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Kind of surprising to take away the control of DXVK/VKD3D/NVAPI like that. Keeping NVAPI enabled has caused me trouble on certain games before. Now to disable them we need to type in Proton's environment variables I guess? I hope they at least put in UI toggles for Proton's configurations instead.

This is probably the intended point of the comic but I do appreciate that they are depicted as completely equal in the last panel, instead of any pretense that there's still an imbalance between them. The whole "that person is better than me" anxiety can be hard to break through.

Do you have more info on how you tested Rimworld's simulation speed, or maybe a source that has tested this? I always used the native linux Rimworld version when I was playing because I assumed it would be better for simulation lag.

Their prices lately have been very unimpressive.

Rutracker is pretty solid for a public tracker. They've notably got a ton of music rips mirrored from what.cd and RED, and they seem to have a good handle on gaming releases as well. Their uploaders seem to focus at least a little on making releases well-annotated and a custom/high quality experience rather than just mindless scene content dumping. Use an adblocker and page translator and you should be good to go.

I don't think 'cattle not pets' is all that corporate, especially w/r/t death of the author. For me, it's more about making sure that failure modes have (rehearsed) plans of action, and being cognizant of any manual/unreplicable "hand-feeding" that you're doing. Random and unexpected hardware death should be part of your system's lifecycle, and not something to spend time worrying about. This is also basically how ZFS was designed from a core level, with its immense distrust for hardware allowing you to connect whatever junky parts you want and letting ZFS catch drives that are lying/dying. In the original example, uptime seems to be an emphasized tenet, but I don't think it's the most important part.

RE replacements on scheduled time, that might be true for RAIDZ1, but IMO a big selling point of RAIDZ2 is that you're not in a huge rush to get resilvering done. I keep a cold drive around anyway.

"Cattle not pets" in this instance means you have a specific plan for the random death of a HDD (which RAIDZ2 basically already handles), and because of that you can work your HDDs until they are completely dead. If your NAS is a "pet" then your strategy is more along the lines of taking extra-good care of your system (e.g. rotating HDDs out when you think they're getting too old, not putting too much stress on them) and praying that nothing unexpected happens. I'd argue it's not really "okay" to have pets just because you're in a homelab, as you don't really have to put too much effort into changing your setup to be more cynical instead of optimistic, and it can even save you money since you don't need to worry about keeping things fresh and new.

"In the old way of doing things, we treat our servers like pets, for example Bob the mail server. If Bob goes down, it’s all hands on deck. The CEO can’t get his email and it’s the end of the world. In the new way, servers are numbered, like cattle in a herd. For example, www001 to www100. When one server goes down, it’s taken out back, shot, and replaced on the line."

~from https://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/the-history-of-pets-vs-cattle/

Oh wow, that is horrible. I know people that talk exactly like that w/r/t wanting to "further their career" etc, but I guess the "announcement" part at the end doesn't make as much sense in that context.

I think it's hard to dig yourself out of this hole unless you've got early retirement on the horizon. The more you work, the less of an outside life you have, and the less you feel compelled to focus on anything but work, rinse and repeat. Your friend probably doesn't have anything to look forward to IRL, so might as well make more money.

Can't believe it's someone's job to make this list and this is what they came up with. A 14-year-old with internet access could name way more major players.

That's a new fear unlocked. I've been dragging my feet on getting into VR and this might have shifted my timeline by another year.

If you pride yourself on being a hard worker just know that everyone else is in a group chat without you.