I’m not shocked but highly dismayed that they manage to be a positive number at all.

Shh, you’ll spoil the surprise…

Some comms are treated like the mod’s personal sounding board. Post what they want but refuse any discussion on it.

I wonder, just as a thought exercise, what would happen if they ended up decertifying the election. I would presume some do-over eventually, if anyone could trust the system any more, but in the meantime do you just rewind the last couple months and decide it didn’t happen?

Well when you have a major chunk of the population actively hostile to science for disagreeing with their established world views that’s not unexpected.

And we have a congress willing to bow down and kiss the ring of a madman at the helm on all of our behalf.

That’s pretty well what I started with 20 years or so ago, had them in some little box with some funny Nvidia CPU. That go upped to a pair of 3 TB that have somewhere around 10 years uptime on them if I recall by now, and kind of spiraled from there. Rsync on a schedule is nice for that.

Just part of a lab built over the years. Primary storage is a Dell R730XD filled mostly with 12 TB drives all set up in a ZFS array comprised of mirror vdevs, so redundant by default plus the built in ZFS snapshots for the rare need for a rollback on a dataset.

It only recently got that big because I had a mixed set of drives going back years and finally decided to work on getting them all to the same size and picked 12 as a good cost/volume balance, can find them at used server parts shops for a bit over $100 each.

Major risk is I don’t have a good auto alert for smart monitor issues, so just make sure to occasionally manually copy the vital stuff like photos to an external drive.

How do you stream it if nobody downloads it to seed things? The whole premise of seed ratios isn’t just a bragging score, it’s aiding the communal health.

Besides, I have around 60 TB of space here, that’ll hold several versions of damn near every Linux distro out there for a while, it’d be a shame to waste it.

It used to be said that Marie Antoinette was so out of touch as to say when the starving peasants have no bread to “let them eat cake”, and that the people took quite poorly to that response. I wonder what the gold plated halls of Trump tower will look like when he makes the same mistake.

Thanks Mr. And Mrs. Magat, you’ve done wonders for screwing over your kids and grandkids once again.

Why is it that a comedy news show is about the most courageous thing on these days?

Oh fuck off on both sides of that headline. Sure, we’ll let you create more monopolistic ISP lock in, just so long as you’re not making any effort at not being a biggot while you do it.

Yeah, it could be meterage I guess, not sure if the non murica-verse uses a similar expression.

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/acer-spin-1-sp111-32n-c2x3

Specifically it’s one of these, or at least in the nearby product line. A mere 32GB of storage and 4 GB RAM so you can get away with some pretty lean specs. Used the XFCE version if I recall. Basically just give it a try and there’s a good chance it works

I have Mint on an old Acer 2 in 1 that is barely capable or installing Windows just for the size, so it’s possible but of course YMMV.

Tech people are prone to self created superstitions largely because that was the process someone did before and it worked, and nobody knows why, but damned if we’re going to change it and risk it not working now.

Never let personnel and operational security get in the way of a good ego stroking…

He’ll definitely tweet nasty things at them if they don’t.

Updated: 4/28/2025, 10:30 AM EDT: This article has been updated to reflect that 4chan appears to have come back online, according to a blog posted on the site on April 25.

Short lived but even if 4chan died the various spinoffs, some far worse, still exist. There will always be a place where the wild things are and they’ll continue screwing with society just for the lulz.

I have no clue, just that golf course the orange muppet spends a lot of time at.