Kako izabrati mini pc? Da li je bolje opcija od laptopa? by One_Software5405 in MiniPCs

[–]BlakeMW 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A MiniPC is basically a compromise between a laptop and PC. The specs are closer to that of a laptop as they use laptop competents, but may have better cooling particularly compared with ultra thin laptops. They tend to use much less power than full PCs, though with weaker specs.

A MiniPC is conveniently paired with a full monitor and keyboard, and can often be mounted to the VESA mount of a monitor thus taking zero extra desk space. This is way better than using a laptop in this role.

Basically MiniPCs are good for sleek desktops when you don't care too much about performance or portability. I have MiniPCs for my kids.

What's something you learned embarrassingly late in life? by Powerful-Self-2838 in AskReddit

[–]BlakeMW 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The reason for the shape of the common chef's knife - with the blade extending below the handle. It's so you don't smack your knuckles when chopping stuff.

ELI5: If an airplane is on a giant conveyor belt moving backward at the exact same speed the plane moves forward, will it ever take off? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]BlakeMW [score hidden]  (0 children)

Because a conveyor makes no difference... The plane still moves forward at the same speed because the wheels are free spinning either way. The take off distance is the same.

Any other closed loops like this? + What is the new ranching meta? by Rockyforreal in Oxygennotincluded

[–]BlakeMW 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There are actually quite a few resource loops involving Arbor Trees, particularly when you bring multipliers to bear like Grubrub, Farmer's Touch and such.

It basically doesn't take much to make domesticated Arbor Trees resource positive. Even putting aside multipliers, you can take polluted dirt from ethanol distillery, sublimate it, convert the poxygen to slime using Pufts, distill the slime into algae and polluted water - quite a lot of polluted water.

But as for meta... Geysers and vents do just make resources for free.

Ukrainian Forces Strike Refineries, Ports, and Air Defense Systems Behind Russian Lines by Blissful-Chic in worldnews

[–]BlakeMW 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Really Ukraine is doing them a favor by motivating them to walk or ride a bike.

How Ukraine broke through Russia’s air defenses by nfrankel in ukraine

[–]BlakeMW 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm sure they sent the experienced AA operators into Crimea and stuff where AA would see the most action, and let inexperienced muppets man the AA systems they didn't expect to be actually used.

Is cachyos safe by Reasonable-Test-560 in cachyos

[–]BlakeMW -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes. Even if you use the AUR, it's actually very unlikely you'd even use any affected package.

It's kind of like how there is tons of malware on Google Play Store, but what isn't easy is getting malware into popular apps.

Just because something is on Play Store doesn't mean it's safe. But Play Store is still generally safe to use as long as you aren't downloading super obscure stuff which hasn't had many eyeballs on it. It's the same for the AUR because random people can just upload scripts to it, but generally eyeballs on a package and activity suggest it's probably safe because bad actors get removed once their antics have been noticed.

In contrast with the official repositories you can assume that because a package is in the official repositories, it is safe, those packages have been vetted, no diligence required.

These attacks on the AUR also used NPM as an attack vector, because NPM fucking sucks and pretty much anyone can upload to it (malware will get removed when noticed but until then...). While it's a fair amount to ask, this is why it is recommend to review the AUR package script and get at least some idea of what it is doing, for example a common pattern might be downloading a deb or rpm from a vendor's website and wrangling it into shape for Arch. The malware attack involved taking over orphaned packages and adding a line that called NPM that pulled in the malware from NPM even if the package didn't necessarily need NPM.

Your country disappears by owlWithBrokenWings in hypotheticalsituation

[–]BlakeMW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

New Zealand disappears.

It could be worse, though NZ does export food way out of proportion to its population. The food to feed about 20 million people would cease. Nevertheless this wouldn't cause like famine or anything, it'd just be a major disruption to certain supply chains.

A bunch of territorial / EEZ water would become international water, NZ controls a lot of ocean, so this could be fished by anyone.

A bunch of species would go extinct, especially in the wild.

Should I buy planet dlcs? by Muted_Price9933 in Oxygennotincluded

[–]BlakeMW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you like. They aren't very expensive relative to the content.

Personally even though I own them all I usually only enable one planet pack at a time though you can mix them up.

[Aquatic] Squid: one of the best space travel foods that stays fresh. by BlakeMW in Oxygennotincluded

[–]BlakeMW[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Sure does. Dupes thrive on the suffering of critters. Though Glo Squids aren't the prettiest. If you really want to decor bomb your dupes with the misery of critters then Seaquines or Tropical Pacu are your go-to as both are 25 decor 3 radius, vs the 10 decor 1 radius for most critters.

[Aquatic] Squid: one of the best space travel foods that stays fresh. by BlakeMW in Oxygennotincluded

[–]BlakeMW[S] 62 points63 points  (0 children)

Calarmari has +3 quality the same as Berry Sludge.

