I’m the other way. I’d rather have battery life on cell phones, and turn the refresh rate down.
On a desktop, where the power usage is basically irrelevant, then sure, I’ll crank the refresh rate way up. One of the most-immediately-noticeable things is the mouse pointer, and that doesn’t exist on touch interfaces.
I had always assumed that “Maxwell House” referred to “House” in the “household” sense of the word rather than “physical building”.
Apparently, though, it refers to a large hotel that was named “house” from the get-go.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_House_Hotel
The Maxwell House Hotel was a major hotel in downtown Nashville. Because of its stature, seven US Presidents and other prominent guests stayed there over the years. It was built by Colonel John Overton Jr. and named for his wife, Harriet (Maxwell) Overton. The architect was Isaiah Rogers.[1]
Not a video game, but since I try to reference relevant Threadiverse communities when I can, if you’re not aware of it, you might enjoy !militarymoe@ani.social.
goes to Steam, searches for items with tags “Anime”, “Singleplayer”, and “Shooter”, type “Game” to exclude bundles, sorts by “User Reviews”
295 results match your search. 97 titles have been excluded based on your preferences.
That’s not logged in, so I assume that the 97 probably have adult content or something that Valve defaults to not showing, so figure ~400 games.
EDIT: It looks like “Shooter” can also mean stuff like shmups or rail shooters. You may be interested in that, but if not, replacing the “Shooter” tag with the “FPS” (first-person shooter) tag:
Or the “Third-person shooter” tag:
EDIT2: Apparently and obnoxiously, Valve didn’t make search URL links compatible between the mobile version of the site and the desktop version of the site. The above was from a desktop browser. But if you’re on mobile, you can probably recreate the search by adding the same tags.
Canada called me a couple of weeks ago, they want to be part of it
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GirlfriendInCanada
Girlfriend in Canada
A convenient way for a character to disabuse the idea that they’re either gay, too socially inept for a relationship or simply unlucky in love is to claim that they indeed have a girlfriend — but the other characters have never met her because she lives in Canada. She doesn’t visit very often, but when she does they just spend all day in bed. Look, here’s her entry in his phone’s contact list. No, you can’t see a picture.
The idea is that since “she” lives in a different country, and presumably would have to get a passport and go through all that hassle in order to visit her “boyfriend”, it’s particularly tempting to make her Canadian as a way of discouraging others from asking too many questions.
The tactic could be scaled up.
Hmm.
So for some software, you can just increase the price.
But…I wonder what that will do to the cost of video games. Typically, those are closer to one-off releases, not packages where new releases exist and are regularly purchased or subscriptions are in place.
I’d expect this to increase the cost of maintenance, if there are legal obligations on publishers to monitor, notify, and deploy security fixes for their software and upstream. You’d think that it might encourage vendors to EOL software sooner; pull it off Steam or the like, mark as no longer supported.
Maybe there are some exemptions somewhere that affect those.
It’s not the first intervention in Haiti.
The reason that both a lot of Haitians and a lot of countries didn’t want another international intervention was because the prior ones tended to wind up with everyone unhappy and complaining about the situation. The most recent one was UN aid after the earthquake. The UN force that was sent included some soldiers out of some country that had cholera, which started a cholera outbreak, which wound up with angry Haitians calling for reparations and countries who felt unappreciated for what they were doing.
kagis
Looks like it was some soldiers from Nepal.
What’s the big deal with POSIX? Why are ppl constantly discussing what is and isn’t posix compliant?
The short version: it’s a least-common-denominator standard that spans multiple Unix and Unix-like systems, so if you write to it, your software can fairly-trivially run on various systems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX
Windows has some level of Microsoft-provided Posix support, which is what the post is alluding to. I am fairly confident that it doesn’t have full Posix compliance. Cygwin, a separate, non-Microsoft, open-source effort, might qualify.
kagis
Okay, apparently it does confirm to a portion of the Posix standard:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem
The subsystem only implements the POSIX.1 standard – also known as IEEE Std 1003.1-1990 or ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 – primarily covering the kernel and C library programming interfaces which allowed a program written for other POSIX.1-compliant operating systems to be compiled and run under Windows NT. The Windows NT POSIX subsystem did not provide the interactive user environment parts of POSIX, originally standardized as POSIX.2. That is, Windows NT did not provide a POSIX shell nor any Unix commands out of the box, except for pax. The NT POSIX subsystem also did not provide any of the POSIX extensions that postdated the creation of Windows NT 3.1, such as those for POSIX Threads or POSIX IPC.
The teenager was later found “alive and well” on September 26.
“Well” other than the self-inflicted gunshot wound, one imagines.
