Interestingly, we have Hubble in part because spy agencies had spare Keyhole Satellite chassis.

“Give everyone what they need”

From who’s pocket? It won’t be from the wealthy, because they are powerful - the wealth is a side-effect of that. They’ll still be powerful, and still have more than the rest of us.

Yea, it’s nonsense to say “stone” means worked by human hands.

Here’s what Dictionary.com has to say:

the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.

a rock or particular piece or kind of rock, as a boulder or piece of agate.

a piece of rock quarried and worked into a specific size and shape for a particular purpose: building stone.

The etymology of stone indicates same:

stone(n.) “discrete piece of rock,” especially not a large one, Old English stan, which was used of common rocks, precious gems, concretions in the body, memorial stones, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (source also of Old Norse steinn, Danish steen, Old Saxon sten, Old Frisian sten, Dutch steen, Old High German stein, German Stein, Gothic stains).

Anecdotal: I’ve never once heard anyone, ever, make this distinction. Stone and rock are synonymous.

Right?

Field hockey and LaCrosse balls are all the same, have to meet a spec.

Why not just make a spec stone, sell it, and license it with certification tests?

So… Pay it on the 15th?

Or, get a different card that permits this?

Yes.

Because I cook, and need that stuff back. I don’t have all day, I gotta cook again in a few hours.

What are you trying to guard against with backups? It sounds like your greatest concern is data loss from hardware failure.

The 3-2-1 approach exists because it addresses the different concerns about data loss: hardware failures, accidental deletion, physical disaster.

That drive in your safe isn’t a good backup - drives fail just as often when offline as online (I believe they fail more often when powered off, but I don’t have data to support that). That safe isn’t waterproof, and it’s fire resistance is designed to protect paper, not hard drives.

If this data is important enough to back up, then it’s worth having an off site copy of your backup. Backblaze is one way, but there are a number of cloud based storages that will work (Hetznet, etc).

As to your Windows/Linux concern, just have a consistent data storage location, treat that location as authoritative, and perform backups from there. For example - I have a server, a NAS, and an always-on external drive as part of my data duplication. The server is authoritative, laptops and phones continuously sync to it via Syncthing or Resilio Sync, and it duplicates to the NAS and external drives on a schedule. I never touch the NAS or external drives. The server also has a cloud backup.

From a cooling standpoint, you probably don’t want go any smaller than a Small Form Factor desktop. These are large enough to have a proper heatsink and fan on the cpu, enough space for a dedicated video card, have the motherboard connections for a card, large enough power supply, and can support a case fan.

Mini desktops have minimal cooling capacity, definitely no case fan.

For example, I run a Dell SFF (OptiPlex 7050) as a server for virtual machines, Jellyfin host, file server, and media converter. It’s an older machine with an 80 watt power supply (barely enough for my use case), no case fan, and the stock cooler/fan is fortunately well designed.

That stock cooler also evacuates the case, but can’t move enough air to keep the large drive I installed at reasonable temps. Adding a case fan (centrifugal, which can handle restrictions) dropped the drive temps by more than 20F.

Without the sizeable cpu cooler and it’s fan, there’s no way to keep the cpu cool when doing anything more than basic desktop functions. A mini pc would quickly overheat, unless it had a good fan.

Hahaha.

I just replaced a 20 year old dishwasher with it’s newer equivalent: it has a grand total of 3 cycle options.

Screw this surveillance nonsense. Why does a dishwasher need connectivity? It’s a box that sprays water.

A friend has one that the fastest cycle is 1.5 hours. One cycle is four hours… Wtf?

What year was that released? Looks like 60’s. It may have been done that way so it would sound right on a mono player since they would’ve been around still. Plus the studio being cheap.

Holy shit, that’s insane…1992? Back then setting up a drive meant configuring interleave and some other stuff.

Wow, that says a lot for Bandcamp

There’s and endless supply of guides for ripping.

On Windows just use Exact Audio Copy - It can pull all the track info from multiple sources. I forget what I used on Linux.

Right.

So someone riding around drunk on a barbie car with a suspended license, on the street is an ok thing.

🤦🏼

No, they aren’t arresting the 5 year Olds, and they explained it.

Typically when you find someone with a suspended license driving something like this barbie car, it’s a way they think they can get around the law.

This guy, to his credit, took it in stride.

A type of document?

Now I’m really confused.

Wtf if a ChoMo?

It’s not required, it just seems required to non-technical people (I know, potato/potato, it’s effectively required).

Linux is servers.

Hell, VMware migrated to a Linux base a while back, and with their new exorbitant pricing, large environments are switching to things like Proxmox.

The next ten years, VMware will be second string virtualization, even in data centers.

I’m not sure what’s going to happen, but there was a “BIOS War” in the 80’s,when IBM wouldn’t release their BIOS code, so other devs reverse engineered it. No reason why that couldn’t happen again.