It's the former. The meaning of "volunteer" here is to do something voluntarily, as opposed to by compulsion. Employees are being asked to do something outside the scope of their normal work duties, during working hours, for pay, without being assigned to it by their managers.

As much as we'd all like to imagine the hypocrisy of one of the world's largest companies asking its employees for free labor, that doesn't seem to be what's happening here.

Each cloud service should have a couple of days per year on which they shut down for 24 hours so everyone can practice their contingency plans.

I never played Doom with the mouse before the ports, but I thought you could configure it to turn only - not move you forward and backward. The default controls weren't ideal, but you could definitley remap the them, and I used Z and X for strafe left and right, which allowed turning and strafing simultaneously. WSAD + mouse was definitely possible out of the box.

I think that's probably true for console players, but I had already played Doom and Quake (which came out a year prior) before playing Goldeneye on my cousins' N64, so I already had expectations for first-person shooters, and I remember being frustrated that it was comparatively lacking in some areas, notably the controls. I seem to recall that you had to unlock the ability to use different controller input layouts, which seemed bizarre even then. Being used to mouse + WASD for gameplay made using a controller an adjustment, but I did recognize how great the 4-player splitscreen deathmatch was.

It definitely added more story and purposeful level design than the basic versions of Doom and Quake, although some of the id-based games like Strife and Hexen had already expanded on that a bit.

In answer to the original topic, I think it's probably either Super Mario Bros or Wolfenstein 3D, both of which while not the first of their respective genres established the basic systems used by their successors as well as achieving widespread appeal. They're a bit like the iPhone in that regard - not the first, but the first ones that everyone wanted, and what everyone else imitated thereafter.

Well at least they warned you first!

I saw this video yesterday, and it really stings / stinks (stingks?) because I was *just* about to buy a Brother inkjet because they didn't do this BS. Our pre-scam-era HP Deskjet finally died and I need to print stuff. I might still get one, but it's tremendously disappointing to hear. I'll have to look for other brands - I saw a comment on Rossman's video that Konica Minolta printers haven't succumbed yet, but they seem to be pricey business-oriented laser printers, not exactly what I need at home.

Yes, I wasn't precise about the RAM usage - in Windows it's limited to 96GB for VRAM, more in Linux. I thought I saw 110 for the latter reported somewhere, but can't find it now.

This sounds like an admission that generative models in their current form are overhyped - not the transformative panacea they're sold as. I don't think he was supposed to admit that publicly...

Since the 128GB VRAM hints at this machine's true niche, I think that measuring computer performance in TOPS/gallon is perfectly cromulent for comparison purposes.

Because as every nerd knows...

There are four lights!!!

Clarification: I read the detail about the girlfriend not in the linked article, but in a quote from the court's ruling that was repeated on Ars:

FTFA, he accidentally put the wrong hard drive into a garbage bag and asked his then-girlfriend to take it to the dump. She complied with his request and once dropped off, it was the property of the landfill operators. So he made the only mistake and has no one to blame but himself.

It stinks to have missed out on that amount of wealth. I remember looking into purchasing an ASIC miner 9-ish years ago, but I remember doing the math and figuring that I'd only mine one coin every few months and it would take a year or so to break even so it wasn't worth it. Obviously if I had done so and held on to the bitcoins, it would have paid for itself many times over. In this guy's case, though, rather than make the wrong decision whether to jump in or not, he actually had the bitcoin already in hand, so the loss is real rather than hypothetical. I feel bad for the guy, but he needs to accept the loss and move on.

There's the phrase I was searching for! Where's the INVEST button?

My personal year of Linux on the desktop arrived back when security updates for Windows XP were discontinued. I can't remember if I went straight to Linux Mint, or dabbled in Ubuntu first. It's been my primary desktop OS ever since, although I did buy Windows 10 and install it in a dual-boot configuration for some games and apps that don't support Linux, such as iRacing (which ironically used to support Linux natively).

Thanks to Valve's efforts, nearly all my games run on Linux now, so I only boot up Windows every few months to install updates. Thanks to the maturity of Cinnamon, and Microsoft's failure to produce a coherent, responsive, usability-centric UI, I actually prefer the Mint user experience to Windows, even though it used to be the other way around. Mint/Cinnamon keeps getting better, while Windows just gets worse.

There have been so many advances in fusion reserach that instead of always 30 years away, now it's always 10 years away. Progress!