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You do kind of have to admire her seeming to stick to her principles. It’s just a shame that those principles are usually deranged.

But see, now, it’s ruining the wrong people’s lives.

Some guy is building an ‘open printer’: https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer

This is not the first time this has been tried and there are proprietary parts still, but this could be the best we have if it launches. Although, I can’t imagine a world where this doesn’t have significant caveats. I think it’ll probably be workable though.

If you want something a bit more polished, just get a brother laserjet printer like everyone else is mentioning.

I started at the bottom with ewaste, it is truly amazing what companies will just throw away because they don’t want to deal with it.

I am really looking forward to picking up some cheap used mini PCs here in a few months after the market gets flooded from corporates disposing of their old hardware because of the Windows 10 end of life. Consumers have already started ditching them now, but it takes a minute for enterprise to get it to a disposal company who then gets to pawn it off on the used market and that’s the good stuff.

Exercise, have a salad for dinner sometimes, be careful who you date and keep friends you can trust to tell you when you’re fucking up.

Meaning can be found in pain and we all face that.

I used Garuda, and garuda is cool, seriously the first time user experience is fancy, but it’s also a lot and if you need more than basic support you’re probably going to be headed over to the Arch community who is going to treat you different because you’re not really fully on Arch. You’re also definitely going to forcibly learn a lot picking anything arch based as your first Linux distro.

Skipping ahead, of the choices you’ve listed and for someone new to Linux who just wants an OS to use I’d go for Bazzite.

I’ve been using Technitium for about 3 years and I’m with you.

Whenever I think I get it, I search for the solution to a problem I’m having and see the developer respond and feel like I get less than half the things in the explanation. My setup definitely works and it has never failed me… but there are a lot of things where I don’t understand why at all and yeah I am also using maybe 10% of the options available. I’m not sure I’ll ever get past the intimidating phase.

Not a dealbreaker, but a good chunk of the indicators on what makes a ‘healthy’ relationship are based around involving your partner in aspects of your life. This does tend to be much more of a negative indicator depending on which role you might play in the relationship, basically might be worse if your roles were reversed. Those are all just generalizations though and no reason you have to check off all the boxes.

Definitely not common though.

You were right, the style change is very noticeable, but id still say it’s a worthwhile read.

Oh man, have you met an everyone? I might be pessimistic, but I think you might be overestimating by quite a bit. A lot of people know how those things work, but knowing enough to replicate even basics feels kinda rare. Even fire, most don’t know beyond ‘rub two sticks together’.

Latency is not 0 like op suggests but he’s not entirely wrong about the latency comparison to modern displays (at a technical level for your average modern display). You are still correct that the numbers are so low typically that it’s not an issue for… 99.9% of people. Probably more, we might want to add a lot more 9s to the end.

If we’re talking to someone like a top competitive street fighter player though, I’m super interested in how they feel about CRTs vs modern displays. Note that this is also a different conversation if you’re on a TV that doesn’t have some sort of a Game Mode, those can be rough.

Great writeup on real world CRT input lag: https://www.resetera.com/threads/crts-have-8-3ms-of-input-lag-addressing-a-common-misconception-about-display-latency.40628/

Lol, I bet the houses are real cheap though.

Living in popular areas is expensive, it does suck.

We have those where I am too, but if you drive 45 minutes and avoid the suburbs, the same size house is 25% of the price or less. That’s still twice what it was 10 years ago, but it is what it is at this point.

There’s a complicated solution and there’s an easy solution.

The easy solution is fire.

I’m with the other dude, I get maybe 10 minutes of noticeable clarity and we’re ‘normal’ again within an hour or two.

Her family probably has enough that she’d never have to work, but not enough that she’d be super comfortable doing so. Half a million dollar house, mildly famous in the arts with a very solidly upper middle class lifestyle, but no emerald mines to inherit in there.

Are you trying to serve higher than 1080p? I have heard that 4k can be rough, but I avoid that personally because it also dramatically limits the amount of media I can store. Not sure of your actual bandwidth, but the raw bandwidth required on regular 1080p streams should be relatively light while utilizing modern codecs and you can also limit the per-stream bandwidth in your remote access settings.

I’m in the US, but I have pretty shit upstream bandwidth and I’ve served 7 people at once before. It pushed it a bit, but plex managed it. If you are doing 4k content though, yeah, that’s going to be rough with anything and I have no good advice.

There are some cluster based experiments with Plex, but they’re mostly focused on distributing transcoding. There’s also a lot of projects around clustering locally with kubernetes/etc but I think that would be painful with your setup. Closest option I can think of is jellyswarrm with multiple discrete servers ‘swarmed’ together, this is also super beta and very new. You’d have to combine it with something to move files between the local servers, it’s going to be weird.

Why do you feel like you need more than one media server? A singular server can serve quite a lot of content for a good sized quantity of people.

Weird to be rooting for MTG. I think she’s just standing up for her principles and while those are usually somewhat unhinged, they happen to be aligned with the wider populace today. She’s still got a chance to fuck us over, but right now it’s a great example of the ‘The Worst Person you know just made a great point’ meme.

Denver airport at least has Blucifer.