turmacar

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[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Also, frankly, even if the Trump family was as wealthy as Trump claims. Or had as much physical cash as Elon has assets / investments. It would be a drop in the bucket.

Nations operate on scales that are orders of magnitude larger than any privately owned wealth. That's kind of the point. This would be like levying a $1000 fine for a billion dollars in damages and expecting it to "be fixed".

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

I can't imagine it's a single physical server anymore but a server instance across many blades / VMs / whatever. But absolutely there are many games where "600+" on a server would be considered a sign of a dying population.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Are 600 player servers impressive? I'm sure they have plenty of hardware and engineering involved but that doesn't sound exceptional as much as expected for the scope they're aiming for.

WoW is a simpler game, in that it's effectively 2 dimensions and doesn't involve physics, but that would be a fairly low server population, especially back in it's heyday. Ditto for many other big MMOs.

EvE has 600+ player battles on a fairly regular basis, much less on a server instance in general.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No those are links between two separate systems. I just want to use my phone screen and the car's speakers / power.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

why we started adding computer operating systems to our vehicles to begin with.

Because fuel injection operates better than even the most high tech carburetors across a wider range of environments. And if you have more sensors and active feedback you can better control everything from emissions to warm up time. Everything trickles down from racing / luxury vehicles. Once you have processors involved, might as well do fancy things with them inside the cabin too.

A lot of the dash / center console nonsense is consumer cost cutting, but frankly it should've been separate from the start. Any budget phone is a better GPS / media platform than a half-baked system by a vehicle manufacturer. At this point it should just be a USB-C or bluetooth connection so the device without the bargain basement processor can do the heavy lifting for a user interface.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

They break this down on their page, but while that's certainly true-ish for the last year or two the bulk of the collection is from before that.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

On their torrent page it's explained more but it's broken up into many many torrents and you basically say how much space you're willing to host and it generates one with the least seeded "blob".

I don't really know how that would work on the back end but it seems technically impressive.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I think it gets some flak but I've been super happy with Unraid.

Migrated hardware by moving the usb drive over to the new system and it didn't blink that everything but the HDDs was different. Just booted up and started the array and dockers. The JBOD functionality is great. Drive loss is just an excuse to add a bigger drive.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's weirdness sometimes if devices don't respect your network's dns settings and just use their own. You can override that by forcing a dns redirect if your router supports that but not all consumer ones do unless you put openwrt or something on them.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I now deeply want to hear the call to prayer sung in English in a heavy Minnesotan accent. Any accent really. LA, Texan, Georgian (state, not country; you know what, either).

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yes and no. The one the Nazis used was / is also a symbol used in Asia. (And really, everywhere. It's a fairly basic pattern.) The Nazis used it because of their obsession with Aryans. Sometimes it's at an angle, sometimes it's not.

Generally in the west, unless it's on a statue of budda, any swastika-ish symbol since the ~1930s is going to be a reference to Nazis though.

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