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I'm suddenly reminded of a certain South Park episode

I was talking about playbooks mostly, not individual tasks.

E.g. if you have a playbook where in one location you make sure a package is installed and in another to add a line to its config files, you need to ensure installation is performed first.

Another generic example is conflicting definitions, e.g. you define a package as present and somewhere else you define that one of its dependencies should be absent. Depending on the order, you either get an error or it works fine (but ignores the package absent directive). Or is my understanding wrong here?

Ansible, the declarative configuration manager

Ansible declarative? That takes a lot of effort I think.

Motherboards have risen in price over the years as well, you could have a very decent board at 150€ five years ago but today it feels like you need to pay at least 200 to get anything mid tier. I remember when I checked the price of my board that I bought early 2020 around 2023 or so, the price had gone up. But yeah, if you can't put memory in your already expensive board, maybe you don't need to buy a board on the first place.

I'm in the lucky position that my machine is still adequate (3900X / 32GB RAM / 1TB SSD) with only the GPU being weak (5500XT 8GB), but it doesn't matter for the games I play. So I can sit out another two or three years.

We'll see how it turns out - I don't expect the current generative AI investors to make an RoI anytime soon. If at all.

Give it a year

It was cable select, my bad but I'm leaving it as is

I don't remember it ever working reliable, regardless of cable

Right, it was cable select... Yeah SATA was a blessing. IDE / PATA really sucked

MASTER SLAVE AUTO (auto never works)

But yeah fuck flat IDE cables. I don't miss old computers a single bit

Honey bees aren't at risk of extinction

"His immigration crackdown will create jobs"???

Any minute now

Realizing it is the first step

Not pictured: /opt, the raccoon

You can freely choose your question from a curated list, with tough ones like "Why is Russia's economy the best on the world?", "How much stronger is the Russian military compared to the second strongest?" and "How can you be so manly?".

I did actually use that word, dunno if he knew what that means, but it doesn't really matter

They called me recently because I switched to a cheaper provider about a year ago, trying to win me back. When asked what I preferred about my current provider I said "the facts that I pay 10 euros less per month and that I can actually watch YouTube on Saturday evenings"

You can only throw good money after bad money as long as you still have access to good money. I'm sure they're not abandoning these AI projects because they realize a plan that made no sense six months ago still makes no sense today, but rather because of economic reality - if there's no money to budget, corporate lack of agility doesn't matter because the change is enforced externally.

Not really. SATA SSDs make little sense compared to alternatives because SATA isn't fast enough to saturate the drives' throughout. SATA's strength from my point of view comes in when you want to attach lots of storage for cheap, but that's better served with HDDs. Sure, there are cases where you might want the fast access times of SSDs but don't need its bandwidth, and SATA is me ubiquitous than other connectors, but that's an edge case that seems to be no longer economically viable for Samsung.

Btw, casings that convert M.2 to SATA 3 exist for cheap.

Have this game as well I think, is kind of rare to have just a photo of people on the box without the game or anything

Well, Microsoft was correct here. You can't redistribute someone else's copyrighted assets without their consent

They knew it would come to this point when they picked up the trade