I hoard media. I’m particular about my releases. I don’t want to stream some shady website that could disappear half way through a show.

I kept waiting to invest in more drives. Now I’m stuck with 4x4TB for the foreseeable future because replacing that raid array is brutal and even then I want to go bigger. Like the other commenter said, I’d like to be able to mirror big data sets.

Chilling? I’m not sure Donnie remembers he’s got kids. The mail order lingerie model sees him as her divorce contingency. Who’s left chilled?

Those emperors would be so mad if they could read!

Not a lot of ferrules in my life, aside from the occasional DT connector. But a proper crimp is a wonderful thing.

50% off in August suggests a marked up price.

Amazon, temu, wish etc. are all complicit.

Tax Amazon in some way, and zoning laws to encourage walkable development

The existence of Farage and Trump as political figures is largely dependent on the ignorance you refer to. It’s so frustrating that the lessons learned through hardship just simply are forgotten.

It is very similar to (moderate) wealth. The first generation earns it and the second generation spends it, ignorant of the effort it took to create it. (Dad and mom started a business and worked 60 hour weeks for 35 years, the kids don’t want the business, and by the end of their life, the kids have spent their inheritance).

Just no on the capsule.

I haven’t taken the dive into espresso as yet; however, I’ve moved from Aeropress and French press (Hoffman Method which takes forever) to a SCA drip machine for occasions when I need coffee in bulk or in a rush. I still have the Aeropress and French Press for single serve but usually use the drip for more than one person.

I see espresso as a hobbyist specialty (which I don’t think I have the patience for) and that’s one reason I haven’t invested in it for daily workflow. A drip machine (and I don’t include chemex or pour over here either) that can reliably make delicious hot brown caffeine is a different thing entirely. I wouldn’t get rid of the Profitec. It’s there for the weekends, holidays, and when the mood strikes. Like a convertible car.

Also, coffee is good yadayada but let’s not fool ourselves. Caffeine has a longish half life and will interrupt sleep so with kids already doing a good job of interruptions, I encourage everyone to keep it on the correct side of Noon.

I’m on the other side and wondering if I can justify the (at an extremely premium) counter space for an occasional use of a Sage Barista Express, alongside my usual brewing tools

Current value = assessed value of assets less the assessed investment and maintenance gaps, and just have the government seize it.

I was issued a laptop with 32GB for standard office work. 15 years ago our devs had 128GB. Of course, that was before COVID and AI insanity.

Torx is great until you can’t really see the bolt in question and think you have the right bit but actually it’s slightly small and rounds off the bolt entirely.

It is a good idea in general though.

Lane keep drives me of the fucking road when it’s sunny and the cameras can’t see straight.

Automatic braking loses it because of shadows but misses the goddamn elk.

I really love adaptive cruise, but i can see how many people (especially with lane centring) tune out - and make it a liability.

What most people don’t do is drive many vehicles. The difference between safety features on cars - and it’s not always price that is the differentiator - is staggering. Stability control isn’t the same between a Toyota and a BMW. Not halfway. A $90,000 GM and a $15,000 smart car are generations apart - the smart wins, at least on traction control. Unfortunately it’s not easy to test all these features empirically.

It’s no wonder people turn it off.

The titles are cringe. Not an ace thing, but they do need to put something down I think.

apparently there’s a ton of boomers who think that they, specifically, are the target of “would an older man still like this” posts.

Sounds like someone has a personal vendetta against window AC “dripping units” lmao.

Air to air and water to air heat pumps both move heat around the same way and underground or lake source can heat up locally and relatively permanently, so the benefits may be short term. It’s not great to pump heat into a lake.

That said, the efficiency of a shared system may be considerably higher than hundreds or thousands of individual units.

How does that work when they’re a recently homeless mentally ill drug addict who causes damage in the tens of thousands of dollars? They don’t have a job etc.

Lunchtime video games.

But also SharePoint, virtual. Bloated crap.

I’m curious to understand how disruptive and destructive people are handled. In my community I have heard of multiple tenants - who by all appearances aren’t mentally ill, as they have jobs and families - causing damage that requires stripping the floors and walls, replacing plumbing etc. Simply bringing someone in from the cold doesn’t automatically remove the reasons they’re originally unhoused, and there’s often a reasonable opposition to supervisor visit/inspections as part of previous trauma.

Philips and JIS are interchangeable; it’s Pozi that’s not.

Unfortunately she kinda comes off as a bit of a contrail conspiracy crazy person. Not helped by the current state of living in a van.

Microsoft turned on Copilot for all the m365 subscriptions and it’s not always evident how to disable it; most corpo email runs either on m365 or Google these days. Just don’t use it and leave the privacy risks in the hands of people who are ostensibly paid to make these decisions - voice your concerns of course.