and let's not forget QuakeWorld that introduced latency compensation, allowing you to have an OK experience with up to 200ms ping, where as the normal Quake TCP/IP stack was basically unplayable with anything over 70-80ms. https://quakewiki.org/wiki/QuakeWorld
my first multiplayer Quake was with Qtest in February 1996 using a null modem cable between two machines, and later on using coax cables and IPX in DOS
getting a multiplayer game running was a tech feat compared to the plug & play nature of things now. the learning curve is gone now.
Do put your DNS at cloudflare for your blog, as it can more effectively block all unwanted traffic. Dropped my bandwidth usage on personal blog from 4-5Gb/day to less than 500Mb by putting DNS through cloudflare and enabling their bot/ai blocks.
what a short sighted and close minded person. I hope she uses the same rule for everything. "as soon as he opened a book to read a receipt I stopped being interested".
> ‘OK, so ChatGPT helps you write your grocery list. Does your individual convenience outweigh the societal harm it can cause?’
look at this garbage reasoning. "oh no a shopping list, IT IS THE END OF THE WORLD"
> Let's work 90 hours a week and retire at 80, imagine the growth, big numbers get bigger makes bald monkey happy
that is all you heard in the 80-90s, people over the pond showing off how many hours per week they worked. like... how is that something to be proud of?
So wauw, you spend 12hrs+ per day working , had no free evenings, zero paid holidays. And that is supposed to impress who?
What happened in the 80s too is that politics told us automation would bring a 3 days work week, which never materialized. But now we have to trust the same people, moved by the same greed, that this time it'll be different
It's the same breed of people, bred from the same system, not literally the same people but the people following on the footsteps. Greed is the constant.
Hell, it has been going much longer than only 40 years ago, on "In Praise of Idleness" Bertrand Russell talked about how industrialisation with its automation should be helping workers to work less 90 years ago.
a RSS reader should allow for quick view of titles & summaries so you can decide to click through or not, inoreader free version scratches that itch. Don't need any fancy features, or social stuff. sure it's not self hosted, but it's just a collection of rss feeds, if it's down for a while, nothing big of value was lost, a small ompl backup of the feeds is all you need to get started elsewhere, self hosted or not.
power draw. running 24/7 it makes a huge difference in overall power usage, and by switching from a repurposed desktop mobo & cpu, to a dedicated low power saved me thousands in electricity costs every year.
that fact that in EU power isn't cheap... is also a main reason for keeping total power draw as low as possible.
supports running dockers, running adguard DNS filtering, youtube-dl container and adblocker is such a time saver self hosted image hosting etc
so much potential lost... if you just use it as a "HDD on the network"
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