If you are buying used datacenter drives, larger capacity drives are also likely to be newer, which tips the scales a little more in that direction.

Nostalgia hit, right in the gut!

Seconding Plex / Plexamp if the use case involves streaming remotely. Probably the easiest to get up and running for remote access.

I’m not sure about the capabilities of hosting on a Pi, but it should be straightforward to run a couple different apps in parallel to test and compare features (I’m currently doing exactly that with Plex and Jellyfin)

You may be right. I really hate that it’s so hard to tell sometimes.

I am genuinely interested in the line of logic that links “About to become leader of the free world” with "dated Montel Williams in 2001’.

For $700 they could at least throw in a 4k Blu-ray player.

Then again, I ponied up extra for the disc version of the original ps5 for that exact reason, only to find out the media player software is a giant piece of garbage that was clearly given no effort. So I can’t say I’m too surprised.

Came into the comments to read about petting baby cows. Left feeling icky. ☹️

Maybe its just cause I’m high, but baby cows are frickin adorable, and now I’m thinking about finding a rancher friend.

I personally underestimated the support Harris would get. I remember lots of progressives being unhappy with her back in 2020, due to her background as a prosecutor.

Between that and the obvious reasons Republicans would go after her, I figured it would be an uphill battle.

Very happy to have been wrong!

I get Robin Wright vibes. Maybe they were going for the subliminal House of Cards reference?

I have to disagree a little bit personally. It can be a chore, but sometimes there is a sense that you’re taking this generic piece of tech sold by the millions and tailoring it to your personal preferences. It’s a little silly and superficial, but it can add a little extra enjoyment to that whole experience of getting a new shiny that you’ve been looking forward to.

All that said, paying $95 for the experience of setting up a used exercise bike is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.

Yep, I was wearing that clown makeup too. Dems have not impressed me much lately with being able to deliver a coherent and effective message, so I was fully prepared for a shitshow of disarray if/when Biden dropped out.

It was very surprising to me how effectively they were able to leave Trump stumbling just as he seemed to be on the upswing. The utter lack of disorder around it almost feels like Biden was planning to drop out of the race all along, just waiting for the right moment… but that’s probably giving him too much credit.

It’s definitely not not the goth mommy we’ve been after.

ETA: This is example 24,873 of Republicans’ imaginary scare tactic actually seeming pretty damn cool if it were real.

This is wild to me, to be honest.

One of the great things about email, versus IMs and other more real-time forms of communication is that it gives the recipient the ability to address it in a more offline manner. In that way, I’ve always viewed it as more respective of people’s schedule and work habits, since it’s naturally asynchronous.

So I’m having trouble following the idea that people would view it as intrusive and obnoxious while also saying that the only way to get a reply from them the same week is to get in front of them with a real-time communication like a call or physical visit–way more disruptive to concentration.

Right!? What kind of email correspondence is this person engaged in that takes them 4 days to process and reply to?

I’d be interested to see their timeline for other forms of communication.

Is that not the normal? I just started sailing again recently, and I legit feel bad having to clear out an old torrent to make room for something new.

They exist only so you stay on Google’s page and don’t follow a link to another site.

That may be true, but I’d say in the neighborhood of 1/3 - 1/2 of my searches are answered by auto-compiled info cards or similar artifacts.

Just by way of example, my wife and I were casually researching cars lately, and one of the criteria is “does the damn thing fit in our garage??” Typing “Mazda CX-9 length” and having that specific info presented immediately is immensely preferable to clicking into edmonds.com and scrolling through an entire table of specifications.

I could be dead wrong, but I actually get the impression this wasn’t really meant in the modern colloquial sense of keeping your nose out of other people’s affairs, and more in the literal sense of keep on top of your business dealings. Which would make sense, since it was to be printed on money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugio_cent

The photo of the terraced farming actually brings up an interesting point–in order to render those slopes usable for farming, terracing approximates the “flat” projection of the terrain anyways, so you end up with the same result. Buildings and any other usable structures follow the same rule: you can only build vertically, so the effective surface area is the same as the flat projection.

smdh… OP missed the most damning ones:

-WANTS TO CRIMINALIZE KICKING PUPPIES

-DRIVES HER GRANDMOTHER TO BINGO ON SUNDAY AFTERNOONS

I have the same rule, but that Chumba Casino app sounds so legit that I might make an exception!