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She’s old. She doesn’t want to read a book. As best as I can tell she wants to have something slightly brain engaging during commercials when watching shows, but is far too stubborn to learn a new game she doesn’t already know.

Who are we to tell someone what they should want to do with their twilight years?

The unfortunate reality is they cannot be avoided in some cases. There is not a paid alternative to Facebook, nor are there to a lot of f2p mobile games.

My grandma had a tablet about a decade ago, and I loaded it up with tons of paid $1-$3 casino games for her (it’s what she wanted) but a decade later, when going to reinstall them to a new tablet, all of them no longer exist on the play store and seemingly 100% of current games are either ad supported or require iap to refil your virtual currency.

She literally did what you asked and today she still has no options. What should my 86 year old grandma do in this case?

Chinese, specifically so I can exclusively curse in it like they did on firefly.

There are server chips like the E7-8891 v3 which lived in a weird middle ground of supporting both ddr3 and ddr4. On paper, it’s about on par with a ryzen 5 5500 and they’re about $20 on US eBay. I’ve been toying with the idea of buying an aftermarket/used server board to see if it holds up the way it appears to on paper. $20 for a CPU (could even slot 2), $80 for a board, $40 for 32gb of ddr3 in quad chanel. ~$160 for a set of core components doesn’t seem that bad in modern times, especially if you can use quad/oct channel to offset the bandwidth difference between ddr3 and ddr4.

I think finding a cooler and a case would be the hardest part

+1 for Niagra. It takes a few days to get used to but it’s the launcher every power user didn’t know they wanted. Lifetime purchase options and a very responsive/passionate dev

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain

Before the advent of AI, I wrote a slack bot called slackbutt that made Markov chains of random lengths between 2 and 4 out of the chat history of the channel. It was surprisingly coherent. Making an “llm” like that would be trivial.

It definitely can be disabled post-install but is much simpler to install without it at install-time, and has the added benefit of not pulling 2-5gb of other things that won’t be relevant to your use case. It’s not that the disk waste is that big of a deal, but any issues you run into will be that much easier to troubleshoot with fewer moving parts.

That wasn’t quite the takeaway I was going for. You can get a lot done on 8gb of ram. I was just trying to point out that it would probably be your first bottleneck as you started to scale out, and that you should consider using the server headless to make the ram you have go that much further.

All of those would be perfectly cromulent nodes for small containers. The first issue you’ll run into is the low ram. Some homelab projects would cause you to exceed 8gb, but the good news is if you’re using an external backend via NFS, you can always scale out (more nodes) or up(more compute per node,) later with minimal headache.

If you’re going to be memory constrained, don’t waste 1-2gb on a gui, install Ubuntu/Debian/whatever headless

Compsci labs or everywhere?

Not OP but I think this guy is remembering a scene from silicon valley, not from reality. That said it’s probably not that far off. Amazon smart devices absolutely have this “feature” in production today-- and it’s opt-out, not opt-in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Sidewalk

Not the same chips, but ddr5, gddr7, and hbm2 are made off the same wafers in the same plants. The issue is allocation in wafer and production time skewing towards the higher-margin items. DDR5 additionally is being made more into the server ecc variant, which companies are buying in droves for cost-efficient MOE inference.

Have you played Baulder’s gate 3 and expedition 33 yet?

It means nothing, except that the meaninglessness of it annoys boomers, so the zoomers and alphas keep doing it to annoy the boomers harder. It’s literally that simple

What is the flag for this?

CGNAT does have a designated range by spec. 100.64.0.0/10, which covers addresses from 100.64.0.0 to 100.127.255.255. Technically they could be using any other private address space but it would be very uncommon in a modern ISP.

No offence: but the problem is an app forces me to trust you; a website does not. I have toghter and easier control over a web request than I do over an app, and even if an app doesn’t have these permissions today, an update or an update after a sale could trivially and silently introduce them.

A website is obvious if the deal changes-- you put up a login wall to harvest data; I stop using the site. You put trackers and ads into the UI; I block it at the DNS level.

First instinct: being an app gives me over-permissive data collection scam vibes. I will not be installing it even though I might otherwise find a website of similar capability useful.

Unfortunately it not only has to be companies, but unless you are a producer of products that are HDMI certified already your membership will be denied. It would take a lot of fuckery to make that many corporations and not have all of their membership applications be denied. Also I’m not sure that it’s even a voting democracy in the traditional sense even if you could.

I suspect the difference in experiences is more due to x11/pulse(my custom systems) vs Wayland/pipewire(bazzite) than it is any particular GPU vendor or driver branch. Which I guess is a roundabout way of saying

Maybe? Probably?

Judging by the protondb entry on CS2 I strongly suspect I would have at least the audio issue regardless of gpu.