It fits in with the contemporary mainstream on this site, unfortunately. Whenever politics comes up on HN, it invariably brings all the cranks out to play.
I’m surprised nobody has created a way to automate this process - I imagine that any tool that makes it trivial would be quite popular, given what a pain it can be to set up manually.
I actually dev a project called LANCommander which can be used as a sef-hosted digital game distribution platform ala Steam, Epic Games, etc. It has built in support for redistributables. What i would actually do is make the DOSBox/Win98 combo a redist and then have the individual games require that redist.
That way if you wanted to make changes like install patches on Windows or change the DOSBox config you only have to do it to the redist.
Decided to take a look at LANCommander since it sounds interesting - looks really cool! But the website is currently giving 502 errors, so I'm only able to see the README.md
> But then marcan told his supportes to fuck off unless they commit to supporting his political ideas, which I was not willing to do.
Is this about Marcan’s outspoken support for transgender people? If so, why not simply say that in your comment, rather than framing it in such vague terms?
…So it is about the fact that you object to his support for transgender people?
Surely you see why this is, actually, directly relevant and important context for your statement. It’s not some general political leaning you’re talking about - lumping this (prejudice against a minority group) into the same category as something like banal disagreements over taxation policy amounts to deliberately obscuring what you’re saying behind innuendo.
If you’ve got something to say about his political views in a public forum like this, at least do the people around you the courtesy of being upfront about what you’re actually saying.
And here we go again, there is never a neutral position with some people.
I support the freedom of people chosing their sex or gender. At the same time, I'm not willing to fight their wars. And if they force me to go to war, then I pass.
Comments like this are why people find transactivists so irritating. Whether they happen to agree with them or not. No-one even mentioned transgender issues yet here you are bringing them up to start an argument. Not everything is about trans you know.
Given that this is seemingly the thing for which he’s most known, politically, it doesn’t seem remotely unreasonable to infer that the person I was replying to was talking about it. It’s absurd to take this evasiveness as anything other than bad faith.
If the group in question were gay people, or a racial minority, would you still treat the issue this way?
Is this actually enough? I've never been able to find a clear answer on this - it's become increasingly common to install SATA SSDs in retro game consoles, for example, but nobody seems to have ever done any testing to see if the functionality on newer SSDs is adequate to handle systems without TRIM support.
You used to hear all kinds of horror stories about people who threw a SSD into their PS3 and found their whole system grinding to a halt within a year.
Can you work around it by massively overprovision by partitioning the drive and leaving half of it unallocated? The amount of space you need for an older system like this should be tiny compared to modern storage.
That works as long as you prepare the drive on a machine that does support TRIM, to ensure the unpartitioned area gets TRIMed one last time before the drive is moved to the old machine. Then it should remain in that state as long as it's never written to.
Even if you didn’t do that, I wouldn’t expect the partitioning to write to the unallocated space. If you start with a fresh drive I’d think it should work.
Yes if you trim it after making that partition and system correctly informs SSD about empty space. Secure Erase before making partition would be the safest bet - that way SSD firmware has full control over free unallocated space.
While internally managed garbage collection is less efficient than TRIM managed, it's significantly better than unmanaged.
"Enough" is a relative term and is up to you to decide. The alternative is significantly less performant coupled with unpredictable reliability (outside of expensive enterprise options), but a higher overall lifetime.
While a year of lifetime would suck, does it ultimately matter? This is old equipment not used for anything critical in the context of the discussion in this thread.
Though I do think that if one is using old tech, they should be aware of the pitfalls. There was a good run of the capacitor plague, for example. I avoid this equipment in general as I don't have soldering skills (but man oh man, I would love to have a working SE/30! People trying to sell repaired SE/30s on eBay for $1400USD!) to repair them. I know the VRM on my G4 Cube can potentially have issues, as can the power brick. Fortunately there are small batch available replacements should I need them.
> all while his government gives every illegal immigrant free hotel accomodation and a huge weekly allowance higher to make them come in the first place.
People seeking asylum in the UK receive £49.18 per week[1], and get thrown into monstrously low quality accommodation - the current government essentially throws them into prison barges[2].
You really should read something other than tabloids. The reality of the situation is nothing like what you’ve described.
You seem to miss they are coming from countries where the average salary for a 70 hour working week is £50 a month while they lived in a corrugated steal house with no electricity, (mostly because the American proxies blew up their actual houses)
meanwhile, after 6 months of failing to find a job english families are being thrown onto the streets by the 10s of thousands to live in sleeping bags and eat from food banks.
1 in 52 people in London is homeless - the belief is none of them are immigrants.
In that world routinely keeping key evidence from the defence, and far worse, is 100% to be expected.
do some cost of living adjustment with that 50 pounds. and don't forget that they are not allowed to work.
thousands of English families are out of jobs because the UK left the EU, also because the underfunded NHS folks are not getting the care they need and thus many people end up with severe disabilities that would have been manageable. (or they are taking care of someone because there's no help from the system.)
20% of the UK workforce, nearly 9 million employees, were not born in the UK.
leaving the EU has nothing to do with any of the UKs major problems, which are massive national debt, government corruption, complete lack of ethics or values left in any of its institutions, the systematic dismantling of the NHS and a legal system more interested in saving face and protecting wealthy criminal interests than actually practicing justice.
Then wonder why everyone dislikes immigrants getting the lions share of social benefits and having 0% trust in any of the institutions.
Worth nothing that J. Michael Bailey was eventually fired from his post at Northwestern for organising a spectacularly inappropriate sexual demonstration, put on in front of his students [1].
Bailey has, it must be said, worked extraordinarily hard to earn his negative reputation. Even beyond the sheer inappropriateness of this episode, I can’t say I disagree with Conway’s assessment of him.
You are misreading that article from 2011 (13 years ago). It doesn’t say he was fired, it says he was “under fire” - which is journalistese for “being publicly criticised”. The article also mentions the university administration was investigating the incident - I don’t know what the outcome of that investigation was, but obviously it didn’t result in him being fired, because he’s still there.
Hard to imagine a more pressing case for legal protections for workers against continuous workplace surveillance thaan the prospect of its being automated to this degree.
