[-] zeriah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Buy yourself a new gaming rig, and use your old gaming rig as a server. That’s what I usually do.

Seconded. A few years ago I upgraded my CPU, which also required me to swap the motherboard and RAM. The old Mobo / CPU / RAM combo was sitting around in my closet. I just bought a decent case, power supply, and a few hard drives, and bam. Instant server.

As far as graphics card, I would go with something cheaper unless you have a specific reason. If your CPU has a built in graphics processor, that's probably good enough. My CPU didn't, so I had to throw a $30 card in.

[-] zeriah@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I'm not gonna lie, I really hated the direction that Gnome went after Gnome 2. Shell just felt way too constricting for my taste. Thankfully, Cinnamon and Mate released to fill in the void.

[-] zeriah@lemmy.world 102 points 1 year ago

The thing that bothers me the most about (mostly right-wing) anti-covid propaganda is that they use the argument that it was rushed to market. The vaccines were rushed to market thanks to an FDA emergency provision that removed a lot of the "red tape" that companies normally have to go through to get any medical item into the hands and/or bodies of consumers.

So many right-wing politicians campaign on the promise of removing red tape and getting rid of these things that protect all of us. This is literally what they say they want.

Chalk another one up for right wing hypocrisy, I suppose...

[-] zeriah@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

When Google announced Play Music in 2011, I got in early and my subscription price was locked in at $8 USD a month. They gave me Youtube Premium (and Youtube Music) when that launched as part of that subscription. When Play Music was killed, my Premium membership continued at $8 a month.

At the moment, I'm fine paying this very specific early adopter price since I watch a lot of Youtube content. If they ever raise the price on me, it's getting dropped.

zeriah

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