Whichever way you read it, the first response is an answer to a comment we can’t see… So to me it “makes sense” in both directions?

Possibly I’m not Twitter enough for this type of humour.

Yeah I guess it probably makes more sense when it’s my business… Maybe not if you’re an employee at some corporate randomly hosting backups of your dog photos.

I have a 120TB unraid server at home, and a 40TB unraid server at work. Both use 2 x parity disks.

The critical work stuff backs up to home, and the critical home stuff backs up to work.

The media is disposable.

Both servers then back up to Crashplan on separate accounts - work uses the Australian server on a business account, home used the US server on a personal account.

I figure I should be safe unless Australia and the US are nuked simultaneously… At which point my data integrity is probably not the most pressing issue.

Which is the correct chronological order for this exchange? Top to bottom, or bottom to top?

Who cares why they did it?

It proves they can and do alter the “archived” website, so it’s usefulness as a source is completely gone.

My Facebook feed looks nothing like that, nor most of the (exaggerated?) complaints in the replies.

Mine is full of content from people I know, local community groups, and pages I follow.

If I scroll long enough to run out of actual local/ subscribed content it will start feeding me other stuff, but it’s usually at least somewhat relevant. If it’s not I just hit the X to say not interested and usually take the opportunity to get off the damn thing for a while.

Facebook does a lot of stupid crap but these sort of lazy observations smack of some nerd pandering to the cool kids about how lame their parents are to get some acceptance or something equality as cringe.

I have literally worn the same brand and style of clothes for well over a decade. There’s photos of me from 12 years ago and I have the same Dickies pants and corporate(?) style polo on.

All the money I’ve saved on stylish clothes over the years have been spent more productively on… actually no I’ve wasted it. But still.

I wear a uniform during the week, and another on the weekend apparently.

I’d like some specific examples of what you originally described please, not just a general “China makes everything” as if that proves anything.

China makes everything because Western companies sought to maximise profit.

Costs go up, because the Western companies selling the Chinese-made product put the price up to maximise profit.

You don’t get to outsource everything and charge top dollar for it, then cry to the government that you need protection when the Chinese companies start competing in the same market with the same product for cheaper.

Where has this happened?

I love that they’re on ebikes and scooters instead of goddamn petrol dirt bikes.

Those things are obnoxious as hell to have hanging around. Hours on end of Bbaam, BaaaAAAMMM, BAAAHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMM… Buurrmmmmm. Repeat ad nausea.

Once We Were Spaceman is great, but they need more Firefly references I reckon.

Yes, for being on call.

Back when mobile plans were expensive and coverage was terrible, pagers were fantastic. They’d get the message inside a concrete basement where a mobile had no chance of reception.

To get around the lack of acknowledgment on pagers, our plan had a “resend page 3 times every 15 minutes until acknowledged by return call, if not acknowledged ring these mobiles until answered” type setup. Worked very well for emergency after hours calls.

Now we have Pushover.

Really? Right in front of my carrot?

I’m a Plex guy. I share my library because it’s a bit of fun and scratches my IT interest itch. I actually run Plex and Jellyfin in parallel but pretty much everyone prefers the Plex interface (and most smart TVs have it ready to go, even the silly ones with off brand app stores).

Mostly it’s just an excuse to play with cool toys, and a reason to work out how to run things I wouldn’t otherwise bother with.

I’ve always downloaded stuff, since the dialup days. Originally it was for things that were region locked / “unrated” in Australia and thus not available… but now it’s just so much more convenient than paid options that it’s a no-brainer. Like I literally can’t pay any legit service for the level of access and convenience I have now.

It’s not even about money anymore. Between the purchase price and power consumption of my dual Xeon rack server and JBOD, the 1000/400Mbps fibre connection, and the time I spend on it I’m paying enough to cover half a dozen subscriptions or so with change… But the convenience! I can watch anything, anywhere, on any device. No jumping between services to find stuff, no episodes/movies going missing, no login restrictions, no player that won’t work because your HDMI cable is lacking a decimal place or whatever the hell they’re doing now.

Anytime someone we know in real life complains about having issues with their legitimate streaming service I offer access to Plex. I think there’s 40ish users, but only a dozen or so that use it with any real frequency. Maybe 4-5 concurrent streams at peak times, outside of that is usually occasionally the work from home “workers” / the night shift people, or me streaming music at work or similar. I think the most I’ve had is 7 or 8 at once.

Who cares? Upvote what you like, downvote what you don’t. Who cares if someone has a whinge.

Put me on your list too

ABC is for destinations IJK is for numbers/counters XYZ is for objects/brands

That’s some vintage memeing

UP to US standards?

My dude, they are already well above US standards.

How many TSLA shares are you holding?