True, but there are also some legitimate applications for 100s of gigabytes of RAM. I’ve been working on a thing for processing historical OpenStreetMap data and it is quite a few orders of magnitude faster to fill the database by loading the 300GiB or so of point data into memory, sorting it in memory, and then partitioning and compressing it into pre-sorted table files which RocksDB can ingest directly without additional processing. I had to get 24x16GiB of RAM in order to do that, though.

Again, that would be TIFF. TIFF images can be encoded either with each line compressed separately or with rectangular tiles compressed separately, and separately compressed blocks can be read and decompressed in parallel. I have some >100GiB TIFFs containing elevation maps for entire countries, and my very old laptop can happily zoom and pan around in them with virtually no delay.

There is a reason why TIFF is one of the most popular formats for raster geographic datasets :)

I remember touring one of the Mercedes factories in Germany many years ago and it was the coolest fucking thing watching an army of robot arms putting cars together. Of course they’ve since stopped giving tours (and I think closed the factory altogether?), probably because manufacturing in China is cheaper. >:(

Omegle

how the hell do you get thighs like that

I have tried hosting a Tor relay on a VPS in the past and it was bottlenecked by the CPU at barely 20MB/s, although to be fair this was without hardware AES. More importantly for you, the server’s IP started getting DDoSed constantly and a whole bunch of big internet services just immediately blocked the address (the list of relay IPs is public and many things just block every address on that list instead of only exit nodes). So any of your machines are probably at least somewhat up to the task (ideally if they have hardware AES support), but this is definitely not something I’d do on my home network.

This is me, I have had the same thing for breakfast every day for the last 5? maybe 6 years.

Okay, but to be fair you should divide that by at least 2^64 because ISPs are throwing out huge blocks left and right. My home plan with Swisscom gives me a single dynamic IPv4 address and an entire /64 IPv6 prefix, and I’m pretty sure it was /60 at one point.

Okay, you can’t just drop that bombshell without elaborating. What sort of bug could exist in a program which contains a single return instruction?!?

Yes, but what if it were a subscription? May I present: /dev/null-as-a-Service.

Would have to be cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid > /dev/null

You can’t pipe to a file, only to programs, and since /dev/null isn’t an executable your command will simply give an error.

To make it more clear, consider using dd, which lets you explicitly specify an input and output file. For example: dd if=/proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid of=/dev/sda1 wait shit that wasn’t the right output oh god oh fu

i read this as cistern and was very confused

okay but unironically if i could inject chlorophyll into my skin and could just lounge in the sun for a few hours a day instead of eating i would sign up immediately

Y’all are too creative for me… I have:

• poweredge-r520-0
• poweredge-t620-0
• poweredge-t620-1
• pi4-0
• pi3b-0
• pi3b-1
• pi3b-2
• pi3b-3
• vostro-3525-0
• ideapad-c340-0

I just checked again, but I have no such option in my BIOS. In fact, there aren’t any video-related options at all.

My BIOS splash screen only shows up if the monitor’s attached to the motherboard video output. The outputs on the GPU have no signal until plasma starts…

How is the software-rendered image supposed to show up on the screen if GPU is nonresponsive? Excluding laptops with switchable graphics, the GPU is the one actually connected to the display. If the GPU hangs, how could the CPU continue to update the framebuffer in GPU memory?

I’ve got an old HP laptop which I’ve been running a Jenkins server on for years. The fan died back in like 2018, and I just kept putting off buying a replacement, so it has been running with no fan for 7 years now. Remarkably it still works fine, although a but slower than it used to thanks to thermal throttling :P