Working just fine for me.

Wow. That must mean it works for everyone.

It’s a Samsung.

You absolutely don’t need sever-grade hardware for a home/family server

Server-grade hardware makes a lot of sense even for home use. My NAS is tucked away in a closet, having IPMI is so much more convenient when you can’t easily hook it up to a keyboard and mouse.

Even the most expensive Synology only has space for 8 drives with only one 10Gbit ethernet port.

You can build something yourself for less with much better performance.

Better to build it from scratch, your desktop PC does not have server-grade hardware. No ECC, no IPMI, not enough SATA ports, etc.

I have a wallet but haven’t brought it with me in years. The only time I do is when I need to drive (which is maybe once a month) because it contains my drivers license.

All my payments are done using my Apple Watch.

The Netherlands

Birth cert, immunization records, high school and college diplomas. Name change docs. The list is endless.

The list reads like it only applies to backwards/undeveloped countries. Birth certificates aren’t a thing here, immunization records are in my digital patient file, I must have a paper diploma somewhere, although I have no idea where it is and I never had a need for it. The last time I had to prove I have a BSc. I just downloaded the signed PDF from the education service website. Any name changes would just be recorded in the government’s basic administration. Even things like the deed to my house is registered with the government and no one would ever ask me for the physical piece of paper, even when selling it.

“far enough north” for this effect is above 59° latitude

What are you on about? I’m at 52º North and from May 20th until the 25th of July there is no night at all. Best we get is about 3 hours of astronomical twilight.

DST basically robs you of useful outdoors time in summer. Want to spend some time outside after work? You can’t because of the scorching hot sun. Thanks to DST it’s time for bed by the time it has cooled down enough to be outside. Of course by then it’s still too hot to sleep so you’re fucked anyway. By the time it has cooled down enough to sleep it’s almost time to get up again.

If we want to move the clock then we should move it backwards in summer instead of forwards. That way we get more time in the evening where it’s nice to be outdoors, we get to sleep when it has cooled down a bit more. In the morning the sun would be up earlier but blackout curtains solve that issue, and temperature lags behind the sun anyway so we get to sleep in the least hot part of the night.

DST is the worst invention ever.

Was he aware of being a carrier of the gene before deciding to reproduce?

I don’t even watch 1080p content if I can help it. 4k dolby vision and atmos please.

Note that watching that kind of content on a tiny analog CRT is a much better experience than watching it on a modern display with discrete pixels.

The ironic thing is that this anti-DEI government has some of the dumbest, unqualified people in key positions. Clearly they were hired based on anything but their ability to do the job they were hired to do.

Every accusation is a confession with these people.

Of course. VHS is unwatchable on a modern TV. It wasn’t great back in the day on old CRT televisions to begin with. VHS is half the resolution of SDTV. Add to that the quality loss due to age and you basically have a pile of worthless plastic.

I just ordered a few of these craft kits for my neice’s 7th birthday.

This. New cylinders aren’t that expensive and they take about 20 seconds to replace.

I’m a mobile app developer. Looking at my phone all day is just part of the job.

Buying household groceries or anything of size sounds annoying or impossible on bike.

Not sure why buying groceries on a bike would be annoying or impossible. I do all my grocery shopping by bike, every single day, sometimes twice a day. Just bring a backpack.

As for ‘anything of size’, what would you need to transport? I still have a car, but I use it so little that I only need to buy gas maybe once or twice a year.

Why are they drug testing women during childbirth? What kind of fucked up shit is that?

the urge for a midnight snack is completely gone.

So what do you do to entertain yourself at night?