Consistency. You can take 3 readings in a row with that stick and get 3 wildly different results. I have a $20 digital one from decades ago that gives me the same reading within 5kPa on each try.

I tick most of these boxes and still have a rotary landline phone in service.

I have one of those in my glovebox. I think I bought it in 2003. My 2003 manual jap econobox has no need for TPMS. If a tyre is 30kPa too low, you can feel it.

I have immich running on a server that’s under the stairs. It’s a bit loud, but it’s out of the way. I can only access it over SSH.

For backups, I wrote a shell script to do it. I just plug in my external drive, run the script, and unplug it again. The next day I’ll swap the drive for one that I keep in my workplace locker. There’s also a mirrored RAID for the server. That’s 4 copies in total.

Yeah, it’s still a bit of work. I couldn’t imagine teaching anyone else how to do it.

On a Venn diagram, there’s quite an overlap between autism and trains.

I always had the feeling that they were 56% bigger when I was a kid.

It depends how far back you go. I remember upgrading from 4MB RAM to 8MB to run Win95.

You can absolutely get the job of displaying weather done on a meg or two.

As a general rule, everything in the US is measured or notated differently to the rest of the world. Lengths, and weights, food energy, dates, fuel octane, fuel economy, blood glucose. Hell, you guys can’t even do shelf price tags the same.

If you dig through archive.org and retireve the nutritional information PDFs over time, you can see the kj levels dropping.

If you’re on a scrollwheel, you’re rolling a wheel down the page. The viewport moves and the page stays still.

Sliding the scrollbar does the same. It moves the viewport.

On a touchscreen, you’re pulling the page directly. The page moves and the viewport stays still.

A trackpad? I like to think that it’s sliding the scrollbar, not the document.

I’m using bcache, and I’m using btrfs as the filesystem on top of it. I’m not sure that the way I’ve done it is considered best practice anymore. The discourse online is a mess because the landscape keeps evolving.

https://evilpiepirate.org/git/linux-bcache.git/tree/Documentation/bcache.txt

2 of my 4x 4TB spinning drives are portable. 2 in mirrored raid, and on-site backup, and an off-site backup. If you don’t have it on 3 drives across two sites, you don’t have it. 5400RPM is fine as long as you allocate some of that NVMe as a cache for it. Keep all high-transaction stuff like databases, thumbnail caches and indexes on the NVMe drive. Going to 7200RPM just increases power consumption and noise, and reduces reliability.

The other specs seems fine, but I personally upgrade my desktop then take the old CPU, RAM and motherboard to use for my server.

Immich and Nextcloud run fine on my 2015 Core i5 with 16GB RAM.

My 6th gen iPad is the only Apple product I own. It’s also the only device that refuses to connect to my WiFi. I was going to make it a wall panel, but it’s shit.

My wife bought the $100 digital wall calendar from KMart and it hooked up to my CalDav server. I was surprised that it showed zero dark patterns. No vendor lock-in. No ads. No spying.

I’m not sure what Nintendo were meant to do. They probably shipped less units because of pricing. It would be impossible to actually hand that cash back to customers.

The refund just means that the consumer paid for it once, then the taxpayer paid for it again. Yes, they are the same people.

There’s Nexcloud and the “Memories” plugin. It’s not as good as Immich though, especially if you don’t need the rest of NextCloud.

Worst. Crop. Ever.

It’s Glasgow. You get hit by a car if you don’t put a traffic cone on your head.

Yep. It sucks, and it’s just another BS layer on the onion to punch through.

LOL I actually have experience using this to write integration tests.

You’d want to run captured light through a diffuser anyway.