For pc, very. I spent hours downloading rips of games off a BBS. One of the few games I bought was duke nukem 3d and that’s just because I wanted the build level editor that I couldn’t find a download of.

For consoles, less so. I had a pirated “100 in 1” nes cart of from China but all the games were crap. Cartridge copying wasn’t a thing.

I vaguely remember a n64 device that could load cartridge images off a zip drive or something. Nobody had one though.

Piracy became bigger again when the ps1 mod chip came out and we had brand new cd burners. Dreamcast too.

I’m quite happy with Thunder

People get into the mood of bidding and lose all rationality.

You can buy 100 marbles for like $10 online

I don’t. Of my 120tb, I only care about the 4tb of personal data and I push that to a cloud backup. The rest can just be downloaded again.

You should post this to https://lemmy.ca/c/canada for more eyes!

Why are you relying on example.com as a health check? To be really blunt about it, if you’re using it then you’ve misconfigured your stuff.

From their docs:

These web services are provided as best effort, but are not designed to support production applications. While incidental traffic for incorrectly configured applications is expected, please do not design applications that require the example domains to have operating HTTP service.

Many (maybe most?) of us just use the all feed, and block the communities we don’t want to see. That makes the specific community / instance a lot less important than reddit.

Modern encoding formats can also do a lot better quality at a lower bitrate than Blu-ray, and do dynamic bitrate depending on the amount of change in a scene.

Like you said, most people just don’t care. The quality is good enough.

Based on what? A quick peek and I didn’t see any of the stuff I expect from LLMs

A1 and HP sauce are both British… I guess they do.

That was my thought too when reading about it. Surely he has a personal doctor with a bit of discretion.

At my house around 10-15. For lemmy.ca and our other sites, 35ish maybe. At work… hundreds.

Check lsmod and see if the kernel modules are loaded. Nvidia smi is probably loading them for you on first run.

Edit your bootloader config and turn off quiet / splash so you actually get a useful boot log.

100%. The tsmc episode on the acquired podcast was pretty interesting, worth a listen.

They’ve dropped physical cpu licensing model and now you pay per vCPU/thread (unless they’ve changed it again). People would buy a host with 128 cores and use virtualization to cram it into one physical CPU. You’re not wrong that there’s enterprise packages to pay way less, but it’s still a nightmare and if you get audited you’re guaranteed to have to pay up some extra $ since nobody gets it right.

Even the microsoft VARs can’t make sense of it. A previous job (service provider) got audited 2 months after I left and it sounded like a total headache.

Just to really drive this point home, if I go and price out a dell R470 with the default config from dell.ca it’s $9700. If i want a windows server license, that’s another $4700 on top of that.

Why pay 50% more for software that is slower and harder to support? That’s not even thinking about SQL server licensing which is even more expensive.

I assumed the same.

Imagine a disk shelf of 24 drives being connected by a pair of sas loops. You’d want the faster speeds then. It’s not about individual drives.

One is 6gb sas and the other is 12gb.

You probably won’t notice a difference