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[–] phx@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah some of them back then would probably have been able to braid more than just the hair on their head...

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

My wife loves Asian period dramas and this is a hugely common thing that drives me nuts. It doesn't matter if you've got period clothing and scenery etc. If the "lowly common girl" has a perfect complexion, teeth, and obvious cosmetics it just breaks it.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Contrast that to i.e. J Jonah Jameson in the Tobie McGuire Spider Man movies. I was absolutely floored to see how they managed to get somebody who fit they look, attitude and mannerisms of what was pretty much a relatively low-screen-time side-character.

Actually in general I'd say the casting choices for the first two movies contributed very strongly to their success. So many of them just fit.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The French Foreign Legion is actually pretty badass

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Ok fair point. My real issue is with fake trailers, AI generated or not.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah these were annoying AF. Couldn't look up anything movie related without done shitty AI faked up trailer YouTube video being the first hit

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago (10 children)

I'm guessing one of the reasons it's not in Steam is that it depends on Java to run? I don't recall every having a Java based game on Steam

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

"senior" is a pretty wide range though. You can be old enough to get a senior's discount and still able enough to do most things. Maybe you aren't going to be doing 100 situps after jogging 10 miles, but march the streets and hold a rifle sure, and there's probably a good mix of ex-military in there as well as people who know how to make stuff go kaboom in unique and interesting ways.

Taking away their reasons to sit contently and die quietly might not work out as well as some think, but this party in particular is pretty good at thinking everyone but themselves are inept.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Must have used autopen...

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Smarter? Quite possibly.

But I'd say the people who are smarter are already manipulating him behind the scenes anyhow. Anyone coming after would at least have less of a cult following hopefully

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

While we're wishing: Lightning strike during a golf swing on a clear blue day would be a nice message

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I still have my circa-2016 email confirming my pledge for the Time 2 Silver, which ultimately got cancelled just before the fulfillment date due to Pebble selling out to Fitbit.

While I loved my original Pebble back then, I would really want something similar to look and function of the T2S so will watch this project in hopes it too is resurrected

 

My current system is running on an old 2U HP rackmount server with dual 16-core AMD Opteron-6262HE CPU's and two RAID-5 arrays (fast SSD array and slow 2.5" HDD array). There are generally 5-6 VMs running under a Linux master at a given time but none of them are using a whole lot of CPU cycles.

In general, it's noisy but fairly effective for my needs.

I'm looking at the future and what might be good replacement that offers a blend of power-efficiency, flexibility, and storage cost.

In particular, I'd like to:

  • Ditch the 2.5" HDD array in favor of an efficient separate storage system, preferably an attached NAS with 3.5" disks on RAID5 but probably actually networked and not USB based (both for reliability and also so I can potentially provide storage directly to stuff running on separate SBC's etc). A storage system I could drop in now and still use after I upgrade the compute system would be great

  • I'd like to keep the SATA-SSD array for stuff that needs faster disk, or possibly move up to a RAID'ed M2/NVMe.

  • Move up to a more modern CPU that has a good Power-per-watt balance. 8-16 cores totally is probably good if that can be reasonably power efficient for idle cores etc, but dropping some VM's to run stuff on the aforementioned SBC's is also an option

  • Still be rack-mounted for the main system, but not so freaking loud, and actually fit in a standard 24" deep rack

  • Potentially be able to add a decent GPU or add-on board for processing AI models etc

Generally what it will be running is a bunch of VM's for stuff like NextCloud, remote-admin software, Media servers (Plex/Jellyfin), a Fileserver, some virtual desktops and various other fairly low-power VMs, BUT it'd be nice if I could add the dGPU or something with the horsepower for AI processing and periodic rendering/ripping/etc

I'm sorry debating on whether might make more sense to move all storage to BAD, then just replace the always-running stuff (NextCloud, Plex,Fileserver) with SBC's so that they're fairly easily swappable if something fails.

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