TemporaryBoyfriend 12mo ago • 100%
If anyone cares, these drives are slow (SMR), but they're practically silent. I upgraded a NAS at home with a 16TB Exos after accumulating 4 years of 24x7x365 operation, and the sudden lack of silence is... Noticable.
TemporaryBoyfriend 12mo ago • 90%
The very definition of genocide.
You'd think that Israelis would be more self-aware, but there's plenty of videos of them cheering the seige of Gaza and the bombing of children. I don't want to paint them all with the same brush, but there's a metric fuckload of people in those crowds.
TemporaryBoyfriend 12mo ago • 100%
I like the idea that politicians are held to a higher standard, but I can't imagine it would be easy to enforce. If it was a financial penalty, it would encourage corruption. If the penalty was an exclusion from running in the next election, the group that makes that determination could be weaponized. It would be difficult to structure.
TemporaryBoyfriend 12mo ago • 100%
Modern heat pumps work down to -30C, at which point the furnace supplements with electric heat which is built into the unit.
My electricity costs dropped 50% over my builder-grade piece-of-shit electric furnace & AC unit -- and I even increased from a 2 ton to a 2.5 ton system. The initial cost was about $12k, and it will take 8 to 10 years to break even, less if the cost electricity keeps increasing the way it has over the last 10 years.
Also, you may not want A/C now, but you will shortly -- heat waves are getting more severe each year.
TemporaryBoyfriend 12mo ago • 66%
Heh... I like the idea of a 'blue line' 'centre ice' party... Every Canuck should know what it means, and it's a nod to our Hockey heritage, but I can totally see it getting mixed up with the nazi police 'thin blue line' bullshit.
TemporaryBoyfriend 12mo ago • 100%
Then what's the spin you want to hear from a politician that would make you vote for them? (That is, spin that isn't full of racism and rhetoric about the other side.)
TemporaryBoyfriend 12mo ago • 100%
I think it's a false division, which is stoked by far-right leaning politicians. I'd like to believe that even people who lean right politically are still for functioning public education and health care. The issue is that people aren't doing as well as they remember doing 20 years ago for a variety of very solvable issues.
I think a majority of Canadians are kind, hardworking, and want what's best for their families, friends, neighbours, and the country. What does a brand new political party platform look like to appeal to an overwhelming majority of Canadians?
TemporaryBoyfriend 12mo ago • 100%
It's hard to tell from the photo, but it seems like that guy needs all of his valve stems adjusted. They make tools especially for this type of work... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=side+cutters
TemporaryBoyfriend 12mo ago • 100%
Oh, and I had a thought about their methodology - the screen recording software only works when it's booted from the internal hard drive. Boot with a USB stick with a Linux live image, mount the internal drive as read-only, and you can copy the entire thing, and nobody will ever know.
TemporaryBoyfriend 12mo ago • 100%
Also, wipe your hard drives before you throw out computers. Folks throw PCs out all the time in my office building, and I pick them up to refurb and 'freecycle' them. More than half the time, I'll plug it in to see if it will boot it up, and the drives are still intact, and loaded up with personal data... Then I plug in my DBAN USB stick and wipe the drive(s) 3x.
TemporaryBoyfriend 1y ago • 100%
Nope, there's a mad rush to get as many cargo ships through as possible before the Seaway freezes in January. The timing is perfect.
TemporaryBoyfriend 1y ago • 100%
Also, this device isn't fully supported on OpenWRT (yet?), so it's not like it's a good deal just for the hardware.
TemporaryBoyfriend 1y ago • 75%
The way I do it (cast iron pan on the BBQ, screamin' hot at 700+C) is super delicious. So much so that I think I might fire up a steak this weekend. Gotta check the weather forecast to see if it's worthwhile.
TemporaryBoyfriend 1y ago • 50%
I clearly need to get better weed then... I don't see, feel, hear, taste, or smell anything that's not there when I've had some gummies. All I get it a good night's sleep.
TemporaryBoyfriend 1y ago • 100%
Par for the fucking course. Remember how his crackhead brother cost Toronto nearly $100M in cancellation fees, wasted work, and then probably hundreds of millions more in lost productivity by writing a one page memo on mayoral letterhead cancelling Transit City?
It infuriates me that people think conservatives are good with money. They burn through hundreds of millions in utter and complete bullshit while championing 'efficiencies' and burning the system down from the inside.
TemporaryBoyfriend 1y ago • 100%
Its advantage, strictly speaking, is that it is not correlated very much with stocks, bonds, real estate and other things people owe.
Not that the bot made a mistake, but this is wrong...
Gold drops like a rock when markets take a shit. It usually bounces back quickly -- often before stocks recover, giving you a chance to buy cheap on the dip, and sell at a profit three months later, and pick up some of the stocks that haven't recovered yet... But it VERY MUCH moves in sync with the market during times of crisis.
TemporaryBoyfriend 1y ago • 100%
Tax the fuck out of these ghouls.
TemporaryBoyfriend 1y ago • 100%
He wasn't afraid of fucking around in downtown Ottawa for 3 weeks... but the finding out... THAT part he's afraid of.
Can we just sentence him to get a university-level education? It will effectively keep him out of society for the rest of his life.
TemporaryBoyfriend 1y ago • 100%
So... 175,000 square kilometers of Canada was on fire this summer... Eclipsing all recorded records... Most of it in the west... And they're STILL pushing to extract more oil & gas.
I'd ask how fucking stupid they are, but I'm pretty sure this summarizes it sufficiently...
It's a long story I'd rather not get into, so I've simplified it into a single long question... Assuming a will is valid, but circumstances have changed dramatically since the time the will was written, and there was no opportunity for the person to re-write the will due to incapacity, is it possible to renegotiate the distribution of the proceeds of an estate with other beneficiaries? Just wondering aloud if anyone's been through this.
I work in a niche inside a niche. I deal with terabytes of storage, massive servers, a variety of storage tech, and I've been in interested in computers in general for... Around 40 years. (Yeah, I'm old.) I have my own single person company and have worked in 40+ US states, done assignments in the UK, Norway. AMA.
Turns out gas stoves emit benzene in non-trivial amounts... Damnit.
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