99% of the time the “other program” is a minimized file browser window open to the drive.

I would actually love to take 3300! That sounds fun.

As for 4020, writing performant code in Python typically means calling into libraries that are written in C.

Watch the whole video, bullets made it all the way through.

The driver was approaching them kinda aggressively and weirdly in a place where no cars should be at that time.

If you want to make an analogy it’s like a guy approaching the cops while threateningly waving a weapon.

Actually having different drives is insufficient to keep windows and linux, or multiple different linux install, from fighting over bootloaders lol.

Star Trek and Game of Thrones have some lines in their fictional languages (Vulcan and Klingon for Star Trek, High Valyerian for Game of Thrones).

The games Out There and No Man’s Sky feature a mechanic where aliens talk in a completely unknown language, but as you gradually learn the language, the subtitles gradually become more and more English.

Some of those services are pretty easy to set up, some might be more complicated. You’d have to look around for open source projects for those services and see if you can find ones you like. It will take more time to get it initially set up than to maintain, but expect to fix something that breaks every once in a while.

As for cost, probably like a few hundred to a thousand USD can get a reasonable computer for this. You don’t need a GPU, but want a decent CPU, plenty of RAM, and a LOT of storage. Look for companies auctioning off old servers.

Loosely I’d say expect this project to be a whole hobby.

As the result of a single misconfigured security setting on my Android, I was locked out of my Google Account on my phone AND all of my PCs.

Just a heads up on what you are getting yourself into, if you fuck up your self hosted setup badly enough there is no recovery.

That isn’t necessarily intended to scare you off from self hosting, just that the first and most important lesson to learn is to have a good system of backups that are backed up automatically, are easy to recover from, and are separated enough from other copies of the data that if something goes terribly wrong one copy will survive.

I’d love to try it, but I imagine it will take 20 years for something like this to come even close to usable as a daily driver.

You do need the Apple ID to download any apps though (maybe not in the EU these days?)

I use rsync + ZFS for backups which includes historical backups

it could render the entire password based login system hackable in a flash, probably breaking the internet.

No, just certain specific encryption algorithms. We already have some early quantum-resistant encryption algorithms, and the internet has already started adopting them.

What you see in mainstream news is always an exaggeration to hype up the layman. Right now all the hype is still focused on LLMs. The recent quantum breakthroughs that were “big news” a year ago were not as exciting as the news might have made it seem.

Quantum research is still going at a slow but steady pace. We have working quantum computers. However, useful working quantum computers have to compete with massive classical computing clusters, which have a huge head start, even considering the theoretical scaling advantages of quantum computers.

“Quantum supremacy” will come. But it also won’t be that exciting because the problems it’s good for are generally limited to niche scientific research scenarios. Maybe really big data centers might find some use for Grover’s search.

The headline to look out for in regards to quantum computing will be something like “quantum computer discovers new material” (with varying levels of exaggerating language depending on the website). That will mark the start of quantum computers being useful (and potentially profitable).

I use https://pikvm.org/

It’s a raspberry pi with a hat. Plugs into USB and HDMI to mimic a keyboard, mouse, and monitor, and you can wire it to the power button as well.

I keep mine behind a VPN for security but there are other options.

All encryption can be brute forced, the point of having a large key size is to make the compute effort needed to brute force the key impractical.

“Impractical” for an individual, even one that has several very powerful computers (by DIY standards) is a much lower bar than impractical for a government, that might use huge supercomputing clusters or hardware designed specifically for brute forcing encryption.

Note that the recommended key size to protect from “individual” tier hackers has increased over the years as the power of the average personal computer has increased.

I don’t get like this with every game, but yeah that’s how Silksong has been for me.

As a general rule the more you spend up front, the less you will spend (in time and money) to fix and maintain the thing.

3D printers are finicky which is why they often become a whole hobby on their own.

As part of that, I’d strongly recommend you stick to one of the easier to work with materials (PLA and TPU seem to be popular rn). Those are good enough 99% of the time, and printing more exotic materials is more work. If you really need a better material, prototype in PLA and then buy a professionally printed final piece (I’ve personally used Shapeways a couple times. I wouldn’t call it cheap but for small parts it’s reasonable and the quality of the end result is quite good).

I personally am using an EnderV3 right now. It’s very customizable, and was one of the cheapest options when I bought it, but it tends to take a lot of debugging every time I want to make something.

I’ve always liked that in Halo games you survive long enough to react, unlike in most FPS games where it’s basically whoever sees the other first wins.

I’ve unironically considered writing my own to do list app that gives you “XP” as you complete tasks

Basically.

They slowly decay as hawking radiation, but there’s nothing you can do to speed up the process.