It was just easier. I grew up after the Vietnam war and before the gulf one.

There was more help for people from the government. There was more freedom in daily life.living was easier. A 17year old could get a roommate and support themselves living independently working part time at fast food places. Simply having a job was enough to live.

There was a difference between being poor and being in poverty.

College was something you could get a job and work through with minimal debt.

Computers were just getting popular when I was young and it was easy to get a job based On what would now be basic technical skills.

The internet made noises and was crunchy.

People still struggled but I was easier for my generation than it is for the current kids.

Ram if a big driver of what models you can run with vram at a premium. Equipping 2 separate boxes with enough ram to load advanced models may be more expensive than just equipping one faster machine.

On the larger models even with ssd swap I can’t even get them to fully load on my 16gb of ram.

It seems to be less of an operating system and more a purpose designed utility that replaces the operating system.

It’s a great idea.

Sweet idea. Even more there are smart switches that can be controlled from a phone. Likey acnything that has composite but not hdmi can just be unplugged

Everything just plugs into one octopus adapter at the same time

Older top end home receivers have a lot of video and hdmi inputs. I’ve been rescuing them from the garbage. If it had a composite input on it most people don’t want it.

Most of the really old game systems make you put a cartridge in them anyway, not sure how you’d get over that.

This is why I worded my question in a specific way, my challenges getting them to read are absolutely a parenting issue as opposed to an education one.

I don’t yell at my kids, but they seem conditioned to only respond to being yelled at. getting them to do things they aren’t inclined to takes a lot of effort on my part and being consistent in that effort while working full time, cooking ,shopping and driving them to activities is more than I have managed so far. I have read how important consistently is but just have not achieved it yet.

Wrapping back around to the ‘class’ idea I was going to take them to the library for each lesson to set the environment for learning.

I’m not on Reddit, but I might try it out to see if it helps.

Thanks for sharing your experience. I have mixed experience with workbooks, do you have a recommendation?

I have have not had luck getting my kids to read consistently.

I have done outings and when they were younger I was able to get some education value out of them. As they have gotten older I don’t have as much to offer them. It’s fun, but not really much learning for them

Thanks for the gatherround suggestion. Secular is not a problem.

I’m specifically looking to create a short course on how to learn, focusing on evidence based learning h study techniques; spaced repetition , the ebbinghaus curve and active recall.

I’ve already been using these techniques with them, though without formal introductions, I’m looking now for them to formally think about studying as the task as opposed to a sub task,

I’ve got an idea of making the lessons 3x - week they would be layered with the first 15 minutes being the whole lesson for the younger kid and half the lesson for the older one. The second half would be the same concepts as the first with more depth.

The whole ‘ course ‘ would be 4 weeks But man oh man actually making a lesson for that much stuff, plus activities to reinforce it at appropriate levels is daunting,

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What is the form factor? See if you can just get a new case for it. You can always under clock a system to make it use less power, workstation cases are quieter than servers.

Noise is almost always the fans. Servers are supposed to take a little space as possible and depend on super high airflow from a cold room.

With the cost of components you are going to have a hard time selling a system to buy a different one. 64gb of ram is pretty sweet for a home server. You can do all sorts of silly stuff and still have a responsive system.

Same way Kmart bought sears. It’s fairly common for smaller companies to buy larger ones at this point.

Remember the discovery ‘channel ‘ bought Warner brother whole ass media conglomerate and at the end of the deal the people who made that happen made 10’s of billions.

It’s all about system design. Hydraulic breaks are a known quantity with a long development time .

Modern cars already physically separate drivers from the transmission and steering. Steering is drive by wire and transmissions are computer controlled , I can suggest a gear with a button or paddle.

Breaks are the next function to be moved from hydraulic to electric systems.

If it is implemented as well as steer by wire it should be safe as the current technology.

‘Classic’ cars can be heavy enough to boil brake fluid in heavy breaking situations. Once the fluid boils you lose all breaking power at once on all 4 wheels.

Can also boil break fluid if a wheel bearing fails while driving( repair shop packed it too tight)

Also the magic stop juice comes out if you panic stomp on the breaks while headed down an icy hill.

You could say the exact same for steering by wire.

Breaking by wire along with a gyro can help keep a car stable when breaking in slippery conditions in addition to ABS.

Does not mean it will be done, but it becomes possible.

Luckily I discovered that using the cable brake on the cars I drove made them uncontrollable before I got into an emergency. I ruled that out once I did a full 360 at 5 mph on a regular road,

I learned to emergency stop on the transmission. Slow down on the gears and eventually fuck it up dropping it into park

I have had hydraulic brakes fail more than while driving. They can fail even when the lines are fully intact.

It’s crazy that they(Hasbro )are requiring the employees work from in the office.

I can’t wait till they have a launch problem and the employees make them wait until they can be on prem to fix issues they previously addressed remotely.

If you need to be in from 8am-6pm to work, why wouldn’t you need to be onsite at 8pm to work.

They are making slop every other MONTH! shareholders are suing because there is a fear the brand of being damaged from the flow of slop.

The game is broken due to the pure volume of new cards interacting in ways that over stretched employees can’t see before release.

I typically grind about 70k in game coins a month and just skipped a whole set. It gotta be perpetually crunch time on the other side of the screen.