We have some platform-specific tooling. I might attempt it if they didn’t let me have a Mac at work (I remote into Win for the couple of proprietary things anyway). There’s that saying, you miss all the shots you don’t take. Go for it and see.

If you have anything exposed, scripts and bots are testing your server all day, every day. So long as you’ve got proper security in place, ignore the failed attempts.

I used mine all the time at my old work. So when I moved to a new place and my old desk couldn’t handle another disassembly and reassembly, I bought the same model (electric, multiple saved settings). Turns out the reason I used my standing desk was a shitty office chair. I have an Aeron chair at home, so I never need to stand.

The adjustable desk wasn’t a wash. I was able to adjust it to the exact right height for my chair. My old desk was slightly too high, so I have the best ergonomics I’ve ever had in my life. It’s awesome and I’d absolutely buy the adjustable desk again just for the best seated height.

Boomers will also get locked out of a lot of content because verifying their age is too complicated. I feel no sympathy.

Further, the studios saw how Apple cornered the market selling songs for a dollar and didn’t want any one company (Netflix) to have that kind of control again. And it happened the same way: the record industry didn’t take the iTunes Store as anything that could be a huge success and gave Apple a sweetheart deal that they later regretted for leaving money on the table.

The lesson they didn’t learn is that it takes competitive pricing to wipe out (most of) piracy. The desire to squeeze every last drop of profit leads to its resurgence.

Good riddance to studios opening a bajillion streaming services. Sail the high seas and be merry.

He’s clearly drunk.

They chose to kill the golden goose by jacking up prices over and over and over. I don’t feel bad for greedy corporations who did this to themselves.

I relied on Syncthing for a few years until my laptop became so powerful that a desktop was no longer needed (I do pro-audio work in Logic with lots of plugins; but I’m also just a nerd power-user). This has me thinking about getting back into using it to sync a much smaller amount of data, such as my Bash profile and custom functions, as well as some custom binaries that I keep in ~/bin. But I’ll wait until a few releases into the 2.x cycle before I install while others help find the rough edges.

Hooray for development of awesome tools. Hats off to all the devs involved.

Jesus would hate his followers. They have zero understanding of the message. But that’s ok, cause he wasn’t the Messiah, nor was he a historical figure, so nothing lost there.

It’s supposed to be mildly infuriating, but it actually made me laugh. Not because I like or agree with the idea, but just at the absurdity of it.

Great answer. Thanks for the educational content!

Ok, so I’m looking for someone who knows more than me about math to verify that all of this is accurate. Cause if so, this is really awesome.

“Listen for his latchkey and meet him on the threshold.”

“Let your wife share them.”

“At least be thoughtful.”

I’m in a hurry. There might have been others.

I’m shocked that the advice to the husbands is to not be a jerk.

Tacky af. Almost as tacky as a gold toilet. And just as useful. A fine place to take a shit.

Poor little guy lacks the gracefulness of his species when inert. Bet he can still jump and hunt like a badass, though.

It would have been more accurate for me to frame it as file formats only.

What’s awesome is that no one alive today can disprove their marketing. I’ll stick with the tech that we’ve been using for decades. You know, the one about which we have lots of data how it performs and degrades. Because we’ve manufactured hundreds of millions, or perhaps billions, of them. How many people do you know using M-DISCs and how many of them have had them for decades? I can answer the second part: zero, as they came to market in 2009.

I’m sorry, did I not provide a workable solution using magnetic media and periodic writes of new data? There’s nothing paranoid about that. It’s smart archiving.

You can spiral off into portraying my common-sense solution as hyperbolic bullshit, but that’s just going to lead me to the conclusion that you didn’t read or comprehend my recommendation. I provided an actual solution and what you said isn’t helpful.

I wouldn’t trust that either.