I remember learning that 3.5" disks were still called “floppy” disks, despite being rigid plastic. My teacher took apart a disk and showed us how the inside was a film, but all that did was encourage us to take apart the disks and make desk toys out of the springs.

Man, I remember when Zip Disks were a big deal and a GB was a lot of storage.

I love that this exists, and thank you for introducing me to the site as well.

I have an offer. How bout you don’t post advertisements to the community?

Step one, provide good service.

Netflix: Welp, I guess we should just pack it in.

That’s an awful lot of words for “Spotify is bullshit.”

I disagree about art. Art exists for art’s sake. It’s not a commercial product. I don’t have to pay to enjoy the Mona Lisa or the Bach. I might pay to enter a museum, or attend a performance, so I agree with you about entertainment, but art is different. Art enriches the world, improves life, expands understanding, and we should all of us pay for it with taxes. And we do!

Sure, but at these prices, it’s less expensive to get a modded PS1.

Brb, I gotta go… return some video tapes.

People can see my games?

Good point, but let’s say you download 20 new movies, meaning rewrite to every block on the drive each week. That’s barely 1,000 write cycles a year, and we’re still talking about a hundred thousand write cycles, which would take 100 years. Even if you start seeing bad blocks at 10,000 write cycles, by the time the drives are wearing out, the cost of replacement drives should be considerably lower.

Yep, and it used to be free for personal use, although I don’t know if that’s the case anymore. Either way, I will highly recommend it.

The write cycles shouldn’t really be an issue for a home NAS because you’re not erasing and rewriting over and over. For commercial projects, where logs, security video, or rotating data needs to be stored and erased hundreds of thousands of times.

Is ngrok still a thing?

What do you use the Pi for now?

I had a bunch of Pi 3Bs sitting around, so I made piholes for a few friends and family, I made a dedicated MAME emulator that I never have time to play, and I gave one to each of my kids to learn about computers and linux. I also use one for work as a linux test environment for our software, but the 3 hardware doesn’t really keep up.

I would be very interested to read this in an article format, but I have zero interest in watching a video about it.

I haven’t done it myself, so I hesitate to recommend a specific project. But Carpi and OpenAuto are good places to start.

Why risk it? Build your own with a raspberry pi and a touchscreen.

Why does your lightbulb need to connect to the internet at all? Automation does not require the cloud.

You could build a museum of horrible decisions and fill it with the last two seasons of Game of Thrones. Whether you watched it or not, the show was a cultural touchstone, and the ending retroactively ruined everything that came before. Many shows have started well and ended poorly, but I’d argue that GoT was on pace to be an all-time top ten series, and there was absolutely nothing good to say about how it ended. Bad writing, bad acting, bad production values, sloppy editing, poor visual design, it was both rushed and too slow, and nothing made sense. If you paid someone to deliberately fuck up everything about the show, they would not have been as effective at it because it would have been obvious.