Got quite into War Thunder over the last few days. It's an online MP game with tanks, planes, and naval units. It's free and quite addictive once you get past the initial "too easy" (I think they use bots) missions. I think it’s the first time I'm actually enjoying a non-FPS multiplayer game.

A big plus of it is that you can have a game or two inside 15 minutes. Yes, the TTD can be quite short (you only have 3 respawns per match), but that's ok with me - these games are too much of a time sink. I actually had to delete Delta Force because of that recently, it just took too much time out of my madcap IRL schedule.

Is this a pay to win kind of game? How are they making money if it's free to play?

Reinstalled Mint 22.2 on a backup machine.
Upgrading from 21.3 had many side effects.

It's a mini-itx build but I have a tall and slim case and I'm looking for a square model.
Also, low profile graphics card are hard to find at human prices or abundant in the 710 realm.

A square case would allow bigger cards, like the good old Thermaltake Core V1.

I watched Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git recently.

I am building a home lab, after getting some free 4post server racks.

I got two 24disk shelves off ebay, and they arrived yesterday. I am just about to drive to the hardware store for some bits of steel hardware to help support the back (these racks are not deep enough for the rack slides, so I need something to hold the back of the shelves on the racks).

UCyborg wrote on Yesterday, 12:44:

I watched Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git recently.

I wonder why this video is de-listed. Because anyone that doesn't agree with Linus is dumb and ugly? 😁

My first trial run using one of these new-fangled SSD doodads in my main machine, in place of an HDD, has ended rather poorly. I had a new 240GB SATA unit. It worked for a few months, and then it suddenly became very slow. It's now hitting about 200KB/s, so similar to a parallel port ZIP drive, you might say. Connecting it with a different cable made no difference. Connecting it to a different PC made no difference. I downloaded the Netac SSD Tool and ran that, but it detects no problems.

Luckily I still have the 300GB Seagate that was in there originally, with all the same files up until June or so. BTW, VOGONS is throwing 403s again.