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Comment · 17 days ago
I seem to vaguely recall some buffer overflow for Sun Solaris, which was fun to login with. I do wonder what fun AI would have had crawling through these old code bases to find the crazy exploits available back then
Comment · 2 months ago
This is great stuff. Wouldn't this be lovely to go "fix" misbehaving devices (LG TV)
Comment · 3 months ago
thank you.
Comment · 4 months ago
if you have a steam account, and you open it on Linux most of your games will be present to be played. Most of them will just work. Those that don't you can look up details on protondb.com.

as mentioned above if you play any competitive games that come with anti-cheat features, then you won't be able to join in the fun. So if you don't care about those games, you'll be fine.

Comment · 7 months ago
I don't see my beloved 5060ti. looks great though
Comment · 8 months ago
totally. I'm really getting behind the slight replacement of TL;DR to AI;DR If you can't be bothered to read your own AI slop, then I'm not reading it either.
Comment · 1 year ago
I solved this by running a music stream. All songs i "like" are in a collection, and ices/icecast randomly select one song after another (i can also request things via discord bot) and i just fire up VLC and listen when i need music. Yeah its a little too random at times, but its also fun.
Comment · 1 year ago
Vfx Every commercial, movie or TV worked on would have the assets used to create the content archives.
Comment · 1 year ago
My day job (company died a couple of weeks ago). We had > 100,000 LTO tapes in the end. With data archived way back in 2002 until present. We were still regularly restoring data. In our busiest years we were doing what averaged to 177 restores per day (365 days a year). Barely any physically destroyed tapes.

I see a few articles citing robotic failures as a big issue, but really someone can just place a tape in the robot if critical recovery is needed and the robot has died.

Comment · 1 year ago
That's actually something I've always wanted. Thanks, I'll take a look
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm currently using icecast and ices to host a music stream. It'll effectively stream music to a port, and multiple clients can enjoy.

Anyone doing something similar, I'd like to migrate to something more modern.

Comment · 1 year ago
I currently host icecast/ices. Does your above options allow multiple clients to listen to same stream. I see it mention jukebox mode.
Comment · 2 years ago
Its blizz like. Last time i played was only some of the weird raid quests that we're a little iffy. But you could easily load this up and not notice it wasn't blizzard hosted (except on one about!)
Comment · 2 years ago
I've hosted this software server (with and without mods) for friends and family a few times. Its pretty solid and the mods help bring additional fun or to fill in the gaps of low population. If you love WotLK, i'd recommend it.
Comment · 2 years ago
kung fu chaos time! Such a great game, a little insensitive perhaps...glorious sofa multipleyer game though I kept that disk hoping they'd backwards compat it for many years

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