Nollij

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[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you define gouging? Last I checked, even with these high ticket prices, most of her shows are sold out. How does that differ from basic supply and demand?

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's not so unreasonable. An extended stay hotel near me is $539/week, and that was just the first result. That leaves $120 for food, or $17/day. While it won't be living the high life, it can be done.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

To prove the charges. There have been enough cases of "she looks too young to be 18" where they were, in fact, 18. This database (which I thought was actually run by the FBI, but whatever) let's them show that the images were of Jane Roe, born May 5 1996, and the images/material were produced between 2008-2010.

IOW, to provide proof beyond a reasonable doubt that they were underage.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

What do you mean by "last"? I know it's a common term, but when you dig deeper, you'll see why it doesn't really make sense. For this discussion, I'm assuming you mean "How long until I need to buy a newer model?"

First, consider the reasons you might have for buying a newer model. The first is hardware failure. Second is obsolescence - the device cannot keep up with newer needs, such as speed, capacity, or interface. The third is insecurity/unsupported from the vendor.

The last one is easy enough to check from a vendor's product lifecycle page. I'll assume this isn't what you're concerned about. Up next is obsolescence. Obviously it meets your needs today, but only you can predict your future needs. Maybe it's fine for a single 1080p* stream today, and that's all you use it for. It will continue to serve that purpose forever. But if your household grows and suddenly you need 3x 4k streams, it might not keep up. Or maybe you'll only need that single 1080p stream for the next 20 years. Maybe you'll hit drive capacity limits, or maybe you won't. We can't answer any of that for you.

That leaves hardware failure. But electronics don't wear out (mechanical drives do, to an extent, but you asked about the NAS). They don't really have an expected life span in the same way as a car battery or an appliance. Instead, they have a failure rate. XX% fail in a given time frame. Even if we assume a bathtub curve (which is a very bold assumption), the point where failures climb is going to be very unclear. The odds are actually very good that it will keep working well beyond that.

Also of note, very few electronics fail before they are obsolete.

*Technically it's about bitrate, but let's just ignore that detail for simplicity. We'll assume that 4k uses 4x as much space as 1080p

TL;DR: It could fail at any moment from the day it was manufactured, or it could outlast all of us. Prepare for that scenario with a decent backup strategy, but don't actually replace it until needed.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

That the market buying internal drives is generally willing to pay more for the product vs the people buying an external drive? Because cost of the parts (AKA Bill of Materials, or BOM) is only a small part of what determines the price on the shelf.

The fact the WD has a whole thing about refusing to honor the warranty (likely in violation of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act) should tell you what you really need to know.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I think you're being down voted because IP and encryption serve very different purposes in different ways. Look into the OSI model, which is the standard for modern network connectivity. IP lives at layer 3, network. TCP lives at layer 4. Encryption, such as SSL, lives at layer 6. I'm not even really sure how the IP layer would even have security, short of a VPN, which itself breaks the mesh network model.

Also, the Internet and many of its standard protocols were created a very long time ago. TCP/IP was created in 1974. The "Internet" at that point was acoustic couplers and directly dialing your destination, typically a university or major research company.

I agree that all websites should be HTTPS these days. It's why Google has been pushing it (and punishing those that don't) since 2017. But it's built on ancient designs.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Please stop using Express. Snowden (yes, that one) called out why a while back. It's pretty wild.

Mullvad is definitely the favorite among those that I would expect to have experience. Honorable mentions to Proton and IVPN. There's a big difference in ethics among providers. Given the entire point of a VPN (as a proxy to the external Internet), this is a critical point that can't be ignored. Otherwise you're just trading Comcast's spying for Kape's spying.

I recently switched to AirVPN, since it's one of the few to still support port forwarding.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

TL;DR: It's about the warez "scene", specifically about music pre-releases. A decent read, but one you may have seen before.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hell of a headline, but...

To delve into this intriguing topic, the researchers conducted an online survey with 328 initial participants, eventually narrowed down to 44 heterosexual male guitarists who were fans of metal music. The participants ranged in age from 18 to 47 years, with the majority being from the United States and Poland. The majority were single, had a bachelor’s degree, and identified themselves as middle-class – a demographic representation typical of the two most represented countries.

This is really not a study

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why can't they just copy Tesla's model? Or does Amazon operating a storefront on behalf of the manufacturer preclude that?

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

In at least some states, to sell more than XX cars per year, you must have a dealer license.

A company vehicle is really no different than a personal vehicle, at least not in this context. They own a truck (titled to them), they can sell a truck via private sale. They don't get any sort of dealer perks (such as not being listed in the history as an owner), they are just selling their property.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That does make a compelling campaign slogan. While I assume Musk's statement should not be taken literally, IIRC he made similar statements about Twitter. Shortly after, there were countless reports of how awful it suddenly became to work at Twitter.

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