obviously you have to wait for them to go lookin’ for pic-a-nik baskets then.

most retailers won’t be happy with the same net per unit when fewer units will sell due to the higher prices, so they’ll be adding more than just that 25% of ‘cost’ to the final retail price.

the basic idea of the tariffs for lord diaper is to pressure those countries into doing what he wants. the revenue stream is secondary to that goal, but is a significant shift of tax burden onto the lower and middle classes; while the wealthy get tax cuts ‘funded’ by those tariffs that disproportionately affect those least able to afford the higher prices.

“then what’s all the cuts to medicaid and snap and other benefits and programs going to?”

more tax cuts for the rich.

“how about all the other ‘savings’ from ‘doge’?”

more tax cuts for the rich.

“then why is the deficit still growing by billions and billions?”

more tax cuts for the rich.

“when is it our turn?”

never!

my usual response when asked where i’d want to live, or where i’d move to if i could during the winter or summer. the answer is canada. always canada. something like thunder bay year round… maybe winter in edmonton and summer in winnipeg (no. i don’t have that ‘backwards’)

Me, someone who hates all 4 seasons: YEAAAH!!!

so, you want it where it could be foggy freezing rain in the morning, then sun shining and 60-70F by mid/late afternoon, then the temperature crashes at sunset with 4 inches of blowing and drifting snow by bedtime?

the people freaking out are reading social media takes written by other people freaked out over other social media posts written by yet more others who are freaked out after not reading and fully comprehending the full policy documents…

i’ve been using firefox and its predecessors since the very beginning, all the way back to pre-release navigator.

i do have (and have always had) other browsers installed (using ‘portable’ installations of them, mostly, these days). currently those include vivaldi, opera, librewolf and waterfox. at least one of which is added along side firefox on each desktop (most often also with a firefox dev edition). these are mostly for testing but also to separate specific online tasks into their own browser. the chromium-based ones are used for very specific things requiring addons that don’t work well or at all with firefox.

unless i need to in order to assist a client, i do not use chrome as provided by google, and i do not use edge from microsoft except for its primary function: downloading another browser when i don’t have a flash drive handy with its installer already downloaded and saved to it.

having actually read the policy documents in question and considering the intent and purpose of the changes that mozilla is making, i have no plans on changing my primary browser.

me too. i’m in total control.

i see 'em, i eat 'em.

postgres2electricboogaloo

even the old ‘xp mode’ for win7 was just a vm.

tuna & peas with shells & cheese

just on top of smashed (baked or boiled, cut, mushed with a fork, buttered) potatoes is pretty good

peas is often added to tuna noodle hotdish. you can put the frozen peas in with the noodles as they cook. they’ll be ‘done enough’ when the noodles are.

dried peas make a damn good soup.

windows isn’t the problem. it can and will run all day, every day.

your existing box isn’t a server. it’s a desktop pc that you’re doing ‘server things’ on. you want a server, make it one:

move the retro gaming, the ‘shitposting’, the 3d design work, and the random internet use that goes with those things, off to a different pc. doesn’t even need to be that much of a pc. enough for the 3d work and emulators, and a fast lan port or wifi for accessing your ‘server’.

leave the existing one with the *rrs, the storage, the drivepool and snapraid… get everything else off. disable any oc settings you have enabled. it’s a server. then leave it alone.

it all runs on Windows 10 (which is where the issue arises)

what ‘issue’? your hardware should ‘officially’ support win11.

the only 6bay lff cage for it i found online after a quick search was over $400usd.

as others mentioned, msa30 is scsi (yuk). along those lines, you’d want the msa60 which is sas/sata, plus somewhere on the server to connect it to. probably not cheap.

but i really don’t think it’s worth putting a whole lot of time or money into a 15 year box… at least not anything that can’t be used in or with newer stuff later.

i’d probably just grab some 2-5tb 2.5in hdd for media storage and use those before i bought something specific for that old hardware.

dl380-g7 is some really old stuff. 1st gen westmere. not very power efficient for the performance. there’s no hardware encoding (qsv with encoding started with some 2nd gen).

how well it can do software encoding would depend on the cpu. but don’t expect too much, and nothing more demanding than h264 avc at reasonable settings. you’d need a newer video card with hardware encoding for hevc, av1 or anything like that.

iirc there was a 6bay 3.5in option for those, and that cage/backplane might be available somewhere.

no. we didn’t ‘bully’ them into dropping the 15 minute thing.

they’re still gonna do it–they just won’t tell you up front at the start of the call. and it will be because of reduced staffing at call centers instead of automatically adding a long wait time to every call.

you can have (well, used to) eggs anytime… fried, boiled, scrambled, omelets, poached–whatever. but gram’s special deviled eggs were for ‘special occasions’ only. she always made enough, so yea. gonna eat far more eggs that way than i ever would in a normal breakfast or meal.

like the fuckface ever graduated on his own…

i had just looked this one up recently:
the little nub on a peanut is an embryo.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/peanuts-embryo-nub_n_56d4a305e4b03260bf77b808

the only thing i sometimes wish i could do–snake only gets you so far on my nokia.

but i usually just carry a book when i go somewhere i may have to sit awhile. when i’m reading, most everything gets tuned right out.