100%. I think the developer taking the project read only was not a temper tantrum, it was just them signifying they don’t have time to maintain it. So now if you want anything to happen you must fork it.

I really enjoy the game, but now me and my friends are maxed out. Max samples, max medals, max upgrades. With nothing to progress to there is far less incentive to play.

The way my friend group works, and I imagine many others work, when I see one of my friends online playing a game, I join their game. And hell divers was great for that, they made joining games effortless. So it was very social.

But without any of my friends actually progressing towards something in the game, it’s far rarer for us to just join on each other cuz we’re not playing it alone. So now Helldivers is a an option, when we’re already together online, trying to figure out something to do, we will hell dive and have fun no problem. But it’s far less likely now

If they want to maintain a larger user base, they need to have something for people to constantly progress towards. It could just be donating samples to a new research project, that could be infinite grind

Sony didn’t go through with account linking in the end.

Yet

Predicting the future with 100% accuracy is difficult. It’s unknowable if physical money will completely disappear.

The one thing I hold as an absolute constant, is humans are adaptable, humans will trade and use whatever they can, whatever is convenient, to their advantage.

Can you trade today, gold for a donut? Yes, but you’re going to put a lot of effort into that trade, just to find a counterparty. And then for the counterparty to verify it’s actually gold etc etc but you can do it.

Fascist governments like the centralized power, and that includes centralizing money, including peer-to-peer exchanges. So there’s always going to be the urge to control the absolute flow of all money. That being said, not every government has perfect cell phone coverage over their whole and nation, not all of their people have phones, not all of those phones are always on the network. The one thing money needs to do is work even offline.

You see the boat in the photos? You see how it’s got a flat bottom, and a ramp that can be lowered? It is literally designed to land on beaches and offload cargo. No Pier needed

War… War never changes.

He has a point.

Identity is a human right, digital systems should NOT have the power to revoke your identity.

It is of critical importance to design digital identity systems that ensure the privacy of citizens as well as protecting them from issuer corruption. Unfortunately, what Europe’s and USA’s public sectors are currently developing does not offer such basic protections. We aim to solve this issue and propose a method for untraceable selective disclosure and privacy preserving revocation of digital credentials, using the unique homomorphic characteristics of second order Elliptic Curves and Boneh-Lynn-Shacham (BLS) signatures. Our approach ensures that users can selectively reveal only the necessary credentials, while protecting their privacy across multiple presentations. We also aim to protect users from issuer corruption, by making it possible to apply a threshold for revocation to require collective agreement among multiple revocation issuers.

The person your talking with is letting perfect be the enemy of good.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/vpn-overview/

This is a really good review about the actual tradeoffs involved.

It’s like crazy ex syndrome. They block you, but if you block them back in reciprocating fashion now your the bad person.

I’m not the OP, but you can get 8TiB SSDs, they are spendy, but doable, no spinning disks required, the benefit of using a nas based solution is you can put a bunch of cheap SSDs in

Not directly an answer, but the CRT guy has a series of industrial computers for different environments, which could provide inspiration.

Some of them have direct DC inputs, some have anti-vibration designs, some have massive passive cooling!

The little guys series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP3aKEG79DM&list=PLec1d3OBbZ8LGjvbb0GQwlQxWXmI2PA88

I think a Synology box would work for you, or a TrueNas design - you could just build out one of their motherboards in your own itx case. These are good, robust, anti-vibration, mobile low power cpus, hardware selected for robustness and minimum heat. Stick it in a cupboard and forget about it, they run containers, and vms.

^^^ plus an open bootloader that can be relocked with user supplied keys! Pretty please.

What’s the name of the game? Where can we learn more about it?

If it’s world war II, and you’re thinking about who to make your overall theater commander, You’re going to put a lot of factors into that, including is this person available.

It wouldn’t make sense to make general Patton your absolute commander, and then have him be unavailable for 3 months.

Double so if they’ve already refused orders

I would like to find the full uncensored archive. There were some amazing comics they self censored.

Gaffer tape folded up into a square

Technically yes. There’s nothing special about the code running in the CPU. Long time ago there was an application that would switch from Windows to Linux without rebooting. But it was super unstable. You didn’t reinitialize all the memory… Some devices on the bus expect to get initialized one time, and can’t be reinitialized later after the system’s powered on, It’s asking for trouble

What you really want to do, is have multiple operating systems running on different cores at the same time. And this is an ideal use case for a hypervisor like Xen which is a microkernel. That will then dedicate a CPU to any operating system you want, so they’re running in parallel.

Then swapping between the operating systems is as simple as giving one control of the keyboard video and mouse.

This is as close as you can get to having two different computers running side by side.

That’s a good point, and that’s what a long-term CEO could fight for. But this executive before they became CEO was given a test, could they do this difficult executive thing, and they didn’t. If you’re the board of directors, is this the person you promote to CEO? They’re already giving you friction before they become the CEO