I think your cut-off should be more 2024-ish, as decent prose wasn’t really “a thing” until 2025. We saw the first vibe-written shit about that time.

Anna’s Archive is also available as a torrent.

I have all the hardware needed for a cluster of BitTorrent servers for the 1.1+Pb archive torrent, what I am lacking are the 80×24Tb drives (4 as hot spares) that will allow me to run it.

So if there is any wealthy “data needs to be free” people in this community, I’d be willing to sign a service contract that limits the use of those donated drives to purely Anna’s Archive torrents. Like, I’ll pay for everything else, I just want storage for it.

Note: SSDs go up to 256Tb, I’m just sure that prices are equally nosebleed. Would love to play with that tech, I’m just doubting a donor would punt for that over spinning rust.

They forgot master/slave in version control systems.

Sorry, are you talking about showers with broken doors, or showers without a door at all?

If the latter, how TF is that supposed to even work? Are we talking like a communal shower, where the door is too far away from the shower for water to splash out?

So tired of keeping like 10 different ethernet dongles, 5 of one model and 5 of another, because half of the new laptops can't even connect to the internet with the windows install ISO due to lack of drivers.

Welcome back to the Win95/98/SE/XP era. Where everything old is new again.

A clean install will need a USB installer anyhow. So build it with RUFUS and enjoy the lack of a manual bypass.

Except from a civil engineering perspective this makes no sense at all. Bricks are not laid in a single layer like that unless the wall is exceedingly short (serpentine wall as a fence) or unless there is a structural backing like an interior load-bearing non-brick wall.

And most all-brick walls in a structural capacity (meant to carry the weight of a structure) are dual or triple walled, depending on the height of the structure and the load bearing requirements.

RUFUS will build you a Windows installer that automatically bypasses the Microsoft Account requirement.

It also lets you bypass TPM 2.0 and lets you remove a lot of bloatware so it doesn’t even get installed in the first place.

The lower half of this meme is getting old to the point of being a bad joke. No-one does this except normies and people who buy pre-built systems that come with Windows already installed.

As an intellectual discipline, economics is closer to theology than physics

Absolutely. Ask any economist where clean air sits in any economic model, and they would call it an “externality”. Or a healthy forest. Or clean water. Or any of the other hundreds of millions of things that make life on this planet - or even a vibrant civilization - possible.

It’s also why capitalism is the most cancerous economic system possible, and leads only to ugly fascism-adjacent authoritarian feudalism and (eventual) systemic civilizational collapse and the early death of billions just so a few obscenely wealthy people can accumulate even more wealth before the end.

I am curious as to how out-of-touch your single downvoter is. Because you hit that nail right on the head.

Like, for my current place I’m still designing a CCTV system. But it will be using dumb PoE cameras, hardwired into a traditional NVR. But everything will be shielded, airgapped, and using dumb(ish) components that do not “phone home” to their manufacturer in any fashion.

I’m even looking into solid state and mechanical components for other home automation functionality. Like, nothing computerized to any degree, and therefore, incapable of being a threat or a data leak.

Canadian Books: anything by Pierre Berton.

Just pirate it.

I mean, the Supreme Court just legalized copying. Millions of rare and one-of-a-kind books are being bodily destroyed just so they can be scanned in, which is pretty much the same thing.

If AI companies can steal content without repercussions, why not you?