Thank you for pointing that out. I’m not familiar with IPFS but I tend to agree there’s no free lunch here. People think you can wave the blockchain wand and free computing appears but there’s always costs built in somewhere.

What would an IPFS solution look like here? That’s a genuine question. I don’t have much experience with IPFS. It seems like it isn’t really used outside of blockchain applications.

They grew there

Somebody actually did make this as a joke years ago haha https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs

Thanks for reading and pointing out that typo! (I fixed it)

Jortage is a really interesting approach. It definitely helps reduce the impact of the file hosting problem but it doesn’t fully address the underlying cost issue. The cost of storing files grows every month indefinitely while donations typically don’t.

I would like to see a file hosting pool come to lemmy though. So I will look into it. :)

The files are uploaded to two separate S3 buckets. One is backed by Wasabi and the other is Backblaze. So if one fails, randomly bans my account, etc then I can switch the primary to the other and setup another mirror afterwards.

Compute is hosted by fly.io and the CDN is bunny.net

Strangers on the internet are not qualified to answer deeply complex questions like this despite what they might think.

Foreign affairs is something that people dedicate their lives to studying and understanding. I seriously doubt those experts are here answering this question.

Do you notice how all of the answers you’ve received are inconsistent with each other?

I’m sorry but this is actually a stupid question. Not only can nobody here answer it but it’s obviously flame bait.

It depends on the risk involved. The US stock market has returned around 7% annually averaged over a very long period of time. That’s considered the benchmark for investments with significant risk.

Lol he was nothing more than middle class. He also was telling the story from the perspective of “I understand how easy it was for me”. He was a really cool guy.

I remember talking to an older fella about his experience becoming a programmer back in the 60s (I think). He told me that he decided it was time to start a career so he went to a nearby IBM office and asked for a job. They gave him an aptitude test and then hired him the same day. He wrote code for their mainframes until he retired.

That’s a fair point. I think I wanted more conflict with Nandor primarily. A long, detailed fight scene like we saw in Season 4 would have been awesome.

I was pretty disappointed by the ending. They had spent the whole season hyping up the conflict with Nandor and then it just fizzled out into nothing. Same thing with Guillermo’s whole vampire transformation.

I’m really hoping they don’t do the obvious thing and have Nandor turn him into a vampire again next season.