I love the idea of this, but the article doesn’t mention the airplane slowing down at all. It has very little mass and a lot of drag. As it enters earths atmosphere, I’d think it would slow down as it entered the atmosphere really quickly and avoid getting burned up.

They just mention the speed of the IIS and put the airplane in a wind tunnel to simulate reentry speeds and effects. I think further math needs to be done. Or to toss a bucketfull out of the IIS.

Yes you can cluster devices. I have a NAS in addition to the my laptop proxmox cluster. It lets me use the NAS as storage, so the VMs/lxc’s virtual disks are actually on the NAS. This allows me to make the VM/LXCs Highly Available. So if one laptop crashes it’ll automatically spin up the things running on that laptop on a different one. This can also be done with ceph, but I already had the NAS, so ceph seemed redundant.

Either or both will likely work just fine depending on how broken the screen is. The virusy windows would be easiest (sometimes macbooks are harder to get everything working due to drivers, windows ones typically just work). But the virus will be removed when you install proxmox. I currently have 3 laptops in various degrees of old and broken being used as a proxmox cluster.

Do you have any old hardware lying around? Old gaming pc, or an old laptop? Doesn’t matter if it has a broken screen or keyboard or trackpad or can’t upgrade to win11. Maybe ask around if someone you knows has something similar.

I’d start with that. Then save the money for an upgrade to the old hardware like adding some extra RAM and a big refurbed hdds.

Done this with massive log files. Used perl and regex. That’s basically what the language was built for.

But with CSVs? I’d throw them in a db with an index.

https://github.com/Akkadius/akk-stack

there’s an easy docker container install on linux.

Rules I tweaked:

• 3x level xp
• 3x skill level up probability
• 10x health/mana/stamina regen
• 200x health/mana/stamina regen out of combat (basically instant)
• each char got max money and the best gear i could find for them in the game for their level

I never did boxing, bit I’d run dungeons solo+merc. It was a lot of fun. I still died plenty, adds can be killer. But with just me on the entire server I needed all the help I could get.

Did you know it’s still active? There are new expansions still dropping, you can play limited options for free, pay for everything, host your own server or play on others’.

I’ve set up my own server for personal use and tweaked the server settings for fun.

Subscription only? Garbage.

Microsoft Defender.

I convinced my work to let me use linux on their laptop. They sent me instructions for setup. One of them was to install Microsoft Defender, had a link to the Ubuntu package and everything. Blew my mind.