That and rotten.com have been responsible for a lot of my insomnia, and probably a good chunk of my misanthropy.

You can’t unsee things, folks. Don’t give in to the temptation. It’s not worth it.

The problem for them is those aren’t things you can buy.

Not a great solution for all the anime you totally legally obtained on Yahoo.

Mainly because of that. Spinning rust drives are perfect for large media libraries.

There isn’t a hard drive made in the last 15 years that couldn’t handle watching media files. Even the SMR crap the manufacturers introduced a while back could do that without issue. For 4k video you’re going to see average transfer speeds of 50MB/s and peak in the low 100MB/s range, and that’s for high quality videos. Write speed is irrelevant for media consumption, and unless your hard drive is ridiculously fragmented, seek speed is also irrelevant. Even an old 5400 RPM SATA drive is going to be able to handle that load 99.99% of the time. And anything lower than 4K video is a slam dunk.

Everything I just said goes right out the window for a multi-user system that’s streaming multiple media files concurrently, but the vast majority of people never need to worry about that.

And you also apparently can’t read user names to see who said what.

“How To Shut Down A Discussion By Immediately Jumping To Personal Attacks For No Reason, by Ogmios”

I’m real curious why you say that. I’ve been designing systems with high IOPS data center application requirements for decades so I know enterprise storage pretty well. These drives would cause zero issues for anyone storing and watching their media collection with them.

Discuss with your doctor that’s prescribing your ADHD meds. It’s quite possible another medication or a different dose will work better.

I can only say that I had a very similar issue with concentration at work while WFH and getting on medication resolved it.

People have wildly varying body chemistry. Your experience is not everyone’s experience.

I am like him and have had that experience confirmed by numerous romantic partners over the decades.

True, but it’s super cheap. I pay less for a year of Usenet and indexer than I’d pay for 2 months of basic cable or just about any streaming service.

I have been using Frugal and nzbGeek for years and have no complaints.

I solve it by paying way too much for a block of static IPs.

Usenet still exists.

There are definitely people in their 90’s using Lemmy.

For the government, it’s always worth it as long as the funding is flowing. After all, it’s not like they are footing the bill. You and I are paying for them to spy on us.

That’s old style thinking. If that type of matching isn’t already automated and running, it will be soon. They’ll click a button and find you everywhere if you’ve left enough breadcrumbs, so there won’t be any lengths to go to. And as someone who has gone through the cybersec exercises of hardening browsers against fingerprinting, knows what VPN can do and more importantly what it CAN’T do, etc, I can say there are precious few people in the world going to the lengths required to stay truly anonymous. It basically has to become your top priority and constant focus if you want to be successful.

What programmer in their right mind uses / instead of -?

I use the delimiter when writing out log files when I want hour or minute in the logfile name. SantaChimneyLog_20241225-0312.txt. Otherwise yeah it just gets left off.

Trick question, I will never be defeated.

They were going to do a page like this for Azure but realized that page would be larger than the rest of Wikipedia.

I was talking about the atmosphere, not the architecture.

It’s the best thing out there of its type right now. I’m not going to shit on it because of what might happen in the future. I’m sure something else will come along to move to if that happens.

She handed me a note with her number, and let me know I could always talk with her.

That is awesome. I wish men got this kind of support when they are showing distress in public.

edit: I should clarify, not the ‘giving phone number’ part, just some support. In my experience men who look like they are suffering in any way are just actively avoided.