Yea that was silly.

I spent some time there for work in different places and seasons.

Fall/Winter on the gulf coast is freakin beautiful. You can go running then.

I’ve played a fair amount of golf in different seasons, even summer isn’t too bad if you’re by the coast to get the coastal breeze. But fuck running that time of year, haha.

Dang, even has Princess Ardala in it (forget the actress’ name). She’s awesome in some other comedic roles from the era, and later (80’s).

Freak-a-you, freak-a-me, Freakazoid!

Pihole.

I thought all browsers on iOS were just wrappers for the same engine (webkit?), so they really can’t do much there.

And there will be another currency after that.

Again, I’m not spending my time bartering the chickens my boss gave me for some crabs, for some iron, for some gas, just to trade that with the person that has the thing I need, because thats what they wanted.

If you come up with any argument about “well my simplifies that by making the trades for you”, then you’ve just re-engineered currency.

Currency isn’t the issue, it’s money lenders (you know, the table Jesus supposedly threw over at the synagogue), because it’s the generation of debt to make profit at the expense of others, while not contributing anything tangible, that’s the problem according to the parable.

You could still have debtors in a barter system, and that would still be problematic. It would still be debtors preying on people with little to start with, like payday loan places. “We’ll loan you 2 chickens today, but you’ll owe us 3 on pay day”. See, no difference.

Now if you want to make a local barter system just because, that’s different. But acting like you’re going to replace currency is naive, at best. Currency has been with mankind for thousands of years, because it simplifies trading.

Using money is just a simplification of barter. I don’t have time to play barter with 12 people to get the 1 thing I need. Instead I trade dollars/coins/gold/whatever mutually agreed upon token of value.

Also, my boss doesn’t pay me in chickens that I can’t use

The argument against money is just silly.

It’s Florida - OP was sweating like this in the first meter

I’m using the same, Dell OptiPlex SFF.

Has an M2 for the OS, put a full size 8TB drive in for data. I run multiple VMs in VMware on Windows (yep, I know, not the best approach).

It has 32GB of RAM, and it does fine simultaneously converting video and streaming it via Jellyfin. My data is locally replicated to two other systems: a NAS that’s too slow to actually host anything, and a low power machine just for replication.

What I would do differently: run Linux and use KVM of some sort.

Currently it idles at about 15w, peaks at 80w when converting. It’s practically silent at idle.

Paid next to nothing for the box (~$50), most costs are in the ram and drive upgrade.

“piqued” 👍

I use Goop adhesive for cables I don’t want falling out.

Only takes a tiny amount at the connector shoulder, it’ll never fall out but is still removable by hand.

Or if I really want it to stay, I use a lot of goop, and I know that fucker is never coming out without a sharp knife.

I’ve had exacrly 5x more failures of USB C ports than I’ve had of micro that is 5, and 1), and I’ve had way more micro devices over a much longer period (and still have some). It may technically be a “better” port, but my experience doesn’t reflect that.

I have to label cables and chargers because some C devices today still don’t support all charging specs, so I have to verify a device charges on a charger to know for sure.

At what point shouldn’t a device be able to negotiate down to the lowest charge capability, instead of not charge at all? That the spec permits this to happen is a major failure.

It’s fantastic that C is the convergence standard, but let’s not act like it’s close to perfect. I have to verify with every device I use if the charger actually works for it, and not just “is the charger powerful enough”, but “does it actually charge even though I know it should because it supports all the capabilities as the device”.

They too are paradoxical and inconsistent.

Study QED a bit. It all makes no sense. That’s not a complaint, just recognizing that nature is absurdly complex.

Important note: Type 2…which is largely caused by diet

No one wants the ugliness of a war over NK, but everyone wants their natural resources, estimated to be one of the largest deposit of minerals in the world.

And this goes back to the Cold War, which goes back to WWII, and the politics of the president and military commanders, specifically MacArthur, who wanted to continue north and take North Korea decisively to keep the Soviet Union and China from controlling it before it could be reinforced by Chinese soldiers.

At the time, North Korean soldiers were outnumbered by UN forces 3:1, with far more tanks, etc than NK had.

The UN waffled, and by the time they decided Korea should be reunified, China had shipped in nearly 300,000 troops, and an unknown amount of matériel.

Fuck the UN. It’s their fault this is still going on.

The thing is that with progressive bifocals, and the right size lense, this is rarely an issue, as you choose the focus you need by simply moving your eyes and head. When setup properly I rarely need to move my head at all for normal day-to-day stuff, as we naturally put what we’re viewing in the center of our vision.

For example, when looking far, we tend to look upward more, so naturally use the upper portion of a lense. When on a computer or reading, we tend to look downward. Driving is a great example, we look forward and up while driving, down to see the dash, and progressives cover that with no problem.

The only time I run into “problems” is when doing really close work for an extended period, like stuff inches from my face. But for those times, I just switch to readers only while I’m doing that work. These glasses could maybe work there.

I’ve fired 45 and 50 cal pistols, they have quite a kick. It’s pretty interesting to go to a range and start with a 32, then 38, 9mm, 40, 45, and then 50.

40 isn’t much more kick than 9mm (for one round - shoot a few and you notice the difference), but 45 is noticeably more, and 50 is, as they say, “a freakin’ hand cannon”, in a much heavier/longer gun to boot.

So a double 45 would probably be more kick than a 50, though I’d have to look up some numbers and do a little math, keeping in mind a small increase in kinetic energy translates into noticeably more kick as your hand/arm have to control peak acceleration/momentum.

So it would be every bit double the energy of a 45, in the same grip, so would likely feel a lot worse.

I can only imagine what firing that would be like.

Hahahahaha, damn you!!