IIRC Trump’s first term cancelled the international policies that were keeping them at bay to begin with.

I love how, in the time it took me to tell that story, other people gave the same answer in a much more straightforward manner.

Okay, so… Mechanical drive failure sucks. You may not be completely out of luck, though.

First thing to try would be throwing it in a bag of rice and freezing it. The rice is just to help prevent condensation. In theory, the contraction from the freezing temperatures can help with some physical clearances or something like that.

Now… Definitely try that before this next step. In fact, try literally anything and everything you can before this next step. It is a stupid thing to do and I should probably be downvoted for even suggesting it.

But… I had an early iPod with a mechanical hard drive which I thought was dead. I was saving up money to send it off to be serviced because the warranty had expired. It was sitting on the top of my dresser. A friend came over and knocked it off, he picked it up and showed it to me, booting up and running just fine. Some months later it started clicking again. I weighed my options, and eventually I dropped it on the floor on purpose, picked it up and held the power button, and it came on without issue. Some time after that, My laptop hard drive started behaving similarly. Guess what? Removed the drive, banged it against my knee or something, stuck it back in the computer, runs without issue.

I am still not explicitly suggesting this. Those platters inside are made of glass and there is a very, very small gap between the surface where the data is stored and the needles which are doing the reading / writing. You cannot do this carefully enough to ensure that you won’t shatter a platter or ram a needle into the metal substrate. But if you have nothing to lose… maybe some concussive engineering can help.

Wouldn’t JavaScript really take the cake here? Like, Python definitely has some good libraries but JavaScript lives in the browser, interfaces with HTML5 canvas, and is far more popular by the nature of the web.

Got access to a 3d printer?

If not, how do you feel about cardboard?

I’m sure you can find a keyboard for cheap/free, either USB or Bluetooth. Electrically, I feel like the only thing you’re missing is battery management, to which there are several options available for the pi.

… This is not about extra terrestrials.

…I wonder how much “corporate sabotage” goes into this stuff now. Like stuxnet or fast16.

How old we talking? I personally wouldn’t go further back than 2000 series rtx. A friend has had good luck with Intel GPUs for ‘cheap’.

No, you absolutely cannot scale horizontally for speed. VRAM is king, with local RAM being swappable with major speed penalties. SSD is even slower than that and all those are orders of magnitude faster than ant Ethernet you’ll be connecting boxes together with. That’s not to say clustering isn’t an option, just that speed is going to be worse the more you scale out like that.

He’s concerned about his future in the United States, he doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the nation itself.

I’ve heard that yes this is safe, though I’ve only done this with automotive stuff personally

More likely he’ll still vote to support it

Not what you’re asking but on the opposite side you might want to check out gadgetbridge.

Gadgetbridge is a free and open source Android application that allows you to pair and manage various gadgets such as smart watches, bands, headphones, and more without the need for the vendor application. So in short, you can use Gadgetbridge instead of relying on your gadget’s own proprietary app.

Not at all. Pretty sure I got the instructions from Arch wiki, typical passfile setup just a slightly unusual path

I have not used a yubikey for boot stuff as you describe, I am a fan in general though.

That said, I have a setup on my servers where there is full disk encryption and a password stored on a random file in a thumb drive or SD card of each machine. If the file / drive is removed I can always type a manual password as well to complete booting. And if I need to do a clean wipe I just delete the keys or intentionally corrupt that sector of the drive, instead of having to do forensic cleaning.

Baby don’t hurt me…

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-team-secretly-met-canadian-161401376.html

AFAIK this is a fringe piece of shit group that keeps getting free press. They should stop getting free press.

Looks much better than my response lol. Thanks

Y’know, I haven’t really thought about it, but genesis games are at most 4MB, usually much smaller. Most websites are bigger tbh (AI says the Google landing page is 2MB).

I was looking a while back at the Sega Channel and thinking about how to reproduce that kind of experience… … My mind is racing faster than I can type and I keep googling things, and I found this. https://github.com/gameyfin/gameyfin Maybe it’s something you could use? Otherwise I feel like the easiest answer is traditional emulators and a public, read only file share. Of course, a friendly user interface would need some work.