The second one.

Mirroring is good for speed, but a storage mechanism with parity checks will always be more recoverable. And you will have far more storage available.

As someone who loves it, It’s less a game and more a story generator. Until the company was hired to do the nicer graphics and interface for the Steam version it was a math PhD and his brother programming it as a work-in-progress complete fantasy world simulator. It still is but now it’s prettier. It feels very comfortable to call it the most complex game on Steam. Rimworld and Minecraft among others took direct inspiration from it, he’s been working on it awhile.

Famous patch notes include fixing cats dying from alcohol poisoning because they walked through a puddle of beer before cleaning themselves, egg yolk and egg white having different fluid densities, and nerfing mer-people farming because that’s just disturbing.

Is your home connection down that much? I’d think that even syncing once every day or so would populate everything fine, and if you’re at home it should update over wifi.

I might just be spoiled because I’m the only one using mine and only for a handful of devices.

Is there a lot of benefit to running postmarketOS compared to rooted Android?

I’ve had some trouble with flashing an old Asus tablet in that all the old images/info are basically dead links. But that is mostly just your average link rot.

I figured compiling a custom ROM was more trouble than it’s worth but if the main branch is actively maintained maybe less so.

It’s generally nothing big enough to have heard of unless you’re looking into whatever niche it fills.

Only example that comes to mind is mechanical keyboard stuff. For some of the smaller / one-off designs there was a habit of “if you need troubleshooting, here’s a discord link” instead of even minimal documentation. For “standard” stuff that used the same lil microcontrollers as everything else just a minor annoyance, but saw it with ones that used custom / no microcontroller too, where even a “you need X diodes, Y sprockets, etc” would’ve been nice.

Like OP tend to see it and move on and forget about it because it’s not worth it. The few times I really wanted to get some service running on a raspberry pi or arduino or whatever and tried the discord was a handful of ‘regulars’ swapping memes that were annoyed I wasn’t intimately aware of their codebase.

Sync is nice IMO.

Most cities west of the Mississippi river and really anything that’s had a growth spurt since about the 1970s/80s. Half of the South there are cities with “historic downtown [this place]” signs all over an area that is slowly deteriorating and basically unused compared to the new main drag that is a freeway with the big box stores and fast food on the side.

Philadelphia was laid out before sprawl and when both parties worked at building stuff instead of being dedicated to tearing down government or being a big tent where everyone can argue with each other.

Would be curious if that’s actually the case or if it’s just the next iteration of the “organized theft is causing billions in lost profit” from last year that was just BS.

Reality and the current narrative a C-level is pushing to get the result they want ain’t always all that similar.

I’d wager they’re not talking electronic parts like hard drives, but electronic parts like microcontrollers and capacitors, stuff you solder together. It is pretty good for that in my experience in the US, you just have to know what you want beforehand and be good about reading the descriptions.

I’d also put that as a “nice to have”.

I’ve upgraded my server similarly. But I initially just plugged Unraid into an old (~2012) desktop with a handful of old 1-2 terabyte drives. It’s super easy to spread out the cost over time. I just moved machines and it was literally as simple as having all the same hard drives plugged into the new machine.

Ship based piracy absolutely.

Digital piracy:

I remember Kazaa and LimeWire where you hoped the thing you were downloading for hours/days wasn’t a virus or a joke meme making fun of you for trusting someone. Getting an entire album of mp3s that were actually the band you hoped for and not missing any songs was a minor miracle.

Now there are dozens of automated tools that talk to each other. I type the name of the movie into a search bar, look through a list of posters and click the ‘request’ button. It get’s torrented in the background and then shows up on my Plex server. If I paid for a usenet group all that could happen an order of magnitude faster.

Search in one place, watch in one place.

It’s not quite as instant as streaming, but at this point I have such a back catalogue to work through that that isn’t really an issue.

Mostly I think its fine for all that.

But there’s a special circle of hell for projects that rely on it for “documentation”.

I get the temptation, I really do. But once you’re taking money or have more than a couple people involved and semi-organized you really need at least a small wiki/git-hub landing page with the basics.

I know documentation is a separate skillset and a lot of work in its own right but projects can also stagnate and die because there isn’t any.

In fairness there is some baseline inefficiency in that they have to keep the battery pack in an acceptable temperature range. How much of an inefficiency that is depends on outside factors, but it’s there.

Not if you think of The Hobbit as a YA adventure story.

They make plenty of ‘dumbphones’. They sell them at Walmart/Best Buy/Amazon so they’re not exactly hard to find. If you don’t want a smartphone why are you spending 10x the price of the thing you want?

Are you really having trouble with call quality? Unless I’m so far out in the sticks I don’t have signal at all it hasn’t been a noticeable consideration in years personally.

That’s not just a feeling, that’s something more.

The video ones are what I was thinking of. Fair enough that I forgot to count ground.

If you wanted them just for charging it would be fine. Barrel jacks are still pretty ubiquitous.

If you want them to also be data they get less great. They make 3.5mm/etc jacks with 3 “pins” and I assume more. But every time you’re inserting/removing the cable it’s rubbing past the insulators separating the contacts. Their failure per plug/unplug is higher than something like USB-C where the 24 contacts are being pushed together instead of brushing past each other. It would suck if you put in your USB-barrel and one of the contacts broke/bent.

This is basically the fluoride ‘debate’.

(Yes, fluoridating the water supply is good.)

“On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” --Charles Babbage ~1860s

People thinking that machines can do magic goes back to at least the very beginning of mechanical computers.

It doesn’t help that “AI” has become the new “Algorithm” as far as marketers are concerned.