I think if your goal is to make your own Steam box, it would be better to use something more updated, like ChimeraOS or Jovian. They're more tailored for using ad-hoc hardware.
I'm sure they're somewhere, but a quick scroll down doesn't seem to indicate this at all. Most of the posts I'm seeing have been people talking about why they blog, I'm not seeing self-aggrandizing.
I love my MiSTer, and I don't regret buying it, but I'd be lying if I said it was "worth" it; software emulators for every system that the MiSTer runs already exist and have gotten very good.
I bought my MiSTer mostly as a "how neat is that?" purchase. I think it's kind of cool to not only be able to run the games, but have a direct recreation of the hardware to do it. I wish I could regale you with tales of lower latency and how it has made me better at Donkey Kong Country, but I feel like most of the differences I see are probably placebo, especially since I just plug it into an LCD TV, not some fancy low-latency OLED or a period-accurate CRT.
If your goal is to play SNES games, you're likely to have a comparable (or even better) experience downloading Higan or something, but even if it's placebo, something about it feels more accurate to me.
At what point do we have to wonder when Musk does an active takeover of the United States?
If he is able to unilaterally and arbitrarily rewrite all the code for the treasury, and our nuclear weapons, should we be worried about some kind of active coup, to install himself as emperor?
It's possible that I'm just being paranoid, it's likely just immense greed from Musk, but I have no fucking clue why anyone feels like Elon needs access to our nuclear weapons.
Honestly I think we should be more worried about them pushing a poorly tested update to the Treasury systems that grinds the entire US government disbursement infrastructure to a halt and deletes a bunch of historical data that can't be easily recovered for good measure. That would send a massive shockwave through the global economy that would make the GFC, all of our government shutdowns, and debt ceiling brinkmanship look like child's play.
The system moves on the order of a ten billion dollars a day. If that's interrupted, who knows how bad the disruption to cash flow will send debt servicing into a spiral.
What if they fuck up the Fed intraday loan system altogether? That could cause a cascade of bankruptcies that can take down all of our banks and the entire world's financial systems to boot (thank you, too big to fail).
I've said this a few times, but "efficiency" is a term that doesn't really mean anything in isolation, meaning that it can mean whatever you want it to mean. Subsequently, no matter how much they fuck it up, they will still twist around some numbers and claim victory.
I did TMS a few months ago, and I'm not convinced it really did anything. It's a little frustrating, because no medication seems to work at all for me now.
This is going to sound silly, and I'm not a medical pro, but maybe try fermenting some vegetables and fruit and eat a bit every day?
It's very easy. You cut up vegetables, put them in salt water and let them ferment for a few days to a week. Fermented carrots are really good. I also absolutely love greens fermented in rice water with a little sugar. There are many recipes online, also for lightly fermenting fruit.
Anyway there is pretty strong research on the connection between gut microflora and depression.
Probiotic fermented foods (especially high fiber fermented foods) are a wonder.
I notice a very strong correlation. Fermented high fiber "living" food and avoiding all preservatives really improves my outlook on life but yep, your mileage may vary.
I'm kind of terrified of giving myself botulism (or some other illness), though I do live in NYC, so I don't think it would be too hard to buy fermented pickles if I wanted them...
When fermenting foods, use water from good source (e.g. bottled water), you must boil water with salt (,sugar, spices ) first, let it cool, and then add it to cleaned, well washed vegetables or fruit. Use clean glass container. Fermenting procedure varies for different veggies / fruit.
Maybe first try to buy readily available fermented foods to see if it works for you.
Chance of botulism is very low because of the salt (and acidity resulting from the fermentation), but yes, there should be live fermented veggies for purchase in NYC.
There are only about 200 cases per year of botulism in the US and most of it is infants (about 70% of the ~200 cases).
There are, and when I search I am overwhelmed by blog spam that does not describe it as simply as you. For those curious like me, can you point to a good resource? Or explain to salt water and ferment part - leave in a sealed jar on the counter? Thanks in advance
Here's my quick and dirty recipe for many things including peppers, carrots and kale/collard/mustard greens:
- 3 tablespoons salt to 4 cups non chlorinated water. (for greens I boil a handful of rice in water, discard the rice, add a teaspoon or so of sugar and use that water w/ same salt ratio).
- Cut up the veggies and pack them in a jar. No thick pieces (like a whole carrot is too thick, a carrot stick like your mom may have given you as a child is fine).
- Put a weight on top of the veggies to keep them submerged. A ziplock bag partially filled with water works or they sell special weights and spring loaded jar tops for this.
