Pixel of Life

Neither. If I wanted a living room gaming system I'd just build a basic small form factor setup, hide it in a corner somewhere and use Steam In-Home Streaming or Moonlight to stream content to it from my gaming rig.

I don't get this "64bit is unstable" thing. I've been using a heavily modded 64bit build for months now with no crashes at all. If anything, it seems to be more stable than the 32bit build because I no longer get OOM crashes. I'd install even more mods but I can't be bothered to upgrade my RAM yet. I'll definitely be doing that when 1.1 is released though.

I is disappoint. The page doesn't mention bananas, the Official Unit of Measurement of the Internet™.

Call me a jerk, but I never seed torrents after I've finished downloading (because, you know, reasons), and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Also, data caps as mentioned above, and your download speeds depend on the number of people seeding the file. It might work if there was a 24/7 server hosting all the torrents and uploading them at a certain minimum speed so you could still get the file you wanted even if there were no other seeds, but at that point you might as well ditch the whole torrent thing and just host the files as regular downloads.

My Valentine's day was just like any other day. Sitting at home alone eating pizza and watching netflix, sleeping and playing games. But at least it was my birthday so that was kinda nice I guess.

And then there's this (Top Gear fans will know):

All the things. Gotta upgrade my RAM though, I don't think 8 gigs will be enough.

Ermahgerd, this. So much this. I don't even know how many times I've watched that series because it's just so good.

http://www.starwraith.com/evochronlegacy/ Does anyone else play this? Apparently it was just released like a week ago. It's a space trading/combat/exploration game/simulator like Elite: Dangerous but with much more complex systems modeling so you've got a lot more instruments you'll have to watch in order to fly your ship properly. Oh, and it lets you build cities and spacestations, and you can even customize the appearance and performance of your spacecraft with colors and different parts (hulls, wings, engines etc). You can also configure your ship's functions to your liking (number of cargo bays, number of fuel tanks, number of crew and so on) and tweak your weapons to get exactly the kind of performance you want. I bought it today (I think it was 23€ or so) and I'm really liking it so far. The graphics look quite dated but the deep gameplay more than makes up for it. I can't believe everyone on the internet isn't talking about this game yet, all I found were a few articles. People are starting to make videos about it though (Scott Manley also made one yesterday), so it'll most likely start rapidly gaining popularity over the next few days.

Dogs. Here's our chihuahua:

Favourite: Downtown Helsinki in late winter/early spring (or late fall/early winter), dark (early evening, around 6 o'clock), two or three degrees above 0 celsius, somewhat windy with a bit of rain or sleet. Lots of traffic, colorful lights and people going about their business. Least favourite: Countryside in the summer, no wind, no clouds, well over 30 degrees celsius. Yes, I love rain, darkness and cold-ish weather.

F1 car spaceship! I'd have #4 with #3's cockpit, #2's little tail fin and #1's roof scoop thing (the tall thing on top of the cockpit).

Happy new year! No partying for me, I'm going to spend tonight eating pizza and potato chips and watching Netflix - alone.

This week's Devnote Tuesdays says they've started QA testing and are fixing bugs at the moment. Shouldn't be too long now if all goes well. I'm guessing 1 to 2 months.

Pressed a thing in the main menu. Then it crashed. Linux support is crap in 1.0.

How about: 0 to 180 degrees spinward or antispinward, zero being the direction in which the galaxy is moving. Distance from the galaxy's center, in any unit of distance. Distance from the galactic plane, again in any unit of distance. Positive values are in the direction from which the galaxy appears to rotate clockwise, negative values are in the opposite direction. Not sure how that last one would work for irregular galaxies. E: Assuming irregular galaxies also have a black hole somewhere (Do they? I don't know) and that said black hole is rotating, the "reference plane" would be perpendicular to the black hole's axis of rotation and its center point would be at the center of the black hole.

A dark forum UI theme ("night mode") for use in low-light conditions would be nice.

I'd say KSP. It does, however, burn me out every now and then because there's not much to do once you've done all the things. I don't get that sense of accomplishment anymore. Oh how I wish Squad added procedural seed-based planets and solar systems. And a proper multiplayer mode. Then the game would be perfect. Minecraft is fun too but playing alone often feels really boring and I haven't found a server that doesn't lag.

Indestructible hairdryer, anyone?

Yes. It's called "Flight Envelope Protection". The Airbus FBW won't allow any kind of dangerous maneuvers - accidental or intentional - unless the pilots either completely switch off the Flight Control System or somehow put it in one of the Alternate Law modes where some of the protection systems are offline. Newer Boeing aircraft also have such a system but it's only designed to prevent pilots from accidentally doing dumb stuff. It can be overridden by applying enough force on the controls.

Linux can do it with the dd command. Open a terminal and use sudo fdisk -l to find the identifiers for the old and new disks - they look like "sdX" where X can be any letter (sda, sdb, sdc and so on). Write these down and make sure you know which one is which or you'll lose all your data! Then do sudo dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdY where sdX is the identifier of the old disk and sdY is the identifier of the new disk ("if" stands for "input file" and "of" stands for "output file", so input should be the old disk and output should be the new one). Check once more that you got it right and then hit enter. It won't actually show you what it's doing but it'll let you know once it's done. Depending on the size of the disk and other factors, the transfer might take several hours. However, there is a way to see a progress report - open another terminal window and run sudo pkill -USR1 -n -x dd What it does is it sends the USR1 signal to the dd process which tells it to print I/O statistics (volume of files already copied, elapsed time, current transfer speed and some other things). These will show up in the window the dd process is running in. If you want periodic progress reports you can run it with the "watch" command like sudo watch -n 5 'pkill -USR1 -n -x dd' which will automatically run the command every 5 seconds, printing stuff in the dd window. You can change the "5" to any other number to alter the frequency at which it runs the command. Or you can just wait until the transfer is complete if you want to keep it simple. Once it's done copying, open GParted (you might have to install it first depending on what Linux distro you're using) and look at the old disk. Find the partition that has the "boot" flag enabled. Then find the corresponding partition on the new disk and set that to bootable as well (it might be already, I don't know if the dd command copies partition flags) and save the changes. You should then be able to reboot, go to BIOS and select the new disk as primary boot device and boot Windows from it. Then simply use the Windows disk management tool to expand the partitions so that you're using all available space. DISCLAIMER: I'm not responsible for any potential loss of data, I've never actually cloned an entire disk at once but these commands do work fine for writing files onto USB sticks and SD cards etc, HDDs/SSDs should be no different.

Mostly stuff I'll need when I start my military service next week. Clothes, a pocket knife, a bigger knife, a watch, and various "quality of life" things like a package of waxed tinder ball things. Also got lots of chocolate.

No. But that's based on my personal opinion, I've had nothing but bad experiences with AMD graphics cards. The first one had terrible driver problems and the second one was DOA so I had to send the whole computer back as it was a prebuilt, and after 6 weeks they sent the computer back with a card of the same model that was from a manufacturer I had never even heard of. Nvidia all the way. I've never had any problems with them.

100Mbps down, 10Mbps up. Actual values are around 95 and 9.5.

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