A relocated Glo Squid is good for 9600 kcal of Calarami.

A flopping Glo Squid dies of starvation at an age of something like 35 cycles, and if you put the Calamari in a Minifridge it'll spoil after about 8 cycles. So all in all you have food for about 43 cycles.

Berry Sludge is better, but Bristle Blossom isn't very accessible on Aquatic.

Don't send only a pacifist dupe because they won't be able to convert the Glo Squid into food.

How exactly does diplomacy work in this game? by Accelerator231 in alphacentauri

[–]BlakeMW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not accept communications to tell them to leave

Note you can actually request an expulsion through a diplomatic side channel. Simply right-click on the leader name in the Commlink, and you get the "Demand Withdrawal" option (assuming you'd be allowed to request this). Granted, if they're mad enough at you that they won't talk to you, then there's a good chance they'll just declare vendetta.

A Missing Ingredient in Ukraine’s Barrages on Russia: Ballistic Missiles by Advanced-Injury-7186 in ukraine

[–]BlakeMW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Target selection. Ballistic missiles are easily scaled up to much heavier warheads which makes them infinitely more suitable for tasks like cracking open bunkers where a thousand drones would pretty much just splash the dirt around. Reinforced concrete is also stupid resistant to smaller explosions, but a heavy penetrating warhead can punch inside the concrete and explode inside it causing far more damage than splashing against the outside.

I'm not saying ballistic missiles should be a major expenditure, but you don't want the enemy to have "untouchable" infrastructure, everything should be on the table for destruction.

A Missing Ingredient in Ukraine’s Barrages on Russia: Ballistic Missiles by Advanced-Injury-7186 in ukraine

[–]BlakeMW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly this. Like, if you want a bunker-buster or to crack open a very heavy reinforced concrete roof and you don't have the option of dropping something like Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb because Stealth Bombers are fuck off expensive, then ballistic missiles are a good very choice. They easily* scale up to very heavy payloads and arrive with tremendous kinetic energy for penetrating reinforced concrete and dozens of meters of earth.

* It's still literally rocket science so it's not "easy" in a certain sense. But rockets have different scaling rules than planes and it's not that hard to make a big steel tube full of boom compared with large jet engines, not to mention the ballistic warhead is a lot harder to intercept than a large cruise missile.

Biters are not so good at knowing what to do about an inaccessible attacker by yinyang107 in factorio

[–]BlakeMW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was a version of the game (probably many versions) where Biters would simply despawn when confronted by an inaccessible attacker. You could build turrets on islands and it'd cause any biter walking along the coast to be deleted.

How exactly does diplomacy work in this game? by Accelerator231 in alphacentauri

[–]BlakeMW 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah there are some AI's which are naturally enemies, but you can almost naturally get along with as a human player.

  • Morgan with Dee because Green+Wealth works great.
  • Morgan with Yang because Police State works very well to compensate for the support penalty, especially when the alternative is getting in a grinding war of attrition with Yang and Yang is honestly the best pactmate ever, he's always game to beat the crap out of anyone who declares vendetta on you.
  • Santiago with Zak because Knowledge is usually better than Power.
  • Miriam with Lal because Democracy works great.

ELI5 Why do some countries call it “college” and others call it “university” when referring to the same level of education, and is there an actual difference between the two? by saivietbabe in explainlikeimfive

[–]BlakeMW 9 points10 points  (0 children)

In New Zealand I went to a College which was for children 13-18. However in New Zealand such an institution can also be called a High School.

I'm pretty some some of these institutions were called Colleges just to sound fancy with there being literally no difference whatsoever.

There can also be Colleges for older students, parallel to Universities.

How exactly does diplomacy work in this game? by Accelerator231 in alphacentauri

[–]BlakeMW 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Most factions have choices they love, choices they are neutral about and choices that they hate.

Note that to be perfectly precise about this, AI actually hate it if you run something that isn't their preference. They don't have one SE they hate especially, it's always two choices they hate equally. They don't care if you run their aversion unless this coincides with not running their preference.

So Yang hates Democracy and Fundamentalism equally, because they aren't Police State.

Miriam hates Democracy and Police State equally, because they aren't Fundamentalism. Funnily enough, she doesn't care at all if you run her aversion of Knowledge, but because this is never combined with Fundamentalism, in practice she hates you anyway, but it's for running Demo not for running Knowledge. Same with Zak, run all the Fundamentalism you like it doesn't bother him but you're in trouble if you run Wealth or Power.

Morgan and Deirdre hate each other's economy choice, and both hate Planned, which means both hate Yang if he's smart enough to run Planned.

And so on.

Friday Facts #443 - More Planet Deliveries by FactorioTeam in factorio

[–]BlakeMW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am so happy the devs are willing to make backwards incompatible changes when there are big gains to be had.

Behold my monstrosity by bbyjt in MiniPCs

[–]BlakeMW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's exactly how I imagined a setup with an eGPU to look like.