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Not shocking? There's probably zero ROI on bothering to invest in R&D for consumer gear.

You can't sell enough premium drives to offset the fact they're down to commodity pricing now: the market for a $45 1tb SSD is much larger than a $100 one, and frankly, I wouldn't be on the premium side of that business either.

High-spec big and expensive enterprise drives are 100% the way to go.

Same thing already has happened with GPUs and CPUs, so storage being next is not surprising.

Cloudflare tunnels are the thing you're looking for, if you're not opposed to cloudflare.

You run the daemon on your local system, it connects to cloudflare, and presto, you've bypassed this entire mess.

Stuff your mouth full of cotton, and find someone to kick you in the head a few times. That's pretty close.

I think the thing a LOT of people forget is that the majority of steam users aren't hardcore do-nothing-but-gaming-on-their-pc types.

If you do things that aren't gaming, your linux experience is still going to be mixed and maybe not good enough to justify the switch: wine is good, and most things have alternatives, but not every windows app runs, and not every app alternative is good enough.

Windows is going to be sticky for a lot longer because of things other than games for a lot of people.

Because they're ancient, depreciated, and technically obsolete.

For example: usenet groups are essentially unmoderated, which allows spammers, trolls, and bad actors free reign to do what it is they do. This was not a design consideration when usenet was being developed, because the assumption was all the users would have a name, email, and traceable identity so if you acted like a stupid shit, everyone already knew exactly who you were, where you worked/went to school, and could apply actual real-world social pressure to you to stop being a stupid fuck.

This, of course, does not work anymore, and has basically been the primary driver of why usenet has just plain died as a discussion forum because you just can't have an unmoderated anything without it turning into the worst of 4chan, twitter, and insert-nazi-site-of-choice-here combined with a nonstop flood of spam and scams.

So it died, everyone moved on, and I don't think that there's really anyone who thinks the global usenet backbone is salvagable as a communications method.

HOWEVER, you can of course run your own NNTP server and limit access via local accounts and simply not take the big global feed. It's useful as a protocol, but then, at that point, why use NNTP over a forum software, or Lemmy (even if it's not federating), or whatever?

A thing you may not be aware of, which is nifty, is the M.2 -> SATA adapters.

They work well enough for consumer use, and they're a reasonably cheap way of adding another 4-6 SATA ports.

And, bonus, you don't need to add the heat/power and complexity of some decade old HBA to the mix, which is a solution I've grown to really, really, dislike.

Listen, I can't deal with my sore back, bum knee, AND a hangover all at once.

Considering what's going on in the world, I for one would certainly love to hear from someone who's done the emigration thing more than once.

Very relevant to my interests going into 2025, that's for damn sure.

The chances of both failing is very rare.

If they're sequential off the manufacturing line and there's a fault, they're more likely to fail around the same time and in the same manner, since you put the surviving drive under a LOT of stress when you start a rebuild after replacing the dead drive.

Like, that's the most likely scenario to lose multiple drives and thus the whole array.

I've seen far too many arrays that were built out of a box of drives lose one or two, and during rebuild lose another few and nuke the whole array, so uh, the thought they probably won't both fail is maybe true, but I wouldn't wager my data on that assumption.

(If you care about your data, backups, test the backups, and then even more backups.)

You can find reasonably stable and easy to manage software for everything you listed.

I know this is horribly unpopular around here, but you should, if you want to go this route, look at Nextcloud. It 's a monolithic mess of PHP, but it's also stable, tested, used and trusted in production, and doesn't have a history of lighting user data on fire.

It also doesn't really change dramatically, because again, it's used by actual businesses in actual production, so changes are slow (maybe too slow) and methodical.

The common complaints around performance and the mobile clients are all valid, but if neither of those really cause you issues then it's a really easy way to handle cloud document storage, organization, photos, notes, calendars, contacts, etc. It's essentially (with a little tweaking) the entire gSuite, but self-hosted.

That said, you still need to babysit it, and babysit your data. Backups are a must, and you're responsible for doing them and testing them. That last part is actually important: a backup that doesn't have regular tests to make sure they can be restored from aren't backups they're just thoughts and prayers sitting somewhere.

How did any, and I mean any TV executive think that was a good deal?

I doubt they thought about it and/or care. It's probably a case where they don't have the rights to offer the missing seasons, and threw what they had up anyways because fuck it, someone will watch it.

Or with Netflix, you’re exactly right.

I don't honestly expect Netflix to survive long-term, since there's absolutely no reason to subscribe to them anymore.

They don't have any shows that I could name that I'd be interested in, and it's damn internet meme that they're going to kill everything after a season or two.

It's utter incompetence by the c-levels, and has pretty much put them on a trajectory to eventually just glide into irrelevance.

I've started spending 100% less on streaming services this year.

When all the content I could possibly want was on Netflix, I happily and without reservation paid for it. I would have even paid more, (and did, when 4k streaming became a thing) and was generally happy with what they offered.

But of course, we all know that their content licenses were not renewed, and then they engaged in a non-stop campaign of cancelling any show I found remotely interesting, and that was basically the end of a 15-year subscription history with them.

And it's not like any of the replacement services were better: they all had little bits and pieces of shit I might want, but they had multiple tiers, mostly with ads, and I just couldn't be fucked to figure out which service had what content - and, worse, sometimes they had the content but not EVERYTHING: who the hell wants to watch a show on a service that has season 2,4,5 and 6, but not 1,3 or 7?

You would have to subscribe to several services to get everything, and suddenly they were looking worse than the cable subscription they were supposedly replacing, but were claiming to be better than.

Basically, they made a product worse than me doing it myself, and so, after a very long stretch of paying for shit, I went back to uh, not paying for it.

Spotify is in that list too: I realized I was a grumpy old man and that for my purposes I could just buy and rip second-hand CDs and build a library that didn't cost me money every month, and well, if I bought a couple of CDs a year, it was STILL in my favor by a huge margin. (And, as a bonus, I wasn't contributing to certain poor choices of podcast funding they had made.)

...so it's true, but her parents just decided it's not worth chasing any further.

Cool, cool.

I don't have a specific place; just some of the private general-purpose trackers I'm on will occasionally have someone come by and dump a pile of STLs from various places on them.

(The private part, unfortunately, means I can't actually share more, sorry - fight club rules and whatnot.)

There's some cryptobro projects about sticking distributed file sharing on top of ~ THE BLOCKCHAIN ~.

I'm skeptical, but it might actually be a valid use of such a thing.

There's a ton of commercial/locked-behind-patreon stuff, usually around things like RPG scenery or figures and such.

Like, an immense library of shit that's not free.

Don't forget the magic desk chair, only $1499. Wheels sold seperately.

(I love Apple stuff usually, but their peripherials have been pretty awful since, well, forever.)

Spoken like someone who's never even looked at the qualifications for a TS/SCI (which is what these "good jobs" are going to require you to get).

It's an absolute giant investment in time and energy and the requirements disqualify a shitload of people - it's not just "be a US citizen".

And, even if you don't step on any mines while getting it, keeping it is also not a guaranteed thing: there's a lot of shit that can wreck you later, too.

Only 200? Try harder, noob.

(I'm at 410, and my Epic library is now three times the size of my Steam one, lol.)

I use the *arr stack for deletion, usually.

Lots of people have accounts on the jellyfin/jellyseerr stack, but I'm the only one with access to the *arrs, so I just manage it (mostly) from there.