A good reminder that “the cloud” is a fancy way of saying, “someone else’s computer”. If you don’t own the hardware, you don’t own the data on it. This works for large businesses because they have actual contracts and lawyers to get their data back. For everyone else, the EULA amounts to one big “fuck you”.
Reminds me of the tech site from long ago, Experts Exchange. Their website was originally expertsexchange[.]com, and it showed in in google searches fairly regularly (they actually had some reasonable content at the start). Eventually, they added a hyphen.
War is Peace. Freedom is slavery.
And now for your Five Minute Hate.
Not a specific word or phrase, but Google Dorking is useful for limiting down search results. Just the basics of putting things in double quotes (e.g. “Find this exact text”) and negating words/phrases (e.g. -NotThis) can go a long way in refining search results. The “filetype:” modifier is much less useful than it was a decade or two ago, as SEO assholes have gotten wise to it and so include tags to show up on results using it. The “site:” keyword can be really handy, when you are pretty sure what you want is on a specific site/domain. Or, if you are trawling a website for specific information. You can also negate the “site:” keyword. So, you can add something like “-site:expertsexchange.com” to a search and get rid of useless advertising sites.
It’s a good thing the American people would never elect a demented narcissist to the office of The President.
Fuck.
Fixed, thank you. That’s what I get for trying to create a link while on mobile.
What’s the wrong that could happen?
see: Turkey
No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it.
Compared to no arm for the rest of my life, being called “baby-hand” for a year seems like a small price to pay.
That seems to be what they are trying to control. Just “turning on” the regenerative mechanisms is a fast track to a cancerous growth. This research seems to be aimed at understanding how to provide that mechanism with the chemical instruction of what to grow into. While we aren’t there yet, each time a new part of that instruction set is figured out, we get a step closer to regrowing lost tissue. Living organisms are incredibly complex and understanding large, complex processes like growing a limb is going to take a lot of work and time.
While I’m all for fresh ideas, one of the advantages to sticking with well known naming is that folks will often look for those things and might end up missing the community, if the name isn’t obvious and easily searchable. While “LFG” does imply that one is looking for a group, rather than maybe just a single other person, it also has a very long history in gaming and is a well known acronym. I suspect a lot of folks are going to specifically look for that acronym when starting their search. So, I’d argue with sticking with that classic.
That said, it is your community and you should build the identity you want to build. So, don’t let some old curmudgeon like me push you away from doing something that interests you.
GOP: We support our Troops! *
Also GOP: Fuck our veterans!
* “Troops” in this context means "defense contractors".
Maybe we could create something new and wonderful? Oh wait, no. let’s just see what else we can dredge up from the bottom of the nostalgia barrel, run for two seasons and then kill because it wasn’t a super breakout success.
I’m willing to withhold judgement. But, Chosen’s website reads like bog standard vulture capital trying to pretend they are not going to ride in and enshitify anything they touch. With lots of broad claims about being “community driven” and AI art. Maybe this will work out; but, I wouldn’t be putting money on it.
That said, I don’t blame Dark0ne for wanting to step back. He’s be running this wonderful site for the community for a long time and deserves the opportunity to go do other things. I wish him the best of luck and I hope that NexusMods survives this transition.
Companies exist (first example I found, I’ve no clue of anything about them) to install this sort of thing. I’ve no idea if they are any good; or, if their prices are what their site claims for some of them. But, it does seem that one can get a “professionally” installed bomb shelter for about the price if a house (assuming one already has the land). Of course, stocking it, and keeping food/water/supplies up to date seems like it would cost a good bit as well.
just a general ‘lol’ at all the ICBM sites in the great plains getting at least one if not several nukes likely dedicated to them, each.
This is the point of the “nuclear sponge”. The missile silos in the northern plains states are hard enough targets that any nuclear first strike would likely target those silos with a lot of warheads. The goal of such strikes would be to reduce the number of US warheads that can be used in a counter-strike. But, because destroying those silos is hard, each one needs to be targeted by multiple warheads to have a high likelihood of “killing” the missile contained in the silo. This means that any attacker has less warheads to target US military sites or US population centers. Basically, Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming and Colorado all get completely fucked, so the rest of us can be less fucked. Assuming, of course, that the attacker sees reducing US land based warheads as a viable/useful strategy.
This is just Microsoft engineers acknowledging that Windows 11 is about as welcome as Windows Vista was.
A couple thoughts. Assuming your motherboard is capable of SATA hot-swap and has it enabled (look in your BIOS), you should be able to umount the game drive, and swap it without shutting down. Assuming the game drives are partitioned using GPT, you should be able to add individual entries in /etc/fstab using the partition UUIDs and control mounting and umounting to specific mount points for different drives. Personally, I would add the noauto option to those entries, so that mounting is done manually and can be controlled easily.
OS drive swapping may be simpler, depending on your BIOS. With the system powered off, swap the drives and assuming the BIOS picks up the new boot partition cleanly, you’re off to the races. The only issue would be if the BIOS just doesn’t want to recognize one of the drives’ boot partitions. I had this issue with my Arch install and my MSI motherboard. The motherboard won’t recognize the default install location and I had to move the boot files around to work in a fallback mode. Annoying, but solvable.
Finally, as others have said, this could all be a matter of over-complicating things. Why not just stuff all the drives in the case and always have everything? You can configure the primary drive’s boot loader to let you pick between which OS to boot. And you can have any and all data drives mounted at the same time. Unless you are struggling with physical space or power requirements, it saves on having to muck about with swapping stuff.
do any of you hate how self-hosting services like photo- or document-management systems, or even a simple rss tool, forces you to sort your stuff out, and put your decades old files in order?!
What is this “sort” thing you speak of? I don’t sort anything, I have NextCloud syncing my entire photos, videos and documents folders and they are just as messy as ever. Granted, I do go through my photos and videos once a year and dump them in a folder named for the year they were taken. Occasionally, I’ll go hog wild and try to sort some of a year’s photos/videos into folders named after events. Though, that hasn’t happened in a number of years. I setup NextCloud so I could have everything synced to my own server and just forget, not have to deal with labeling my data.
As for bookmarks. I already keep those in folders; but, I don’t sync those. I use my desktop far more than I use my phone for web browsing. And the types of things I use my phone for (mostly recipes), I just keep bookmarked there.
Violence is always a bad option. Sometimes however, it’s the least bad of the bad options. And knowing when that point has been reached is incredibly hard, and often misjudged.