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A weird, never-released NES horror JRPG no one knew about 2 years ago is now translated and fully playable in c/horror_games@piefed.world
The lives of a couple thousand plebs are worthless - Roman pride? Priceless! in c/historymemes@piefed.social
The lives of a couple thousand plebs are worthless - Roman pride? Priceless! in c/historymemes@piefed.social
[–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Very interesting, thank you! In terms of percentage, I understand that the Republic could raise a large part of its population compared to the Empire but do you have info in terms of absolute numbers? Do we know for example the largest single battle loss during the Republic and during the Empire?

Losing 40 thousand men during the mid-Republic which had approx. 300 thousand free male citizens at the time (I think?) sounds like it could crush the country. But it is "only" 13% of the male population. As you said it could go up to 20%.

Large scale war is devastating. Glad to be in a peaceful country (for now).

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    • The lives of a couple thousand plebs are worthless - Roman pride? Priceless! in c/historymemes@piefed.social
    [–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Thanks for the explanation but I would have guessed that the Imperial army had more men since it covered way more territory than the Republic. Then losing men in the Republican army would be worse. Can you explain?

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    • Update on my Home-Lab now featuring a fully custom built 10" Aluminumm rack in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
    [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Nice build. We use a lot of aluminium profiles at work for prototyping. We also have a mitre saw ;)

    You can also have polycarbonate panels made for cheap to have a more finished appearance at the cost of ventilation and ease of access.

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    Macron under pressure to call snap parliamentary elections or resign in c/world
    I wrote a simple tool chain called 'gem2web' for creating HTML pages for my self-hosted website. I released it publically under GPL3. Source linked inside. (python+shell) in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
    I wrote a simple tool chain called 'gem2web' for creating HTML pages for my self-hosted website. I released it publically under GPL3. Source linked inside. (python+shell) in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
    [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Nice! Gemtext and gemini in general is a really cool playground. I also learnt awk to do my gem2web script and all this lead me to web hosting. Very nice technology.

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    Would you pay $100 for a movie? Criterion and the 'second golden age' of physical media in c/homevideo@feddit.uk
    Would you pay $100 for a movie? Criterion and the 'second golden age' of physical media in c/homevideo@feddit.uk
    [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I wouldn't even though I own and buy DVDs regularly. It is the best method I found to watch old movies (Citizen Kane, the Alien quadrilogy, Dune from 1984, the LoTR trilogy, Waterworld) without subscribing to six different streaming platform.

    But I understand the golden age of physical media has passed so for new movies I don't know what to do.

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    Cirrus app dev informing the app will stop working on certified android devices in '26/'27 in c/privacy@lemmy.ml