Two GPUs? Is that a thing? How does that work on a desktop?

GPUs these days aren’t like your old Voodoo, with its daisy-chained VGA port and one-way, fixed-function graphics pipeline. They can actually send the results of their calculations back to the CPU over the PCIe bus instead of only out to the monitor!

(In all seriousness though, you don’t actually need two GPUs.)

I really don’t need this and I don’t get their appeal [of RGB].

It costs manufacturers pennies to include but gives them an excuse to mark the price up by dollars, so every single one of them shoves it down all our throats.

Well, let’s see:

• You no longer have to set jumpers to “master” or “slave” on your hard drives, both because we don’t put two drives on the same ribbon cable anymore and because the terminology is considered kinda offensive.

• Speaking of jumpers, there’s a distinct lack of them on motherboards these days compared to the ones you’re familiar with: everything’s got to be configured in firmware instead.

• There’s a thing called “plug 'n play” now, so you don’t have to worry about IRQ conflicts etc.

• Make sure your power supply is “ATX”, not just “AT”. The computer has a soft on/off switch controlled through the motherboard now – the hard switch on the PSU itself can just normally stay on.

• Cooling is a much bigger deal than it was last time you built a PC. CPUs require not just heat sinks now, but fans too! You’re even going to want some extra fans to cool the inside of the case instead of relying on the PSU fan to do it.

• A lot more functionality is integrated onto motherboards these days, so you don’t need nearly as big a case or as many expansion slots as you used to. In fact, you could probably get by without any ISA slots at all!

(Side note: Make sure to follow good practices. Feel free to ask if you want more information)

Not OP, but I’d like some more information about following good practices, please, especially in terms of “the best way” to make services available outside my lan (forwarding ports vs. a reverse proxy vs. a tunnel vs. a vpn – assuming some of those terms aren’t the same thing and I’m too much of a noob to realize).

The other major problem I’ve ran into, is that HAOS assumes that you would have no need to run any other Docker services other than those that are add-ons or Home Assistant itself.

With the caveat that I can tell just from your post that I certainly know way less about this stuff than you do, HAOS’ assumption seems pretty reasonable to me. Isn’t the point of using HAOS (as opposed to installing HA some other way) that you’d be either (a) using it by itself on bare-metal hardware, or (b) using it in a VM? I’m running HAOS and Docker in two different VMs on Proxmox, and it’s working fine for me so far.

(The first complaint you mentioned, about reverse proxies and subpaths, sounds a lot more legitimate. In fact, that’s something I’d like to learn more about because I haven’t yet figured out how to make my HA install – or anything, for that matter – accessible outside my LAN and “Tailscale Funnel” sounds intriguing.)

Your SNES doesn’t phone home to Nintendo servers.

Ah, automated, scalable honey traps. What will they think of next?

We need to prosecute companies (and their executives, personally) who fraudulently misrepresent it as “purchasing.”

I was just wondering WTF piracy had to do with augmented reality.

Link to wallpaper?

A: the banana would not stay upright.

You don’t know that. For all you know, the ends of the banana are hollowed out and the middle has ballast in the bottom.

You can apply it to a whole bunch of “socialist” ideas, up to and including UBI.

On one hand I agree with this idea, on the other hand, people who are chronically homeless-not just for a short period of time-typically have a reason. Addiction, mental illness, whatever have you.

Yeah, and…?

1. It’s not worth the cost (in terms of social worker manpower etc.) to try to separate them out from the non-chronically homeless on the front end.

2. “Housing first” is not “housing only.” Getting them into housing makes them a lot easier to reach with addiction treatment or psychiatric help or whatever.

Regarding the rest of your comment, you seem to be under the impression that all these homeless people would be concentrated together in shitty housing projects, which isn’t really how it works anymore. In the 21^st century, we’re talking about placing people into mixed-income housing, where all the neighbors paying market rate set a good example and the peer pressure is directed towards improvement instead of wallowing in poverty.

I’m a leftist because I’m a fiscal conservative. It doesn’t take compassion (which is just as well, because frankly I’m not all that compassionate); it just takes not being so vindictive that you want to pay extra to persecute the poor to keep them down on purpose.

No, there really don’t have to be. Even letting them trash the place is still better for society overall than any other strategy we’ve tried.

Let me be clear about that:

1. FYI, the subset of homeless people who would trash the place is relatively small to begin with. Contrary to the stereotypes, most homeless people really are decent people down on their luck, not assholes who want to wreck shit for the lolz.

2. When I say “still better” I don’t mean better for the assholes, I mean better for everybody else. Giving them housing and then letting them wreck it is actually cheaper than spending a bunch of money screening them out and then leaving them on the street to do crimes or whatever.

Why do you hate consumer protection law?

It’s also worth noting that, by the nature of the demographic Firefox appeals to, Firefox users are much less likely to allow their browser to report telemetry and the stats are therefore probably quite a bit under-reported.

You have always owned your individual copy of the media on the disk!

Again, quit falling for the propaganda.

Or just wait a little while, purge the filter cache, update your filters, and try again.

Pretty sure CNN is (willfully) misinterpreting the law. The EU is definitely not prohibiting them from just turning off the tracking without providing a choice.