I dunno about this analogy. I think the doctor proved that with enough time, anything can become a door.

Ipmi is your friend.

Is that the same database my user couldn’t connect to today?

There’s always backups… Right?

… Right?

What about second phone time?

Remember you absolutely must not go to these specific sites.

Do not do it.

See you all tomorrow for class.

But how else is he going to pay for his yacht… I mean, pay to feed his children… Yeah, that’s relatable with millennials and zoomers that are so far in debt and earning so little that they can’t afford kids, right?

~13 more days?

I’m trying to hold out on creating a new one until the 10th.

Crazy how time flies huh?

Don’t I know it…

I was very close. You seem to describe the bottomless pit between grassy fields and the red forest, where the large waterfall cliff is. My guess was closer to the starting location. IIRC the starting point for grassy fields is on the bluff near the pond. If you jump down the bluff, there’s three normal iron nodes in a valley where most people build their first starter bases… North is four impure nodes in a different Valley. Which is the location I was thinking. If you go east from there, to the valley that runs north, and turn north, towards the red forest and walk for about a minute or two, you get to the bottomless pit, where the cliff is, that you need to climb to get to the red forest.

I love grassy fields, it’s a great place for iron and copper production. There’s a few ponds just deep enough for water extractors and a pressure well for water as well, and there’s two coal nodes of you want to get steel… Two pretty good caterium nodes towards long beach, and even sulfur not far from one of the coal nodes for noblisks.

“Good enough” levels of limestone for concrete, and you have a pretty decent starting location. You don’t need to leave the biome to build through most of the early to mid milestones, right up until you hit oil… Then you’re SOL. You have to head to Blue crater, long beach, or up to the spire coast (north, middle of the map) to find oil.

I usually venture out to the coal area where there’s a lake, just Northwest of grassy fields once I get coal, since it makes a great coal generator plant and it’s nearby, so not much in terms of running power lines across the country side before you get advanced power, and power towers.

That usually sets me up for power until I get to oil, when I head up long beach. The four oil nodes there (2 pure, 2 normal) are good for power (and plastic from the polymer resin), especially if you use the heavy oil residue alternate… Since those nodes are kinda far from everything, I just use regular fuel.

So those areas I know pretty well. I can tell from the trees that it’s close to there, the density and type of trees is pretty specific to that area in the south west…

I’ll guess grassy fields, North of the starting location in that biome. Near the four iron nodes by the cliff. On the other side of the cliff (Northwest) is the coal nodes with the little lake that’s perfect for a power plant…

Which would make that bridge go from long beach (aka the “gold coast”) and… Blue crater/swamps area… I think.

Reminds me of repo, the generic opera.

You’re not wrong, and I hate that about your comment.

Take your upvote and go.

Well, previously, I had a mid tower on a large shelf above my TV, partly for this, but it was primarily built for VR. I still have my original Oculus cv1, from before Facebook bought them, then rebranded to meta…

I ran away screaming when they started to force everyone to use their Facebook account to log into Oculus.

Since then it’s been on my mind to replace it. I recently moved house, and just didn’t set up the VR PC again. I want a cleaner look.

The old system was a full ATX board with an Intel core i5 (4th Gen? IIRC), 16G of RAM and a GTX 1080 8G. Complete with some RGB and everything to be a bit more flashy because it was in a windowed case above my TV… It was a bit of a show piece.

Now, I just want something thats small, simple, and will do the job without too many compromises. I have an Xbox PC dongle (one of the old school fat ones), and a small assortment of Xbox controllers. Recently, my partner and I wanted to do so couch gaming so I dug it out and just plugged it into HDMI. It’s sitting on the floor and we haven’t played anything on it since. Wires everywhere.

When I replace it, I want something that won’t look out of place, and definitely little to no RGB stuff. It got annoying having it blinking and changing all the time, distracting from what I’m trying to watch.

The system is meant to be forgettable, just humming away in the background, ever ready to cater to whatever couch gaming whims I may have.

