In the continuing saga of the little Dollar store RC car that could (be a riced up Honda Civic)
It turns out my boy in particularly likes vehicles that light up when they're going forward and backwards, so, I looked around the garage and I have no have these little green LEDs and a red led, and so I hatched a plan. The project was going to be to mount headlights inside the chassis, and it turns out that there was room in the chassis for these headlights, and then later on I expanded to include a tail light, because that just seems more fun that way. As I was going, I realized that I had just gotten a call from the bank, and they told me that if I kept on buying double a batteries for remote control cars that I was going to go broke and we were going to have to live in the street. So, I decided to make this a rechargeable $5 RC car from the dollar store. Previously, the dollar store used to buy these little rechargeable battery banks. They don't really do much with modern phone, but they do provide 5 volts which is more than enough for a little RC car, and they have a charging port. I haven't figured out exactly how to get a charging port outside of the car yet, so for the time being the plan is to basically have to rip the car apart every time it's time to charge, but I was able to fit everything together in the chassis, and it works. It gets power, although I have to admit not very well, I think there might be a minimum load that forces it to cut out (might be a max load cutout as well). However, the way that it's wired up the lights light up when it's moving forward and the tail light lights up when it's going in reverse, and considering that even on AA batteries this thing was running for hours on end, I expect to get a pretty good battery life out of it.
Now some of you might be looking at my workmanship and say that that's disgraceful and really sloppy. To you I have to say, good catch. You're absolutely right.
It turns out my boy in particularly likes vehicles that light up when they're going forward and backwards, so, I looked around the garage and I have no have these little green LEDs and a red led, and so I hatched a plan. The project was going to be to mount headlights inside the chassis, and it turns out that there was room in the chassis for these headlights, and then later on I expanded to include a tail light, because that just seems more fun that way. As I was going, I realized that I had just gotten a call from the bank, and they told me that if I kept on buying double a batteries for remote control cars that I was going to go broke and we were going to have to live in the street. So, I decided to make this a rechargeable $5 RC car from the dollar store. Previously, the dollar store used to buy these little rechargeable battery banks. They don't really do much with modern phone, but they do provide 5 volts which is more than enough for a little RC car, and they have a charging port. I haven't figured out exactly how to get a charging port outside of the car yet, so for the time being the plan is to basically have to rip the car apart every time it's time to charge, but I was able to fit everything together in the chassis, and it works. It gets power, although I have to admit not very well, I think there might be a minimum load that forces it to cut out (might be a max load cutout as well). However, the way that it's wired up the lights light up when it's moving forward and the tail light lights up when it's going in reverse, and considering that even on AA batteries this thing was running for hours on end, I expect to get a pretty good battery life out of it.
Now some of you might be looking at my workmanship and say that that's disgraceful and really sloppy. To you I have to say, good catch. You're absolutely right.
I'd typically be on the same page as you here, but c'mon -- it's a toy pretending to be a car pretending to be a toy pretending to be a sort of phone best known for practically not existing for generations of people.
Jean Baudrillard's simulations and simulacra describe how you start with reality, and reality is then simulated and eventually the simulation is simulated to create a simulacrum, and the original reality may in fact cease to exist. This toy really reminds me of that. There was once a thing as a rotary phone. The rotary phone was simulated in a children's toy. Then the children's toy itself is simulated in another children's toy, and meanwhile rotary phones have disappeared, and in an example of hyperreality, the reference to reality has disappeared entirely and the toy which is the simulation becomes an icon which is represented separately from its original context.
So, I began an experiment yesterday night around the same time, and I went through the motions of that experiment and now I am on the other side and I can definitively say it didn't work and I'm not going to do it again.
I've been absolutely loving proxmox. I start off by running my servers on it, but lately I've been using it for small side projects, such as a big job I'm doing with respect to the haiku operating system. Running lxc containers is pretty cool, and for alternative operating systems I like being able to run everything in a virtual machine that's relatively light.
My main laptop is a beast. It's about 8 years old at this point, but it's got a 2060 RTX gpu, and a decent cpu, 32 gigs of ram, and spots for three separate forms of storage, two nvme ssds and a 2.5 mm Sata hard drive. The problem is, it's fairly loud, and it's getting a little bit unstable without sufficient cooling.
So I had a neat idea, I wanted to try running Windows 11 in a VM, and then give access to that VM to my GPU. The specific model of laptop I have is about as good as you're getting gas in that regard, it doesn't have too many surprises.
