Guess what, my work doesn’t have network performance issues, and I don’t have network performance issues.

Guest networks at hotels are notoriously shitty, stop excusing it by creating a strawman.

Christ, early 60’s?

My condolences to him and your family. Of the things I want to see real treatment for, dementia tops the list.

Only 47?

Those are rookie numbers. 😆

I don’t even know what you’re saying at this point

Big time more expensive.

What are these axes that aren’t even labelled? I have no idea what this is supposed to be showing since it’s obtuse as fuck

It’s been thousands of years, we have the same kinds of problems.

You think 7 years is going to change humanity?

Who says college is better than no college?

What are your metrics?

Your questions are all binaries:simplistic, juvenile.

Like your question about dating and race: simplistic, bigoted and racist.

Rarely.

Most are crashes caused by someone fucking up.

Some are caused by things like medical issues - those would be accidents. Or a rock falling off a hillside into your car, tire blowout, etc.

Careful, not all states have a castle doctrine, and really you don’t want the legal shitshow even in a Castle Doctrine state.

Better to deter than have to deal with that.

Oh hell, some of the worst pain.

at an unrecoverable height

Ouch!

I’ve had way more USB C ports fail than micro, surprisingly, and that’s in perhaps a 5 year period vs 15 (and continuing) usage of micro.

I know C is supposed to be more robust, that just hasn’t been my experience.

My last phone was a 2017 model, I replaced it early 2025 with a Pixel 5. I have since bought 2 more Pixels (because they’re cheap) and keep one as a hot spare (boot it once a month to update) and one as a test bed.

That owl is sick and tired of your shenanigans!

Or he just woke up from a nap.

Wow

I would involuntarily laugh at this.

“Clearly you don’t know my family, we’re like wolves. Yes, we’ll back you up, but we’ll also pounce on the weak so they either toughen up or die. Is that really what you want?”

I use a similar Dell Optiplex 7000 series.

It boots from the NVME, with an 8TB 3.5 disc for data, and a 500GB SD for my VMs. (Since spinning disks can idle much lower than SSD, getting my always-on VMs off the big drive lets it idle, with the SSD peak power being lower than the peak of spinning disk Adding the SSD increased net power slightly).

I use a splitter on the 12v power line for both of the drives. It’s fine.

This box only has an 80w power supply, and with both those drives hooked up it draws 20w at idle, and peaks at 70w when converting multiple videos simultaneously.

The manuall tells you what you can do without voiding the warranty.

Edit: Given it’s age, I’d pull the CPU cooler and replace the paste. It’s likely hardened by now. Mine was randomly rebooting because the cpu would overheat. Replaced the thermal paste and its been rock solid since.

I self host on a 5 year old Dell Optiplex Small Form Factor desktop.

I also have a Raspberry Pi, which has about 1/16 the performance of the desktop - Pi can be used for all sorts of stuff.

Exactly

Someone’s never had X