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Fringe definitely handled the continuing storyline much better. The way they blend in, then transition from, the monster-of-the-week format is excellent writing. It did put a deadline on the story, something which the X-Files writers seemed allergic to as the series began aging.

They're not buddies per se, but Egypt was the first ME country to normalize relations.

Seems the only viable solution nowadays is computer monitor + converter box and/or computer + speakers. There's ~$150 32" monitors nowadays, even a few non-TV 42-43 inch monitors if you're willing to spend ~$700-1200.

I appreciate you setting the bar on necessities. Too many people focus on the... "cheap" "luxuries" like air conditioning, smartphones, internet access.

That's also part of the problem. People back then had other systems to make those critiques (or their job didn't require the travel it does now), and now they don't. If alternatives don't exist, and most US people today have never experienced them, there's no demand for them, and you realistically can't expect that demand to come without a massive, grinding slog.

Lack of alternatives + political unwillingness to provide them + lack of political pressure to provide them + the massive effort that would be needed to build a system from scratch that has already been dismantled, and infrastructure is in the way because it wasn't a factor + corruption, democratic decline, etc. = most problems around cars in the USA.

Can't remember where I got them, but there's some uBO rules that really help on that front:

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Also got some other rules from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44332976

This all shouldn't be necessary, but alas...

Kernel arguments are the primary method: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zswap#Using_kernel_boot_par...

Snag: I had issues getting it to use zstd at boot. Not sure if it's a bug or some peculiarity with Debian. Ended up compiling my own kernel for other reasons, and was finally able to get zstd by default, but otherwise I'd have to make/add it to a startup script.

Counterargument: you can mostly disable zswap writeback, so it will only use the swap partition when hibernating[1].

[1]https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Suspend_an...

> Maybe this will be the push to get enough people on board to make it (or something like it) feasible?

That won't save you from being targeted. Flawed methodology from the prosecution doesn't matter if all your stuff gets seized, and they really want to hurt you. See Black Ice:

[1]https://old.reddit.com/r/Freenet/comments/4ebw9w/more_inform...

[2]https://retro64xyz.gitlab.io/assets/pdf/blackice_project.pdf

> People also like to restore the SGI Indy

Because the Indy (and O2) are actually attainable. Indigo2, Octane2, Tezro cost 2-3x minimum. Sometimes a Personal IRIS comes up for relatively cheap though.

Eventually Asahi will catch up... if Apple doesn't turn around and purposely make it harder, hopefully we didn't just get lucky they were feeling "benevolent" with earlier M-series.

Until

* CPS gets called?

* cops harass them again?

* the malls and many other places kick them out

* (at least for most of the USA) zoning laws and public transit issues are all fixed?

You cannot let individual families, even individual kids/teens, shoulder this burden alone. If your local malls, cops, and nosy neighbors have already clearly shown that they DO NOT want free-range kids in practice, would you risk the breakup of your family and bankruptcy from legal fees alone? (Assuming there's no community support, because a functional community wouldn't have this problem.) Kudos if so, but most people won't risk it if the chance of success is too low.

> where it seems almost any attempt to gatekeep is seen as a freedom violation

1.) Because it always seems to have an outsized impact on adults. Then the predators get away with it because the platforms DGAF (for example, Discord has had a MASSIVE problem with illegality for YEARS, with boatloads of reports and evidence that was blatantly ignored, and yet NOW they need your ID?) And any gate design that COULD work without PII won't be implemented because data is too juicy.

> Maybe this is why we need protocols over platforms?

> If counter culture gets driven back to IRC, or gasp meatspace, then all the better.

2.) Yes on both counts. But protocols need to be decentralized, massively scalable, available across every platform including phones, and normie-grade easy-to-use (not everybody, and it's getting better now, but lots of devs tend to give up here, like it's a binary choice between a lobotomized barely-functioning bloated Fisher-Price app and a fully-functioning lean app with awful UI. Shockingly difficult, as I discovered trying to program, but both possible and necessary.) But as for meatspace...

> we went from a world where most everything was intermediated by parents

3.) If anything, the world is intermediated by parents like never before.[1] Not everywhere, not everybody, but enough freedom of movement and gathering has been lost by children and teens that it is killing meatspace. This CANNOT be ignored if you want to address online problems. The internet, awful as it can be, is the only "free" place left to roam for many.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45945114

If you're on Linux, I'd highly recommend trying `chrt -i 0`. Not quite night-and-day compared to nice 19, but anecdotally it is noticeable, especially if you game.

24 Amiga 2000's each with a 68040, 32mb of RAM and a Video Toaster, managed by a 486 server with a 12gb of storage.

[1]https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue166/68_The_makin...

>without being authoritarian.

Too late. We already have the eyes/muscle and nascent legal justifications; leadership will eventually force the issue.

Some more terms for your enjoyment:

* Blau Gas

* Fischer-Tropsch process

* Bergius process

Do you test on different kernel preemption models? If so, do you feel PREEMPT_RT really gives an advantage over full preemption with threadirqs?

(Cyclictest gives me between a 3x and 5x worst-case latency improvement depending on the background load, but I'm not nearly musically skilled enough to try a real-world test.)

Several swimming pools do to great effect:

https://datacentremagazine.com/data-centres/excess-data-cent...

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64939558

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/free-...

> he had not only accidentally uploaded all of the therapy notes, but also his entire home folder

Lol. At least it's a good reminder about bad opsec.

> the main bit ran off something like 400hz power, for some reason the CPU needed faster mains volts going in.

Aerospace originally did that to reduce component size, CDC and IBM took advantage of the standard in the early 60's.

Strangely, it seems mainframes didn't adopt switching power supplies until the end of the 70's, despite the tech being around since the end of the 60's.

The source code is available as well: https://github.com/jaromil/kkrieger-werkkzeug3

> The reason is that it would finally motivate game developers to be more realistic in their minimum hardware requirements, enabling games to be playable on onboard GPUs.

They'll just move to remote rendering you'll have to subscribe to. Computers will stagnate as they are, and all new improvements will be reserved for the cloud providers. All hail our gracious overlords "donating" their compute time to the unwashed masses.

Hopefully AMD and Intel would still try. But I fear they'd probably follow Nvidia's lead.

For anybody who's still confused, the tl;dr is ASDF is the actual package loading mechanism, Quicklisp doubles as an ASDF wrapper and a package manager.

No. It's FVWM-specific.

Problem is MSRP is also inflated, and Covid has locked that in. Arc Battlemage is the only exception I see.

Once the bubble pops, there will be a recession, lots of regular people will lose their jobs and won't be able to afford anything even IF prices come down.

They've got you coming and going.

Windows XP only supports UEFI because of some excellent hacks[1]. Haven't seen anything for NT or 2k beyond some preliminary testing[2].

[1]https://msfn.org/board/topic/186793-csmwrap-boot-csm-on-uefi...

[2]https://msfn.org/board/topic/183745-is-it-possible-to-boot-w...

You're right, I was confusing E.1S and CXL.

Inexpensive, probably not. E1.S isn't just a different connector, it's a completely different protocol than PCIe.