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Everquest, the original.

Two guilds come to mind.

I was younger, too young to work, so one summer break I joined up with a European guild to raid with. Lots of fun, learned a but about British (primarily) culture. Lots of fun, even when I joined another guild I raided with them from time to time.

The other was a family guild. It eventually fell apart as the adults got busier with their careers and kids and shit. But the inner circle, so to speak, were invited to a bulletin board and we all talked for years after that. Eventually lost contact with them as I grew up and got busy with life.

Lots of fond memories, and a couple not so fond (RNG hates me, in every way). But they were along when RNG screwed me time and again, and were always willing to try again. Lots of love for those folks.

Rarely is help anything more than a PR move, usually after years if not decades of abusing their communities.

If the punishment is a fine, it just means there is a cost to the activity. It isn't actually illegal, you just can't afford it.

Performance isn't key. But I like performance, lol. I also wasn't aware of their more recent practices. So thank you.

I'll have to check out the HP mini. As I said, just barely scratched the surface on researching this, and its more of a thought than a project at the moment, lol.

I just can't afford (and cool) enterprise level stuff at home. It was free (to me) so no big loss other than buying a better CPU used ~50 bucks. I've spent more on worse ideas lol.

Cost and a personal bias, also I've seen more helpful communities amongst Linux and FOSS advocates than trying to deal with a big brand.

I've done a lot of IT stuff in my life, even before working in IT.

I've seen too many issues from big brands, and its usually caused by the company.

I have a Pi 2 from way back. I've thrown so many distros at that thing over time, and without fail I don't run into any problems I didn't personally create while learning or through human error.

I understand all too well that those big brands have support for businesses, warranties, etc. It makes them cost effective long term for business. At a personal level I just don't see the benefits outweighing the negatives.

Again, personal bias. Same core reason I avoid apple products, bias, though I mainly dislike apples cost combined with their closed off, well, everything.

I've got enterprise level hardware, rack moubtable all that jazz.

Between the cost of power, and the heat it generates (which uses more AC and thus power) its not feasible to run it.

I'm looking into clustering some raspberry pis for a more power (and heat) efficient hardware as my next project. Barely scratched the surface of research though.

So hey, if anyone has any tips or links, it would be much appreciated.

Personally I prefer simple connectors, but I've been making cables for 20+ years.

I understand OPs frustration though.

Then again, I'm the type to put in my own drops at home, and include a service loop so I can repunch/crimp whatever I need to without yanking the cable from upstairs to down lol.

And as a former admin for okta (as in admin access within a enterprise) I can also say their implementation can be a pain in the ass, especially if you adopt the system after someone else was fired for, in part, screwing it up.

I'd have to go with the 21 year old scotch I had at my bachelor party.

I'll never forgive one of my groomsmen for adding sprite to it after taking a sip.

Not just ISPs, it can be blocked at the enterprise level in a few clicks.

I was temping at a place during the pandemic when my hospitality based IT job shuttered. With their set up, I could just block a country in a couple clicks.

I didn't do the clicking, but we were getting hit with a DDoS from a nation we had no business in, and it was just blocked in a matter of minutes once the meetings and BS were attended to. Those took hours over days.

As a Texan, a lot of the fascist republicans you run into day to day are not in government. Not federal, not state. Terrified irrational morons who only see through a veil of hate are a real concern.

They are in your trailer parks and rural areas. In Texas, it would take me less than an hour to go from downtown to rural. In fact, its a straight shot down the interstate.

Rifles won't stop a tank. Good luck hitting a bomber. The government, especially in the US, is too numerous and too well equipped. Jim Bob and his inbred son Rusty are much more of a concern and manageable with a rifle.

Why? The law should be applied equally, prince or pauper.

I don't give a fuck about tradition and precedent - a traitor as the head of the nation is unprecedented too.

Gather evidence, make a case, throw the book at him - with stiffer sentencing solely because as a former president, he SHOULD be held to a higher standard.

Just like cops should be held to a higher standard than a civilian, but I digress.

As my grandfather was wont to say, locks are for honest people.

Most forms of security are theater and used as a deterrent.

If your door is locked, and your neighbors isn't, well your lock deterred them.