- Don't seal the jar, gas will be produced. Cover it with a cloth if you like although usually the baggie weight is covered enough.
- Leave it room temperature for about a week. 4-5 days is usually enough but longer produces a more sour taste. I've gone 2 weeks plus no problem.
Put it in the fridge (drain some water if you like), keep it sealed (no air) and that is it. It's pretty simple at the end of the day. Some people weigh things and add 2% salt by weight of veggies/water and there are other methods, but what I listed is how I do it and it works. Key is to keep veggies submerged.
but really it can be as simple as some saltwater and veg in a jar, careful to have then mostly covered with brine. Have to manage releasing pressure, burping it a few times a day is fine. Of course, you can get much fancier if you want, the possibilities are endless.
> Have to manage releasing pressure, burping it a few times a day is fine. Of course, you can get much fancier if you want, the possibilities are endless.
I would at least go slightly fancier: get a lid intended for fermentation that lets gasses out on its own. There are several good designs out there, and your local Target or similar store probably carries a little kit, intended for use with a mason jar, that contains a high quality fermentation lid and a nice stainless steel or glass mechanism to hold your veggies down, for a few dollars.
You will want a lid anyway, and the coated metal two-part lids used for canning jam will be destroyed pretty quickly by regular use for fermentation.
When I was an adjunct a couple years ago, I would use money for the more introductory stuff in Python.
I figured that for better or worse, every single person in that classroom will have to deal with some amount of "money math" in their life, and "money math" is still "real" math, and programs involving money are still "real" programs. If nothing else, I couldn't really get the "when will I ever use this????" kinds of questions.
A lot of people seem to have almost a "phobia" of mathematics; they are perfectly fine doing the relevant calculations in regards to stuff that's directly used, like money, but seem to shut down when mathematical notation is used.
Yeah, similarly, a friend of mine's kid got really into Kerbal Space Program. That friend didn't mind his kid playing that one for long periods of time, because there's a ton of real math and physics being used, but the game is relatively fun.
I run my "server" [1] straight to my home internet, and maybe I should count my blessings but I haven't had any issues with DDoS in the years I've done this.
I have relatively fast internet, so maybe it's fast enough to absorb a lot of the problems, but I've had good enough luck with some basic Nginx settings and fail2ban.
I'm actually curious; I use Jellyfin to stream FLAC all the time and it doesn't seem to have any issues for me. I'm not sure what you're doing differently.
I do have pretty fast internet (2 gigabits up and down), so maybe that's it?
I understand for Audiobooks, but why use anything outside of FLAC for music CDs in 2025? Honest question, not trying to stop you from doing what you're doing.
I also still rip audio CDs, but I don't compress with anything that isn't lossless. Hard drive space is super cheap nowadays, and FLAC is even supported natively in my browser.
I couldn't hear a problem with properly-encoded high-bitrate MP3 when my ears were much, much younger, and I still cannot do so today.
I can play an MP3 anywhere that music files are played. I still can't do that with FLAC.
I know that FLAC is perfect, and that MP3 is lossy, and that such lossy formats have generational loss in re-encodes.
But I can either manage multiple overlapping collections of digital music and a conversion system, or I can manage a single collection and skip a lot of that inconvenience.
Fair enough; makes me wish that MicroSD card slots were still standard on phones. If you had a 512GB card, then you'd be able to get an awful lot of lossless music on there.
I've heard Opus is a better bang-for-buck for the size to quality ratio, but I haven't tried it yet.
I rip and convert to FLAC primarily for the reasons you stated, but I also have to convert to MP3 when I want to play music from an SD card on my car's head unit.
There are so many devices that support mp3. My 15 year old car plays CDs with hundreds of mp3s with zero issues. I still have somewhere a mobile CD mp3 player that will work with both new files and those I harvested 20 years ago.
There is surprisingly still some mp3 releases online, including content for kids which for me was mp3 only so far.
I have a lot of FLACs but with years it makes more and more sense to me to keep it unified.
I rip to flac and then use fileflows to convert to opus personally then syncthing to get the 50 gb of opus files to my phone. As flac my cd collection is around half a terrabyte so it only recently became possible to out the whole thing on my phone for just excessive money (grapheneos doesnt run on a phone that supports sd cards so that cheaper compromise was out for me)
That's cool. To me grapheneos is kind of the minimum reasonable level of security I think is ok (and I'm also worried about data leaking to google itself). To each their own acceptable security profile.
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