I would note that, to pick two examples:
ExpressVPN appears to have California-based exit nodes:
https://www.expressvpn.com/vpn-server/us-vpn/san-francisco-vpn
NordVPN appears to have California-based exit nodes:
https://nordvpn.com/servers/usa/sanfrancisco/
You can effectively choose the state law under which you want to access the Internet.
looks at Ohio meaningfully
Ah, gotcha. Just for the record — though it doesn’t really matter as regards your point, because I was incorrectly assuming that you were using it as an example of with something with Firewire onboard — there are apparently two different products:
The 1010 has a PCI card, but it talks to an external box:
The 1010LT has a PCI card alone, no external box, and then a ton of cables that fan out directly from the card:
Neither appears to have a Firewire interface. IIRC, the 1010LT was less expensive, was the one I was using.
I have a feeling its mostly due to some audio and video hardware that has some real longevity. I’ve got a VHS+minidv player that I am transferring old videos from using FireWire (well, for the minidv. VHS is s-video capture).
Yeah, that’s a thought…though honestly, unless whatever someone is doing requires real-time processing and adding latency is a problem, they can probably pass it through some other old device that can speak both Firewire and something else.
Probably the m-audio delta 1010
That doesn’t have a Firewire interface, does it? I thought I had one of those.
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Oh, I’m thinking of the 1010LT, not the 1010. That lives on a PCI card.
If it’s Linux, sounds like it should just work out of box, at least for a while longer.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/linux-to-support-firewire-until-2029
Linux to Support Firewire Until 2029
The ancient connectivity standard still has years of life ahead of it.
Firewire is getting a new lease on life and will have extended support up to 2029 on Linux operating systems. Phoronix reports that a Linux maintainer Takashi Sakamoto has volunteered to oversee the Firewire subsystem for Linux during this time, and will work on Firewire’s core functions and sound drivers for the remaining few that still use the connectivity standard.
Further, Takashi Sakamoto says that his work will help users transition from Firewire to more modern technology standards (like perhaps USB 2.0). Apparently, Firewire still has a dedicated fanbase that is big enough to warrant six more years of support. But we suspect this will be the final stretch for Firewire support, surrounding Linux operating systems. Once 2029 comes around, there’s a good chance Firewire will finally be dropped from the Linux kernel altogether.
He has named…the State of Israel… in court documents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_immunity
The 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act generally bars suits against foreign governments, except in cases where state immunity is waived; in certain admiralty claims; or in claims involving commercial activity, a tort inside the United States involving death, personal injury, or damage to or loss of property (such as a traffic collision), or expropriation of property in violation of international law.
According to the article, he did, but then Trump didn’t release the Epstein files, so now he says that he doesn’t like Trump.
The QAnon shaman would also print a one-ounce gold coin, valued at $40 trillion, to pay off the country’s debts.
QAnon shaman sues Trump for $40 trillion
This is a man with a lot of enthusiasm for $40 trillion.
In the lengthy complaint, Chansley states that he is the “true” American president and that America should only have two laws: the Bill of Rights and the original U.S. Constitution.
In QAnon shaman dude’s defense, if you figure that Trump is in the business of saying outrageous stuff as President to keep people focused on whatever he’s saying rather than actual policy, this guy sounds like he might be better at it.
Ah. Thanks for the context.
Well, after they have product out, third parties will benchmark them, and we’ll see how they actually stack up.
Yeah, I saw, but it’s an interesting topic.
Is your concern compromise of your data or loss of the server?
My guess is that most burglaries don’t wind up with people trying to make use of the data on computers.
As to loss, I mean, do an off-site backup of stuff that you can’t handle losing and in the unlikely case that it gets stolen, be prepared to replace hardware.
If you just want to keep the hardware out of sight and create a minimal barrier, you can get locking, ventillated racks. I don’t know how cost-effective that is; I’d think that that might cost more than the expected value of the loss from theft. If a computer costs $1000 and you have a 1% chance of it being stolen, you should not spend more than $10 on prevention in terms of reducing cost of hardware loss, even if that method is 100% effective.
OOMs happen because your system is out of memory.
You asked how to know which process is responsible. There is no correct answer to which process is “wrong” in using more memory — all one can say is that processes are in aggregate asking for too much memory. The kernel tries to “blame” a process and will kill it, as you’ve seen, to let your system continue to function, but ultimately, you may know better than it which is acting in a way you don’t want.
It should log something to the kernel log when it OOM kills something.
It may be that you simply don’t have enough memory to do what you want to do. You could take a glance in
top(sort by memory usage with shift-M). You might be able to get by by adding more paging (swap) space. You can do this with a paging file if it’s problematic to create a paging partition.EDIT: I don’t know if there’s a way to get a dump of processes that are using memory at exactly the instant of the OOM, but if you want to get an idea of what memory usage looks at at that time, you can certainly do something like leave a
top -o %MEM -b >log.txtprocess running to get a snapshot every two seconds of process memory use.topwill print a timestamp at the top of each entry, and between the timestamped OOM entry in the kernel log and the timestamped dump, you should be able to look at what’s using memory.There are also various other packages for logging resource usage that provide less information, but also don’t use so much space, if you want to view historical resource usage. sysstat is what I usually use, with the
sarcommand to view logged data, though that’s very elderly. Things like that won’t dump a list of all processes, but they will let you know if, over a given period of time, a server is running low on available memory.