I don't think of gaming as socializing - that's your daughter's metric.

Not all game players are the same, which is why there are so many different categories of games.

JB Weld is your friend.

Or glue it back together, make a mold of it, cast new in polyester resin.

Or 3D print a new one.

It's not Apple hate, it's finding ways to penalize companies that are meaningful.

By tying the penalty to global revenues, Apple can't simply move their revenue to somewhere else, like they did 20 years ago by going to Ireland.

See the story of Google being fined $500 million... How fast do they recoup that? Minutes or seconds?

What's a geologic epic? I've never seen this term used this way.

Did you mean Geologic Epoch?

Well, they way Epochs are named is for major events. Are you saying there's no reason to believe that particular event won't happen again?

Entropy would like a word. You can't un-erupt a volcano.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_time_scale

I mean, this guy is an ass, and deserves some stuff punishment. Some places this could cause them to close up shop.

On the side, what kind of business doesn't have a team doing this stuff with accountability/approvals/controls, and especially for someone being fired.

When people show you who they are, believe them.

Doesn't really matter why she does these things - the only question is do you want this stuff in your life?

Frankly they did you a favor by blocking you.

Oh, I hear ya on the space issue - there's almost no space in this SFF, but I like it's form factor so I'm willing to compromise.

Anymore I don't find RAID very useful, except for mirroring a drive. As I say this, I do have a NAS with 5 drives, but it's used as one of my replicators as it's too slow for anything else. I did run Proxmox with RAID for a while, that was pretty cool, I just don't need all it's capability.

These days I can get a large enough single drive for a box - I considered getting a 12TB but the price on the 8 was hard to beat and I won't be filling it anytime soon.

My experience after 35 years in IT: I've had 10x more outages caused by automatic updates than everything else combined.

Also after 35 years of running my own stuff at home, and practically never updating anything, I've never had an outage caused by a lack of updates.

Let's not act like auto updates is without risk. Just look at how often Microsoft has to roll out a fix for something an update broke. Inexperienced users are going to be clueless when an update breaks something.

We should be teaching new people how to manage systems, this includes proper update checks on a cycle, with appropriate validation that everything works afterwards, and the ability to roll back if there's an issue.

This isn't an Enterprise where you simply can't manually manage updates across hundreds or thousands of servers, and tens of thousands of workstations - this is a single admin, small environment.

I do monthly update checks, update where I feel it's warranted, and verify systems afterwards.

Two requirements stand out: Media streaming (jellyfin) and multiple hard drives.

In the video front, Jellyfin has documented what you want to look for if you're building "new" (that is, not just using what you have lying about). Discrete video card is very much recommended for tranacoding (which will invariably happen). Check their docs here. They also cover which processor to use and why.

Let's consider drives now: what's the reasoning for multiple drives? I had this requirement too, then had a Dell OptiPlex SFF (Small Form Factor) fall in my lap. Because it can only handle 2 drives (in addition to the M2 OS drive), it made me rethink things. At first I added a 4 port SATA card and four 2.5" drives I had lying around. It worked, but what I realized was my media server needed enough storage to hold my library, but it didn't need internal redundancy. So currently it has an 8TB drive for my library, and an M2 drive for the OS (which is how this machine comes anyway). That drive is duplicated to a NAS and two other drives on different machines (to protect against drive failure).

I run a monthly host OS backup to my NAS, just in case (but it's a simple rebuild as my services/tools run in VM's).

I had a cooling issue at first, then realized it was an old machine (2017), and the cooler paste was likely hard. Cleaned it off and put on new and the fan now runs quietly, even when converting. At idle it hardly makes any noise at all.

One nice thing is it has a relatively small power supply, so it peaks at 80w while converting, and idles about 15w.

It lacks a discrete video card, so when it does transcoding the quality suffers a little. I'll need to upgrade the power supply to add a video card.

I'm really impressed with this little box - I'd buy another in a heartbeat.

Because necklaces are fragile. The end.

Funny, fewer people are going, so instead of making it a more attractive experience they choose to punish those who do go.

Never.

Apple always felt constraining, and unintuitive, starting with the first Mac and it's tiny-ass screen.

Not for me it isn't.

Hahaha

5% daily, of global revenue.

Now that's how penalties should work.

Next.

Life goes on.

I don't mean to sound callous, but all we can do is choose our own thoughts and actions.

This would work on a typical 120v outlet, but a 220/240v outlet is only used for appliances.

This is where a voltmeter is useful.

Hooking up a voltmeter to an outlet with no power because the breaker's off isn't going to tell you anything, other than there's no power on that outlet, but you won't know why unless you leave the meter connected and then turn the breaker on to verify.

Now may be a good opportunity to label stuff - start with turning breakers off and determining what goes dark - label those accordingly. Inventory the outlets, find all the 220/250 ones - those will be on these double breakers (including electric water heat).

You'll then be left with only a couple unknowns, probably just one, since the dryer circuit doesn't have anything on it.

I've gone so far as to put a label on each outlet using a labeler with clear tape in it.

Edit: Pretty sure a dryer outlet isn't going to require a 100amp breaker, so ignore those.

Looks like there's 3 2 double breakers rated for 30 amps, it's most likely one of those - #9 and #29.

Edit2: Could also be a 60 amp circuit, though I don't know why a dryer would need 60amp at 220/240 these days, but I'm not an electrician.

Well that's a start anyway.

Cloudflare is a problem in the same way AMP sites are, and any other centralizing mechanism.

Maybe this will motivate some change in the CDN space.

That's at least a potential positive result from this.

The library.

Tons of books on CD, takes minutes to rip.

They also have audio books via streaming apps and digital players (like an mp3 player with a single book). With either of those you have to do the old school record the audio though, so I avoid them u less I absolutely have to.

I also do mp3 rips of videos that are mostly just lectures, where visual isn't critical.