So the original Who’s Line Is It?

Others have mentioned power - you may want to do some math on drive cost vs power consumption. There’ll be a drive size point that is worth the cost because you’ll use fewer drives which consume less power than more drives.

Having built a number of systems, I’m a LOT more conscious of power draw today for things that will run 24/7. Like my ancient NAS draws about 15 watts at idle with 5 drives (It will spin down drives).

More drives will always mean more power, so maybe fewer but larger drives makes sense. You may pay more up front, but monthly power costs never go away.

Also, I’ve built a 10 drive n NAS like this (because I had the drives and the case, mono and ram). It can produce a lot if heat while doing anything, and it was a significant power hog - like 200w when running. And it really didn’t idle very well (I’ve run it with UnRaid, TruNAS and Proxmox).

And while more drives means more failure opportunity, it also means when a failed drive is replaced, it’s likely of a different manufacture period.

I have a 5-drive NAS that I’ve been upgrading single drives every 6 months. This has the benefit of slowly increasing capacity while also ensuring drives are of different ages so less likely to fail simultaneously. (Now I’m waiting for prices to come back down, dammit).

I’ve never run into issues running desktop hardware without ECC as servers - since the 90’s.

I just don’t think the extra cost is worthwhile - I’m not running systems/services that will have catastrophic failures without ECC (or have weird bitflips that would corrupt some transaction).

What’s this “boot” of which you speak?

Do people really turn their machines off these days?

Hahahahaja

Its a rewards program - nothing but a data collector.

For overpriced, shitty Starbucks “coffee”.

Never had a forced update on windows.

But I configure all my boxes from the start.

This is just new yorkers being new yorkers - a city full of Emperor’s New Clothes.

So, a corner store?

And this doctor still sounds arrogant and hand-waves away the root cause as patient issues, disregarding how often doctors simply don’t listen and choose simplistic answers.

Wow, just wow.

BillGill said it better than I could - speed of light limitation.

I can add that our nearest star is 4 light-years away, so if we could travel at the speed of light it would still take 4 years to get there.

We can’t even travel a fraction the speed of light yet - even if we could there are massive challenges to even approaching a fraction of the speed of light.

As for something magical like warp, well that’s still just ideas.

Lol, exactly

Starbucks doesn’t get my money because it’s shit.

I haven’t been to a Starbucks since 2012

I don’t disagree.

Problem is their binary attitude about root.

Root us used, every day, on every system on the planet.

Even Windows now uses a more granular Admin system - which is a better approach.

In Linux we only escalate as-needed, and strictly limit accounts that are used for services (Windows too actually).

Is this the one where he steps on her dress and it rips?

Yea, I see Howard Hawks in the credits - I watch.

Space travel is a non-starter. It’s taken decades to even leave the solar system.

Ten bucks? Oh for beer to be so cheap at a ski lodge, haha.

Those are 90’s prices.