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I can't imagine you'd have any issue. My jellyfin box has an fx6300 with an even older quadro gpu (600 I think), and it doesn't seem to have any issue running multiple streams at o…

I'd second this one!

> even on the desktop I'd dare say it's already happened on the desktop. I do IT for an elementary school, and pretty much none of the employees use any app other than their web br…

Unfortunately there's an unavoidable stretch of two lane highway with no sidewalk or bike lane between me any my workplace. If I lived somewhere where I could make the trip reasona…

I really wish someone would bring back truly small trucks like the old Rangers, or even something like an el Camino. Having a truck is really nice sometimes, but driving a tank aro…

> somewhere between the not-ashtray and the backside of the moon. This makes me crazy. I used to drive a '99 Mazda b2500 (basically a Ford Ranger). I could reach any of the control…

So intent to be annoying is a worse offense than intent to rob someone?

I suspect that in the not too distant future (perhaps in my lifetime) there will be companies buying up landfills in order to mine them for recyclable materials.

Maybe facet the mirrors so that the reflections would flicker in some something like Morse code. I imagine it would be very difficult to decipher and could only convey a few bytes …

That's because by default it keeps running in the background when you "close" it.

This isn't quite the same situation but it reminds me a little bit of xkcd.com/1421

My gaming desktop right now is actually an old Dell Precision tower with a third gen i7 that I got for $140 off eBay. I swapped out the PSU, upped the ram to 16gb, added an SSD I h…

I'd guess he wants to be able to sync bookmarks/passwords/etc across platforms. It's nice being able to find something on my phone and then pull it up later on my desktop using syn…

Not to mention that if you're in that need that car functioning to get to work.

Something about this reminds me of the Witch-King of Angmar.

I don't believe you can install the play store itself, but Spotify should work. You would have to manually side load it, or install the yalp store which will manage fetching and up…

Definitely! I thought the same thing. Also relevant: https://xkcd.com/1377/

You're definitely right. I wonder if he's thinking of jumping off of the swing and doing a 360 in the air. Apparently it can be done if your swing has rigid bars in stead of ropes:…

I suspect the bone injuries come from the traction you get on those mats more than perceived safety. In the gravel if you put your arm out to catch a fall, it slips (and you scuff …

I actually have Diamond Age downloaded to my ebook reader right now. I'm working through Liu Chixin's Remembrances off the Earth's Past trilogy right now, but I'll have to start it…

Two things I look for when replacing a phone: 1. Lineage OS support. (So you actually get security updates) 2. A decent repairability score on iFixit. (So you don't end up with a b…

7 000 000 000 * .01% = 700 000 Still, you make a very good point. Homo Sapiens will stick around. Advanced civilization might not.

Out of curiosity, what did you switch to? I'd like to leave Gmail and Proton Mail seems to be pretty well recommended. Is Fast Mail a better option?

I rather doubt that internet communication has become less important since 2013.