This is all assuming it’s a spinning disk and not an SSD, so ignore me if that’s the case:

Given SAS drives are usually used in data centre storage array applications and 3TB disks have been kinda small for that use case for a fair while, there’s a fairly high chance it was in heavy use for a good number of years. I’d bet it’s probably well on its way to being a paperweight regardless of your connectivity situation.

If you do get it hooked up, don’t store anything on it you wouldn’t be okay losing.

The first one is pretty much down to, as Gabe Newell puts it, “piracy is a service problem”. Spotify came along and (initially) provided a much better service compared to pirating your music at the time. Once they created the market segment, competitors started their own streaming subscriptions. I’d also say the Google music “upload 50,000 tracks for free” got a lot of former pirates to jump.

Now the services are going through the same enshittification that most popular online services seem to be going through, we can see piracy increasing again. Someone will notice and fill the gap in providing a good service again at some point and the pendulum will swing once more

This guy watches Acton Retro, doesn’t he

Hat, maybe a fan if it’s gonna be particularly hot

Also bring something to listen to, with headphones usually, but if you know that it won’t annoy others, a Bluetooth speaker can be a good addition.

If you’re gonna generate any rubbish, something to put that in and take it away again

I like to bring some cold beers too, but that’s obviously not for everyone

WordPress is still the best option IMO. The software and ecosystem are very mature and as you say they’re friendly to the fediverse too

Substack is a safe harbour for actual Nazis and they refuse to do anything about it.

Everyone should avoid that site like the plague, and encourage anyone they know using it to do the same

Yeah it can have wildly different meanings depending on the circumstances in which it’s said. It can be “well we can’t change it, may as well get on with life” all the way to “well this discussion is not gonna change anything, let’s get on with fixing it”. Very similar, but polar opposite sentiments.

Emphatically disagree with you on image quality, the cameras are pretty much the only thing that are still noticeably improving between phone generations for me. This improvement is seen by proper photography review companies like DxO too.

Digital zoom is still shit today, but it was so much worse back then. We now at least have AI supersampling doing something slightly better.

The photos you’re looking at must be either cherry picked, perfect conditions, day time photography, or you just don’t know what to look for when comparing image quality.

The easiest comparisons to see the difference will be low-light night time photography, and photos with high dynamic range, such as shooting through a bright window from inside a dark room, etc.

This is all without pointing out that video image quality (using those same cameras) has improved even more noticeably since the phones you’re talking about. And with people increasingly caring about shooting video, this also explains why.

I specifically don’t comment on people that give off the vibe they might be one of those kind of nutjobs, precisely because it gives them a notification with my username attached if I do. I’m on this site to kill some time with low effort, I want to minimise the risk of attracting the attention of some weirdo.

I downvote in those scenarios and then report if appropriate. If enough other users feel the same way the comment goes down to the bottom of the thread and fewer users see it. Especially if it’s something that a mod eventually removes, as it reduces the reach until a mod can get to it.

If I risk retaliation for doing that, I (and others) will just stop, meaning those comments stay up front & centre and we lose that soft moderation plus that engagement in general. Going into the comments will just end up being a worse experience

I think it’s American for GP but I might be wrong

Hard no from me

I don’t want some nutjob with too much time stalking me because I upvoted something about climate change or downvoted some bigoted shit. We all know those fuckos are out there

Voting on Reddit-like platforms is soft moderation by a community, and if you disincentive that, the whole model kinda falls apart IMO

OP you had one job. It’s NZB as per your link, not NBZ

And in answer to your question, it’s like a torrent file but for Usenet. You will need a news-server subscription to download the content they describe and you’ll generally need an indexer (similar to a torrent tracker) to find them. Most of the good indexers also charge a fee

If you rely on some kind of harness to hold you up, you’re not using your muscles properly

You’re gonna end up with different muscle problems if you rely on it to hold you in place for long periods of time Vs just sitting and supporting yourself naturally

If you’ve not come across them here are some of my favourite creators in that category, in no particular order: LGR, 8-bit guy, cathode ray dude, techmoan, technology connections, nostalgia nerd

Probably a tattoo parlour

A bee posted this

I haven’t posted anything to my personal social media accounts in half a decade.

Similarly, with the popularity of short form video booming, I basically don’t consume any of it and instead find myself watching 1h+ video essays about some old piece of equipment from 40 years ago.

I’m a lot more left-wing than most people I talk to.

I’m tall enough to bang my head on some door frames.

I’ve had to block it because it takes up two screens of my phone as my client doesn’t support spoiler tags properly. I’m not going to change my client over one noisy bot.

Also MBFC seems to be a bit biased (it’s definitely not correct on a few in the UK), as most bias rankings are, it’s why services like Ground News use several of these services to make up their ratings. At the end of the day only using MBFC data isn’t much better than listening to one guy tell you “yeah they’re totally fine”

Finally from what little discussion I’ve seen with the owner of the bot, they don’t seem to be very collaborative with the rest of the community and just shut down criticism.

I went to see it in one of those 4DX cinemas, that completely made the experience one of my favourites in the cinema for a while IMO.

Can’t imagine watching it like a normal film

Borderlands. Unsurprisingly, no.