Even if the width of your driver doesn't match, a hollow ground tool is still a huge improvement imo. I'm definitely not a fan of slotted screws though. I'd rather have Phillips head provided I have a super grippy Wera screwdriver.

For me, it's outside hex > torx > pozidrive > internal hex > Phillips > JIS > slotted. I've never used a Robertsons screw so I can't form an opinion on them.

Slotted becomes far more tolerable when you have a hollow-ground screwdriver. Flathead screwdrivers should not have the profile of a wedge. They should look like this:

This profile ensures that the force is applied lower in the slot, not right at the very top edge.

I still HATE slotted screws when torque is required or where corrosion can occur, but the hatred of them is also partially due to shitty drivers.

Here's a picture that says all of the above but far more concisely:

God, fuck those dual DVI-D ports. We had a bunch of computers at my first real job that used that crap and the breakout cables were such complete and utter shit. Dell, you had room for two DVI-D ports on your shit ass midtowers!

EDIT: also fuck DVI-A. I've had one miserable encounter with that port and I'm glad it's dead. Either keep shit VGA, use DVI-D, or use the far superior DisplayPort with a locking cable.

God I fucking love DisplayPort locking cables.

pls watchlist me

That's fair though. I mostly made my comment to be irritating/silly. Vim is not for everyone. It took me quite some time to achieve productivity gains, but I was encouraged to keep trying because I was doing a shitload of text editing over SSH. All text editors are valid, provided they're FOSS.

neovim to the rescue.

Arch Linux, on an old Compaq pizza box server when I was 16. It took me 3 months to install Arch because there was a DIP switch on the motherboard that somehow prevented you from updating the MBR or some shit.

I basically never used it and didn't touch Linux again until 7 years later, when I used SLES 11 SP2 at a job.

I'm the opposite. I find LC much more interesting, plus REPO's camera inertia gives me terrible motion sickness, even when the animation speed is reduced and all the other settings are changed. I can't even watch someone stream it, the inertia is so extreme.

I think they're fundamentally different games. The limited day length in LC gives a much more tense vibe, where repo is a bit more laid back and lets you really scour every level. LC also doesn't have the upgrade system present in REPO, meaning doing well on the harder moons is entirely skill based. I prefer skill over upgrades, but I know others don't. I've heard from people who are really into REPO that past level 6 or 8, the difficulty doesn't really increase, and getting too many strength upgrades can trivialize the game.

They both have their merits. You find REPO to be more enjoyable which is totally fair and valid.

"Get off vent, or I'll have you bent."

I wish those stupid videos weren't the first thing my brain goes for when I see the word "Ventrilo."

ooh ooh I know about this because of this silly thing:

https://youtu.be/DCyxpYXs2Aw

God, can we not though? Haha funni meme and all, but like, I'm so tired of seeing this shit. It sucks for the women in the community, and honestly it sucks for the men too. It's just such boomer humor.

In the short term? Grey rock your "friend." This person is an enabling shit who does not have your best interests at heart. You are being physically abused. What you describe isn't corporal punishment (which I personally consider to still be physical abuse), it is abuse. Starving someone to punish them is abuse. Anyone who takes part in, or enables said abuse is not someone you want in your life.

Do you have anyone safe in your life that you could go to? Other friends that would not condone what you are experiencing? An estranged parent? Even a trustworthy teacher? I'd recommend trying to build up a support network of people who actually care for your well being before pushing this enabling piece of trash out of your life.

I think you'll enjoy this if you haven't already seen it.

https://youtu.be/OnQNdNSgiKc

imo, hardware raid is irrelevant for most small-scale use-cases and can be a liability for homelabbers. In a professional context, I've had a raid card shit itself causing temporary data loss and downtime because my idiot bosses didn't buy a spare card back when they set up their system. If you're doing hardware RAID, you must buy two cards, and they MUST be on the same firmware version. Software RAID is basically just as fast, is far more flexible, has one less SPOF, and is cheaper (a cheap HBA being all you need hardware-wise). About the only other thing some RAID cards have is a battery backup unit to get around write hole issues, but good filesystems can help with that too.

Hardware RAID isn't necessarily obsolete, but I'd say it's like mainframes—the applications for it are highly specialized.

Proxmox HA cluster with a SAN. VM migrations go wheeeeeeeeee.

I'd just run HA on the mini PC. There are a boatload of add-ons that you can install which will allow you to make better use of the hardware.

Even better, never connect it to the Internet in the first place. Don't use your TV's smart features, use a dongle or something else.

As someone who somewhat recently wasted 5 hours debugging a "simple" bash script that Cursor shit out which was exploding k8s nodes—nah, I'll pass. I rewrote the script from scratch in 45 minutes after I figured out what was wrong. You do you, but I don't let LLMs near my software.

Page/word limits are ultimately much more difficult than minimums. Taking a concept described in 5000 words and distilling it down to 2500 is much, much harder than writing the 5000 words in the first place. It's a good test of skill in uni.

Wireguard was written with the explicit goal of having sane, secure defaults. I totally feel you w.r.t. openvpn or ipsec, since it's easy to do something wrong. Wireguard is much easier because it simply refuses to give you the choice to do things incorrectly.

w.r.t. the certificate thing, you could set up a reverse proxy and do HSTS to ensure nobody can load up a rogue CA on your devices. HSTS has the issue that SSH has (trust on first use or whatever it's called), but you just need to make sure nobody is MITM you for that first connecting and then you'll be good to go. This would let you use a self-signed certificate if you do desired.

Manul! _{The glorious Pallas Cat!}

EDIT: manul

I was concerned about what happens when someone accidentally throws away a device with a fresh battery, but this:

The BV100 harnesses energy from the radioactive decay of its nickel-63 core. The two-micron thick core, sandwiched between two 10-micron thick diamond semiconductors

makes me feel a bit better. That really isn't much radioactive material. Still, it'd be good to see some environmental impact studies done in some worst case scenarios.