“Blinkered Philistine thinking”

“Drugs” do all sorts of things, not “bring happiness fastly”.

Some may cause euphoria, some may induce a sense of calm, some may cause disassociation, some may may make you more open - and each one is a slightly different experience for each person because of individual biochemistry and personal experience.

As my hillbilly family would say “you’re talkin’ outta yer ass”.

Your hubris is astounding.

I suggest you go and get all those experience, because you need them.

Yet more sophistry, now your a mind reader?

Nice sophistry, “people will be shamed”.

No, this post is just a bunch of BS

one person’s memories may be wistful and another’s may be tinged with a negative emotion

And this can happen to the same person at different times!

Haha, I’m gonna leave it in for entertainment value

I’m an old school gin drinker, from the Time Before all these small batch gins. I like the pine note (from the juniper berry used in gin). Tanquery has a very strong juniper note, you probably won’t like it.

That pine note is what people tend to dislike about gin.

I really like all these other gins with different botanicals, especially the citrus ones. It’s a whole new gin game now.

Anyone who tries to remake or sequel The Princess Bride will have a special place in hell reserved for them.

Hahahahaha

I’ll be over here crying in the corner.

Next you’re gonna mention ICQ

But do we have some real stats around it?

Because like OP, I’ve heard it my entire life and have never heard of someone drowning in the tub without being drugged up or really ill.

Er, wut?

Ventrillo.

Dammit, son, makin’ me feel old now

I don’t know, problems with nextcloud are a near-daily thing around here. Seems like it has some structural challenges.

There’s also risk.

Offloading this stuff to cloud means you trade $ for someone else taking the risks.

And of you’re a business, you (better) have cyber insurance, and those insurance vendors will ask tough questions that most self-hosters would be clueless to answer.

It can be done, but like anything else, there’s no free lunch.

And if you have a proper finance org, they’ll want to see how self-hosting makes financial sense.

It takes real expertise and diligence to run everything on-prem - most small businesses don’t have the luxury of that kind of diligence since the cost (staff engineering time) comes from one side of the budget, and cloud (vendor) costs reduce both your risk and come from the other side of the budget (which reduces tax liability).

Looka like it’s for screwing down the escutcheon

Does it make any difference to a right handed person?

The challenge is merely from what you’re used to, not your handed-ness.

For me, driving on the other side of the road is OK on large roads with limited access. But my ego has no issue handing the keys to my Brit friends once we’re across the channel. I can drive to the city, but dammit engrained habits/perspectives are hard to overcome, and driving in a city isn’t a place to do it.

I could see it being a little easier from a shifting point of view, except anyone who learned to shift right handed - even a left handed person - would find shifting on the other side challenging at first.

Watch Top Gear when they have Americans on - its always something they laugh about.

Sounds like you like the gins made by that distillery.

Buy their guns that you like, or look for gins that are described with the same attributes as those gins.

I’d bet you dislike traditional “piney” gins, and prefer the now popular citrusy ones.

A citrusy gin like Leopold Brothers used in a drink like a St. Leo really shows how well a gin can work. The drink can be made with vodka, but really loses some complexity.

St. Leo

1.5 oz Leopold’s (Small Batch or Summer)

3/4 oz lemon juice

3/4 oz orange juice or orange liqueur

3/4 oz simple

1/4 tsp St. Germain

Shake, serve neat in a chilled coupé glass

Geese have Mafioso attitude.

There’s a flock at a nearby pond and when any animal gets “too close” to the flock (whatever that means), 2 large male geese will slowly walk toward them like a couple of tough guys out of a mafia movie.

Once the animal moves off, the tough guys will just stand there for a couple minutes, as if to say “that’s what I thought”.

Haha

I agree with everything except the offsite, offline, external drive.

In my experience, cold drives fail more often than live drives, and you get no warning when this happens.

Drives weren’t engineered to be offline but to be powered on continuously. Things like lubricants in the spindle, but especially the read heads pivot were designed around this. How anybody us have heard the click of death - that’s the read head having issues moving.

Plus external drives have heat dissipation problems. They’re good for short, intermittent reads, but when initially copying data to them they can get quite hot. I regularly recover and rebuild drives for family and friends and have registered these things at 120° F+, so I keep an old case fan on them during recovery.

My current backup approach uses Syncthing, but only to replicate all data to a single point, which is then backed up properly.

All mobile devices sync to home, that box is the authoritative data source for everything: mobile devices, user data, media files, etc.

It replicates to two other local data stores (this for quick recovery should a drive/device fail) and is backed up to a cloud service (should I have a catastrophic event).

Its not a perfect 3-2-1 setup, but addresses my risks well enough.

Someone down-voted but I agree, and this from actual experience doing stuff similar to OP.

Flexibility, compatibility, and power consumption are significant considerations for a self-hoster.

I’ve run ST with Pi, and while Pi is great, it’s non-standard so doesn’t have the benefit (yet) of ubiquity. While it’s low power consumption is fantastic, mini PC’s and even SFF (Small-Form-Factor) desktops are in the same range for similar costs (in the used market) while providing orders of magnitude more performance per watt and much more hardware compatibility.

A Pi 5 today is in the $120 range - for a device that on it’s own will idle at about 4 watts, with peak draw at 15w. This without any storage yet, and no case.

A mini PC will idle about the same - but can house a large, standard drive so be a much better package for OP’s intended use-case, and cost less on the used market.

I’d maybe add an online backup for the device you’ve chosen to be the authoritative data source to achieve close to a 3-2-1.

Edit: I LOVE the Pi, I just have a hard time rationalizing the cost for it and then a case, etc. I think it has a bright future for things like NAS, low-power (as in watts) devices that spend most of their time idle, etc.

Oh, yea, very low data rate.

Great example of a use-case.