Work is skipping server, desktop, and laptop buys that were planned for 2026. Guess I am going to be fixing and patching a lot more often next year.

Yep... first big project I worked on (as a baby intern). Spaff is a legend.

Glad they mentioned Iron Blooded Orphans... the best gundam (and very cynical and dark)

This essay about it is a good watch- it concludes that IBO might be a cynical and dark show rooted in realism, but the ending is hopeful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNRjwktvPV8

You'd be much better off wiht any decent nVidia against the 7900 series.

AMD doesn't have a unified architecture across GPU and compute like nVidia.

AMD compute cards are sold under the Insinct line and are vastly more powerfull than their GPUs.

Supposedly, they are moving back to a unified architecture in the next generation of GPU cards.

tinygrad disagrees.

name 3 things using tinygrad that's not openpilot

I've moved to buying last gen used Ruckus Unleashed APs (usually R720 as they are cheap and very reliable). Way higher quality but steep learning curve for many functions, although if someone is willing to put in some effort it's not that bad.

Usually, I use Mikrotik wAP ACs for this kind of thing. They're cheap-enough to buy brand new, and they're designed to be able to work outdoors in the weather.

But I might pick up an R720 just to play with -- that's a different echelon of gear.

Thanks for the tip.

For outdoor, the model numbers start with "T". I think the T710 is the equivalent of the R720 for outdoor.

Not that everyone needs it, but it doesn't seem like Mikrotik has any 6E or 7 WAPs? If they do, I'd love to try one

Mikrotik is pretty lacking in aspects that relate to the newest hotness of wifi standards.

802.11ax ("wifi 6") is as good as it gets, with [eg] their wAP AX.

They get a lot of stuff right, though. They run RouterOS, which is a custom userland for Linux that is intensely flexible. Approximately any routing-esque function a person can dream up that can work with a Linux kernel can be made to work within RouterOS.

The form factor of the wAP AC/AX boxes is really very nice -- they can blend well in on a wall (inside or outside), attached to a pipe, or whatever. I've got a wAP AC on the wall of my living room, for instance. I use another one when "camping" off-grid, zip-tied to the leg of an easy-up awning.

It's ostensibly just an access point, but it doesn't have to be. I mean, like: There's two ethernet ports, but they exist without a preconceived function. Want to use it as a router, with hardware WAN and LAN ports? How about with VLANs and a managed switch instead, so it works with just one cable? Eleventy-five different SSIDs? Bridging networks with wifi? Using station mode to leech bandwidth from the cafe across the street, and perform firewalling and NAT and VPN, so you can use it in your apartment -- with only one box? Sure, no problem. Whatever it is, it works.

Power is flexible. All of the bits to use passive POE are included; or it can just plug in with the included DC connector; or it can use proper 802.3af PoE.

I don't know how it compares to something from Ruckus, but I'm much more pleased with it than the Ubiquity gear that I am presently taking a break from fighting with.

Wi-Fi is, ah, politely, not MikroTik's strong suit. They're only just completing their Wi-Fi 6 rollout (while the cAP ax was released a few years ago, the wAP ax was only released late last year, and they've only just launched the hAP ax S). And the performance of their devices is pretty poor by just about any metric. I will continue to buy it, however, because it does what it does very reliably, and history proves they will continue to support existing hardware in the field until the heat death of the universe.

Indianapolis... but it's drying up fast (avg price is almost $400k, now, but there are still decent choices in older neighborhoods)

North side of Indy (Carmel, Fishers, Geist) is listed as one of the best places to live in the US.

I went the Pentagon Federal route

Sniping people in the bathtub from the sink was so fun...

I love Tac Ops! Was one of the most realistic mods out there (it was sooo easy to die).

I seem to remember there was some behind-the-scenes political / financial shenanigans with Counter Strike and the Game of the Year edition bundle that kind of killed it.

Haha realistic... reminds me that one of my favorite mods back in the day was Action Quake which was more action movie styled and less realistic. Last second sideways jumps in and out of the way were its claim to fame, imo.

> which was more action movie styled and less realistic

Another HL mod I remember fondly in similar veins is "The Specialists". If I remember correctly, it came out around the same time as The Matrix, and had all the fun moves like running on walls in slowmo, jumping forward/sideways and shooting in slowmo, and lots of other stuff. I think I recall it being possible to play both in 1st and 3rd person too, something that was kind of new at that point, unless I misremember.

I think at that I point I probably spent as much time with The Specialists as with Counter-Strike itself (and a cracked copy of 3DS Max 8 for making my own models of course).

That mod was awesome. They somehow managed to make slow motion powerups work in a multiplayer action game without forcing it on every player in the map!

Also had a strange RPG community entirely separate from the main game… funny how these random subcultures evolve in unexpected places.

There was also the opera mod which was pretty cool.