It says a lot about the times that the incomprehensible alien language was actually just a bunch of Russian words.

You are about to release so many evil swamp spirits.

I know this doesn’t help you, but someone might find it useful: Steam’s two-hour refund limit only applies to automatic, unconditional refunds. If a refund is justified (e.g. the game is a broken disaster, or the publisher lied about its nature), it may be granted beyond the two-hour window, like it was after Activision lied about AI usage in Black Ops 7.

About fucking time. I’m proud to say that I’ve contributed to this outcome.

I’m gonna go dance in the street now.

Looks like the ejector switch. Imagine trying to scratch your balls mid-mission and immediately shooting out of the plane pulling break-your-fucking-spine Gs.

Just install linux bro, it’s not that difficult. You’ll have to compile the F-35 drivers from source, but that’s just the cost of having a reliable system.

ZFS uses the RAM intensively for caching operations. Way more than traditional filesystems. The recommended cache size is 2 GB plus 1 GB per terabyte of capacity. For my server, that would be three quarters of the RAM dedicated entirely to the filesystem.

The entire server room is on a single UPS. The rack itself had to be powered down and disconnected to extend its PDUs with C19 sockets.

It’s not a very good setup, but (like always) properly fixing it is not worth the cost and the downtime.

At least you know it’s never been used to dispose of a body.

NilePink: Making my own estradiol from dairy products

(According to one random comment under hbomberguy’s soy diet video, milk is full of mammalian sex hormones. I’m certain Nigel would be able to separate them, if that is true.)

Read my comment again, it has the answer. Most VPN services do not provide end-to-end tunnelling. If the exit node is located outside Russia, then what enters the Russian internet will be simple HTTPS traffic.

Been running it from Russia where stock WireGuard stopped working mid-2025.

Sounds like the issue is ISPs within Russia blocking outgoing Wireguard traffic from customers.

If the traffic exits the tunnel without hitting a Russian ISP (e.g. a Mullvad exit node in Sweden that routes the unencrypted traffic to the destination), you won’t be affected. If the exit node is behind a Russian ISP, it might get filtered by DPI depending on which direction is subject to the filter.

The baryonoun asymmetry is one of the last unsolved mysteries of the field of linguistics: why are there so many pronouns, but no antinouns?

I saw a PT Cruiser once and immediately adopted the same opinion.

In one word: no. In more words: some addressing methods can lead to privacy and security issues, but those aren’t widely used anymore.

IPv6 addresses can be assigned to interfaces by several systems. One of those is SLAAC, or stateless address auto-configuration (comparable to APIPA and the 169.254.0.0/16 address space for IPv4). One method by which it generates globally unique routable addresses is by inserting the interface’s MAC address into the IPv6 address. Since IPv6 generally doesn’t use network address translation (and thus no masquerading), this would advertise your computer’s MAC address to the whole internet. More recently, SLAAC uses pseudorandom temporary (or “privacy”) addresses for interfaces, together with a unique network prefix assigned to the customer (analogous to the single public IPv4 address).

It’s also possible to assign IPv6 addresses statically or by using DHCPv6.

The survey is always offered only to a random subset of Steam users. The results only ever represent the fractions of users who took the survey, and are not representative of the entire Steam ecosystem as a whole. Unfortunately, this means that the increase/decrease in Linux usage is probably within the margin of error and is not a reliable statistic.

The person behind their twitter account is a notorious shitter.

It’s better to delay it and release an immediately usable product than to break the desktop when an unexpected bug is encountered and make the computer unusable. I’ve never transitioned a desktop environment and framework to an entirely different display system, but I don’t imagine it’s as simple as flipping a switch.

Mint is not a bleeding edge distro. Reliability should come first, always.

It’s the objectively correct choice, but it might draw the ire of Fedora stans.

Try this thread: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/kiosk-mode-for-raspberry-pi-with-touch-display/821196

We use PiSignage at work for the overhead displays. It’s basically Debian stable with the Labwc compositor and a single Chromium kiosk mode window that opens automatically to a local web server.