Unfortunately that’s exactly what Nationalism Socialism was all about. Great socialist policies to support and bolster the in crowd. Unfortunately those policies aren’t extended to the out crowd. And the out crowd is pretty easily defined when you’ve got “Nationalism” in your political party’s name.

I mean, that’s how I got through high school. So sure.

I’m using a sandwich style case with the PCIE port at the top of the case and the 3 scews for the slots are at the bottom. It basically pushing the card up and backwards into the PCIE extension cable’s slot. No ass sag, but I can tell there’s a limit to how much it would be able to handle like that. I’ve got a 7900xt (not xtx) so it works for what I need right now.

To be honest I’ve never bothered to check the authenticity of my cat’s compliance tests.

I think Sony wants out of the physical console market. They just don’t know how to do it. The consoles are sold at a loss, but the games sales are massive returns on investments.

If they can double their sales by releasing on steam at the cost of 30% per sale, they still come out ahead, and can save all the R&D cost on developing a physical console, plus the loss from each individual console sale.

More wheels!

Non

I used to be dead.

I still am. But I used to be too.

Oh, sorry… Wrong Mitch…

Yeah, I used to run win 2000 on my desktop and had some games that I couldn’t play from the win95 era. So I resized my mom’s old windows XP machine and pulled a 2 gig partition out then installed win98 on that. I used the windows disk manager to mark the partition I wanted to boot from as active, so it was completely transparent to my mom when she would need to use the computer, including booting.

If I were going to do a system like this again today, id probably do something similar. An MBR formatted hard drive can have 4 primary partitions. FAT16 had a max partition size of 2gb, but fat32 was introduced in win98 so you could go with whatever partition size you wanted there.

So you could have a 95, 98, ME, and XP installation all on one drive and just switch between them using the drive manager to change the active bootable partition then rebooting.

Thanks!

I’ll keep digging.

I’m actually not looking for a single device that does audio output and audio input at the same time. I’m happy with my existing Bluetooth headphones in A2DP. What I’m trying to sort out is if I get a standalone Bluetooth microphone will it deliver high quality audio input, or will it still sound like a cellphone call from 1999?

But being this is a 44dBA washer, the most powerful dishwasher in the world and will wash your plate clean off, you’ve gotta ask yourself a question: “Do I feel lucky?”

Well, do ya, cup?

I had not heard of that before. Thanks, I’ll add that to the list for digging.

Yeah, my current wireless headset with a USB dongle has great quality for both sound and mic. But I have limited USB A ports on my motherboard, so I’m trying to move to purely Bluetooth to free up the USB port. Bluetooth sound output on a headset works fine, the only open question I have is Bluetooth sound input quality, because I can’t find any useful information after a couple of hours of searching about dedicated microphone devices and their audio quality over Bluetooth.

Yeah, I’ve got a few of those to bridge the gap. Its frustrating how many relatively recently purchased devices I have that are still micro USB. I bought a Logitech mouse like 2 years ago and it’s a micro USB plug. Frustrating. That mini USB period before micro USB lasted like 5 years at most and everyone very quickly switched to micro almost over night. The switch to C is taking forever.

I don’t want both at the same time.

I’m happy with my Bluetooth headphones doing just audio out with no mic.

I’m trying to figure out if I get a different dedicated Bluetooth mic, will it actually be decent mic quality over Bluetooth, or will it be the same garbage mic quality I get when coming from a headset+mic combo?

“No, you do not. Next question please”

Ubuntu (or Canonical, their parent company) has gotten more pushy with their paid service. Personally for me, I’m moving off of Ubuntu to Debian pure systems or Arch because when I ssh to my Ubuntu file server, the MOTD tells me I can pay for some kind of premium service and get 35 additional security updates. So, that’s it. That’s my line in the sand. Don’t advertise to me on my terminal

(And then there’s all the shit about Snap being installed by default, and I’m just at a point where I only want installed what I want installed, etc)

But you do you man. If Ubuntu works great for you, stick with it. You may change your mind later down the road, you may not. As long as you’re happy with it right now that all that matters.

You can buy some old thinclient lenovos on eBay for super cheap.

There’s other board manufacturers as well… basically just replace “raspberry” with some other fruit and there’s probably a Pi of it

I personally think the best thing to do is find a used Celeron laptop and disable the lid switch setting. Now you’ve got a server with a built in UPS.

Or just fire it up in a docker container because you’re already running Linux right? RIGHT?

I beat my addiction 7 times a week!

Couldn’t think of a better way to go