I’ll just leave this here: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-the-not-at-all-sad-history-of-89890804/

That lowered Sienna looks pretty sick.

A law banning Bill Gates gate scandals would be called: Bill Gates gate-gate bill.

Forest Gump

That’s all fine and dandy until you get court ordered to attend these meetings as if it were a scientifically proven method of quitting drinking. It’d be like doing something bad and then being court ordered to attend church so that you can “gain a moral compass.”

R7 gang here. Let us keep the dream alive!

Curious what was the model of your drive failure? I have 6 years now on a bunch of 8TB WD Elements/EasyStore drives as well as some 10TB-14TB WD MyBook, Elements, and refurbished WD drives from serverpartdeals in the preceding years. Still no failures yet but I’m expecting one eventually.

I’m currently running mine on Windows and use SnapRAID and DrivePool as my defense against drive failures. I think I have 7 data drives and 2 parity at this point (totalling around 90TB). Beyond that I copy the Snapraid whatchamacallit to a separate backup drive along with my OS drive. This isn’t really a ‘backup’ but in the scenario where I have several failures and no way to restore, I still have radarr/sonarr keeping track of my library and a membership to several private trackers.

I wouldn’t worry too much about losing media files as most can just be downloaded again. I find it more beneficial to make use of all the storage space you can rather than trying to do a 1:1 backup, which gets pretty absurd once you start getting up there in movie/TV count.

Pretty sure this stuff already exists in some form. /r/datahoarder people would probably be able to steer you in the right direction though you may need to lay out several thousand for enough HDDs to hold it.

No, but an old sock full of batteries might.

Or they funnel it all to GallowBoob or whoever his replacement is.

I’m sure with a little late night cruise, you’ll have no trouble finding a cheap handy to pickup.

So costs are out of control, but wages are at an appropriate level? That doesn’t really make much sense logically. The actual values don’t matter as much as the disparity between the two. If the minimum wage were $100/hr, a house costing $400k wouldn’t be an issue. Similarly, if the minimum wage were $2/hr while homes cost $8k, that also wouldn’t be an issue.

So why do we have thousands of people living on the streets in my state that’s been solidly blue for over 40 years? Take your blinders off already because you are engaging in the same behavior as MAGA supporters: blind allegiance.

Can’t I just send them to North Korea and have them deal with it?

You might look for a used Optiplex SFF or micro form factor PC. These can be purchased for around $100 in the US and have full fledged PC hardware which is capable of running most things. The downside here is less peripheral support for things like PCIE or internal storage.

Yes those small LED indicator lights use around 10-20mA of current at like 3V which is only 0.06W of power.

I recently wound up “following” a car for about 30 miles right to their house. I got behind them on the freeway for around 25 miles, exited at the same exit, drove about 5 miles through town making all the same turns, drove by as they pulled into their driveway in a residential neighborhood, and then pulled into my own driveway two houses down. They were probably shitting bricks, and I even debated on whether I should just pull off onto a random street as we got closer and closer to my house, but I was tired and wanted to get home. Definitely a weird-ass but totally coincidental situation.

Look into radarr and sonarr to handle all the media acquisition.

Provided it’s available in your location, and still being sold/produced. Furthermore Blurays are only going to be harder to find as time goes on with companies like Best Buy stating that they’ll no longer be selling them.