I’m a windows and Linux user. I received for free an old 2015 MacBook air. I absolutely love it (after installing brew).

With how infuriating Windows 11 is, I’m slowly starting to understand why people prefer to pay more for a Mac.

Upvote for Frank, he’s such an amazing person!

That’s very useful if you want to attach an old school printer or mouse to your penis.

Well, it’s a spectrum. I worked with a woman that was spending the whole time in our office laying on the floor during her period because how painful it was. But I’m also married with a woman that doesn’t have any symptoms at all and when asked about she said the only annoyance was having tampons ready.

Nano, Pico and Micro? is this editor trying to !compensate for something?

Older voters are the best voters, so at the end of the day they’ll make sure that stuff stays intact, one way or the other.

you know? that’s actually a valid point.

I can agree with you. Thankfully I live in Europe where it’s good ethics for politicians thinking about societal issues, but in the “land of the free” that’s a luxury most people don’t expect. So help yourself.

“traditional pensions” is a misleading lie. The idea of ceasing to work after reaching a certain age, has been around since around the 18th century, quite new stuff considering how long homo sapiens is around.

And don’t get angry at me, I personally think it’s a great thing, I’m not an entrepeneur, I’m salaried and I’m hoping to retire eventually, but how the world economics is going, I’m not holding my breath.

Retirement plans worked great during the wars, lots of fine men never reclaiming their retirement money after years of paying for it because they’re all KIA. More money to share with fewer people.

Then, after the war, we got the baby boom, lots of fresh meat eager to work to support the retirement of the previous workforce, or what remains of that, after all the PTSD and diseases.

Now? Since you are reading this here on Lemmy, I’m supposing you’re tech savy, educated and curious. So you already know population is shrinking around the (first) world. Retirement plans as we know are not sustainable.

What I suggest, is talk to your bank, your consultant, your insurance. Figure out what kind of products they offer as “private retirement plans” and what’s their suggestion. Don’t expect the government to do something for you (especially in the US).

Do it yesterday, if not possible, then as soon as you can. The earlier you start planning your future, the better.

And if you change your mind, you could always withdraw that money and buy a house, which is something almost impossible until you escape the “living paycheck to paycheck” mentality.

Voodoo People!! ❤️

Are you sure? All I’ve heard from multiple people is that bars was terrible at answering most questions compared to chatgpt. Maybe it was improved recently?

Because porn itself doesn’t exist, it’s a by-product of biomechanics.

It’s like asking a bot to draw speed, but all references to aircrafts and racecars have been removed.

It’s pretty obvious: it’s Asimov’s third law of robotics!

You kids don’t learn this stuff in school anymore!?

/s

That phobia is exactly why I’m still using that piece of crap like PayPal.

The only true hacker movie is the one with Angelina Jolie!

Oh, yes I agree. If you want to be malicious, you can think of many ways to go around it. You could use a physical switch that kills the circuit to the microphone and say “see? it’s physically impossible to listen if the microphone wires are not even connected!” and then hide a second microphone inside the speaker chassis. But unless you’re a valuable target, I prefer my Occam’s razor to be the appropriate kind of sharpness.

Yes, ZFS is commonly known for heavy disk I/O and also huge RAM usage, the rule used to be “1GB of RAM for every TB of disk” but that’s not compulsory.

Meanwhile, about BTRFS, keep in mind that Synology uses a mixed recipe because the RAID code of BTRFS is still green and it’s not considered production ready. Here’s an interesting read about how Synology filled the gaps: https://daltondur.st/syno_btrfs_1/

Oh that’s great to hear. Thank you for sharing.

The most common software choices are TrueNAS and UNRAID.

Depending on your use-case, one is better than the other:

TrueNAS uses ZFS, which is great if you want to be absolutely sure the unreplaceable data on your disks is 100% safe, like your personal photos. UNRAID has a more flexible expansion and more power efficient, but doesn’t prevent any bit flip, which is not really an issue if you only store multimedia for streaming.

If you prefer a hardware solution ready to use, Synology and QNAP are great choices so long you remember to use ZFS (QNAP) or BTRFS (Synology) as filesystem.

Oh… oh! Now I get it! That’s actually a great joke! 🤣

You’re confused by the mega drive / genesis version. The super Nintendo version was censored and didn’t have any blood.