For me it was when I noticed that some of my photos had been affected by bitrot.

Instarted building my NAS last year, and got caught up in the increased HDD cost, I need two more 8TB drives to get my 32TB Zraid2 going.

I was going to use TrueNAS, but now that they have turned their back on opensource, I am not so sure anymore

You must have a pretty specific workflow that fails so completely using Microsoft Office.

The second point is that as has already been mentioned, you can keep using the computer after the software support ends, that doesn’t really work for most subscription software.

That was exactly my point.

Ok, so students can select either:

1. A computer that they can study, work, (light) game, edit photos, and do much more on, without a digital use by date.
2. An admittedly excellent office suite, a collection of games, for a limited time, and an Xbox controller, but only if they buy a specific computer.

Yeah, nah Microsoft, nah.

It absolutely might, but you should still keep an eye on the battery’s physical condition.

In general, laptops are good about keeping the battery charged properly, but lithium batteries does not like to be charged to 100% constantly.

Sweet, one word of caution though…

Keep an eye on the battery, see if you can run the server without it installed, if it starts swelling, that means it has started to become unstable, and may become a fire hazard.

I treat AI just as I treat gambling, I mostly avoid it completely, or if I have to use it, I do so with a lot of caution and skepticism.

Very

Mainland Chinese tourists are infamous for their lack of manners.

I recently discovered Turbo Overkill, it has some brilliant arcade shooter feel, a great 80s style, and some unique quirks.

I highly enjoyed it.

My favorite FPS is however Unreal Tournament 2004, which I heard will be handed off from Epic Games to a fan community, so the fan community maintains it. I don’t know if that means it will be open source, but it sounds good.

Simple, since the system knows the VIN of every car, it knows who to send the bill to.

You could even have a Terminal at the entrence of the facility for those who want to prepay.

Why does the cars need to move?

Just build car charging coils into every parking spot, then have a computer keep track of what car arrived at what time, and give them an hour each of full charging sequentially.

Example

Car 1 parks in space A and starts charging, car 2 arrives shortly after and parks in space D, the computer logs the VIN and timestamp, placing it first in the queue. 30 min later car 3 arrives and parks in space B, the computer logs the VIN and time stamp, placing it second in the queue. Then car 2 leaves space D, the computer logs it and removes it from the queue, making car 3 first in line, then car 2 arrives back in space D, and is placed second in the queue since it left earlier.

No need to move tonnes of metal and batteries, just switching the power, a cheap and fair way to extend the number of charging spaces, while not overloading the circuit and ensuring that everyone gets a fair timeslot, all without having to risk dammage while moving the cars.

Ah interesting!

That explains why I don’t see it!

I see you took the screenshot on your phone, I just tried it on mine and had no issues getting the proper link, even after updating it as I wrote this comment.

Can you describe more about where you encountered it?

Does this happen when you copypaste the URL?

Because messing with the clipboard is a really scary thing.

PR?

Some people care more about being remembered as a good person after they have died rather than having the highscore when they die.

Look at Alfred Nobel, the entire reason for creating the Nobel prize was to try and rehabilitate his memory after having invented dynamite.

I could see something similar motivating modern billionaires.

Dear Mr. Bezos, instead of pushing for increased energy use to create more slop, how about making something truly meaningful?

You have the money to do a LOT good, you also have the resources and contact to actually do it.

Here is a suggestion:

Set up a fund with 10 billion USD, have it managed to produce a decent, but predictable return every year.

Take another billion USD, and fund a non-profit organization that will develop the following:

1. A semi autonomous garbage collecting boat, powered by solar power.
2. A mothership for number 1 with a processing facility that takes the garbage collected by a a fleet of the smaller crafts, basically dry it, filter the water and compact the dry gargabe.
3. A high power incinerator at a port that can burn the garbage at a very high temp.

At the end you should have a large fleet of the semi autonomous garbage collectors, a minimum of two motherships and a port side incinerator.

Deploy the garbage collectors and motherships to the great garbage patch and set to work cleaning up the surface.

As the initial funding for the company dries up the funding of the organization should come from the returns of the fund set up earlier.

The organization should accept donations and build more garbage collectors and motherships, and also develop new methods of collecting garbage from the oceans.

This is what they will look like for me:

Can’t get smart fridge ads if I don’t get a smart fridge. taps forehead