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I never do that because there’s not much I need enough to commit that much, but also because I’m worried that the next week thirty of them will show up on my doorstep and I’ll realize I’m broke.

Well, according to Steam, the answer is a tool that used to be available to adjust GPU fan speed. At the time I had a video card that wasn’t letting the OS adjust that, or maybe I didn’t have the right driver, I don’t really recall enough details to retroactively troubleshoot it.

But if I didn’t use that even the least demanding game would very swiftly overwhelm the card because it didn’t have any heat mitigation, so any time I played any game I would also open this tool and crank the fans to max so I didn’t have to pay attention to them (I had headphones). It also wasn’t that uncommon for me to forget to close it since it ran in the background once configured. In fact, it looks like I have even more hours in that than I do in EVE Online.

What if I accidentally say “this baby can fit so many spywares in it” instead?

Got it - if I ever want to hide a bot I’ll name it “CertainlyADog.”

Fair enough. Thank you.

I’m not trying to be dismissive or critical of those who use a NAS solution. I’ve never used one myself, so maybe it really is amazing; but from your response it sounds just like an NFS (or perhaps samba) server with a web interface? I did try TrueNAS once and it basically seemed like that, but also with convoluted permissions.

Again, not trying to be dismissive or anything. Just trying to understand.

… Obviously …

I was providing information in the hopes of it being useful.

edit: In case it’s unclear: https://old.reddit.com/r/tipofmypenis/

“Tip of my Penis”

I’m unclear on the benefit either has one just an NFS server.

I don’t disagree that it was insane!

But no, the reason is that I live in a decently sized old house in a cold area. We’ve dual zone climate control and I’m not sure either heat pump stopped running the whole month. I do run some servers but that’s true year round and most months my power bill is in various parts of triple digits.

… My power bill for February was $1900 …

I’m pretty sure it was Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II. I don’t actually remember buying it and might have played Warcraft 2 beforehand, but I spent many … Many happy hours on DF2. One of those two was my introduction to multiplayer gaming, but for sure I spent a lot more time on DF2.

As for whether it was worth it, it arguably shaped a lot of my life to date. Also I met at least one friend whom I still talk to (though rarely) to this day. I would say yes.

Couldn’t say - I’ve never had the chance to use it. In fact, I’m not sure I ever had the SysRq key on a keyboard I’ve used.

I have had a Pause/Break key and used to think they were the same thing, but now I’m not so sure.

You just reminded me … Before I really got into IT in my career I was at a job that still had a messenger for the internal staff. I set my status message in it to “Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring.”

I got chastised and made to change it, because the message might offend … Skinny elephants, I guess? I never got clarification on that.

(The manager had no clue what it meant.)

Sorry, which job are we talking about again?

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