Iirc any 3D card capable of running Q2 (ie you weren’t rendering it on your CPU) would display the transparent water (unlike Quake 1), so something like Riva 128 or Voodoo 1 at the time Quake 2 launched.

Later cards (Voodoo 2 and onwards) gave you the advantage of a significantly higher frame rate and resolution.

Yeah!
(You mean software vs openGL api rendering?)

Biggest difference was in Glide games, like Unreal.

Also SLI unlocked 1024×768 (instead of just 800×600) bcs each card rendered half of the screen.

Nooo, my SLI Voodoos (2×12MB)!!

Will they warn about Play Services?
(In case they are even enabled :D.)

Lol (but ppl do that).

At some low-failure-rate point the risks of those ‘couple of drives’ you would own don’t really mean much difference in irl probability of failure.

Def good info to avoid high-failure-rate drives tho.

As a PSA: depending on your needs (bcs I see a lot of simple homelabs RAIDing), consider second server or even second location simple snapshot backup vs same-machine duplication.
Like, which would you want to set up first depending on your specific risks profile.

The later is like like a proper backup, the former more of a low-downtime strat (that most smol homelabs can do without - “just wait a day, mom”)

Eg as the most basic example - instead of local duplication you could have a small PC (even like some old Pi), big HDD, and rsync once a day.

(Ofc, with duplicated serves, finances permitting, you can also provide backup services which helps that downtime issue. And by finances I mean the rest of your server group stuff, which in my cases is mostly HDD cost anyways.)

Amazing!

This finding is the first documented case of colonial behavior between two solitary species of spider

And one species (Prinerigone vagans) is 2-3mm, the other (Tegenaria domestica) 7.5-11.5mm in body length.

Like a bunch of introverted humans and cats prob.

Yes!

Half of these at least.
The rest are prob a bit tiny.

It’s making me want to go to there.

Spiderlemmy! Spiderlemmy! Does whatever a Spiderlemmy does!

Well, they are often involved or are around such deals, but the difference is that in USA the quid pro quo is perfectly legal & money can be exchanged openly (which is still corruption, but not legally so).

Afaik cats don’t even bother to figure out how to achieve anything by obeying the laws of physics, they just do as they please regardless.

A distant cousin Lemmio just stares blankly at the family affairs, feeling in danger :).

No considerateness are taken for the children, this isn’t about them, it’s just populism & control.

Oh, I didn’t really clarify that point, sorry - I just don’t think VAT on specifically luxury goods would yield much, it would just fail as a concept. Eg yachts you mentioned are often bought via non-EU counties & registered there. Also much easier to move production. But if you follow the money/wealth, you can get to it’s origins.

The mere definition of luxury goods is a tricky one too. Probably impossibility so to make a useful, meaningful system.

Where we now usually have two VAT tax brackets (eg food & non-food), that alone is still a huge & complex system to define.

And administrative costs of proper income taxes are for one already in place in most countries, and secondly if additional employees are needed, that is a net plus.

It does bother me that a lot of countries get more from VAT than from income taxes - but especially I’m talking corporate taxes. They are generally too low & flat.

Maybe look at it from this pov - someone living from paycheck to paycheck spends/pays max they can on VAT (or sales tax), whereas someone who doubles their already vast wealth can’t really double the spending that they would pay VAT on. So it’s disproportionate in general.

But then again - why not both? A tax on wealth, and a VAT on luxury goods?

Yeah, the proposal was a joke an effort to start the movement. And it still failed.
(Imagine if you get a billon a year & they proposed a 2% tax - not much difference for you but if you invest only 1% of one year into lobbyists, that’s a budget of 10m that is spent on for full-time employees working on how to not make the tax increase happen. And ofc bribes & extortions.)

With such speed of wealth concentration to remain a society without kings an actual wealth tax is needed, directly in company profits, and on personal income. Which includes closing tax loopholes & monitoring intra-group wealth transfers.

Besides, the alternative is to legally nationalize all the wealth of a few select individuals, like a purge common to after-revolution times (and literally end the debt crisis). That or be enslaved.
^ If that kind off public discussion would be going on billionaires would be lobbying for a gigantic tax increase on their wraith.

Higher VAT hurts regular people more than the wealthy.

Higher income tax brackets is what brings more equality.

The tax over 1 million should be enormous.
And EU needs a common tax scheme to properly implement and enforce such efforts.

Income & profit taxes could more than cover any gov spending without touching the vast majority of the population.

Also why would you compare a tax increase to the total debt?

Do you want furries in space??

Bcs that is how you get furries in space.