Like other mentioned, a lot of old games sold right now actually packaged with dosbox. Some even packaged with Wine so it can run on different platforms. The real problem would be emulating current modern graphic stacks but that would be future preservists’ problem.

Imagine inheriting a GOG account originally registered by your great-great grandpa containing ungodly amount of games you can’t possibly play all of them in a lifetime.

Does this mean Roblox is becoming this generation’s Second Life now?

Play with friends you say? Another game I’ll never play…

They have no incentive to optimize the Red Engine anymore since CD Projekt is moving to Unreal Engine.

Heck, Japanese manufacturers even sell $15K EVs in Japan (e.g. Nissan Sakura) but they don’t seem to be interested in selling them elsewhere.

They’re probably marketing this as requiring zero infrastructure changes to attract buyers and investors. Just put the pod lifter at the end of the track and it’s done.

Sales is up compared to last year but still doesn’t meet target? Hmm… this infinite growth thing is harder than I though.

companies of the modern era have to justify their existence not just with success, but growth, and Microsoft’s been struggling to do that

“The last year or so in videogames,” says Bond, “largely the industry’s been flat … [we saw some] tremendously groundbreaking games, but the growth didn’t follow all that.”

Whelp, now that everyone went back to work and not stuck at home anymore, it’s actually amazing that the video game industry is still flat, but apparently that’s not enough. Probably nothing can top covid19 effect to game industry anytime soon, unless they have another virus in the work /s

For comparison, I run a thinkstation p300 with i7-4790 (TDP 84W) 24/7 and the power usage looks like this:

Even when idling this old processor still guzzles 45W. Certainly not as nice as GP’s that only use 10W during idle.

Power scaling for these old CPU is not great though. Mine is slightly newer and on idle it still uses 50% of the TDP.

Xeon E5-2670, with 115W TDP, which means 2x115=230W for the processor alone. with 8 ram modules @ ~3W each, it’ll going to guzzle ~250W when under some loads, while screaming like a jet engine. Assuming $0.12/kwh, that’s $262.8 per year for electricity alone.

Would be great if you have an isolated server room to contain the noise and cheap electricity, but more modern workstation should use at least 1/4 of electricity or even less.

Google Reader was the best. Not sure why Google killed it, but it was really good at both content discovery and keeping up with sites you’re interested in. I tried several alternatives but nothing came close, so I gave up and hung out more on forums / link aggregators like slashdot, hacker news, reddit and now lemmy for content discovery. I’m also interested to hear what others use.

When a dev abandon a live service game, I hope they do what Marvel’s Avengers did: patch the game to work offline, unlock all paid contents, then has one final big discount before shutting everything off.

Never thought that home assistant os would actually use docker under the hood. I thought it’s running home assistant directly with supervisor method.

Could be cdn issue. Try updating your router setting to use cloudflare dns or google dns. Some people fixed similar issue by using those dns servers.

Modding is a hobby, and just like other hobbies, tinkering is part of the fun.

Is this the tutorial you followed? https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/generic-x86-64

On which step did you encounter the error? The step where the home assistant os already written to the target disk and you’re told to restart the system with usb stick unplugged?

http error 500 when downloading the container image might be a temporary error on github docker repo side. Try restarting the device and see if the error persist.

From the posted log, it appears to try to download ghcr.io/home-assistant/generic-x86-64-homeassistant:2024.4.4 docker image and failed due to http 500 server error .

Can you post how you were trying to install home assistant? E.g are you using docker compose?

Why not using ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:2024.4.4?