“If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying ‘End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’, the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry”

Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett

I bought a two bay Synology for $270, and a 20TB hdd for $260. I did this for multiple reasons. The HDD was on sale so I bought it and kept buying things. Also I couldn’t be buggered to learn everything necessary to set up a homemade NAS. Also also i didn’t have an old PC. My current PC is a Ship of Theseus that I originally bought in 2006.

You’re not wrong about an equivalent NAS to my current pc specs/capacity being more expensive. And yes i did spend $500+ on my NAS And yet I also saved several days worth of study, research, and trial and error by not building my own.

That being said, reducing e-waste by converting old PCs into Jellyfin/Plex streaming machines, NAS devices, or personal servers is a really good idea

Is it possible the water rights are too restrictive in Colorado for their liking? I know there’s a lot of environmental restrictions and requirements for construction there. My friend’s brother makes serious money as a soil inspection engineer (not sure about his actual job title) in the mountains. If he says the ground isn’t stable the build doesn’t happen.

Sounds like Ohio with mountains and better PR

“Inconceivable”

Israel, probably

“If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are.”

• Lords and Ladies

Grief is weird and normal. Glad she’s in relatively good spirits. Sometimes I get The Sads or The Grumpies and don’t know why until I remember. Try to be patient with her and yourself. You sound like a good friend

And remember, grief doesn’t have an expiration date

I lost my dad recently. I fully wept at the honor walk, and again at Dr Robbie’s flashback scene. You know the one

Currently a 1.72 ratio on The Pitt

How, exactly?

If the carmaker has a recall on the airbags, and the dealer breaks the instrument cluster in the process of replacing the airbag assembly, you’re goddamn right I’m not paying for the instrument cluster. I don’t care if the car is ten years old. It’s a recall, which means it’s bad design and always was. That is 100% on the mechanic, the manufacturer, and the engineer that designed the instrument cluster to break if the airbag is replaced.

They can fuck right off with that shit

Old? I have a 7a and i just bought it from Google…

Checks notes

Two years ago.

Shit. I guess that is old in phone years

Next you’ll be saying people born in the eighties are old

This is the type of pedantry that annoys me and yet I admire. Bravo, good fellow, I salute you

For those with short attention spans, it’s paraquat

Lol I know, right?

They are literally cancelling student visas with no notice and then arresting the students

The only thing I can figure is they want to push a court case to establish precedent of no due process for ICE cases. That will open the door for imprisonment without trial, which then leads to “legal” slavery. Rent the prisoners to the farmers that used migrant labor, farmers pay what they did before, private prisons make money and get federal dollars per head, and the prisoners get more prison and work until they’re not useful, then deported

Remember when people were press-ganged into naval service? That, but no pirates

Good thing nothing like that could happen in the good ol US of A

So i don’t know which lock you had, the comment I made above describes most of the consumer dial safe locks out there, but not all.

Yours may have been like what I mentioned, and the last number was 90 or something so people would dial it correctly, or it may have been a different design with drop gates where you dial all the numbers and stop on the last number. It may have been a start CW instead of CCW, there’s a few different designs.

Spinning it lots of times at the beginning never hurts, it clears the wheel packs. Thanks for having a sense of humor btw lol

Anyway, yeah, they can be overly complicated and a business should have a keypad safe and good insurance. The tech or manager or whoever that showed you how to unlock the safe was a dick for sure

They can take hours to dial every combination of an S&G lock. Cheaper locks are quicker. Most Sentry “safe” dials can be manipulated in minutes if you know what you’re doing, no dialer needed

These tools are also pretty expensive and difficult to source if you’re not in the industry

Turn the dial counterclockwise past your first number three times, stopping on it the fourth time. Dial clockwise to the second number three times, dial counterclockwise to the third number twice, turn the dial clockwise until you feel the bolt retract. The latch will engage at about 0 and the dial will turn no farther than 85, probably it will stop at 90. Turn the lock lever to open the door

Spent hours on that stupid safe.

Skill issue

I know the scriptures say “judge not lest yea be judged”, but I’m just gonna come out and say it. This guy is a real jerk!