I was talking to an employee of a drone tech startup recently. Instead of a project roadmap the DARPA rep asked “how quickly can you deliver something, we want asap / this year.”

I wonder why current consumer HDD’s don’t have NVME connectors on them. Like I know speeding up the bus isn’t going to make the spinning rust access faster but the cache ram would probably benefit from not being capped at 550MBps

I agree. I believe that if I know the answer and it’s simple I should just help people out. A couple of days ago, I thought I’d try asking chatgpt a relatively simple cli string of commands. I knew most of it but couldn’t get it right. It just told me the answer in one succinct paragraph. Afterwards I thought “woah it didn’t even snark and cast shade on me for asking, it just handed it over without gate keeping superiority.” What a refreshing experience.

It’s not free but it’s awesome and cheap. Setup a WebDAV share and join it using “Mountainduck.io”. It connects to everything like SMB but I find WebDAV’s multichannel is more performant in the long run. Checks notes Win/Mac only sorry.

The best.

Fun fact for Aussies. The largest retirement fund in Australia is Australian Super. Probably no surprise their standard balanced offering invests in Elbit Systems and weapons companies. But in 2025 they reclassified their ethical “Socially Conscious” investment from “Include companies that make more than 10% profit from” weapons shady shit. To now read “No more than 50%” and that’s profit not turnover. Also both their socially conscious and Aware Super ethical both include Palantir among their investments. So basically any investment in them is an investment in all the BS.

I’ve read on the internet some people export their Spotify to a YouTube playlist to then pass through Parabolic and enter the result into Navidrome. Maybe as a feature you could add a Spotify to YT playlist creator somehow.

It would go away for a bit and come back. It never went away completely but it would just happen every now and then and have a flare up. He would go through a random week where he would sneeze a bit. But he never coughed or had any other issues. He was about 14 when he passed which isn’t bad for a regular outdoor cat. At the end he got pancreatitis and his organs started to go. We made him as comfortable as possible. The vet may have said it could have been related to his FIV. It let was a while ago now. Everyone in the block loved Ferris, he was a kitty celebrity.

We had an FIV+ for many years. He had weepy eyes now and then that we used to wipe but other than that he was very normal and not prone to random illness.

We have him lysine and forti flora later in life that seemed to help him. But that was for older cat pancreas issues.

He was an outdoor cat back then and strong generally. Our current cats are now indoor only.

France, u ok bro? That ratio, Sacre Bl…oom!

Oh, now combine the learnings from that video, with this video;

https://youtu.be/tdIUMkXxtHg

On how short form content aparrently rots your brain more than long form. Fun new direction we’re heading.

I switched to Fastmail about 2 years ago and have been happy with it. Does everything I want and it is quick and smooth like it’s name.

They aren’t coming. “Move fast, break things.” Including people aparrently.

Ignore. Empathy is hot.

Remember you aren’t just backing up the data but also backing up the hours of effort it takes to rebuild and get it how you want. If frequently backing up just the service OS you can store heaps for $2 on offerings like OVH cold archive.

Remove yourself from the backup you’ll forget or it will be inconvenient the week it blows up, so automate it, check the automation monthly. Don’t care that the 2nd cold backup takes ages if you have a quicker main backup.

Fireproof safes aren’t melt heatproof. Don’t rely on a local house backups for fireproofing.

I’m a self hoster, and hate subscription services but I believe cloud storage for use with a compressed encrypted backup makes sense.

Backup media and other stuff separately to avoid one large slow monolithic backup.

“How slow is it?” My desktop is so slow, it comes with a prompt that says ‘Execute now to guarantee completion before Christmas.’

I’m glad that worked for you. Everything changed in 2008. I would say the old cycles of the market and PE valuation rationality is gone in favour of meme stock style gambling. I think that anything written prior to 2008 on the subject is less useful and the yearly value taking cycle is only still maintained by the old school investors. Some who want some sort of comfort in their approach and want to believe they can make it work. Those people are just handing money to each other now while the billionaires just gamble large sums for bragging rights.

And build your own shelter with the results.

I didn’t watch this, but i just cancelled Spotify for my own reasons. None of which cost. So I’m just going to assume everyone is on the same page.

RPi Digital Signage is really good. Binaryemotions.com. it’s built thoughtfully for a bunch of different situations. The kiosk mode paired with some sort of start page would work.