Until he's living in a van down by the river and eating whatever he scrapes off I-35, I'm not willing to say that we've "got him".

Yeah, I've never seen a multi-bay enclosure that doesn't just randomly decide it's done with this bullshit and have random dropouts or just plain fucking off entirely.

I don't know WHY they're so bad, but they are :/

I just converted part of a closet to a network closet and added some shelves and stuffed everything in there, though I know that's not an option everyone has.

Should ask what platform here, IMO: virt-manager is Linux-only. (Or, I suppose, doing remote X stuff to run it elsewhere but that's probably not what OP is after.)

There's some command line stuff you can run on Windows, but then at that point, you can just use virsh on the host itself.

I'm of the opinion that virsh to manage and then a spice or vnc client to access the VMs is the "best" way to go so you're not tied down to having to have a specific OS running a specific tool in order to do any admin stuff, since I mean, after you deploy how often are you screwing with the VM settings?

IME, they're all the same chipset/set of chipsets and are all pretty awful.

That said, the most reliable ones I've found actually come from drives that have been shucked. Western Digital or whomever aren't going to do the absolute lowest price piece of shit enclosure for something they're going to warranty for 3 or 5 years, so those have been what I try to find and have had reasonable luck with them in terms of reliability and not-catching-shit-on-fire.

Usually cheap as shit on eBay or whatever, since they're basically the packaging trash around something that was purchased for the gooey insides.

Hell, Intel has lost my confidence they can even fucking fab a CPU correctly at this point, never mind anything else.

I'm almost exclusively AMD based at this point despite them being less than uh, reliable (see: the year long fight I've had with my 7700x being unstable which was only resolved, amusingly, by jacking up the voltage). Also, my 1700x was hilariously awful, but I'm willing to shrug and call that new architecture woes and not be too judgy about that one.

I'm reservedly enthusiastic for Qualcomm's entry (for like the 4th time) into desktop processors, and hope that this time they can keep improving performance, and actaully support things for more than five damn minutes before going 'welp only supporting new cpu!' like they do with their mobile ones. Also if they actually live up to their promises to provide full driver support and support parity to the Linux kernel so you can get rid of Windows on them.

Interesting read, thanks.

I've grown cynical and assume any hard luck life "memoir" is bullshit and propaganda for whatever political slant the author wants to use other people (or at least the socially accepted stereotype of) to try to justify so I skipped reading it.

Sounds like I didn't miss much.

Did not know that, and everywhere should require that at the very bare minimum. Knowing how you're going to get screwed is a good place to start.

....my first reaction was going 'Wait, only 400?' immediately followed by 'Jesus christ, 400.'

I'm not sure which of those is actually worse.

Fair points on VR games being fairly social. I was more thinking of the in-person social experience, which is still involving some portion of people sitting around stuffing their face into a headset and wandering off into their own world.

IMO, this is something that AR/MR stuff could do a great job of making more social by adding the game to the world, rather than taking the person out of the world to the game but, of course, this also restricts what kind of games you can do so is probably only a partial solution and/or improvement on the current state of affairs.

I also agree that it's way too expensive still, and probably always will be because the market is, as you mentioned, small.

PCVR is pretty much dead despite its proponents running around declaring that it's just fine like it's a Monty Python skit. And the tech for truly untethered headsets is really only owned by a single (awful) company and only because the god-CEO thinks it's a fun thing to dump money on which means it's subject to sudden death if he retires/dies/is ousted/has to take time off to molt/has enough shareholder pressure put on him.

Even then, it's only on a second generation (the original Quest was.... beta, at best) and is expensive enough that you have to really have a reason to be interested rather than it being something you could just add to your gaming options.

I'd like VR to take off and the experiences to more resemble some of the sci-fi worlds that have a or take place in a virtual reality world, but honestly, I've thought that would be cool for like 20 years now and we're only very slightly closer than we were then, we just have smaller headsets and somewhat improved graphics.

Have you been to a theater recently? You only wish it was silent.

Idk when it started but its fine to talk through the whole movie or fuck with your phone volume turned on now.

Didn't he write a book about his life growing up, and the suffering of the American people near him? And then leverage that into a political career?

Wonder how much bullshit was in there, too. (If you haven't, the answer is "pretty much most of it".)

I'm glad we've taken care of the access to guns and made progress on the societal issues that led to school shootings in the past 12 years, and that they're no longer common.

Oh, wait, we didn't do either of those things?