I have to constantly remind myself that the average user today cannot tell the difference between a search engine and a web browser.

And we have the URL bar pulling double duty as a search engine entry form to thank for that.

graphviz

Schneider Electric APC Back-UPS 1500VA, 900W.

They power on self-test okay, but go on to just fail to switchover during outages. I’m still trying to figure out if it is a factor of cumulative time, running hours, or they’re only good for a fixed number of power failures. And whether its the battery or the UPS device itself.

It feels like crashing your car, and then the airbags go off after you’re already mangled and bleeding out.

Retail UPS batteries don’t even last a single year, in my experience. The weekly brownouts and momentary blackouts probably aren’t helping.

At this point, I’m just thinking of building my own with a charge controller, inverter and a bank of car batteries.

Consider running some kind of file integrity monitoring. samhain, tiger, tripwire, to name a few.

considering containerization, but so far, I find it not worth foregoing the benefits I get of a single package manager for the entire server

Just do MAC with either AppArmor or SELinux.

There is no best. Only least worst. Pick your poison:

AMD: Libre driver stack, require firmware blobs.
NVidia: Proprietary driver stack (kernel driver component slowly being opened), proprietary firmware exists in ROM on card so doesn’t need to be loaded at runtime.
Intel: Libre driver stack, same firmware issue as with NVidia, GPU performance generally sucks because iGPU constraints

I would say, in order from least-worst to most-worst:
AMD
Intel
NVidia

Others that I have considered, but are hopeless pipe dreams
Matrox - old, deprecated, dead, no longer in business?
S3 Chrome - assimilated into Centaur/VIA technologies, later bought out by Intel
Mali - don’t even kid yourself
Software rendering - you must be desperate
Aspeed and other 2D framebuffer solutions - good luck
Any and every “open source GPU” initiative - always dead in the water. NLnet recently pulled funding from LibreSOC because the lead dev spent more time begging for e-gold than doing any developmental work.

Games that required a memory pack in order to save were next to worthless in a household where one’s siblings would constantly clear the memory pack’s save data.

They might as well have just been tech demos

3D graphics on a mobile device (Gameboy Advance)

I don’t think I even enjoyed many of the games I played on GBA, just that I was obsessed with seeing how far the graphics could be pushed.

007 Nightfire Lego Drome Racers Medal of Honor

To name a few

I’m so glad I grew up when I did and got to experience video games before they began injecting overt political messaging into games.

The New Yorker launched a redesigned home page in late 2023, having reached a similar conclusion.

Oh boy let’s check it out.

newyorker.com attempts to load js and frames from eight third party domains. Among them;

“conde.digital” – I am assuming that means conde as in conde nast AKA reddit DNA… and we all know what happens to anything reddit touches.

“condenast.digital” above confirmed. I can almost feel the bile welling in my throat.

“cookielaw.org” - probably to serve cookie consent notices to the plebs who fail to block cookies and other trash.

“doubleclick.net” - known malware

“googletagmanager.com” - so that google can keep track of all their cattle.

And yet all of their articles are perfectly readable in plain HTML formatting, as expected. Not that I would ever spend any time reading articles from whatever this place is.

Block both javascript and CSS. Most of those nags are implemented via some combination of the two.

Google workspace

Dystopia is real

Only a few more steps until “Google Government”

https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Games_Compatibility

But lately just a mix of DS emulation, Arx Libertatis and Minetest. Boring maybe, but it’s what brings me joy.

cpu		: POWER9 (raw), altivec supported

disappointment when I refuse to use Windows to play a certain game.

Been there. They coolly suggested “why don’t you dual boot?”.

Windows literally cannot be run on my CPU architecture.

The pervasive idea that games must necessarily be about conflict, competition and overcoming enemies.

It took me too long to realize that I basically just want a Star trek holodeck experience.

This would accelerate the fediverse to becoming a monoculture of thought.

Docker

There’s your first mistake.

Oh, hi, I’m just stopping by from the ‘compile from source and create a systemd unit file’ tribe.