Nukemin Herttua

Yeah, I vaguely remember the guy. Terrific look and great villain material 🙂

Sounds fun. I need to check that at some point. Thanks!

With everything being long arcs nowadays, I really enjoy the old school episodic format. So that definitely isn’t a negative 😁

Started watching Farscape. I’ve only seen season 1 when it aired in Finland the first time. It’s stuck with me ever since and while it certainly has a lot of problems, it holds up quite well as a camp scifi action show.

Forcing this might very well be something EU opposes. While there is a lot of corporate lobbying, Google would be forcing everyone to either use chromium or make compatibility changes into other browser. While not a total monopoly, it still limits the options radically. Therefore there might be hope that EU forbids this type of action. Let’s see…

Good point!

Just stated using Revanced Extended YouTube. One of the best apps there is. Makes everything so much more convenient and with zero cost.

For some it’s intentional and motivated by racism. For others it’s probably just cold and calculated opportunism.

The latter don’t really care as long as they profit politically or financially from such policies. It’s like selling your soul to a devil, because “who cares”.

Anyone supporting bullshit like that should experience few years as a slave to really see what the benefits are. Stupid assholes…

That one I knew, but thanks anyway 🙂

5 bucks for network monitoring made it a deal for me. Thanks 🙂

Stupid question, but what’s Shodan and why should I get it?

I think the point is that as long as certain services or fundamentals for living are based on good-will and philanthropy, they are in the end at the mercy of whims or calculated actions of those doing well.

It is PR in the sense that it does not only make the philanthropist look good, it also ties the subjects of the philanthrophy into a bond between the giver and receiver: as a receiver you are forever thankful to the philanthropist and in some perverted way constantly reminded of your subordinate status towards the giver. This strengthens the societal structures that benefit the rich and helps them stay powerful compared to massess. While I am sure that most rich people genuinely donate money to make things better and help others, it is still them who get to choose where the money is spent.

More equal and transparent option is to make sure that there is enough tax revenue to cover these kinds of costs from public spending.

I have also been playing with an idea of a philanthropic fund that allows anyone to donate, but not to decide where the money is spent. If the target for philanthropy could be decided by a group of experts/public poll, money could probably be allocated to places where it is needed the most. However, I am sure there would be a lack of bigger donations as the PR effect would be smaller…

Great! I’ll need to get one before they run out of stock then.

So Intel Nuc’s are not probably ideal for that job? 1080p is good enough for me for now :)

Damn, we are using them at my work and they have been very good as remotely updateable media kiosks. I just started to learn how to use them. Ofcourse well keep using them for some time still, but at some point we’ll need to find another solution.

I was also thinking getting one to work as a streaming computer. Currently I use one computer setup, which causes performance issues with some games. Would a nuc work as a computer to encode the video live or would it make more sense to use a machine with s proper GPU? Any thoughts?