As always getting proxmox up and running was relatively straightforward, and other than ththeact that I had just used my big computer as a server and so I didn't really have anything else to connect with besides ancient historical artifacts, I relatively painlessly got Windows 11 up and running in a VM.
Immediately I could tell there were a lot of problems with this. Without immediate GPU support, even trying to surf the web was a challenge. Modern web browsers use the GPU to accelerate rendering of web pages, and so the web worked, but it looks a little bit flaky. As well, I wasn't really able to get the resolutions I was hoping for. However, I was hoping that those problems would go away once I completed the GPU pass through.
I did start to notice that there were things that I was really going to miss if all my computing lived in a VM. I didn't get the impression for example that I can expect Miracast streaming to come back, and the nextcloud client was acting a little bit flaky and it never acts flaky.
The final straw was doing the GPU pass through. I found a set of instructions that worked reasonably well, but success meant failure. Once I had everything up and running, the VM immediately died, and never came back. It also seized up in such a way that you couldn't make configuration changes to undo any of the things that were going on. Finally, proxmox decided that this was the final straw and hard locked, not even a kernel panic, just the cursor would stop blinking and the system would no longer respond to pings or keyboard input.
It was my understanding that what I was trying to do was a long shot on laptop hardware anyway, but it was nonetheless interesting, and it's always interesting to try to drive to the edge of what is reasonably achievable. One thing that's definitely sad is I think we are coming to the end of an era with respect to computer hardware. Building a relatively mid-tier gaming PC looks like the absolute top of the line in the last few decades.
I've been absolutely loving proxmox. I start off by running my servers on it, but lately I've been using it for small side projects, such as a big job I'm doing with respect to the haiku operating system. Running lxc containers is pretty cool, and for alternative operating systems I like being able to run everything in a virtual machine that's relatively light.
My main laptop is a beast. It's about 8 years old at this point, but it's got a 2060 RTX gpu, and a decent cpu, 32 gigs of ram, and spots for three separate forms of storage, two nvme ssds and a 2.5 mm Sata hard drive. The problem is, it's fairly loud, and it's getting a little bit unstable without sufficient cooling.
So I had a neat idea, I wanted to try running Windows 11 in a VM, and then give access to that VM to my GPU. The specific model of laptop I have is about as good as you're getting gas in that regard, it doesn't have too many surprises.
As always getting proxmox up and running was relatively straightforward, and other than ththeact that I had just used my big computer as a server and so I didn't really have anything else to connect with besides ancient historical artifacts, I relatively painlessly got Windows 11 up and running in a VM.
Immediately I could tell there were a lot of problems with this. Without immediate GPU support, even trying to surf the web was a challenge. Modern web browsers use the GPU to accelerate rendering of web pages, and so the web worked, but it looks a little bit flaky. As well, I wasn't really able to get the resolutions I was hoping for. However, I was hoping that those problems would go away once I completed the GPU pass through.
I did start to notice that there were things that I was really going to miss if all my computing lived in a VM. I didn't get the impression for example that I can expect Miracast streaming to come back, and the nextcloud client was acting a little bit flaky and it never acts flaky.
The final straw was doing the GPU pass through. I found a set of instructions that worked reasonably well, but success meant failure. Once I had everything up and running, the VM immediately died, and never came back. It also seized up in such a way that you couldn't make configuration changes to undo any of the things that were going on. Finally, proxmox decided that this was the final straw and hard locked, not even a kernel panic, just the cursor would stop blinking and the system would no longer respond to pings or keyboard input.
It was my understanding that what I was trying to do was a long shot on laptop hardware anyway, but it was nonetheless interesting, and it's always interesting to try to drive to the edge of what is reasonably achievable. One thing that's definitely sad is I think we are coming to the end of an era with respect to computer hardware. Building a relatively mid-tier gaming PC looks like the absolute top of the line in the last few decades.
Black people should be made aware of why there are no descendants of black slaves in the middle east.
They might smarten up right quick.
They might smarten up right quick.
If I became the top general, I'd probably legally change my name to epic fury.
Probably not the best reason they shouldn't make me a general, there are better ones.
Probably not the best reason they shouldn't make me a general, there are better ones.
It's a recurring thing, even people that you think you like, you can never stop thinking for yourself. Even if you like them, that doesn't mean that they're not going to say something stupid or not to be a completely different person than you expected them to be.
But then you'd need a computer and an internet connection, and where is anyone gonna find that?
Imagine the irony that so many of those titles would have been paid for a hugely inflated rates by Chinese Nationals who came over hoping to protect their wealth against a government that didn't respect private property.
