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No! That first one was a doozy.

So like Beneath A Steel Sky but reverse Uno card.

Since it sounds like you’ll be using it for more than just a NAS, I’d go with TrueNAS, Proxmox or Debian headless (in order of easiest to hardest to install and maintain).

It’s a sign of the times that the effects of rapid weight loss are attributed to a drug since most people don’t know what it looks like!

https://youtu.be/fOVHb4-4ry4

This, except it’s the CEO being questioned

Used enterprise drives are amazing value though. With enough redundancy in a RAID array it’s a great way to get storage in bulk.

The Instapak stuff I’m thinking of was basically medium sized bags that acted like a heat pack, where you break something inside the bag to combine two chemicals then shake it, which makes it expand and harden quickly.

I think the stuff is called Instapak expanding foam. Personally I think I’d remove the GPU and any mechanical drives to play it safe, but I’ve had a PC shipped to me before fully assembled with Instapak around the GPU (no HDDs, only SSDs) and it was fine. Ideally ship it in the original box for the PC case.

Two minor concerns about this approach:

1. Will the lesser known domain name make your emails more likely to be filtered as spam? I don’t know the answer, but I am fairly sure it wouldn’t help.

2. Will having your email routed through a middleman open up security issues? Probably solveable with diligence and awareness, but I recently had a non-technical friend with this setup get his Gmail breached because he was forwarding it to an email inbox on his personal domain from decades earlier that he forgot about, and didn’t have 2FA on the domain webmail. IMHO an easy oversight for anyone, honestly.

Also “Thank you for your attention to this matter.” has such “Facebook local area group” energy, like a Boomer shouting into the void about teenagers always loitering at the bus stop.

I think OP meant the UK

“Why 49% and not 50%?” “I wanted it to sound more accurate than it is”

See also: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-21/cba-backtracks-on-ai-job-cuts-as-chatbot-lifts-call-volumes/105679492

The car horn on your bike is hilarious. Tangentially, a fun thing to try is using a bike bell on an escalator while standing behind people. We’re so conditioned to being dinged and moving aside that people do it before they even think about what’s going on.

And the article didn’t even mention the increase in monster truck SUVs/pickups we’re seeing on our roads, which we know are more deadly for pedestrians from studies.

Honestly if you want to eat meat as an adult, I feel like you should have to get a carnivore licence by killing and cooking an animal yourself. And I say this as a meat-eater. Non-farmers are far too detached from the circle of life to have opinions on this kind of thing.

Great that people are showing support, and I understand the choice of the Sydney Harbour Bridge as symbolic, but that seemed like a very dangerous choice of venue for a crowd of unknown size until the day!

If you’re looking at collaborating in game jams, you’ll find it handy to have some Unity, Unreal Engine and Godot under your belt. Don’t worry about becoming an “expert” at any of them, just do a few intro tutorials and read the starter docs on each.

I’m sorry, what happened to the metaverse Zuck?