blackstampede

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blackstampede,

Man, I want that chunky laptop.

blackstampede,

This man was such a good actor, and this character was perfect.

blackstampede,

My favorite part of 300 is the bit they didn’t include - how Sparta eventually became a second-rate tourist destination where middle class families could go watch Spartans do local ceremonies and parade in their armor.

blackstampede,

You’re missing a few advantages to owning-

  • If you have to move, you can often get the money that you spent on the mortgage back, or even make a profit.
  • A mortgage is generally cheaper than rent.
  • While some may not be interested in renovating, it’s a relatively low-effort activity that pays for itself if you sell the property.
  • Can have a garden
blackstampede,

Ah yeah, not the case in my area. Rent for an apartment is about twice as much as a mortgage.

blackstampede,

Clear case of demon possession.

blackstampede,

Hot

blackstampede,

Highly recommend Inscryption. It’s a fantasy-mystery-horror deck builder that turns into a surreal, recursive, experience. It’s a masterpiece.

RAID setup for Ubuntu media server

I recently acquired two used blade servers and a short rack to put them in. I’m planning to use one or the other as the replacement for a media server that died on me a bit ago. The old media server was just a little refurb dell workstation, with a single SSD in it, but the servers have 6 and 8 bays, respectively....

blackstampede,

I’m mainly concerned about:

  1. Not losing data if one drive dies on me.
  2. Fast reads
  3. Easy plug and play expansion

Since I’ll have 8 drives (or 6, if I use the smaller server, it would be nice if I could swap out one of them without losing data and add a larger one, which would then get used automatically. Is that something that RAID is good for?

I’m hesitant to set up backups because it’s going to be a lot of data.

blackstampede,

I find the actual technology very interesting. At one point I wanted to create a distributed research journal, and I spent some time trying to develop a trustless, immutable ledger that didn’t have the high overhead that most blockchains have for proof of work. It was extremely cool, but nobody gives a shit unless it has coins lol

I look forward to 20 years from now when it gets resurrected and used for interesting things that don’t involve cryptocurrency.

blackstampede,

That, to me, seems like an ideal use case. My only reservation is that I think it would be bungled in implementation, then pushed without enough testing and validation, then hacked due to the bungled implementation, and then rejected forever because it was hacked once lol

blackstampede,

It’s not an acronym.

It originally meant “awake” in English, kept that meaning in the American black community after it fell out of use among whites (e.g. “I was having trouble staying woke on the drive”), and was repurposed as slang. The slang meaning was “to be aware of prejudice or racism”, with the implication that many blacks were “asleep”, i.e. accepted excuses for racist systems, believed that racism wasn’t a big deal anymore etc.

I’m not sure whether the word was adopted seriously by leftists generally before the right, or immediately became a catch-all label on the right, but either way, it’s become the latter.

Conservatives and some left-critical leftists now use it as a broad term that refers to things like DEI initiatives, anything trans, etc.

blackstampede,

This is not correct.

The word “woke” as a political term predates that group- York started trying to found a group in 1967, and “woke” was first used to warn black men of threats from racially motivated whites in 1931, by a singer named Lead Belly, then even more directly as a political term in 1971 in a play called “Garvey Lives!”

Whether York used it that way or not, it’s clear that he didn’t invent the usage.

I’m pulling most of this info from Wikipedia and Google to save anyone else reading the effort.

blackstampede,

Meandering about and pestering people with questions while having an internal dialogue with personified concepts.

blackstampede,

No Excite Bike?

blackstampede,

I don’t play games as much as I used to, but I had a lot of fun recently with Carrion - you play an alien hive mind eating scientists and fighting security through an Area 51 style facility.

blackstampede,

Oh my god that was a blast to read about.

blackstampede,

Holy shit this looks like fun. Now I just need sixteen friends lol.

blackstampede,

Yeeeeees! This is what I was waiting for.

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