Quite the opposite. Use drives from as many different manufacturers as you can, especially when buying them at the same time. You want to avoid similar lifecycles and similar potential fabrication defects as much as possible, because those things increase the likelihood that they will fall close to each other - particularly with the stress of rebuilding the first one that failed.

Has someone asked what there IS to defend if not people’s lives?

And they didn’t mention politics at all, they said not everyone wants to be reminded of the orange shitstain. I agree with them.

About bloody time. MS should have been forcibly split up back in the early 2000’s when they lost the antitrust case about internet explorer.

Technically, no, but then they need another source of revenue, because servers at that scale aren’t cheap.

Depends. Are we taking refurbished, or returned sales?

Refurbished is going to have to be hella cheap to consider it for a highly redundant storage of unimportant things maybe raid 10 backup storage it something.

Returned sales are mostly still as good a new and returned for various unrelated reasons. As long as I get full warranty and right to return as if it was brand new, i don’t mind.

That’s very interesting, thanks!

So, basically, the US is very upset that the money they give is being used… The solution seems obvious…

We truly love in interesting times. Fuck, I wish we didn’t.

For seeding? Nah. Not unless you have a ton of upload and loads of peers making requests.

Get something that has an internal mirror, that’ll give you double the read throughput AND some redundancy.

As if any spyware worth it’s salt didn’t install itself as service with an innocuous name. Something like “Facebook” or “TikTok”.

I don’t have a guide handy, but I’d assume VLC could do that.

radical răd′ĭ-kəl adjective

1. Arising from or going to a root or source; basic.
2. Departing markedly from the usual or customary; extreme or drastic.
3. Relating to or advocating fundamental or revolutionary changes in current practices, conditions, or institutions.

I believe 2. is the most common colloquial use. It is perfectly possible to be a radical conservative; and I would actually argue that conservativism is a radical ideology, given that the world at large wants to make progress.

They should have just plain been disbarred. They were, de facto, lying in court.

Yep. The EU lawsuit forced them to. Also internet exploder is no longer a thing these days 🙂

It’s been a while for me, but iirc most ISPs do offer their own servers. However, free Usenet servers are going to have very limited retention - in the order of days. The advantage of paid subscriptions is that they offer retention in the weeks or months.

I have no idea about the internals, but I use IRC and Slack bridges, and they seem to work fine.

I think it also helps that it wasn’t intentional. Nobody likes the obvious corp whoring for a quick cash grab.

It was until they shipped systemd. Bloody mess.

Wish they would.

Incidentally, wtf is bluesky? I literally have never heard of it, apparently a Twitterlike?

Hot damn, that brings back memories. I might still have a couple of demos deep on the storage somewhere… I should look for them sometime.