Fair enough. Well, you definitely should be moving those over to Docker then, it’ll be much better for efficient use of resources.

Curious as to why you don’t just run those as separate games on the same server, since Foundry has the functionality for that?

Either way, running Foundry in docker is a solid idea. I’ll grab a link to the image I use when I get the chance.

Also, why two Foundry servers?

Listen, if AI was replacing executives instead of hardworking creative types, I’d be all for it.

Christ, with how limited the brainpower of your average c-suite is, you wouldn’t need “AI”. I could probably replace most of them with an excel spreadsheet.

What the fuck are you on about? They’re talking about using AI to replace the incredibly talented human labour at studios they own. Y’know, like the people who made Valheim, Deep Rock Galactic, Satisfactory, the new Tomb Raider titles, Metro Exodus…

Embracer are shit, but what makes them shit is that they’re fucking murdering a lot of genuinely talented studios that produce great work.

Embracer, functionally speaking, have zero understanding of how game dev works. The whole thing is just a massive investment fund. Basically a bunch of rich assholes who bought up every small developer they could get their hands on and then tried to MBA all the numbers up by cutting headcounts and doing other useless metrics driven bullshit. Then when this failed to produce meteoric returns on investment they all went surprised pikachu face.

In order to buy out Paradox, EA would have to make an offer for their entire existing share float, which would then have to be accepted by the shareholders. This means that they would almost certainly sell their stock at over market value (because why would they accept less?).

From their point of view, this would be a good thing. So why then would the shareholders allow this project to be cancelled if it was about to net them a huge payout, according to your theory?

What in the actual fuck are you on about?

In the analogy, I have a whole lot of their money. You never watch Heat? Like that, but I didn’t fuck it up thanks to my many years of watching heist movies and playing Payday 2.

If it helps, think of the contents of the variable as being the result of the formula. If the formula is 2 + 2, the result is 4. The variable is the value we are trying to determine. If I want to know my speed, I calculate distance / time. So in Python I would say speed = distance / time, because speed is the unknown that I want to know.

But then with Python we can have more complex “formulas”. For example, we can say laugh = “Ho” * 3

Yeah, you can multiply a string. The result is that print(laugh) prints “HoHoHo”.

In the example you gave, the function is the formula, so input() evaluates to a result that is stored in the variable.

If functions are nested, each nested function resolves before the one that contains it. So, for example, you can do print(input("Who are you? ")). The nested function (input) resolves first, obtaining the user input, which is then printed. The difference is that doing it this way just prints directly without storing the input as a variable.

You can also do print("Hello ", input("Who are you? ")). Again, the nested function resolves first, so the user is presented a prompt to give their name. Then print combines the two comma separated statements ("Hello ", and the result of the input function) to display “Hello <name>”. Try it for yourself.

Oh man, love this idea. I’m gonna try it on my bank. “Here’s the deal, I keep all the money that I’ve already stolen, and you have to agree not to call the cops or hire any additional security.” Brilliant.

Not sure what the bank is supposed to get out of it though.

Ron. Ron, my guy. Do you know how much weed costs? Like hell am I bringing enough for the whole damn school, those little fuckers can buy their own.

You definitely wouldn’t want to use them in any kind of RAID for a start.

Yeah, try to avoid using USB hard drives.

A refurbished business PC is an excellent choice (or, better yet, make friends with someone who works in an IT department and grab a few machines when they’re being thrown out; you’d be amazed how often companies dump perfectly good hardware). Don’t worry about the windows license, you’re not actually paying for it by the time you get to refurb prices.

You should easily be able to pick up something decent for under $200 (hopefully that fits your budget). If you go with a small form factor (not ultra small) you can probably get an SSD and two 3.5" drives in there (watch out for the small form factor Lenovos though, they only have one 3.5" slot). Alternatively, look for a larger desktop tower style that could have 3 or 4 drive bays if you want to do something like a RAID5.

Don’t sweat too much about buying older hardware. What’s old and busted for Windows is lightning fast when we’re talking about self-hosting a file server or a Pihole.

“Landlords say that would push them to sell.”

So, you’re saying it would increase available housing supply? Sounds great.

Oh, and for the record, they will not, in fact, sell. Most housing in Ontario is still under a 2% annual rent increase limit. Landlords are doing just fine (and by “Just fine” I of course mean “We have a national housing crisis because landlords are hoarding all the available supply”)

I love 1Password, they’re great (I personally use Bitwarden for my passwords, but would happily recommend either of them). But by putting both your authenticator codes and your passwords in the same place, you now have a single point of failure. What happens if someone finds an exploit in 1Password that gives them access to your account? The whole point of 2FA is to not have a single point of failure.

That’s still a single point of failure. What happens if someone finds an exploit that bypasses the login process entirely?

That seems like it defeats the “2” part of 2FA. If your password manager is compromised the attackers now how complete access.

Important note; some WD Reds are still SMR. You have to check which specific type.

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