Yep, Western Digital said they were sold out of drives for all of 2026. Since 2026 is just starting, they haven’t actually produced those drives or gotten actual money for them.

This is exceedingly normal procedure for manufacturing companies, and not limited to tech industry by any means. They know how much they can potentially produce on their lines, if they have predicted customers to fulfill the capacity for a full year they are basically sold out despite not having produced most of it yet.

The company I work for also has “sold out” for several of our factories because we have orders for 110% production capacity on them. Orders are not paid up front, they never are in any industry, it’s always paid after delivery usually with a 30-90 days delay (and even more in some cases).

There is nothing spectacularly weird or out of place in the announcement they’ve made, it’s basically standard procedure.

It’s a joke older than the internet, it’s not the author’s own thoughts about boogers, it’s someone else’s that they just used in a comic format.

If the uplink bandwidth is more than sufficient for users in Europe, and it doesn’t degrade over distance, then why is the same uplink not enough for the exact same thing in Asia?

Oh god no, why would you ever want to do that? Then you have cats in your home, objectively the dumbest and most annoying pet ever.

Edit: or chucking them inside someone else’s home because you hate the residents there? Then yes, totally do that.

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When I try to point it at my server, I’m prompted with a page saying it’s only possible in the paid tier

Apparently only for appletv, for iOS there are no issues.

You thinking I’m a jerk doesn’t change the fact that the appletv app is a burning pile of dog crap. My opinion is that they should actively work on it, the lacking quality and functionality is just fact.

Are you this shitty to people who submit pull requests to your dog-shit bug-ridden open-source software repos? Do you even have anything that’s open-source that tries to solve a problem?

Of course, obviously I am the only infallible person in the universe…scrub

Dude no one is forcing them to work on the project, they can just ditch it if they don’t want to do it anymore. Just because it’s free people are still allowed to voice opinions on the project, sure my comment is tongue in cheek, no one cares…welcome to the internet, is this your first day?

Yeah it doesn’t work with your own media server on the free tier, so they can go fuck themselves.

My server works fine with all other clients though, except the appletv one. In the appletv app I cannot change audio language or reliably change subs. Or, technically I can, it just doesn’t select the language I actually choose, it chooses some random one. This only happens on appletv app, it works as intended on all other devices, both android, iOS, browsers and MS/Linux clients.

Ok, now fix the shitty client on appletv…

I think the ROI for my server is something like 6-7 years, not counting the electricity it uses. I don’t do it to save money but to gain independence, which is good because realistically it will never break even.

The issue is not listening to music, the issue is trying to circumvent company IT policy to install software they’re not allowed to install, e.g. spottube. So, if they want to use something like that, they need to do so on their own devices.

Aren’t new instances federated by default? Then botfarms can spin up instances at will and spam before being defederated.

Bots can just be created on other instances with no verification and post here, so that would makes no difference.

Fuck I only have two of those, and I’m nearly not in my 30’s anymore

That’s not the fault of the mods though, that’s because the OP deleted their post.

Is liver meat

It is classified as organ meat AFAIK, but its (and other organs) makeup is still significantly distinct from the brain with very limited similarities.

From a culinary perspective, I would probably put brain in closer resemblance to e.g. bone marrow, which I don’t believe many would classify as meat either.