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Does anyone know any Hard Sci Fi books about humans surviving without any hospitable worlds?

I’m looking to get inspiration for my own writing. I need a hard sci fi series where earth (and earthlike worlds) are too rare, inaccessible, and/or previously spoiled beyond ability to sustain life. Bonus points if it is set on a multi-generational space station or starship without any other options and goes into detail about...

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Surprised no one has mentioned The Expanse series. A ton of world building in very different kinds of environments. Space stations, small ships, big ships, generation ships, asteroids, moons, planets.

The environments are well thought out in how the residents would need to adapt

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Columbus is a great little city in a not so great state. The local politics are quite progressive and the food and bar scene is quite nice. There was a decently sized queer community when I lived there a decade ago, and I’d expect it to continue to flourish as long as a major university is nearby.

Winters are cold. Summers are hot. The weather is what it is 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Create a configuration file. github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp has the documentation

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logicalincrements.com

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Lana!

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I wonder if you’d like Sleigh Bells. Twee pop vocals over grungy guitar. A lot of fun

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Gosh. I hadn’t thought about Indian in the cupboard in years

Why isn't everyone talking about AI generated audiobooks?

I just listened to this AI generated audiobook and if it didn’t say it was AI, I’d have thought it was human-made. It has different voices, dramatization, sound effects… The last I’d heard about this tech was a post saying Stephen Fry’s voice was stolen and replicated by AI. But since then, nothing, even though it’s...

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Not OP, but I almost exclusively read novels and non fiction via audiobooks. For context, I’m on pace for 70 books this year.

My main reason for audiobooks is I having a driving commute. Two hours a day round trip. Audiobooks keep me sane in a way that podcasts or music do not. I also do audiobooks when doing chores around the house.

Second, I struggle to focus on reading a book on my phone. Too many distractions and I think the reading experience is subpar. I do have an eInk reader, but I haven’t charged it in years because it’s easier to do audiobooks.

Physical books are rare in my home, but that’s a self-reinforcing cycle since I enjoy audiobooks so much.

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Daddy would you like some sausages?

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  1. Overnight oats
  2. Yogurt with frozen fruit and granola (parfait)
  3. Granola/protein bar of choice
  4. Hard boiled eggs
  5. Peanut butter toast
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A six year old game for 1% of the nominal cost looks better

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Have you tried The Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe?

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Or AOL-Time-Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe’s from Bojack Horseman

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Examples?

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Hilarious. Thanks

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The tutorial is quite long. After you have a ship, you can abandon the questline and just do whatever you want.

Requires reading the wiki a lot, but it lets you do whatever you want.

Gunship battles with aliens on the surface? ✅ Dogfights with pirates in orbit? ✅ Arbitrage and space merchant trading? ✅ Planet exploration and flora/fauna identification? ✅ Base building? ✅

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Just use shift-4 mate

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The problem with China’s real estate market is that it’s entirely built on false promises and leveraged debt.

The government provides cheap loans to citizens to buy homes they will never live. All in an effort to drive the country’s GDP… but eventually you will either:

  1. Run out of capital to fuel this construction
  2. Rebase the value of these paper homes and the economy collapses on a scale 10x that of the 2008 housing crisis

This article has nothing to do with unhoused people, nor an overvalued housing market pushing out middle class buyers. The economics of the Chinese market are completely dissimilar from the western (US particularly) markets.

It’s entirely about how the Chinese government has an unsustainable market segment dedicated to building things that people don’t want or need… other than to have wealth on paper.

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  1. I went to grad school during the ‘08 housing crisis because there were not many jobs available for early career folks. The program was a combination of technical networking (Cisco) and business acumen.
  2. Classes were longer seminars, much harder than undergrad with an intense focus on the subject matter rather than superficial discussions. Projects were also longer/harder including a thesis (~100 pages, 6 months of work)
  3. I learned A LOT. I networked with industry folks and continue to engage with the alumni community. I’ve helped 5-6 grads land their first job.
  4. After a few years working, I did an MBA part time (nights and weekends). That was similarly challenging and I also learned a lot.
  5. I would recommend working professionally before a grad degree unless you’re in a specific industry like bio/chem research, math, psychology etc. basically industries where you require a Ph.D to do anything.
  6. Do your best to get a graduate assistantship to offset the expense of the program OR work with an employer for continuing education.

Where do you have your VPN setup?

I’ve moved my Plex server to Truenas Scale, and I’m about to get Sonarr/Radarr/Ombi/etc setup, but first I need to get VPN going. Truenas Scale uses OpenVPN and my current VPN service is ExpressVPN (which I’ve been very happy with). Setting up ExpressVPN with Truenas has proven challenging because of certificate import...

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I run QB through a docker container that’s an always on VPN

Then the xArr apps are in the same virtual network as QB. They run without a VPN

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Currently running server3 after some mishaps including a torched OS drive 🫠

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Bay of Biscay

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Check your wan IP on both your laptop and phone.

I typically use curl https://checkip.amazonaws.com

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I loved how Sanderson-as-Hoid was outright mocking their teenage love story and edgelord takes

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MAM has a great collection

Choose Four Consoles to Have the Largest Selection of Games

So I’m reassessing my entertainment center since seeing the Video Game History Foundation’s report. Since the study it’s got me thinking, if you could pick any 4 consoles to have hooked up to your TV (4 becuase I’ve got 4 inputs to my TV) which would you pick and why? I will accept modded consoles as answers too.

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  1. SteamDeck
  2. Switch with NSO
  3. Xbox
  4. PS5

Now you have literally everything?

Or just skip 2/3/4 and emulate

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Is Reddit as a business responsible for providing a livelihood for a third party developer? What would they be suing over? On what grounds?

Bldck ,

There are some options for Pis like unraid.

Honestly though, just pick one problem you have and solve that with docker.

Beat your head against the wall trying to figure out the virtualization, volume mapping, permissions and networking.

Then start finding other problems to solve.

I stood up a homelab for media storage and streaming… and it has now grown to 30-40 applications running in parallel.

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