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  • Im sorry, but, for things like games, raid isn’t really going to give you a perceivable speed increase. Most games today get the most use from the random read, where raid does best is with things like sequencial writes (large movies, etc).

    Raid0 will add to your throughput, but your seek times will still be the same regardless of how many drives you add to it.

    Here in the us, a 2tb ssd is less than 50$. Im sorry its not the same where you are at.

    I know the others suggest raid0, but since youre doing three drives im gonna suggest raid 5 instead. You don’t lose out on read performance compared to raid0, just write speeds. More importantly, one drive failing wont actually break anything.






  • So for example if you plan on walking into the mountains until people assume you’re dead and then leave, the right people will see and you’ll catch back on.

    Only if you do something dumb like stick around in the same spot of wilderness for months on end. The whole point of disappearing is that you go to a new place and start a new life.

    Made worse because we have progressed so far into forensics and many countries are using that to monitor peoples’ whereabouts.

    Yes, but actually no. Just because they have the data doesn’t mean they’re actually using it. A government motivated to find you will be a huge problem to deal with. What exactly have you done to cause the government to want you specifically?

    Soon there will be no running away from anything you want to run back to and no pretending to run.

    Paranoid fearmongering. Breaking the law bad enough (regardless of how moral of a law it is) will absolutely get the government on your back, but just assuming that the law will turn into hellish big brother with motivated tracking is putting the cart before the horse. Yes, it’s entirely possible that the current trajectory we have will get worse / follow a downward trend into 1984 style bullshit. Obviously that’s why you prepare for that. But it does not mean it will follow a downward trend into 1984 territory, and assuming that it’s impossible to stop that from happening means you’ve given up, and are therefore a part of the problem.

    It’s why witness protection only works when it’s government-sponsored.

    Citation needed.


  • Oh, youre thinking about the actual death bit. There’s a couple of ways to do it easier then holding your breath and hoping the coroner doesn’t notice during the autopsy.

    Head to a place that’s known to be semi-dangerous for whatever reason (a beachfront hotel, mountains, etc). Inform people of your vacation plans, and then dissappear the same way that other people who probably died did. If you’re really didcated, go to bear country, leave food out for a bear, and then dump some pre-drawn blood of yours around when a bear shows up and then disappear. Switch countries and never look back. This is a dick move, but if pretending death is the best solution you can find it should work well enough.

    If you’re just trying to run away, it’s actually relatively easy. Sell/trash everything, buy an old car, drive across country, and start completely over without ever telling anyone where you went. Don’t even sign into your old online accounts. As far as everyone but the government is concerned, you’ll have disappeared. If you’re leaving an abusive family behind or avoiding the mafia, this is plenty, and you don’t have to worry about being deported. Spend a few years as a waiter or construction worker being paid under the table and as long as you keep that up, you’re even invisible from the less proactive parts of the government.

    I’ll be honest, faking my death seems dramatic and way too complicated for any situation i can come up with. I’d just do the disappear thing and leave it at that.




  • I’m sorry, but, no, you’re not even close with the size comparison. Office 2021 is 4gb, libreoffice and office 365 are smaller than that. The cheapest bluray will hold 25gb.

    Obviously office programs have not become easier to run (with libreoffice maybe being an exception), but processing power has vastly outpaced whatever new requirements they’ve gained.

    Shit like teams needs a supercomputer to run well, and will be slow on everything else. There is no point in buying a top of the line laptop just to keep teams or a badly made website from lagging.

    People haven’t seriously used floppy disks for twenty years now.


  • This is a lot less true than it was five years ago. Web browsing and basic word editing has not become harder to do in the past ten years, but hardware has made some major leaps. (thanks amd) So as long as it has an ssd and a semi modern (within five years) processor, it will do a great job of handling homework and 4k video. With windows replaced with linux, it’ll do all those things and feel snappy while it does it.

    Avoid sub 100$ laptops, and keep a skeptical eye on anything between that and 400$, but it can absolutely be done.

    I’m biased, but the dell inspiron laptops that businesses offload are perfect for this sort of task. They have connectivity out the wazoo (useful for that outdated projector in the seldom used classroom) and their batteries are easily replaced.





  • I’ve no idea about accessibility in general, but that’s not the best advice for a newly aspiring author, much less the senior one.

    If you’re new and trying to do two pages of dialogue in your first love story, it can be really easy to repeat the word ‘said’ fifty times in the first page. Spice it up with an extra ‘exclaimed’ or if you’re feeling funny, an extra ‘ejaculated’. Or at least, that’s how that advice goes. The problem with it is that ‘said’ is an invisible word, particularly in stories with dialogue. You might as well try to avoid using ‘the’ in your sentences. Better authors will have characters with individual voices and can skip the ‘person said’ altogether, since the reader will be easily able to distinguish the characters based on the context and the words being said.

    For short stuff, keep ‘said’ in. You can have multiple people saying several things in order before it even becomes something you as the author get tired of, much less the audience who won’t read the story more than once anyways. Bare minimum, every character needs a ‘said character b’ done at least twice per scene. People (me) forget who’s talking unless your name is Brian Jacques and you can give every character their own actually well thought out accent. For conversations longer than a couple pages, consider using the occasional alternative descriptor, and also not using any at all.

    Don’t avoid ‘said’. You need it to be legible. Just, consider using it slightly less if you have a shitton of talking to describe.