMO the more recent public switch of tone is either too many drugs have scrambled his brain or much more likely someone very powerful has something very bad on him and is using it as a marionette cross-brace to further extremism.

Lagunitas is pretty banging tho

Hat, maybe a fan if it’s gonna be particularly hot

Also bring something to listen to, with headphones usually, but if you know that it won’t annoy others, a Bluetooth speaker can be a good addition.

If you’re gonna generate any rubbish, something to put that in and take it away again

I like to bring some cold beers too, but that’s obviously not for everyone

WordPress is still the best option IMO. The software and ecosystem are very mature and as you say they’re friendly to the fediverse too

Substack is a safe harbour for actual Nazis and they refuse to do anything about it.

Everyone should avoid that site like the plague, and encourage anyone they know using it to do the same

Yeah it can have wildly different meanings depending on the circumstances in which it’s said. It can be “well we can’t change it, may as well get on with life” all the way to “well this discussion is not gonna change anything, let’s get on with fixing it”. Very similar, but polar opposite sentiments.

Emphatically disagree with you on image quality, the cameras are pretty much the only thing that are still noticeably improving between phone generations for me. This improvement is seen by proper photography review companies like DxO too.

Digital zoom is still shit today, but it was so much worse back then. We now at least have AI supersampling doing something slightly better.

The photos you’re looking at must be either cherry picked, perfect conditions, day time photography, or you just don’t know what to look for when comparing image quality.

The easiest comparisons to see the difference will be low-light night time photography, and photos with high dynamic range, such as shooting through a bright window from inside a dark room, etc.

This is all without pointing out that video image quality (using those same cameras) has improved even more noticeably since the phones you’re talking about. And with people increasingly caring about shooting video, this also explains why.

Yeah, you’re right to highlight warcraft although I don’t think it’s a clean line with Warcraft between dune 2 and c&c. C&C was probably around 2 years into development by the time Warcraft came out, and my assumption is most of the actual game design was pretty finalised by that point. Though I’m sure some minor influences made their way in, I don’t think Warcraft massively affected the kind of game we got in the end.

But yeah that’s not to diminish the contribution of warcraft to the genre, there’s loads of games that followed copying the Warcraft style of RTS, even as part of the c&c series in the end with Generals.

I think it’s American for GP but I might be wrong

The first RTS is an obscure Japanese game called Herzog Zwei,

Westwood studios then made Dune 2 and Command & Conquer which basically polished and popularised the genre for the rest of the world.

Pretty much every RTS that followed took at least some inspiration from how those games worked

OP you had one job. It’s NZB as per your link, not NBZ

And in answer to your question, it’s like a torrent file but for Usenet. You will need a news-server subscription to download the content they describe and you’ll generally need an indexer (similar to a torrent tracker) to find them. Most of the good indexers also charge a fee

If you rely on some kind of harness to hold you up, you’re not using your muscles properly

You’re gonna end up with different muscle problems if you rely on it to hold you in place for long periods of time Vs just sitting and supporting yourself naturally

FTL. Unlocked every ship and got every achievement, and I still play it from time to time

If you’ve not come across them here are some of my favourite creators in that category, in no particular order: LGR, 8-bit guy, cathode ray dude, techmoan, technology connections, nostalgia nerd

Probably a tattoo parlour

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