The standby power of a desktop is not that massive. Especially when you don’t run a GPU or display. That windows 8 machine you have is probably fine as-is.

An ATX PSU doesn’t suck down 500 watts at all times, just because the sticker on it says it can. How much power your machine will use will depend much more on the CPU.

So just slap linux on it and have at it. If nothing else, you’ll get familiar with the software involved, and be better prepared if you end up wanting to buy new hardware for this.

There’s not really any lock-in with linux. Almost any piece of software you might run can be run on almost any distro you might consider using.

It should.

I love fighting games.

But holy fuck is the monetization some of the most outrageous I’ve seen.

Oh man! You just put to words why I couldn’t stand Breaking Bad, and Boardwalk Empire.

I watched the first simply because a lot of people love it, and I try to watch everything that seems worth seeing. The second I saw some clips from that I really liked, but then I just didn’t stick with the actual show.

In both cases, the series left me on constant edge, in a really bad way.

Now I realize that I kept waiting for the shows to grant me some kind of catharsis, but it just never happened. Or it happened rarely and in ways that quickly gets brushed away as inconsequential.

Literally anyone with privilege, when they lose even a sliver of that privilege: “I am being oppressed”

Gamefreak needs a fire lit under their ass.

One they can’t put out by litigating it to shreds.

Nintendo doesn’t really “dry” their IPs. They actually innovate between games, making sure each installment is worthy of existing. They don’t just slap a new number on the same content as last time, like the EAs, Ubisofts and Actiblizzards of the industry.

That’s why they’ve lasted. A game featuring Mario or Link isn’t so much a familiar IP, as it has become a seal of quality.

Doesn’t mean they aren’t guilty of a bunch of other anti-consumer bullshit.

The students are spied on by their teachers using AI and webcams when they do exams online on their laptop.

This teacher is expressing amusement at the image on the wall fooling the AI into thinking the student had someone help them during the test. The teacher then goes on to comment that they can tell that the student kept looking to the left (the teacher assuming they are looking things up in a book or by using a second device) and that the student might want to remove the image from their wall to avoid the AI flagging them.

You kid, but I’m fully aware that I find Adria Arjona impossibly attractive, and that because of that she makes Bix that much more appealing to me.

But she did do a fantastic job playing the character. It’s too bad she hasn’t been in too many things aside from Andor that are actually good. There is pretty much just Good Omens.

It’s a good come-back.

But laughing at someone and making them feel unimaginably belitteled, over something like whether they’ve gotten laid, wouldn’t have been cool in any scenario.

“I was molested” just jolts everyone into reconsidering what just happened.

Is it the Emperor’s chosen?

It wasn’t like they were gonna go “oh sorry, our bad, have your game back”.

Did that Marine just get reduced to a pokemon?

Also green boi too based to use pokeballs, storage is just holding the guy really firmly.

I do hope they haven’t removed some of the humans being a poly marriage.

The preservation alliance is such an interesting societal concept.

Used to be: “the code is compiling”

Now it is: “the AI model is training”

Same. Seems promising.

I wonder what’ll come next.

I kind of hope Deadlock will usher in an age of FPS/TPS moba-style arena shooters. But I also kinda don’t.

Damn. It really runs that much of it server-side?

Either of those are only options for someone who runs an instance.

I agree running things the other way around would be better, but monitoring about a dozen communities, I get away with a call every 5 minutes, and it almost never needs to load a second page. That is not significant afaik.

How would it miss stuff? You’d always use “new” sort and load pages until you run into content from the last update. Stuff from the last page appearing again because new content moved the content along, shouldn’t stop you from loading another page, and any new content will be caught in the next update.

Now, I’m not familiar with Path of Exile, but isn’t the game PvE?

The connection shouldn’t matter, unless you’re playing co-op.