Power captures power. Money is a form of power, but there are many forms and the powerful tend to try to grab more power no matter the situation.

Perforated galvanized plumbers strapping. While most of my equipment is wall mountable, I used exactly this sort of thing for all the power supplies.

Likely similar to whatever you’re planning to use with the plastic strap, but more metal is more betterer

The computer subsystem and the display subsystem are different, largely independent things. Regardless of what your computer is doing, the system that transports data between the video chip and the LCD will always be sending that data at 60 frames per second. It doesn’t care what your CPU is doing, it’s a bunch of separate independent pieces of hardware. Meanwhile, the rest of your computer is doing the game logic and rendering the frames and sending them to the video memory and that could be happening at any frame rate. Your screen will always be running at 60 hertz, but you could have anything from one frame per second to 3000 frames per second and that just refers to the number of times per second you are updating the frame buffer with new data.

Some video games have a setting called vsync, and what that does is it will limit updating the frame buffer to do so only once while the screen is showing one frame. The benefit of doing this is if you are updating your frame buffer in the middle of drawing a frame, you can have it where half the frame is the previous frame and half of the frame is the next frame, this is called tearing because it looks like the screen is being torn in half.

I’m not opposed to intellectual property because there’s an argument for providing a limited time monopoly to the creators of works to provide incentive to make works public. Without any such incentive, it’s entirely possible that the monetization structures for different works change, for example locking content behind restrictive systems that don’t allow for personal use at all.

The key is “limited time”. If you can’t make your money back in 15 years, then maybe it’s time to make a new thing? The idea that someone should own a thing you made after you’re dead is stupid – how exactly will that promote you to create new works? If you’re dead, your creating days are over except for creating plant food out of your bones and organs.

I put my money where my mouth is, and the legal page of the graysonian ethic specifically lists that the book is put into the public domain or license after Creative Commons CC0 license after 15 years from the date of first publishing.

On a lark I went to check out if animesuki was still up. I used to use that all the time back in the day.

Nope, dead since 2019.

RIP

Before I settled on Lemmy and lotide, I tried out aether:

https://getaether.net/

Like a Bittorrent client you need to expose porch to the outside world because you end up helping to host the network.

Ultimately I preferred a website I could host and visit from anywhere I could get internet to software I needed to run (and set up networking for) anywhere I wanted to use it, but it was a nice system otherwise.

Imaging software is a godsend for that sort of thing. I ended up using BartPE for something like that, and it worked great – it has a free imaging program on it. You only need a removable drive large enough for all your files since it’ll compress everything.

Peertube is a federated video platform. That means that like lemmy or mastodon, there’s a huge number of different instances. My instance for example, is following 103 other instances, and is followed by 73 other instances. Each instance is hosted by different people, and each have different rules.

Because of the wide variety of instances, it’s truly distributed and so all kinds of things are hosted there, from cat videos to porn and other stuff you typically can’t host on other platforms such as covid conspiracy theory videos.

One peertube channel that is similar to what you’re talking about is minetest videos: minetestvideos@share.tube It’s consistently trending on my feed (but different sites will have different feeds based on what they are or are not federated to).

I think your best bet is to see what’s out there, because there’s a lot of content but it’s sort of like old youtube.

If I were to become a youtuber today, I’d diversify. You can create a youtube channel and mirror it on peertube, for example. I think that some other alt-tech sites like rumble and bitchute have similar features as well, so you could set up a workflow where you post a video and have it show up on a number of different platforms.

The reason peertube is better than youtube is the same reason lemmy is better than reddit and mastodon is better than twitter; It’s libre, distributed, and generally not algorithmically driven.

Oh, one other neat thing: If you ever have a peertube video just blow up and become super popular, peertube uses torrent style technology so video watchers automatically share pieces of the video with one another. Just a little neat thing that helps scale a video site whereas it’s generally tough once you start getting popular.

I was going to use one, but then I just massively increased the character count of my soapbox instance. At 60k I was able to post the first drafts of entire chapters of my book.

The nice thing about a blogging platform is you can organize the long things you’ve written and they don’t just disappear into the void…

I have a feeling you’d end up with a bunch of big drives with small volumes on them if it did work.

Warning you, I’ve had issues with RAID combining SSD and HDD. Basically I was on an older dell server and I wanted to do mirroring and the bios straight up refused to do it because it didn’t want to mix ssds and hdds.

Is it bad that I saw a new domain name and was like “ooh, a new instance to federate with!”?

It’s all relative.

For lemmy it’s been a mass exodus. I was on this part of the fediverse before all this, and it’s a fundamentally different thing now than it was. There were maybe a dozen servers, most of them didn’t have a whole lot going on. Now there’s millions of active users on thousands of servers.

That might not be a mass exodus for reddit, but it sure is one for lemmy.

Oh cool! I didn’t realize lotide federates with the latest version of Lemmy again.

I know it was pretty frustrating for a while there, but it became clearer that everything was having federation problems.

My first server had an outdated CPU, very little memory and a spinning hard drive, so that turned out to be a huge limitation for a lot of software. I needed stuff that hardly used any memory and also didn’t have a lot of extra services running at once. When I started adding some services, lots of stuff started grinding to a halt.

On linux, the glances application is really useful. Besides just showing you what programs are using memory and CPU time, it also shows IOWait times and throughput so if you’re being bottlenecked by something or other it’s a lot easier to see.

There’s also a service called tuned that does some automatic tuning, and if you’re using postgres databases, there’s another tool called pg_repack that’ll pack your database while running. It maxes out your CPU and uses a lot of disk while running, but if you don’t do something routinely then your postgresql database slowly gets sloppier and it’ll start using more and more resources until your server appears to be useless.

I never used mastodon because my servers would never handle it. I started with Friendica, moved to pleroma, and ended up ultimately with rebased (and obviously lemmy and lotide and peertube)

I find it really funny seeing people on mastodon whining about certain features being unavailable when they’re available to many projects on the fediverse.

You guys ever rent a game console back in the day?

Man, that was top tier – You’d get to play games way better than your current console had and it all came in this fancy case… I played through most of Megaman Legends with my brother in one life in one weekend because we didn’t have a memory card!

I’ve bought a few dozen of these things, shame to see them go.

My little brother and I played pokemon on no$gmb back when red and blue were still considered new.

One day he started a character he named ASSWORM. Then the time came to pick his first pokemon, and he picked a Squirtle.

So the text on the screen said “ASSWORM received a SQUIRTLE!” which made me laugh so hard I still laugh at it because some part of me will always be a 14 year old boy.

Gotta admit, young me got a lot wrong about what my future held. I’m glad he was wrong, because life wouldn’t be that great if he was right about everything. :P