The French revolution represented a changing of the guard, where there was previously several estates competing for power, the nobility, the clergy, and everyone else -- the rich, and the commoners. The French revolution represented a burgeoning middle class between the rich and the commoners successfully for a limited time knocking out the ability. However, that revolution ultimately failed and that's one of the reasons that marks was so focused on the bourgeoisie. But let's say for a second that you wanted to elevate yourself to a new nobility. It seems to me that you would allow a revolutionary class to eliminate the clergy, and then you would make sure everyone was hyper fixated on the rich and middle classes because then a new nobility would have a monopoly on power.
being forced to show an ID to use your computer should be the unifying fight of our time, but nobody seems to care about something actually important.
My first impression to anyone who is saying "you can't dismiss it until you've tried it" is "watch me".
Absolutely nobody and nothing are entitled to my attention or anyone else's. More importantly, absolutely nobody or no one is entitled to my money. New game releases where I live on 80 to 100 dollars. That's a lot of money. That's almost a full year of supporting a YouTuber at a fairly high end. That's enough money to hire an artist to do a non-trivial work on fiverr. It's enough money to buy enough rice to feed yourself for months. And then for a lot of these games, they'll get mad at you if you decide early on that you don't like it, you're supposed to play it for 40, 80, 100 before you are allowed to decide that you don't like it. That's a big investment in time and money if you don't think the product ever made the initial case for investment.
It might feel unfair, but your current work isn't what sells your current work. It is your last work that sells your current work, and at present mini video game companies are woefully lacking in that regard.
I've put out two books now, and I would love it for people to give my books a chance. The ebook for each is very reasonably priced, just a few bucks, and even if you read the whole thing end to end a novel takes about four continuous hours of reading. But again, I'm not entitled to that time and I'm not entitled to that money. If I happen to break out as a writer, I will be praying to God for creating universe in which I can succeed, and if I never do it's just a reality that creative works are a gamble that may or may not pay off within the commercial window for a work.
Absolutely nobody and nothing are entitled to my attention or anyone else's. More importantly, absolutely nobody or no one is entitled to my money. New game releases where I live on 80 to 100 dollars. That's a lot of money. That's almost a full year of supporting a YouTuber at a fairly high end. That's enough money to hire an artist to do a non-trivial work on fiverr. It's enough money to buy enough rice to feed yourself for months. And then for a lot of these games, they'll get mad at you if you decide early on that you don't like it, you're supposed to play it for 40, 80, 100 before you are allowed to decide that you don't like it. That's a big investment in time and money if you don't think the product ever made the initial case for investment.
It might feel unfair, but your current work isn't what sells your current work. It is your last work that sells your current work, and at present mini video game companies are woefully lacking in that regard.
I've put out two books now, and I would love it for people to give my books a chance. The ebook for each is very reasonably priced, just a few bucks, and even if you read the whole thing end to end a novel takes about four continuous hours of reading. But again, I'm not entitled to that time and I'm not entitled to that money. If I happen to break out as a writer, I will be praying to God for creating universe in which I can succeed, and if I never do it's just a reality that creative works are a gamble that may or may not pay off within the commercial window for a work.
A significant proportion of children do not play outdoors regularly at all. Which makes it bizarre that many of those same children are growing up environmentalist, for an environment they never visit.
Working on building a universal debian/ubuntu repository for one of my favorite packages.
Already got all the latest (and not so latest) x86-64 compiled, now I'm on my way through arm64. Planning on i386, armhf, armel, and once I dig up my raspberry pi zero w I want all the relevant packages for raspbian too.
Next step for me after that will be to forward port the code changes I needed to the latest and fix up major stuff in the lintian warnings such as requiring PIE and the like.
If things work out, I'll have to start looking at different distro families too, such as arch, redhat, centos, and gentoo.
But given that my empire of dirt is all old x86-64 machines, the process of building all these other cpu architectures is slow and fiddly!
Already got all the latest (and not so latest) x86-64 compiled, now I'm on my way through arm64. Planning on i386, armhf, armel, and once I dig up my raspberry pi zero w I want all the relevant packages for raspbian too.
Next step for me after that will be to forward port the code changes I needed to the latest and fix up major stuff in the lintian warnings such as requiring PIE and the like.
If things work out, I'll have to start looking at different distro families too, such as arch, redhat, centos, and gentoo.
But given that my empire of dirt is all old x86-64 machines, the process of building all these other cpu architectures is slow and fiddly!
