We’re making e-gaming history

you can buy from Scalpers or Crypto bros larping as scalpers. The choice is yours.

my main PC hosts nothing, everything else is always on

sometimes I remember I’m self hosting things

you’ve never been even remotely close to the cult of management have you?

my scsi controller needs to be entered during boot to manage raid. it also has an external battery that needed replacing (which cost more new than just buying a new card … with the exact same battery) so if you’re not in verbose boot mode figure that out and see if the controller is telling you which function key it needs.

figuring out this old stuff is most of the fun in running it, I would sell it as scrap before actually hosting anything on it.

I have a HP Proliant DL380G7, basically the last server with a front side bus, and all the comments about it where about power per watt.

and they’re not wrong.

I just don’t think this is the community for old servers like this, self hosting is very much a practical consideration and the money spent on electricity running anything useful on these old things is better spent on a raspberry pi or stand alone NAS or something.

you MUST avoid this garbage

yeah, people treated their slaves much better.

ya not a poofta are ya Bruce?

I got my first mac a few years back off the side of the road, a 2009 imac that didn’t work. I went to a lot of trouble to find and install the most up to date mac os I could get on it for the challenge and because I’d never used a intel mac before.

Believe me, they absolutely did just flick a switch. everything about steam worked fine until the day it didn’t even load up. removing support is one thing, actively bricking your product is a total scum fuck move that is just common practice in gaming now.

software as servitude

How many diverse representational check boxes are drug out on the street and shot so they can sell their uninteresting dross in China?

They don’t have values they have a marketing strategy; and it’s because of that marketing strategy that those check boxes are totally 1 dimensional, boring, and replaceable.

Actual diversity doesn’t look or feel like a personal attack.
Go watch She-ra and tell me the gay dads aren’t integral to Bow’s character and try to tell me that isn’t the exception to the vast majority of cardboard cutouts whose ONLY character trait is a single DEI check box.

Would it though?

literally couldn’t pay me to play it

through the ages

let me just check in with Blizzard and … oh no

combustion engines get better every year too. Engineers love optimizing what’s already there.

A breakthrough by it’s nature isn’t just a marginal improvement.

mind=blown

I play a dude IRL so why would I do the exact same thing when I’m trying to escape from reality?

they don’t think it be how it is but it do