Well I have a new project for the weekend.

looking into buying a firearm

For everyone thinking that: look into taking classes on how to shoot the thing BEFORE you buy it.

It's a lot harder than you might expect, and a gun does you no good if you cannot put two center mass if you ever have to use it.

Same.

There's almost never only a single option to offer me what I'm after, so I'll just go back to my search results or whatever and pick the next link and move on.

There's no way in hell I'm giving some jackasses my phone number, though. I don't even like giving people who really actually need to be able to call me my number, so why would I give some sketchy-ass website it?

No.

I pirate everything, but am very very reluctant to do so with software or games.

I only pirate in cases where the company involved is just too gross to support (looking at you, Adobe), or if there's absolutely no other option.

But I consider pirated software and games absolutely suspect 100% of the time, because I'm old enough to remember when every keygen was also a keylogger, and every crack was also a rootkit and touching any pirated software was going to give you computer herpes without fail.

So maybe it's not that bad anymore, but I mean, do you fully trust in the morals of someone who would spend the time helping you steal someone else's shit to not add just one more little thing to it for themselves?

Yeah, no shit.

You present two choices: 65fps with DLSS, or 28 FPS without it, then yes, 80% of people will no-shit-sherlock pick the higher number.

Seriously. Id sub immediately.

They won't, of course, because that'd cost them too much money.

But, still, it's a nice thought.

It's pretty much the same thing yeah: you find something you're somewhat interested in, and then The Algorithm will shove increasingly aggressive content at you and hey presto, you've fallen down the rage-bait circlejerk hole for whatever side you were already somewhat aligned with.

I'm old enough to remember when you could have friends with different political opinions and it never went past 'oh, cool, well i don't agree but whatever'. That's 100% not a thing anymore, because everyone on both sides of any issue have been completely radicalized.

The right are Nazis, and the left are raping children, and that's where the discussion starts now, and thus you have... the mess we have now.

I don't know what the solution is, other than literal deprogramming, since that's almost exactly how a cult works: the cult leader affirms what you already think, tells you that you're special, and then makes sure no voices of dissent are heard.

You know, like social media's algorithms do in the name of "engagement".

As far as it matters for this, a hypervisor is a hypervisor.

I use qemu/kvm because it's what I'm used to on the linux side, but I don't think it has any particular feature that makes it more safe compared to like virtualbox or vmware or anything else.

As someone who's had the misfortune of having to use Salesforce professionally, this might actually improve the quality of their slop.

One thing I ran into, though it was a while ago, was that disk caching being on would trash performance for writes on removable media for me.

The issue ended up being that the kernel would keep flushing the cache to disk, and while it was doing that none of your transfers are happening. So, it'd end up doubling or more the copy time because the write cache wasn't actually helping removable drives.

It might be worth remounting without any caching, if it's on, and seeing if that fixes the mess.

But, as I said, this has been a few years, so that may no longer be actively the case.

It's such the best meme, and a thing that so many people need to see at every opportunity so keep posting it.

Yeah, I don't let anything that has to be cracked out of an isolated VM until it's VERY clear that nothing untoward is going on.

QEMU has proven perfectly lovely for a base to use for testing questionable software, and I've got quite a lot of VMs sitting around for various things that ah, have been acquired.

There is nothing like interacting with real people to show you how unreal, unproductive, and honestly uninfluential the chronically online environment is.

This: the internet is fake bullshit from start to finish.

At this point, staying online feels a lot like making a choice to be miserable and have shitty mental health.

And yes, I'm aware the irony or whatever of someone posting that online, but my online footprint has gone from your usual corporate media shit down to... uh, Lemmy.

Which is not by any means perfect, but it's a lot less fucking awful than what Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/Reddit are trying very hard to do to you.

Mine? Mine? Mine? Mine mine mine mine.

I'm not saying it is or is not a false positive, so please read the rest of my comment with that in mind.

But, that said, this is not new: AV has triggered on cracks and cheat software and similar stuff since forever.

The very simplified explanation is that the same things you do to install a rootkit, you do to cheat in a game with or crack software DRM.

Bigger but, though: cracks and game cheats have also been a major source of malicious software for just as long, so like, it's also entirely likely that it's a good catch, too.

Or maybe I don't buy enough?

I dunno, I've just kinda changed what games I play to things that appear to also be the same kind of stuff that Epic is making deals to give away for free?

Also, in fairness, I do buy the occasional game for console even if it's available on PC as sales permit, but we're talking a game or two a year at most.

Shit's frozen, but it's been an excuse to take care of house projects that have been sitting around for the last two years.

Though, that's just me avoiding job hunting because I'm torn between going to live in a box on a beach never to be seen again or getting another job.

Both have merits, but fucked if I'm not very much thinking beach bum.

But old hardware of around those specs are still pretty easy to find at least in my area for 200 euros for a full system.

It's a little more expensive here in the US, for whatever reason.

But, still, 200 euro is a marked difference from how it was not that long ago, where I'd show up to pick up one old Dell, and would forcibly have to refuse to take the other 20 with me, even though they were being offered for free.

My favorite bizarre thing was a G4 Cube on Craigslist for $20. I was all over that, and went to meet the dude at the storage locker he had it at.

Dude then offered me 6 G3 iMacs, and 5 G3/G4 towers along with the Cube for the same $20. I sure as heck took it all, but that's absolutely not a thing that happens anymore.

Now it'd be a couple hundred for the Cube, and they'd try to sell each other mac for $150 on top of the Cube's price, or like, more, if they just look at eBay listings for the pricing.

I'm certain that new retro stuff will stop being more than old computers sooner than I'd like, since you're right about the upgradability and, well, the charm. A shiny metal box is nice, but I'm a fan of ugly beige things that are 6 different shades of beige and beep and whirr and make all sorts of annoying noises.

It's expensive, but I mean, this whole hobby has gotten kinda absurd.

It's not that much more than buying, say, a 1ghz p3 system, a decent sound card, a gotek, a working cd-rom, and a sd->IDE adapter at this point. (You need to skip out on the fancy metal case and such, but still: that's not a functional option, just cosmetic.)

And, bonus, you're not dealing with 25 year old hardware, with all the gonna-end-up-breaking that comes along with that.

I mean, I have two "primary" gaming computers: a 7700x with a 3080, and a 1ghz P3 dell with a Voodoo 5 and a proper (8830) Vortex 2.

.....the retro PC is the more valuable one these days, which strikes me as just bizarre.

100% behind anyone who is going to make usable retro computers that don't involve having to spend usable retro computer money on decades old stuff that may or may not be working in a couple of years.

+1 for Frigate, because it's fantastic.

But don't bother on an essentially depreciated google product, and skip the coral.

The devs have added the same functionality on the GPU side, and if you've got a gpu (and, well, you do, because OpenVino supports intel iGPUs) just use that instead and save the money on a coral for something more useful.

In my case, I've both used a coral AND openvino on a coffee lake igpu, and uh, if anything, the igpu was about 20% faster inference times.