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Yeah how dare they hope that this woman doesn't have another terrible experience.

The well known "let me in" meme featuring Eric Andre screaming to be let in a locked gate

I belong

This looks fun I'm gonna buy it and forget to play it

My request to download it was denied :( probably because I don't work for an important enough company.

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It's crazy to think that 10 years ago I was selling my Oculus DK2 on eBay to fund a Vive. Yet to this day I still can only play expert in beatsaber 😂

For sure, it was part of the calculation. I got first dibs on the APC from someone who works at an IX. The discount was so steep that I was able to sell it a few years later for more than I paid. So I basically traded capacity for resell value because I knew I would be moving states in a few years.

Dang I could only afford a 15Ah ups battery, but I got it in a rack mount chassis for $1500 (retail like $4000). A generator is definitely in my future.

It was my battery backups that would only last 2 hours, due to my NAS also being on backup. I basically sized it so that I could finish a movie streamed from my Plex if the power went out halfway through. I can't say how long the fiber infra would stay up but I'm pretty sure the IX has generators.

so any power flicker caused several minutes of outage despite having all of our gear+modem on battery backups. The fiber went straight to an IX which has n+1 and diesel so even 2hrs into a power cut we still had fiber. Plus I tricked Comcast into charging gig price for 2gig so it was affordable.

Usually yeah, the reasons I got it were for 2 main reasons: in a house of 4 gamers, if 3 people, let alone 2, download from Steam at the same time (6-800mbit each) then things grind to a halt on gigabit. Secondly, our ISPs upstream HFC gear (possibly the cable repeaters) were not on battery backups

Yes I know - I was only trying to be helpful because I think advice on how to find the speed you need is much more helpful than copying the speed I use. But if you insist, I find 2000 mbit to be okay.

I used to have 2 gigabit for 4 people, so that's why I'm usually hesitant to give advice based just on household size.

Ah my bad, hmm well that should be a lot easier if you can check what your peak bandwidth usage is. It's a lot easier to measure your maximum utilization when your bottlenecks are all too big because you don't really need to speculate.

Also make sure to compare to off-peak hours speed tests (early morning or afternoon when ppl are at work) in case your ISP is giving you a lower limit than advertised - that could fool you into thinking you're not hitting the limit when you are.

Best way to tell is to get everyone doing something at the same time (streaming, downloading a big game on steam) and see if your router shows you close to or at your plan's max speed and if any of the streams stutter. If either happens (assuming streams don't stutter normally) then maybe upgrade.

If you are far from population centers (and data centers), you might be limited by your ISPs peering or the backbone instead of your plan speed, making an upgrade worth less. When I had fiber I could max out gigabit within the city but traffic to other metro areas was slower despite my gig speed.

It depends on so much. Have you checked if your router shows realtime speed of your network? That's a good first place to check. If you're not hitting your current plan's speed then an upgrade might not help.

Done and done. I Ctrl + C-ed during a dist upgrade and then tried to reboot 🥴

A picture through the lens of a Valve Index VR headset. The game beatsaber can be seen in the background, with a bright orange "sunburn" line visible near the bottom of the display.

A picture through the lens of a Valve Index VR headset. The game beatsaber can be seen in the background, with a bright orange "sunburn" line visible near the bottom of the display.

Looks like I'm disassembling my Index soon 😭 6 years without incident and I burn the LCD just like that. Luckily the teardown doesn't look terrible, just fiddly. But I can't live without Beatsaber so I immediately ordered replacement parts.

It's on the pirate bay and nzbgeek fyi

Dang, that's a little more than twice the cost of my usenet bundle, which includes 4 backbones and a VPN that I use for torrenting and soulseek.

It's not on any of my usual indexers but it looks like btdig picked up a copy floating out there on DHT. Info hash for the inclined: D4A6469EC5F69A36C0366B4873611D41EBF6A21D

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Bowling Ball after I get her this new treat dispensing toy, apparently.

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Section from the ArsTechnica article, relevant section: "Previously, a Meta executive in charge of project management, Michael Clark, had testified that Meta allegedly modified torrenting settings "so that the smallest amount of seeding possible could occur," which seems to support authors' claims that some seeding occurred." The image contains a highlight over the text: "so that the smallest amount of seeding possible could occur" and subsequent text "some seeding occurred".

This really makes it seem like they set the upload speed limit to 0, which I'm pretty sure still seeds a tiny amount.

*taps brid.gy mic. Never used that thing before 😅 My last reply maybe didn't bridge but I have 4 leftover months on a mullvad account I used before I got a usenet provider that bundles a VPN. It's too little to try to sell and none of my friends need another VPN.