Me and my people are bullied less, it is true.

I don’t want to be a tinfoil hat guy, but those comments are all suspiciously well capitalized and punctuated. Smells like a pro Russia bot powered by an LLM

I have bad news about Mark Lanegan…

I’d stop shopping there if I had a time machine that could take me back to 2003.

The birthday paradox comes to mind.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

Unless someone can prove some malicious intent, I think it is just as valid of a birthday as any other day.

What if it was awful?

Too late, he left home.

What is old is new again.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/432/4

We’d much rather spend money on fabulous vacations or boring mortgages.

The peons will be some of the most impacted, so it is good to stay in the loop. I wouldn’t obsess over what is going on, but a weekly digest of news is helpful.

virtue - behavior showing high moral standards.

Wouldn’t want to signal that.

You would probably be able to run it. It will run like crap, but it will likely start. Postgres can run on as little as 8mb of ram, but not well. I’d recommend a box with at least 2gb of ram if you want to spin up multiple containers.

sqlite would probably be a better choice on an aging pi, but I’m sure you have your reasons.

Are the bright colors giving you impure thoughts?

Diablo 2 was my first and favorite, I played the shit out of that game with my friends. We’d join up and rush each other, share equipment, meticulously plan our builds, and kill the strongest stuff we could find.

The story was stale after the first playthrough, and yeah I killed Baal and Mephisto thousands of times, but it was so much fun. There wasn’t an auction house or an ability to buy the best equipment. Leveling up didn’t take forever, so I could build a level 80 character in a few weekends of grinding away.

I played Diablo 3 too, but it felt like they lost the storytelling magic and focused more on monetization. Rifts were cool, but I really just felt like it was more of the same with better graphics and different characters / skill trees. It wasn’t novel enough to grind away my weekends on.

I haven’t tried the latest, and despite having a phone, I refuse to play Immortal or whatever (if that is still around).

I am over Blizzard games at this point … in the 90s and early 2000s they could do no wrong. Since they hitched up with Activision they completely lost the plot.

Kiss the ring.

Only firs

They would have made a fortune on placing these in high school locker rooms.

Personally I wouldn’t worry too much about where you mount the volume, I use /storage on my boxes because I is easy to remember and sounds good to me. I also typically make a storage group that I give access to manage the files in the volume vs having my user own everything.

I wouldn’t put it in home just because you are considering sharing with others.

The company name is telling. Metadata is data about data. Data about you. They sell that. That’s their whole business. That should be enough to not want to knowingly feed them more.

You think, “but I don’t use Facebook or insta or threads, so I’m safe”. Not so fast. Companies want to know how effective their ad spending is on meta products, so they integrate the Facebook sdk into their apps.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/app-events

They are just over there sucking up data and selling it for billions. Oh and influencing elections and radicalizing our parents while their code infects apps and websites. The cancer comparison isn’t far off.

Fast food is pretty gross if you don’t eat it regularly. I think a lot of it is how addictive it can be. A hit of caffeine, sugar, salt, and fat when you are hungry and tired hits the spot.

People get stuck in these routines, and the companies have apps and reward programs to gamify people into coming back.