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If you have a credit card and can pass their validation, Oracle offers a shockingly good set of free cloud options.

4 core, 24gb ram ARM instance, two potato epyc instances, 200gb of disk space and 10tb of transfer and various other little bits and pieces for the grand total of $0.

Some people have had their accounts closed for "no reason", but I'm closing in on 2 years of free shit with no problems, so ymmv.

(I strongly suspect no reason has a reason and a huge number of these people were running VPNs, so I'd wager they either did something stupid/illegal, or someone they gave access to did something stupid/illegal.)

Finally, a power button my stupid cats can't sit on and turn the computer off with.

Laptop? Oh yeah, they'll turn that off. Gaming desktop? Yep, but only if it's annoying for them to have done so. Home server? Yes, but only because they know that's the most annoying thing to power cycle.

Crap title: it's a lot of 'if'.

If they're being honest with performance.

If they don't have any development issues they might have a next generation in a year or two, that might be on par with current CPUs, maybe.

I don't really believe any manufacturer's benchmarks, and I especially don't believe it about a product that doesn't exist yet.

Is there nothing that won't be stripmined for a nostalgia dollar?

I hope everyone involved gets Dysentery and this project dies of snakebite.

Maybe?

It depends on if the added functions are software-based, or if there's some hardware funkery going on.

Given it's a consumer product, I'd wager it's just a drive in an enclosure that does all their mirroring/backups/encryption stuff in software, but their marketing material doesn't seem to say one way or the other.

Google indicates older versions can be reformatted, so I'd bet that's still true.

If I'm wrong it's not my fault, etc.

Hey, if you can do it on a 4004.....

(Yes yes, you'd have to write an x86 emulator and it'd be slow as heck but I mean, you could.)

If you've never seen it, https://github.com/PeerConnect/peer-connect is a clever solution to p2p CDN stuff.

It's not Bittorrent for images, but it's still a shockingly elegant thing.

It's probably a dead project, but I ran across it and went 'why is this not how everything works'.

A vast majority of instance software will store all old remote non-media data (that could easily be re-fetched when needed) permanently, even if nobody has seen it in years.

Seriously, this is the most befuddling design decision. There's no reason to cache that data more than like, maybe a week.

Maybe it's because I'm a sysadmin background type and not a programmer, but the endless obsession that fedi-software has with caching everything at every stop along the route from the poster to the person reading the post is just the most weird thing to me.

Oh no. Where can I buy single-use trash and toxic waste now?

Secondary market.

I've been playing since my local comics and games store told me I should totally check out this cool new thing they got, back in 1993.

It's just a case of 30 years of hoarding and being in early enough that I have a fair pile of things like the Power Nine (Though, sadly, mostly the poverty-spec ones, since they're in the Unlimited printing), dual lands, and basically everything else of any substantial value that's been printed at any point in the last 30 years.

Best guess is I've got something like 60,000-70,000 cards (I store in 800 card boxes because they fit in the wine holder in a kallax shelf, and I've got like 80 boxes, plus a giant pile of commander decks).

I've been playing a very very long time and honestly the last decade has been a downhill slope of little nibbles of enshittification, but nothing that made me feel that if I'm ever going to get out, I should do it sooner rather than later like what's going on now is giving me.

And if this is an American couple in America doing the American dream, one would expect at like, a million dollars in healthcare expenses too.

We all knew it was possible

I wouldn't bet on that, which is why I mentioned moderated groups at all. As you said, they're rare and even if you used usenet 20 or 25 or 30 years ago, the odds that you'd have ever seen one was shockingly low.

So even ex-usenet users might not have a clue that there was a method for doing that (let alone any of the people who aren't that old), which is why I brought it up.

Meh. The quality of this article is not... amazing.

They cite a 'new study' but do not say who did it, provide a link to it, or otherwise provide a way to validate their scores mean anything.

And then they immediately call a messaging app that's not fully E2E encrypted as 'private'.

I'm pretty sure F to doubt applies here.

Amazon

For as awful as Amazon is, I'll give them this one.

Cancelling prime is shockingly easy compared to what most places drag you through: account settings, prime, cancel, yes I'm sure, done.

Requiring that from everyone would be a huge step forward. Also let's make sure it forces gyms to do it, too.

Riker, his beard shaved.

Yeah, that wasn't meant to be remotely comprehensive: there's a lot of ways you can do this ranging from the filesystem to what kind of archives you're storing, to programs that make parity data for validation.

...also, since I haven't started a flamewar yet today, I don't think I'd personally use BTRFS. It's still too new, has had data consistency issues too recently, and just plain doesn't have the kind of historical performance record for something I'd want to use for archival purposes.

Come back in another decade and we'll see how it's been going.

You forgot both 'Don't send too much email' and 'Fail to send enough email' as qualifiers, as well.

Which I think is the big thing that hits more people than anything else, since 'too much traffic' and 'not enough traffic' are not defined and so you can easily be caught by one, then the other, then end up in purgatory.

(This is mostly a Microsoft problem rather than a Google problem, but still.)

Off the top of my head: Windsquid, Rockwhale, Waterclam.

Well yes, and I don't, in any way, own any cards worth more than $5000.

Or uh, maybe have a MTG collection that's probably worth nearly as much as my house.

Nope.

Not me.

powered occasionally to hold data

A bit more detail: simply being powered on won't necessarily stop that.

You want something checksumming the data and making sure it's not silently rotting off the disk.

ZFS does this, something like snapraid can do it too, and there's various other methods of making checksums you can validate data integrity with and be able to repair minor corruption. (PAR files, for example.)

A real-world example of this kind of oops is everyone's favorite Youtube Tech Personality(TM) LTT who lost a fuck-ton of data due to not scrubbing data on a ZFS array and had to go through months of restoration to get most of it back, so uh, yeah, make sure you've taken steps to detect and correct the bitrot that's going to happen anyways.