Eldritch

I mention in the Linux space only because it’s what I’m familiar with and didn’t want to make assumptions about groups I’m not familiar with. Unlike you who’s looking for a way to take umbridge and talk passed people. I went to college for IT and have done it for 30 years.

In network and IT planning. The cloud is the wider network outside your own. That you don’t have mapped. Often depicted by a “cloud”. If I have a personal data pool on one of my own networks. And need it from another. It may transmit via the “cloud”. But it isn’t IN the cloud. It’s on a personal server. If the server is in your house, and you can point exactly to where your data is. Then the rule of thumb is that it is in your house. Not the cloud. If it’s hosted on a system you couldn’t directly point to on a network you have no knowledge of. Especially a shared system. Then things literally and figuratively are getting cloudier.

That said, marketing as it often does. Appropriates and misuses words based around buzz. And I am not about to admonish hobbyist who use it in the marketing sense. I understand, I get it.

If you host in OSX on Apple Silicon, that’s great. If you host on a 68k Mac or Amiga you’re a fucking mad lad! If you’re hosting under Windows, any TCP port in the storm mate. If you are hosting from a Linux distribution that is not God’s chosen, cool how is it working out? If you are hosting from BeOS. or Haiku, you are a glorious oddball and absolutely my sort of person. And if you are hosting from an appliance that you really don’t know what it’s running, welcome to the hobby. It’s a good starting point. And a lill data in the cloud isn’t a crime. We all have some. But if you can’t easily point to it. Can you really know you have it?

It’s fine. But yes in the Linux space. We tend to want to host ourselves. Not have to trust some administrator of some cloud we don’t know/trust.

Yep, I found her through YouTube. Her and action retro’s content is always great.with some Adrian black on the side.

And I generally enjoy Veronica’s presentation. Knowledgable and simple.

Yes, I started in Vanilla/BC. Wow isn’t for everyone. But right now, between the deluge of content it’s built up historically and currently. The current system respects player time and desire much more than any in the past. If you want to just do Battlegrounds and PvP while gearing, you can do that. If you want to do world content while gearing, that’s becoming more and more viable as well. Plus you can always do the old path of raiding. And in this next expansion, PvE play and gearing is going to get even better.

What’s Ralph Bakshi gotta do with it?

My money is on heavy scraping.

Bwang!

Sometimes there’s family or other things you just can’t take with you. Support structures you might not have somewhere else. Friends and neighbors. Mutual aid.

There can be circumstances that override that. But honestly, the more that flee. The easier it is to get what the fascists want. And at best you’re only helping yourself short term. Because no matter where you go. They will come for you if they can.

That and conservatives abhor thinking. They need someone or something to defer to. And LLMs can give them all sorts of moderately intelligent bullshit they’ve come to expect . From their leaders and politicians. But better and faster. With possibly even less accuracy.

They can’t. Not without my consent. And minors can’t not without their parents consent.

And if we’re all going to rail against things because they can have side effects. Viagra can cause heart attack and death. Boner pills kill y’all. We should outlaw Viagra or similar medications they’ll literally kill you. Puberty blockers and transitioning won’t do that. In fact generally the opposite.

I never said it was. There’s 100% side effects for every medication around. They generally don’t really impact most people however. And are often preferable to the condition they seek to solve.

And regardless I don’t think anyone should take someone implying that something is the work of demons seriously. Or give any weight to anything you say over scientists and doctors who consult with their patients. Who all say otherwise

Puberty blockers don’t do any sort of transition. They literally just block puberty. Which runs its course when the puberty blockers stop. There is no transition. But this is the thing with your type. You get indoctrinated with an concept and then imagine all sorts of crazy things to explain it.

You aren’t disagreeing with anything I said. It’s all very asterisk-y. And if my personal preference/position is unclear. I run non proprietary *nix systems at a 7:1 ratio to proprietary. Precisely because of the better support. Come October that ratio is going to be getting even more lopsided.

Oh absolutely. You’re preaching to the choir here. Part of the reason I have a lot of hope around riscv. The processor designs themselves aren’t necessarily open source. But with the ISA being open and open source the first to embrace. It “could” foster a new much less proprietary ecosystem.

Proprietary “can” mean better support. But that’s asterisk heavy. Often that comes down to commercial hardware putting up road blocks to competitors. Or the open source solution being the product of a single developer in their spare time.

IKR? Shades of Ralph Wiggum.

If the most relevant way to describe someone is “influencer”. Then everyone influenced by them is a moron. They are just a mega moron. It’s a safety hazard any of these vehicles are allowed on the road. Let alone, driving autonomously with no actual intelligence on board.

The addition of vulkan can’t be overstated. It blew several bottlenecks wide open. And I really need to get in to nodes. Lol but every new release brings newer better ones and I seem to keep falling further and further behind. Cgmatter is always showing off beta ones and I’m all like ooooh I can’t wait till that’s out. Then it is and the cycle starts again.

Yes. Which isn’t a deal-breaker. But definitely a limiter in application. Something like this or Briar would be useful for example on large marches or public protests. Though maybe not this with apparently how insecure and poorly thought out it is. Which I suppose is on brand for Dorsey.