I’m not going to say that all things created by people aren’t slop, but it’s also true that our context for understanding art can change over time. What we’re getting now, with certain art styles being associated with slop is a kind of Seinfeld effect.

To give a specific example: When the movie Annihilation came out, it quickly became a favorite of mine. I loved its visual style, and the narrative theme about broken people. A few months ago I re-watched it and realized that its visuals have been so coopted by endless slop recreations that I couldn’t disassociate it from AI output. Even though the themes were still there and no less resonant than when I first watched it, my brain couldn’t enjoy the film because I kept thinking about slop. The movie hadn’t changed and all the artistic intentionality behind its creation was still there, but my ability to enjoy it was destroyed.

What I get out of self hosting services: Full control of my data and something to tinker with when the fancy strikes.

Graphs? Monitors? Failover? I get enough of that shit at work. If it’s down then whatever: I’ll fix it when the inconvenience is too great to ignore. External users? I only invite people who understand that this is my hobby, not my job.

The difference is small and pedantic:

“Once” means “A single time”

“Nonce” means “Used a single time”

Nonce carries extra information that something is being used.

Wikipedia claims this term dates to middle English:

Nonce is a word dating back to Middle English for something only used once or temporarily (often with the construction “for the nonce”). It descends from the construction “then anes” (“the one [purpose]”).

Nonce is used extensively in the context of cryptography to mean “used exactly one time”. Usually this refers to a random number that a server shares with a client to establish secure communications.

Red Sonja (1985)

I like that it’s a definitely-not-Conan movie with a bit more humor. Maybe people don’t like the kid actor, but I thought that Prince Tarn and Falcon added a lot without being overbearing. It could rate even higher for me if they’d gotten Basil Poledouris to do the soundtrack.

Cool World (1992)

Things really start to fall apart in the third act once Holli transports to the real world and from a technical side, Who Frame Roger Rabbit beats it by miles. However, the idea of Cool World, a mix of childish and sleazy animated characters all living in the same universe, is compelling. Bakshi’s animation style really brings it alive.

To be pedantic, the MW in OpenMW doesn’t stand for anything. It’s supposed to make players think of “Open MorroWind”, but only Bethesda has the right to use the name Morrowind.

Skywind: Playing the plot of Morrowind in the Skyrim engine. Game mechanics, spells, skills, models, textures, and bugs are all going to be similar to what you have in Skyrim, give or take some modding.

OpenMW: Playing Morrowind in an open source, crossplatform game engine. You are playing the exact same game as TES III (gameplay mechanics, spells, models, textures, etc are 1:1 identical in a vanilla install) but the code behind it is less buggy, more moddable, and it provides many modern quality-of-life improvements that the original engine couldn’t do.

Can I leave all my drives connected, plug in a seperate SSD through USB, boot into Nobara live and install on that drive without it affecting my mint install?

Yes. Just double-check every part of the install process so you don’t write to the wrong device.

Also, if I do that will it put the EFI file on the seperate SSD?

Probably yes (depends on the options you pick during the install process). The external drive will get its own boot partition with appropriate EFI files. Then to boot from it, you would select the external drive in your UEFI.

I use rEFInd as my EFI bootloader: It lets me chain load other boot options (external drives) without touching my motherboard UEFI settings. I leave it installed to my main boot partition, but it scans for other bootable partitions at startup. Then it auto-populates a selector list of my main install, or whatever other external devices are plugged in. It can chain load GRUB, other EFI bootloaders, Windows, etc from these devices, so you don’t have to worry about compatibility with whatever bootloader the OS expects to use.

Me!!!

But I’m actually safe: Last month I fried half of my BTRFS array, and decided that instead of recovering the system, I’d rather copy over the relevant data and reinstall Arch from scratch. In doing so, I’ve shed the majority of AUR packages that my old system had. Of the handful of AUR packages on my new system, none were attacked.

You said you don’t want the page to load. Do you even care if the browser opens?

What about overriding the default browser application that the terminal tries to use? Maybe there’s some env variable to override the xdg browser default, and you could point it to a script that exits instantly.

I agree with the person who suggested linking to Wikipedia articles.

For example, it’s not much help to learn that PCIe stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect Express, because nobody calls it that. As an outsider, now I’m wondering what a component interconnect is. It’s much more useful to link to a page that gives context about how PCIe is actually used.

Very true. I believe FPGAs are also popular for aerospace applications, since it’s cheaper to design and patch programmable hardware than to design and physically install ASICs.

Vivado is software for designing hardware on an FPGA. AMD bought out Xilinx, one of the big FPGA manufacturers, a few years back. FPGAs are basically programmable digital circuits: you configure a series of internal logic gates to represent the function of a circuit with memory, data busses, registers, gates, etc. In this fashion, an FPGA could be programmed to function like a CPU, a radio, a video encoder, or nearly any other piece of digital hardware. Very useful for hobbyists and prototyping.

The thing with FPGA software is that there are no open source alternatives. FPGAs have so many complicated blobs and signing keys and proprietary IP blocks that your only choice is to use the manufacturer’s offering.