there’s a metal band called Zao that’s been around for ages and have had all members replaced. they wrote a song (called ship of Theseus) about it.

even flashdrives have gotten more expensive

really cool idea. ty for sharing!

dead ram definitely still happens, yes, but it’s exceedingly rare. I fix hundreds of PCs a year, and I maybe get one or two a year where the root cause is actually bad ram. more often it’s configuration issues or hardware implementation issues, for example the gigabyte x870 boards really don’t like XMP for some reason.

ecc doesn’t really have anything to do with whether a ram stick fails or not, it can help with misbehaving sticks but if a stick is dead it’s dead and ecc can’t help a dead region.

smartctl would be what your looking for even for ssds (although ssds fail quick enough that if smartctl catches something there’s a chance it’s already too late, smartd allows for scheduled tests and I’ve definitely saved data off of ssds because I had daily smart tests running that caught early failure).

I however strongly disagree with the hardware issue. there is no indication that this is hardware (honestly hardware accounts for VERY few issues like this, and RAM failing still happens but is 98% a thing of the past). diagnosing without any logs is a bit of a lost cause, we simply don’t have enough info, hopefully OP updates the post with the output of journalctl from the last boot.

my Xbox elite series 2 works a treat, just has to stay plugged in unless you wanna spend like 30$ on a dongle sold separately

definitely reminds me of dnc fundraising emails in a way

all the time. they would tell me they were gonna search my room as I left for school, then the entire day I’d be thinking about what they may find (usually nothing, but they always managed to make a big deal out of something). I’d come home, they’d make me do homework, eat dinner, etc, then they’d finally sit me down. one time my mother found a dried maple leaf for my 7th grade life science project and assumed it was weed lol. then I would get to go piece my room back together as stuff would kinda be strewn everywhere.

I did have some alcohol hidden every now and then in high school but with how often they searched my room I was able to put it in spots they’d never find.

I pay like 10/year for my domain name.

I also have Spotify (I know it’s a shit service but I don’t have the time to collect all the new music I want to listen to as it comes out).

I pay 3/month for f1tv as well which lets you watch replays all the way back to the 80s.

so in total maybe 15/month towards subscriptions.

I have an old team force ddr4 16gb kitm not exactly top of the line but should do the trick. I’ll gladly sell it to you for a much fairer price than what’s around these days long as you’re in the us. dm me if interested, no worries if not

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are we really calling awareness of gender issues gender war? how do you expect gender issues to be resolved if no one’s allowed to talk about them?

turns out there’s some pretty major issues with the gender binary, but I’m not sure how you expect to fix that without talking about it. it’s fair to say capatilism is part of the root cause but reducing it to solely that is a little disingenuous.

is this circuit paul ricard?

agreed on games. no horror movie or book has ever made me the same way as the time I found out the AI in alien isolation will learn your hiding spots and kill you if you resuse the same one enough.

I was gonna say, looks like Philly lol

PC stays on until I find a reason to reboot it. most of what I do is in vms so I’m not that concerned about security patches. it’s at 30 days right now without issues.

similar for the server. everything is in docker containers that I restart once or twice a month. it’s around 70 days right now as I had to rebuild a lot of it due to some catastrophic failures.

I’ve used atlauncher for minecraft without issues. r2modman works perfectly via app image for a lot of steam games as well.

worst comes to worst you can manually drop files in but the tools do exist. it just depends what you’re modding

I meant that devices purchased within the past 8 years or so have hevc decoding now. so even your grandmother who’s known for holding on to old tech most likely has something that will work with it.

just in the past year or two I’ve found that those devices have become common enough for incompatibility to be extremely rare. and the software support is far better within that timeline too. firefox had issues with it as of a few years ago, but it’s become pretty seamless on most browsers and devices.

compatibility with devices. it wasn’t long ago that many cheap TVs and such didn’t support hevc and required h264, or work on browsers, etc.

as others have mentioned mp4 with h264 is almost certainly the most compatible. that being said, I transcode everything to hevc if I can’t get it natively, and never have issues. my server literally cannot transcode. it does not have a GPU, and hevc plays natively on every target device I need. even works in browsers these days.

most people will still say h264 is best. but if you’re limited on storage space or want to optimize streaming bitrate hevc works wayyy better than it did even just 1 or 2 years ago.