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I used to think that would be a bad idea (because it’s very un-console-like to sell a device that isn’t plug-and-play out of the box) but I might be coming around on it a bit if it means a more affordable option.

They’d need to make it very clear to buyers, though.

I honestly wish they’d just release the controller sooner rather than later. I can somewhat understand delaying the Machine and Frame due to the supply shortages, but if the controller is ready then they should just put it out there.

CatsEyeXI custom Final Fantasy XI server!

Bullshit… The billionaire oligarch class steals everything that we’ve made and seizes the means of production, and we are supposed to be satisfied with table scraps leaving us with, at best, barely what we need to survive?

Fuck off. I’d rather have Universal Basic Pitchforks.

This guy is such a waste of everybody’s time.

First Greenland, then Canada, then Iceland, then Ireland, then the UK.

First Venezuela, then Panama and Costa Rica, then Colombia, then Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and then Mexico.

These are the twisted and greedy ambitions of Donald Trump and the imperialists who prop him up, and the world must cop the fuck on to them before it’s too late. He’d take Japan and South Korea if he could.

All the while we will see Russia continue to attempt to rebuild the Soviet Union, China expand into Asia, increasing wars between opposing nations in the Middle East, war between India and Pakistan, revolutions in South America, and who knows what kind of fucked up shit in Africa.

The peace and security of the world is at stake right now.

Maybe I’m missing something, but I’m confused how they can promise “high speed access” to the data while also claiming:

We do not host any copyrighted materials here. We are a search engine, and as such only index metadata that is already publicly available. When downloading from these external sources, we would suggest to check the laws in your jurisdiction with respect to what is allowed. We are not responsible for content hosted by others.

Do they have the data or do they not have it?

They also claim to be able to do things like extract text and deduplicate the data… That seems to suggest a significant amount of storage and compute power for a non-profit that has only been around for ~3 years.

I find this entire thing fishy as fuck. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I’m not convinced that the entire existence of this data theft operation isn’t simply to be a illicit data broker for AI companies. And now their is direct evidence tying both Anthropic and NVidia to them.

Europe needs to be more forceful against Trump and the United States. The constant appeasement and coddling isn’t working.

Ban US social media, tax US products (including software and subscriptions), tell my government that if the want Greenland they should be willing to trade California. I beg you guys, please fucking retaliate against this guy while you still can.

While it’s sad that things have even come to this at all, it’s good to hear someone is at least doing the bare minimum to stand up to Trump.

When in doubt, plead ignorance.

When you’re famous they let you do it?

“Could be”? Why the special treatment?

If any other website was distributing such disturbingly illegal content they would’ve been banned in the span of days and the owners and creators or that content would’ve been prosecuted.

Where is the shooter and his accomplices? Have then been detained or neutralized? Have they even been named?

Just like on his vacations to Epstein’s island.

You could use your brain.

I think that sounds pretty solid to me. Realistically you should count on having 3x drives for your important data:

1. The main data drive(s)
2. Drive(s) for redundancy, mirroring the data drives. (I use btrfs RAID1 for this.).
3. Offline local hard drive(s) that you keep somewhere relatively safe that you occasionally backup to.
4. (Optionally) Some kind of offsite backup.

So if you plan on having 2TB of data, you’ll ideally want 3x 2TB drives. 2 in the PC mirroring eachother, and 1 in a closet or safe that you plug in and backup to a few times per year. (With bonus points if you can get another 2TB of off site or cloud storage to also backup to, in case of catastrophy.)

As for how you build it, I think it doesn’t matter too much. Its possible to use whatever random spare PC parts you have to make a decent home server, imo. A lot of people on YouTube and Reddit have all kinds of fancy servers in a rack, but an old repurposed desktop can be fine. ( I would probably use new, decent quality drives though.)

True. But at least we don’t have to continue to pretend like there’s even a shred of credibility there anymore.

“Sexually impure”…? He could have every freaky kink in the book and I wouldn’t care at all…

He raped and trafficked children.

It’s not exactly “puritanism” to be mad about that. And we can still be mad about the imperialist invasion of Venezuela.

Ah yes, let’s ignore the fact that he spent the bulk of his adult life grooming and raping girls (not “women”, but minors) with his best friend, the world’s most notorious pedophile sex trafficker, because he is starting an unprovoked war over oil.

Genuine question: are you really incapable of being angry about multiple things at once, or do you just have a generally laissez-faire attitude towards violent sex crimes against kids?

Well on the bright side, thank fucking Ares we no longer have to listen to Tulsi Gabbard’s smug performative “end the forever wars” bullshit.