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<3 mergerfs and <3 my setup, but just a warning: make sure you read the documentation and ensure you've got all the proper options set in your fstab entry for the mergerfs mount.

There's a lot of stuff in there that can interact weirdly with various pieces of software and lead to the most insane debug sessions because, well, why would a drive mount break other software (in my case it was qbittorrent in docker when an upgrade required me to change the mount options to not include direct_io).

There are USB enclosures that provide more than 1 drive; what you're after is a 'usb attached das'/'usb direct attached storage'.

Caveat with these is not all of them are the same, and you'll want to validate the chipset they use works for your use case/OS or you can end up with a lovely pile of drives, all with corrupt data. (Cheap is not your friend here.)

It's all NIMBYism. We absolutely could shit out a standardized reactor design and build as many as we need but you can't get people to agree that we should do that, and even a lot of the people who DO want nuclear power want it as far away from them as possible.

Too many decades of mis/disinformation around things like TMI and Chernobyl have ruined several generations of people's opinions on being near nuclear even if they generally approve of it. (And by near, I mean in the same state as them, even.)

This is strictly a public opinion problem, and one reason solar and wind is expanding so rapidly is nobody has any major objections to those.

I'm using 12.3 on Windows, and the version I grabbed didn't require me to do anything other than mount the iso, and run the installer.

YMMV, no clue about OS X support, no clue about version 13.

Yeah, the Anno games have been good, but I'm firmly in the wait-for-reviews camp for any Ubisoft games just because they've certainly made some fuckups in the recent past.

Hopeful that Ubisoft management doesn't do anything that's too egregious.

pay for any damage they cause

Things have gotten somewhat better after some high-profile messes, but we're still basically just shoving tens of thousands of gallons of toxic wastewater into holes and hoping it stays there and doesn't go anywhere else. Which, of course, uh, water likes doing, so it's very much not a good permanent solution to anything.

I'm pro-nuclear myself, given that of a long list of mediocre (wind, solar, hydro) to bad choices (coal, biomass) it's probably the best and most reliable option that relies the least on highly contentious resources (lithium) and the waste problem isn't entirely insurmountable given the progress on fuel recycling that's been being made in recent years.

And I'm sure I'm going to get shit for calling wind, solar and hydro mediocre, and that's probably reasonable. But the problem is solar and wind aren't good base loads, and building a large hydroelectric plant is incredibly impactful for wherever you're building it, since it kinda requires you to make a giant-ass lake on an area that's probably not already one.

There's a product manager in Redmond frantically scribbling this down for his next skiplevel meeting right now.

Typically not by injecting toxic carcinogens into the ground to do so, like we do with fracking.

Also I've not heard of any strip mining activities that turn a town's only water supply into something that's flammable, but I perhaps missed that?

Or the ongoing incidents of child and adult cancer caused by this itty bitty little toxic waste issue.

In the US, the major source of natgas is now fracking.

And uh, fracking is about the most gross extraction method for anything you can dig out of the ground.

Makes sense.

If you're a PE firm, it's obvious there's some quick cash to be grabbed in a rip-and-run sale of the foundry assets. Sure it'd fuck Intel but that's not your problem after you cash the check.

And there's also a good case that could be made that the design side is valuable and the foundry isn't worth what's being spent because, after all, AMD is competing just fine without having to invest endless billions.

Of course, if you're Intel, you don't WANT to just be a design firm and rely on some 3rd party to make your shit, and so, you do this.

None of these companies would ever ever ever want to replace the 'user' metric with a 'human' metric.

Infinite growth requires infinite well, growth, and tossing out ANY portion of their MAU number would tank all of them immediately.

And, of course, they know this, and they know the MAU number is a giant pile of lies, so uh, good luck with changing terminology?

Honestly I'm waiting for Settings AI now with CoPilot which changes your configuration based on what you're doing, and only sometimes does stupid shit that you have to stop and sort out.

And then they'd have 3 control panel apps.

True, I was forgetting about the Shareholder Value(TM).

Which is silly of me, because it's basically the only innovative thing Microsoft has done in the last oh, 20 years?

Boy, they just love making shit up and then figuring out if they can turn their bullshit into some sort of extreme cruelty.

I can only assume you have to be a massive sadist to be a Republican, because a fucking normal person would never go along with these fucks when they're babbling nonsense and then talk about stealing children.

It really feels like it shouldn't be THAT hard of a thing to do: I mean shit, we're 4 major releases into this, and they somehow managed to put all the features in the original control panel in uh, one release.

No no, "modern" means "includes blank space specifically for us to stick ads on".

Vertical tabs in Firefox? Well shit, okay I'm in.

Wouldn't mind if their webpage had a little more detail on what, exactly, they've done to make it "privacy focused" other than a we-dont-collect-data privacy policy, but uh, vertical tabs!

Haven't many settings in the control panel been in the process of being migrated to the settings app for the last uh, 15 years?

I mean good for ya'll at Microsoft, but

On one hand, this sounds amazing and I've wanted a real sequel to Caesar 3 for uh, decades, and this totally could manage that.

On the other, ubisoft.

If you look at the substacks other posts, its very clearly an ai bot.