https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothesis

Don’t Get In The Kiln!

Well, Everyone Is 12 Now…

It’s a good platform, but it’s not European, right?

GOG.com is based in Poland^[1]. Many games are available as DRM-free downloads. They have a Steam-like launcher, GOG Galaxy^[2]. They also have a preservation program to keep old games playable^[3].

Data center setups don’t use consumer level PSUs and CPUs.

CPU coolers, not CPUs.

And presumably the raw materials are the same for server PSUs and heatsinks, which is the explanation (true or not) for price hikes given in the article:

The company explained that prices for key upstream materials such as copper, silver, and tin have continued to climb over the past few months due to global market conditions.

If the alcohol is the problem, there’s a lot of non-alcoholic beers available in Australia these days.

Possibly a nitro cold brew? I don’t know if you’d consider that a good pairing with a burger, though!

Maybe a switchel, if you make it yourself and don’t sweeten it too much, leaving it mostly tart.

The game is listed as ‘Platinum’ on ProtonDB: https://www.protondb.com/app/1808500

Take a look around here: https://bdsmovement.net/

100%. This is just eleventh-hour arse-covering.

Right now, I have a cron job set to run on Monday and Friday nights, is this too frequent?

Only you can answer this. How many days of data are you prepared to lose? What are the downsides of running your backup scripts more frequently?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Roman_emperors_murdered_by_the_Praetorian_Guard

‘The Hague Invasion Act’

I still gotta get a tape player

Sincere question: Why? They sound terrible, and get worse over time. Is there any reason to use them? Aren’t they just generating plastic waste at this point?

The article says:

To me the reasoning is simple, local bands make tapes, it’s easy to put your own music on them, and to share them with friends.

But all of these apply equally to Bandcamp or any other way of sharing digital files, or even CDs (I can’t imagine it’s meaningfully easier to churn out copies of cassettes than CDs).

I suppose, though, that if local bands are making them - whatever their reasons - then that’s reason enough for a listener to use the format. I also guess if people are getting second-hand tapes, then that’s not generating new plastic waste, and there’s probably stuff to that’s not available digitally in any format.

Anyway, I was watching this video recently - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DWtkSVNvTg - and it was quite interesting, but I’ve been wondering since then why people would use tapes.

It’s reportedly ‘dead’ now, which is to say that it’s started to break up. So this is the final time anybody will ever see it, which is weird to think about since the last time anyone saw it was about 180,000 years ago.

See: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-23/atlas-comet-how-to-see-c2024g3-swan-song/104849708

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUxzaQrOAOA

I’m an Australian, and I also don’t know why I know Oodnadatta! Probably it’s just one of those words that sticks in the brain, and it comes up every so often because it is a key point between Adelaide and Darwin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oodnadatta (population 102)

Wittenoom, WA - population 0

I didn’t instantly recognise the name, but I’ve heard the story.

Coober Pedy, SA - population 1437

This is a very solid one.

@gnu@lemmy.zip beat me to the punch with Port Arthur, and I think they’ve hit the nail on the head there. Although, as they note, maybe the name recognition isn’t there for younger generations.

Here’s some suggestions that haven’t been made yet:

• Gundegai - population 2,057 (2021 census) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundagai
  • Featured in songs and poetry, most famously Along the Road to Gundegai
  • ‘The Dog on the Tucker Box’ sits on the road outside the town (and is itself a reference to a poem mentioning Gundegai)
• Betoota - population 3 (2023) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betoota,_Queensland
  • Known because its name was adopted by the satirical news website The Betoota Advocate

The initial Israeli evacuation area was within 2 kilometres of the border with Lebanon. There seem to have been some expansion of evacuations since, but I believe it’s still only within a few kilometers of the border. Estimates in March were that about 60,000 Israeli citizens remain evacuated (source: AP).

The IDF camp in this article is around 55 kilometres from the Lebanese border, and about 30 kilometres south of Haifa (a city which is not evacuated) (source: ABC News (AU)).

Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010) and The Cabin in the Woods (2012) (go in spoiler-free with this one) are both good comedy horror.