Portia is amazing! I am a spider guy, but I don’t really have a favourite one. There are too many awesome ones.

Also, those are amazing pictures for 2004!

This species is actually the title picture of my US field guide! A very good book!

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Yeah, ANC quality can vary a lot and generally it’s even worse for earbuds.

I have a pair of Bose QC Ultra headphones which have amazing ANC.

A few month back there was a constuction site across the street. At one point I felt my desk vibrating, so I took of my headphones … only then did I realised they were using a jackhammer.

Yep, that’s definitely Argiope aurantia. It has quite a lot of common names, including “golden garden spider” … and it is an orb-weaver.

However it is not a “golden orb-weaver” which is the common name for the genera Nephila and Trichonephila.

there’s that distinctive radial thick web running along the diameter of her web.

Yep, they are called “stabilimenta” and we don’t really know what they do. Very common in Argiope spp.

but her audiologist believes the overuse of noise-cancelling headphones, which Sophie wears for up to five hours a day, could have a part to play.

Me, wearing my noise-cancelling headphones for 10+ hours a day …

Ideally post them to [email protected] with as close as a location you’re comfortable with.

There are two species in the US:

Trichonephila clavipes

and Trichonephila clavata, which is only documented in Georgia.

And while similar, they shouldn’t look “exactly” the same. The picture OP posted is definitly a species that does not occure in the US.

If you had some pictures that would be great.

But, as I said, that looks exactly like the ones in Pennsylvania.

Mh, I’m quite curious now. Pennsylvania is quite far north, you shouldn’t really get any golden orb-weavers (Trichonephila)

T. clavipes - Predominantly southeastern US. Florida, Gulf States, north to North Carolina, south to Central and South America as far as Argentina.

T. clavata - northeast GA

Do you maybe mean the black and yellow garden spider, Argiope aurantia?

You are right, these spiders are “banana spiders or golden orb weavers”. That is true. But that is a colloquial name that encompases a whole bunch of different species.

And the one posted here is one that is exclusive to Africa(and Yemen, see the Map someone else posted).

So while you have very similar spiders, I’m pretty sure you dont “have those exact spiders”. At least from a taxonomic standpoint. Behaviourally those spiders very much act the same way.

Definitely Nephila.

In 2019 a lot of Nephila have been reclassified as Trichonephila. A lot of sources aren’t up to date with that.

I’m betting OP is in North America

Pretty sure he’s not, I know the species there. He must be in Africa or Asia. And my match in Africa is pretty good …

Going by OP’s comment/post history, he’s from Africa. So that’s that.

Looks like Trichonephila senegalensis. Are you in Africa or the middle east?

Personally I’m more on the paranoid side, so I went with raid 6 and a hot spare. So in case of failure I can rebuild one disk immediately and not having to buy one first. But so far I’ve never had a disk failure.

In addition I was thinking of having the 8TB HDD as a standalone to backup the documents and maybe the photos and the docker setups.

That is a very good idea. I also can’t quite afford to backup my main storage of movies/shows, but at least all the important personal documents (and my music) is properly backed up.

Just over the border in Switzerland I’ve got 0,79€ per egg (0,75€ pr egg in a 12 pack). But that’s still cheaper than OP.

Yeah, same. I switched to seagate after 3 WD drives failed in less then 3 years. Never had problems since.

I DGAF about your kids.

Preach!

One of the craziest wtf moment of my life resulted from an oversharing parent.

At a hot summer day a few years back someone posted a picture of them barbequing in their backyard to our company’s “off topic” teams chat. Nothing unusual. I was over at a friends place so I send back a picture of us sitting in lawnchairs having a beer. In comes the third colleague, first time father with a roughly 1.5 year old at the time. So he posts a picture of his kid running around in his backyard. Completly naked, full frontanl nudity.

It took me a minute to recollect and I messaged him to please take down the picture. I know he didn’t mean any harm and was just sharing his hot-summer-weekend expirence … and he did realise his blunder and took it down. But wtf mate?

After that I immediately googled how to clear my teams’ app image cache …

No we don’t need to move on from TNG and TOS we need more of it, and Strange New Worlds proved it

Picard proved the opposite.

that’s only because we had an organized server that had a list of who was next in line to get HWL

Honestly, I loved that kind of meta gaming, all the backdoor deals, even across factions. The drama when some group wouldn’t honour the list or agreements (Been on both sides of it).

I made rank 13, luckily I already had a better weapon from raiding, so I could skip the last one. Good times.

2 of those years were after I finished school and was just living rent free at home and gaming full time. During that time it was easly more then 12h a day. Though, a lot of that was just being logged in and idle while chatting on teamspeak or doing administrative work for the guild (we ran our own webserver out of a friends house for our forum/dkp system, etc). That’s how I learned programming.

There was also some account sharing, which was literally required to get to the top of the vanialla PvP ranking. Games were built different back then.

Yeah, the amount of time you had as a student sure was amazing. These days it’s more like a few hours a month.

Probably still World of Warcraft. When I quite around 2010, I had close to 700 days /played time on my main, and another 400 days between various alts.