Either works fine; I just use screen out of habit lol.

If the choice is between depressing news I can do nothing about, and moth memes, please forgive me if I choose the moth memes.

I’ve always just run the server directly from the JAR in a screen session. If you’re just running a simple server and don’t need the features of Pterodactyl it’s definitely the easiest option. Just download the JAR from Minecraft’s website to a new directory, and run with java -Xmx4G -Xms4G -jar minecraft_server.1.21.6.jar nogui (The page says 1 gig of RAM, but I’d recommend more if you have it available).

I agree with most of your comment, but your math is very wrong. 36^12 hashes (lower case alphanumeric) / 126.9 GH/s = 33.7 million seconds, or about 1.18 years. Still way too weak for secure use, but about 16 orders of magnitude above the nanosecond range. How’d you calculate that?

I knew what that one was going to be before even clicking it; some just stick in your mind.

To clarify, is it evil-ass rape, or evil ass-rape? There’s an important distinction!

Apparently I sleep very still, to the point where it’s somewhat concerning to anyone watching. I suppose that would make me a good cuddler, assuming the other person doesn’t assume I’ve died in my sleep lol. Haven’t had the chance to try yet though.

I like this meme; it requires some very specific knowledge to understand. :)

How else do u digest them tho???

Thoughts and prayers to all the light from the accretion disk that is lost forever to the black hole. Someday it will be reincarnated as Hawking radiation, growing more and more brilliant until the black hole finally evaporates in a flash of beautiful light.

I wouldn’t even say that. Flash drives are good as temporary storage for copying/sharing files, or for stuff you need on hand (like a Linux boot stick), but I’d never include them as part of a backup system.

Cloud backups are alright from a privacy standpoint as long as you properly encrypt your data. Which also stops your cloud provider from suddenly terminating your account because you uploaded something they don’t like.

Depends a lot on the quality of the stick. I have some that have worked well for years, and had others that failed after just a few writes. You’ll probably be fine, but probably isn’t good enough for a critical backup.

As long as your data isn’t super important that’s okay. But if it is, keep in mind that the chance of your USB stick failing when you try to read all the data off it after your SSD fails is fairly high. USB sticks do not do well with long reads or writes and tend to overheat and kill themselves. I’d strongly recommend picking up a hard drive to use as a third backup; a new 2TB drive is maybe $60, and a refurbished one half that.

Let me get this straight… They deleted their only other copy of the files from their old drives immediately after uploading them to OneDrive? Microsoft has some fault here, but that is also an unbelievably stupid decision on the user’s part. It also sounds like they were planning to copy the files to a single new drive and immediately delete them from OneDrive, which is equally stupid. Are they allergic to having their files in multiple places or something?

It’s an awful situation to be in, but it could’ve been avoided by simply having a second copy of the data, which is pretty much the simplest backup system.

People who are actually smart, regardless of their IQ score, know that IQ is a terrible measure of intelligence and would never brag about it.

Yeah that is waaay too small for a Skittle.

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Not entirely convinced this article wasn’t made using AI.

Common household objects, like reactor grade uranium, of course.