CCP Games Inc made the following statement regarding today’s announcements: “Interested parties should contact CCP Legal and provide offer details as well as proof of financing in the form of account statements in PLEX or ISK equal or greater to the stated offer. No lowballs. I know what I got.” /s
assuming I’m worried about a smash and grab
For your specific use case, how about this:
Get a cheap USB thumb drive and a long USB cable. Put your disk unlock password on that thumb drive, and semi-permanently affix the USB drive to your building. You said you’re in a basement. Put it on top of a rafter with a metal fitting that would keep the drive from being taken without removing the screws. Run the long USB cable from the thumb driving in your rafter to the USB port on the machine. Alter your startup script to mount the thumb drive read the password from the thumb drive to unlock your main disk. Don’t forget to immediately unmount the thumbdrive in the OS after the disk is unlocked for extra safety.
If someone is doing a smash and grab, they’ll unplug all the cables (including this USB cable going to the thumb drive) and take your machine leaving the disk encryption password behind on the USB thumb drive.
I don’t have a recommendation for you, but if you exhaust your leads there is a large comparrison table with all kinds (and ages) of remote access solutions that you could search against for your criteria (open source, supported, etc) here:
Time to start posting reviews with:
Who knows? Maybe the Russian military is out of tactical ideas and trying to crowdsource a military strategy from gamers to take Ukraine because they can’t do it themselves.
There’s another one free with many Public Libraries that has streaming movies and TV called Hoopla. That same service also has ebooks and audiobooks for streaming or download.
A buddy of mine bought an N64 with Super Mario 64 and Pilotwings 64 on launch day. We didn’t know that it would sell out so quickly. He worked at a retail store and got into talking to a customer about him having the N64. Apparently the guy was a father that was desperate to get an N64 for his kid. He offered to pay 4x what my buddy paid at retail. It was a lot of money for a young guy in his late teens. He sold it to the guy out of his trunk the next day for the cash. It would be 6 months before inventory returned in stores and he was able to rebuy an N64.
Atari Star Wars arcade game came out in 1983. One year prior to Elite in 1984:
Vectrex Starhawk was 1979
Here’s Mario at nearly 30 years ago (29 years):
Mario 64
This is what happens when parents don’t vaccine. When you are very young, you can get vaccinated with computer gaming. You can absolutely still enjoy consoles and the great games that come out on them, but you have a certain protection against obsessing over a specific console.
For me it was Commodore 64 I was vaccinated with. This also let me enjoy a future of DOS gaming right along side NES and Genesis gaming.
I immediately clicked on this thread to make a variation on this joke, and you beat me to it by an hour…in a Lemmy retrocomputing community. I knew we’d grow up one day, I just didn’t know this is what it would look like.
George W. Bush and Barak Obama’s secret love child:
George Takei and Megamind’s secret love child:
(George, keep being your awesome self!)
Tony Sirico’s secret love child:
Anthony Bourdain’s secret brother:
SegaCD was solving for a different problem that 32x didn’t solve. Back then data storage was EXPENSIVE because it was in ROM ICs in cartridges. Each requiring expensive components and assembly. CDs solved the data storage problem making storage dirt cheap and very fast to reproduce.
The Genesis platform was a 5 year old console platform when 32x was released. The days of getting 8+ years out of a hardware platform were gone with the Famicom/NES. Technology had evolved quite a bit and the underlying Genesis platform was not up to competing with N64 which would arrive just 3 years later.
The problem with a platform with limited titles is it makes the stinkers really stick out. Look at the Jaguar – very few “killer apps” to be remembered.
I don’t disagree, but Genesis’s issues were too many, even compared to Saturn. Genesis, even with SegaCD and 32x couldn’t compete with Saturn, certainly not with N64 or PS1.
The games were actually pretty decent, especially for the time in which they were released.
This statement isn’t universally true. There were some fantastic games that really used the hardware like Shadow Squadron or T-Mek. However there were also games that barely used it, but slapped the 32x logo on the game offering little to nothing of added effects or gameplay. Primal Rage was one of these. The only 32x anything used was a side scrolling background. The made game was the same 2D fighter from Genesis. Many of the SegaCD/32x games were this way too.
Again I was buying the games on the cheap, but if I’d paid full price for Primal Rage and only got that slight background effect, I would have been very disappointed.
It was cool but way too expensive for what it did when it launched. I picked it up along with lots of its games when it hit the discount rack and really enjoyed it. There were also SegaCD-32x games that were also on the clearance rack. It pointed out to me how much development fragmentation was occurring at that time in the console wars.
I’ve given you my opinion. I don’t have to back anything up.
Don’t sell yourself short. You’ve got apathy, malice or ignorance.
I don’t think things are getting worse. You do.
So you refuse to defend your spoken position with anything concrete, even though I’ve asked you about multiple specific examples that contradict your position.
And I don’t think any of this should add to the “hate” problem that some see on Lemmy. Which is the point of OP’s post.
Well why would you? You seem to be just fine with the destruction of lives around you, even making supporting statements that you think its good these things are happening to these people. Why do you think that your positions don’t deserve hateful responses? Lemmy doesn’t have a “hate” problem. Today’s leadership in the USA, and as a consequence, our society now does.
Hate isn’t the answer
I agree with that statement. However, your chosen positions are steeped in hate yet you defer or ignore it. That wreaks of hypocrisy on your part, and points back to the intellectual dishonesty I accused you of earlier.
You’re being intellectually dishonest if you are claiming your statement is true.Just because I said something that you didn’t agree with doesn’t mean I was being “intellectually dishonest,” and it’s rude of you to imply that.
You can keep your false righteous indignation. How can you claim to tell person in an El Salvador prison right now its “no worse off”? Please, explain that to me. How about a fired federal worker? Is it “no worse off” for them now they’re unemployed?
I lived through the 80’s. Try living then and telling me that life is worse now. lol
I already told you I’m an older, well off, white man. Yes, I lived through the 80s too. How is that relevant at all? You’re we should be happy now because we don’t have 12% interest rates yet and stagflation is how we should be okay with trump destroying the world economy for likely the better part of the upcoming decade? Why stop your measure over 40 years ago, long before most of the people here were even born?
Why not tell interracial married couples “Try living in 1966 and not being able to get legally married to your spouse of a different race. lol”
Why not tell women and “Try living in 1918 and not being able to vote. lol”
I don’t think any of that is any worse off than it was a few years ago though.
You’re being intellectually dishonest if you are claiming your statement is true.
Can I ask if you are a white, well off, man?
I don’t think the world is getting “worse,” it’s just the doomscrollers on Lemmy wanting it to be worse to fit their own twisted narratives.
For many MANY groups it is getting objectively worse.
For those in the USA:
For our great historical allies of Canada and Mexico:
For the rest of the world:
The only group that aren’t generally hurt yet are: well off older white men
As a member of that group I find it fucking disgusting what is being done to everyone that isn’t in this group at the hands of this group.
Long ago I ran a Windows Media Center PC in the living room and used the hell out of it. When WMC finally went EOL, I look for alternatives and found Plex. I never got around to setting up a Plex box, and now I see it too is ready for the scrap heap. I think this is what getting old is. You plan on doing something and never get around to it. Time passes much faster up here in age.