$100 is actually a great deal. I had a bunch of shucked 8TB WD EasyStore in my media server previously, bought between 2018-2023, and I think the best deal I ever saw during that time was around that price. Around $12/TB was always my benchmark for a great deal on some drives.
I’ve been buying refurbished drives from ServerPartDeals and looking at my invoice from March versus now the price of the same drive has gone up 10% from $180 to $198 (Ultrastar HC530 14TB)
there is a reason that comcast et al basically have like a 1 gig upload on a 100 gig down connection.
Because they’re limited on channels and allocate more of them for increased download speed because most people upload very little data comparatively.
The bandwidth cap is just a pure money grab as they removed the caps during covid when everyone was video calling and sitting around online at home and ‘somehow’ their network handled it just fine.
None of this has anything to do with piracy.
The US government did that via a guy who wanted a promotion at the DOJ.
Im on Android Yoyager and clicked the link to the community, clicked the 3 dot menu, and clicked subscribe.
Im a big BtB fan but cannot stomach ICHH. I wish they didnt lump the weekly recap in on the BtB feed because whenever my commute runs over an hour, Spotify starts playing it after BtB finishes and im stuck listening until i get home or stop somewhere.
Until someone can do it cheaper and then they take over. This has already happened many, many times as chinese quality increased and wages and thus prices increased.
Unless some other nation finds a stockpile of rare earth minerals, slave labor, and bottomless government subsidies, I don’t see this happening with EVs. Currently nobody else on the planet is able to sell them anywhere near the price China is and that’s not because of simple cost cutting and business efficiency.
This is probably some agreement witn the Chinese government to give good press in other parts of the world in order to get benefits on vehicles sold in China. Ford’s CEO put out a nearly identical article a few months ago.
No it’s definitely their monopoly on the rare earth mineral market.
Change it to WingDings and sit back while the world burns around you.
Now they can breathe down your neck from the comfort of their own home!
Dont forget the constant shuffling of buttons and menus so that you are constantly learning everything for the first time and can never become proficient at using their software.
“Favorite” as in “entertaining” is definitely the Boston accent because it makes you sound wicked smahht.
Buying used movies at a garage sale fuels the retail market? If that were the case then why can’t you buy used movies at any retail store? Another falsehood.
I’ve spent thousands on hardware and software for my media server, so it seems that piracy does fuel the retail market in ways that buying second hand doesn’t. Perhaps you’re right and they’re not the same. I think piracy generates more revenue than buying second hand, elevating it well above buying used copies, which is now the most harmful way to consume media.
Sure it is. Its their content and you’re not paying them for it which is the same as stealing, right?
Tell that to all the people who’ve purchased digital copies of movies and TV to own only to have these companies later pull those licenses and leave them with nothing.
Nope, buying things second hand should be considered just as bad as pirating as you’re depriving the creators of their entitlements, just to take your argument to its logical conclusion.
I just wish their merch were as sexy as Star Wars merch so that fans could better show their appreciation for the franchise. Currently everything is still quite “nerdy” while “normies” walk around happily in Star Wars t-shirts
Also this is the first I’ve seen of any official announcement. My credit card is at the ready.
How about those rumors of a LEGO Enterprise??? Nobody wants action figures anymore, and I can’t see the average person wanting Starfleet Academy cosplay attire. Why has Star Trek historically had the absolute worst merchandise available?
Same. For most people in our space, a Dell Optiplex micro is more than enough horsepower (except few expansion ports). There’s no reason to be running a legacy server consuming 2.5kW just to host some movies or store your camera footage.