If there is complete societal collapse, then gold is going to be worth nothing, because you cant eat it. Bullets on the other hand you can use to take peoples food, or hunt for your own. So invest in bullets!

Now if you just expect financial collapse but not total societal then sure gold, silver, bonds are probably fine if you want “safe” stable ways to hold your investments.

In most cases, its just fear-mongering and gold has no more actual value than paper currency since they both derive their value from sentiment or perceived value. So if you show up at my house and offer me a small gold bar, you value at $10,000, and I value it at a potato, then your $10,000 is actually only worth a potato.

I would get everyone to sign the Paris agreement and give it real teeth for non compliance.

Yes it’s bait but also there is real science behind it. Sun spots are magnetic knots that are wound up magnetic lines. If the lines snap they could pull huge amounts of charged particles and launch them at earth.

The risk is that if big enough it could strip back the our magnetic field reducing our production from radiation and all the electrical charged particles. This could mean electrical systems are disrupted, destroyed, or even catch fire. In the worst case the amount of radiation could kill millions.

So yeah chances are very low but never 0.

Hey, sorry for the delay, I am glad to hear that @curbstickle@anarchist.nexus had Wireless Workbench running on wine because Proprietary software like that will be the biggest hangup.

For Qlab, how are you using it?

As for limitations, the biggest one will be stuff that is “industry standard” but was only ever developed for Mac & windows. Most stuff should run fine under wine or have an OSS/FOSS alternative worth using but specific tools that are by the MFG could be a problem.

https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.linuxshowplayer.LinuxShowPlayer Linux Show Player may be a good option to replace Qlab, but I have not used it personally.

If these systems are going to be deployed and used by other techs its not a bad idea to look at an immutable distro like Bazzite might be a good fit.

https://bazzite.gg/

One aspect of Linux that is different from windows is you get to select your desktop environment, IE window, menu, default applications, ect. The two big ones are KDE (a highly customizable windows like interface) and Gnome ( a more Mac like interface but still customizable). There are dozens of other window managers but I would focus on those two since they will be good starting points.

25y pro, 10y with Ross in live events and now with a small integrator.

What programs do you need to run?

It’s the best worst case and there is still room for rebbel to find meaningful support. I’m just sad it happened your way. I wish Eric could have been more patient, and I wish rebbel could have been faster to react. All the personal stuff and respect issues are just a bummer all around.

Mostly good news except they cut out the foundation that did all the work keeping it alive for the last 9 years.

It’s good it’s going open it sucks that they are forking the amazing work of the community rather than contributing directly into the existing branch.

Highly doubtful since it’s AMD to AMD.

dude… I have an interaction that would make heads spin. I could not for the life of me figure out why this person was being hostile, and they would not tell me, finally I just gave up and moved on. When my socio/emotional tools are broken I have no fucking clue what I am doing and the results can be spectacular from a distance.

Yes its a joke, Yes I have kids and friends on the spectrum, and yes I am AuADHD :)

Dont feel bad you missed it, my response was also meant to be a soft joke, because I totally understand that not every social cue makes it past input to processing.

No.

Sounds like something an AI would say! A human would recognize humor and not read a response to a joke as a factual statement.

No better proof of AI sentience than when it lies and pretends to be doing work.

Honestly moving to a KDE desktop environment along with any well maintained Linux distro will feel like going back to Windows 7 but now with modern powershell

There will always be a few things different like not needing to download apps from websites. But most of the rest will feel normal.

Nearly everything you are talking about is easy and built into the vast majority of desktop linux distributions, and more than a few server ones too!

RDP: Remmina, KDE (windows like Desktop Environment)

Hyper-V: KVM+QEMU, but im going to ask why? There are very few reasons to do full virtual machines these days when you can just run everything as containers.

Plex: Plex

RAID5: use ZFS Z5 or linux mdadm r5. The advantages of ZFS is that you get lots of tools like snapshots, and reslivering which helps prevent bit rot.

Depending on your hardware I would honestly suggest your host OS be Proxmox, and then just run your gaming/personal system as a VM with GPU pass through. Proxmox has all the KVM+QEMU tools and ZFS tools baked in with a good web UI that makes managing these things easier.

Can I have the reverse and selectively recall memories my AuADHD/limited working memory forget?

Dive weights and belts are generally Lead and I have seen them used in other applications too. if you search for steel ones they come up on Amazon and other sites.

They do make weighted vests and dumbbells with other materials but they generally cost more. So if you dont like bulky sand then try spending a bit more to get something with steel/lead/tungsten.

I had a really bad day a few months ago, and two of them were ready to get on a plane that afternoon if I had needed it. I dont know of any other game where I could find my people, and that would build a support group, and friend group willing to put everything on hold for each other. So yeah if I could relive the experience of undocking, flying around, and meeting my friends for spreadsheets, shenanigans, and space ships I would.

So many amazing memories, staying up too late, getting a text message to drop everything and log in, fleet battles with nothing but silent professionalism on voice, logging into the test server and spending hours on meta tactics and ship loadouts, drunken ice mining in low sec, 5 person frigate gangs ransoming capital ships. That game, and that time had something special for all of us.

hey, no kink shaming! Its just one of, not my only, and it gave me my best friends, even after we all quit the game we remain dedicated and close.