The TV is 4k, and I’d like to have enough power in it to play high res, especially for somewhat older or simpler titles.

Long term, I kind of want two (or at least a second system with similar performance), so for games that don’t do split screen, I can play on a smaller, closer screen, and my partner can take the TV. I’d have it wall mounted near my usual couch seat, with a display on an arm (also wall mounted). I imagine I’d use that for more than just games, since I’m not always a fan of juggling my laptop around trying to get comfortable on the couch.

The main problem I’m beating my head off of, is finding an adequate system that’s not huge, and doesn’t look like shit in my living room, with enough power to meet the demand.

I just want to install it and more or less forget about it until I want to play something. It should blend in, not stand out.

If I’m going that way, then I’m building a custom PC for the purpose and I’ve built enough PCs at this point that I’m not keen on building more… Especially when looks are a nontrivial point.

Finding a good looking small case that I can mount on the wall (or shallow shelf) seems like a gigantic headache. Plus building in such a case is probably a nightmare since it’s mostly built for looks, not for build friendliness.

I’m considering the minisforum nucxi7, to give you an idea. That whole thing is smaller than a 1650 super, and it has an rtx 3060/3070 built in, with a clean, minimal look. Not busy, but not boring.

It’s just… Basically impossible to buy, and/or afford.

Someone suggested this before, and I’m not a big fan. If I get a steam deck, I’ll probably be buying it for portable/handheld gaming.

Having a fairly useless screen on my gaming computer, behind/beside my living room TV seems odd at best…

I’ve been considering my options for a living room, couch gaming/emulation system for a while. I want something with a mid tier GPU for anything remotely modern that I might want to play there… My criteria for couch gaming vs desktop is whether it’s easier/better to play the game with a controller… One example would be driving/flight sims, the analog controls are generally better than mouse/kb… The only way desktop wins in that scenario is if you own a driving sim wheel/hotas for your desktop, otherwise, gamepad is generally better for the fine controls.

I don’t generally play a lot of driving/flight sims, but it’s a good example.

Anyways. The primary focus is on console exclusive games via emulation, specifically retro stuff. SNES/N64/Genesis/etc. Maybe to stuff as new as the Wii? IDK. But being able to play other PC titles would be helpful.

I’m thinking about a fair high clock speed, fairly recent CPU with a fair amount of memory. IMO, clock speed is more important so the reaction times of the emulation is minimized. I don’t think emulators can really take good advantage of multi threading.

My main issue is that any systems that fit the bill are super expensive. Something small/compact, with a high clock CPU, and something for graphics better than integrated… It’s not easy to find something like that for cheap.

It’s not something I would use all the time, so it’s not really very high on my priority list.

Working in IT, mainly with older neurotypicals, unfortunately, calling, is sometimes the only way to get things done.

I’ve emailed, and even left voicemails for people that go completely unanswered for weeks. When I finally get lucky and get them on the line, the issue gets fixed in minutes.

I appreciate when people actually engage through text. Often, after an unsuccessful call (getting voicemail or whatever), I’ll follow it up with an email. It’s getting to be more common, but not universal yet, that the emails get a reply within hours.

There’s still a lot of “old guard” in business, and I can usually tell by someones name and position, whether they’re going to be a phone call only user, or someone who will reply to emails.

VP Edward Jones? Probably need to call that guy.

Junior data entry person Emily Smith? Email. 100%.

Everyone else lies somewhere in-between.

If I email someone and ask for a date and time for a call to look at an issue and they reply but don’t give me one, saying something to the effect of “just connect as soon as you can”, I’ll literally forego calling, connect to their system and pop up a chat so we can talk.

I take hints.

I also prefer text over talking. Calling someone (or getting a call from someone) used to give me anxiety. After many years working in IT support, making/taking a phone call barely even registers now. I don’t like it, but I don’t have to. RFC 1925, rule #1. It has to work.

Anything that helps me get from “thing is broken” to “thing is fixed” is fine by me. I just want your ticket off my board.

To be fair, I knew a lot of people who struggled with word problems in math class.