Quite the opposite. Use drives from as many different manufacturers as you can, especially when buying them at the same time. You want to avoid similar lifecycles and similar potential fabrication defects as much as possible, because those things increase the likelihood that they will fall close to each other - particularly with the stress of rebuilding the first one that failed.

Has someone asked what there IS to defend if not people’s lives?

About bloody time. MS should have been forcibly split up back in the early 2000’s when they lost the antitrust case about internet explorer.

I suppose that is because you have to have a default browser. Well, strictly spaking you don’t, I suppose, but some things are going to stop working.

It’s not up to Firefox to scan your system for a list of browsers to offer you, so I suppose this is the easiest way.

As someone else said, just open up the browser you want to be default and check the option there.

This particular photo is shopped, but i think false-perspective Illusions might actually be a good path…

The Turing test is about whether it passes as human, not whether it is human.

Shouldn’t have not pooped for three days.

Depends. Are we taking refurbished, or returned sales?

Refurbished is going to have to be hella cheap to consider it for a highly redundant storage of unimportant things maybe raid 10 backup storage it something.

Returned sales are mostly still as good a new and returned for various unrelated reasons. As long as I get full warranty and right to return as if it was brand new, i don’t mind.

Apologies for posting in English, but my German just isn’t good enough 🙂

BOTH strategies don’t work.

There are numerous examples of places where the extremists have been allowed to rule (Poland, Hungary, …) and while they’re clearly incompetent to a neutral observer, they are all of them populists who have carefully studied Göring. Don’t be fooled by the stereotypical electorate, the leaders know exactly what they’re doing. They mostly run on divide and conquer, and to divide they use us-vs-them politics where there is always another minority to blame.

Unfortunately, as a Flemish Belgian, I can tell you that isolating them doesn’t work either. Ever since “black Sunday” in the 90s, we’ve had the “cordon sanitaire” around the Vlaams Blok. They have in the mean time been found guilty of racism and forcibly disbanded, and they just restarted as Vlaams Belang. The cordon sanitaire doesn’t really help: they just use it as ammunition in their rallying cries against the status quo, and it just adds an underdog aspect to them. People do like an underdog.

By now we’ve come to the point where for ver m several election cycles, the less extreme NVA (right-wing nationalists) have repeatedly made tentative ouvertures to be willing to govern with VB as long as they “clean up the ranks” first; and the fear is that VB will at one point be so big that it will be impossible to form a majority without them.

We obviously need to fight these ideas, but forbidding them it’s no more a solution than letting it run it’s course. It looks like the only way through is proper education, but that’s a process of decades… And of course anything right-wing doesn’t like good education, as people who know history and can think clearly don’t vote for them.

Try pepperoni and black olives, that’s also pretty good.

Suçuk/mushroom is wonderful!

For seeding? Nah. Not unless you have a ton of upload and loads of peers making requests.

Get something that has an internal mirror, that’ll give you double the read throughput AND some redundancy.

As if any spyware worth it’s salt didn’t install itself as service with an innocuous name. Something like “Facebook” or “TikTok”.

I don’t have a guide handy, but I’d assume VLC could do that.

Inside jokes are part of the glue that makes a community.

You’re totally entitled to not liking them, of course, but I fear such a feature is going to see so little use that it’s not worth implementing. Could of course just be part of a user-submitted tagging system, where you and the like-minded can tag these for each other.

Agreed. Shame about the kid, though, apparently he didn’t even want to be there but was forced.

They should have just plain been disbarred. They were, de facto, lying in court.

Yep. The EU lawsuit forced them to. Also internet exploder is no longer a thing these days 🙂

It’s been a while for me, but iirc most ISPs do offer their own servers. However, free Usenet servers are going to have very limited retention - in the order of days. The advantage of paid subscriptions is that they offer retention in the weeks or months.

I think it also helps that it wasn’t intentional. Nobody likes the obvious corp whoring for a quick cash grab.