Then again, if someone means you in particular harm, they'll get in, bricks are cheap and most home windows are focused on limiting thermal transfer, not being overly durable (say under an attack). It may not be quiet, you may be able to defend yourself or run or whatever, but the lock was not a deterrent.

So yes, lock your doors, encrypt everything you can, keep devices updated, etc. But it won't stop a determined bad actor if they have reasonable capabilities to do you harm.

The problem with security, especially cyber security, is that you have to find a medium between secure and usable. Most companies, in my experience, tend to loosen security in the name of usability.

I'm not an expert, but I'm studying in that direction with my limited free time (and more to the point, energy and mental health)

I'm not a trekkie, but I enjoy it.

Then again the opening theme of TNG was my lullaby as a kid so I was exposed through my parents.

I run everything but work and a gaming rig on some flavor of Linux.

In the past, I ran all Linux except work, so even gaming.

I just missed the ease of use of third party tools, mostly for modding sjbgke player games.

Maybe vortex works and I just don't understand his to use it on Linux, buy I've also run into third party tools for other games (again, single player - not trying to cheat necessarily, though some questionable QoL mods end up creeping in after a few play through) and I'm not sure how to get them to run.

I've always had trouble with wine, never set up lutris, but proton was a boon for gamers everywhere, Linux or otherwise.

Anyone have a primer for a power user (sysadmin type duties on my own server, have been using Kali as an educational tool since back track) that's pegged at gamers making the switch to Linux? I've mostly just figured it out looking to random guides and stack overflow, lol.

Oh, the gun violence, and failure to have a more modern and inclusive health care (including mental health) are absolutely entwined.

The US is failing its citizens every day. In so many ways.

Yet on the right they're dicking about without a speaker and heading the US to a government shutdown.

There's a problem with our two party system, and there is no good solution that I can see. I live in the south. Die hard cult members around here, and this is the suburbs of a major city that leans more to the left (just like any urban center tends to) but leaning left from fascism is not enough.

I am a lefty on most things, just not 2a. Sadly the group that likes guns also seems to like the christofascist political folks.

The brainwashing is real. Went through some myself, and it still troubles my thoughts. Do I believe in something because I actually believe it, or was it instilled in me at a young age and I don't recall the source? I try to challenge my perception of things frequently, some efforts more successful than others.

I don't get how casual people are with machines designed solely to kill. It may be perfectly a cut and dry case of self defense, but it was designed to kill.

That being said, I am pro 2a generally, though I wish proper handling of firearms was taught at different age levels in school. From elementary where, just no, to high school. Additionally, a better system to screen for mental health issues (of which I might not be able to own a firearm) but that would rely on the US having any sort of infrastructure for mental health care.

My insurance is so shit I could go to a practitioner down the road and pay less, with no insurance taken at all. That's just for mental health.

I like the place I'm at, but the shitty insurance really has me looking.

Of course there is a whole other dialogue on how the US has fallen behind most of the civilized world in medical care, under a variety of parameters - part of that being insurance is tied to your employer. I can accept it or look elsewhere for work.

While I don't normally condone death as a form of punishment, we have precedent with the Rosenberg's.

Executed as traitors, and if memory serves, for less flagrant violations. The fact that the orange stain continues to get away with all this shit astounds me.

Being an absolute traitor to your country while being the president... I'm sorry, but execution may be the only suitable solution, especially considering how many lives trump has had a direct hand in ending. Whether that be covid, compromised information to foreign powers (allegedly) that we have a history of NOT being friendly with, or just improper storage (including using it as some form of clout), or just general ineptitude.

If the US was a TV show, we jumped the shark when that fucker was forced in against the popular vote by the electoral college.

Then again, if memory serves, most GOP presidents in recent history have been forced through by the electoral college, as opposed to the will of the people.

I was more thinking it's to test the waters.

A buck is affordable to most everyone who has the means to access Twitter.

Of course next year it'll be Twitter++ subscriptions for 20 bucks a month, as they phase out the 1 dollar tier.

I never cared for Twitter, and watching Musk's spin on it has been hilarious as someone with a long history in corporate IT.

Pre-edit: At the moment I'm refusing to refer to it by a ~_{tween edgelords name}~~ Musk's name for it.

Honestly it seems like a lot of Aronofsky films are deeper than they appear at surface level.

Loved Pi back in the day.