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Maybe the long awaited sequel to 1,000 Dolls?

With this lawsuit concluded, we look forward to identifying opportunities to work together with Ms. Carano in the near future.

Sounds like corporate speak for “this cow is never working with us again”.

It’s been a loooong time…

Exactly. On the surface it sounds like they’re being somewhat reasonable, but the reality of what they do when they’re in there is likely going to be different.

“Oops, we accidentally killed them all. I guess there’s no one left to govern, so we may as well have the land now.”

The app is just a map, the WiFi connection uses a standard SSID and login portal.

You’re right, I was just going on the post saying “With the WiFi4EU app, you can access…”, implying that you need the app to access it. But on their webpage it spells it out more clearly:

On connecting to the free Wi-Fi network for the first time, you will be redirected to a secure login page (a captive portal). You will be able to sign in with a simple click-to-connect functionality.

Having a RAID array would make OP’s question somewhat moot - because a drive failure would be less significant.

You and others are focusing on addressing the likelihood of the risk. I’m saying it would be better to address the severity instead. The comment is relevant, just slightly more abstract, but very much on topic.

You’re right that motherboard RAID is worse than OS RAID. I just wasn’t sure what OP’s backup device actually is, if it’s a PC or some simple bespoke NAS box. But it’s more Hardware Controller > OS > Motherboard, generally speaking.

I get what you’re saying, I just disagree and think it isn’t as inaccessible as you make out, or as people who aren’t sure about it may feel. It’s obviously a bit more than, like, 21st century hand holding software that hides all the options, but it’s within the capability of anyone who can make it through a Windows install.

Big up the Jellyfin RAID! I had a bunch of disks in JBOD for too long hah, but that was just out of laziness.

Depends how much storage you’re looking to get. https://diskprices.com/

Looking at new only, you can get a 3TB drive for $36 on Amazon. 3 of those for $108, 6TB storage with n-1 redundancy. Add $36 for 3TB as many times as your controller will allow (or 4, that’s all they have in stock lol).

diskprices.com also has variants for European and other Amazon. Or you could check other retailers. Also the “used” drives are very cheap - these are typically refurbished datacentre drives. They’ll have a shorter lifespan, but that’s still probably better than a single drive with no redundancy.

This kind of thing is worth spending money on. Otherwise your backup solution isn’t really a good backup solution, if you’re worried about it failing.

Edit: Also it isn’t complicated to set up at all. RAID 5 has slightly more setup, but RAID 1, 0 & 10 are widely available natively in most motherboards, and have been for decades. If you’re already setting up some external backup device, it really isn’t much extra, for a good payoff.

Not only are they monitoring everything you view in their network, but you have to install their app on your device.

Good to see Exodus giving it a pass, but if it’s not open source it’s still something to be wary of. I literally can’t think of any good reason for the app to be required, a splash page that you log in to is more than sufficient.

Yay, the app isn’t required!

On connecting to the free Wi-Fi network for the first time, you will be redirected to a secure login page (a captive portal). You will be able to sign in with a simple click-to-connect functionality.

Why aren’t you running your drives in a RAID array? RAID 5 is n-1, meaning you get n-1 total storage space and can withstand any 1 drive failing. You do need at least 3 drives, but that’s what you should be doing - not just running a manual mirror backup or whatever. You also get the speed advantage from striping data across the drives (although this speed is nothing to an SSD).

If you really want to be serious about backing up then it’s 3,2,1 - 3 copies, on 2 different types of media, with 1 in an off-site location. As a minimum.

But first off I think you should upgrade your long-term backup to have some kind of RAID array. With 2 drives you can do RAID 10 (RAID 0 and RAID 1 combined), you’ll only get the storage of 1 drive but you’ll have one to one redundancy and striping. With 3 or more drives do RAID 5 so you’ll have more storage (eg 3x 8GB drives would give 16GB, 4x 8GB would be 24GB, etc), striping for speed, and also the same n-1 redundancy.

You may need a PCIe card for RAID 5, not all motherboards support it natively. You should be able to find a decent one for not too much, if you look around. RAID 1 and 0 (and maybe 10) often are supported natively.

There’s more money to be made keeping it illegal. More risk, more reward.

Most of the UK illegal weed is produced by a monopoly producer. There’s the odd hippy growing their own, but the stuff the most prolific dealers sell all comes from the same source, up and down the country.

It looks daft now with a little hindsight, but we’re kind of still in the foresight stage for the overall life of IPv6.

Copenhagen pretty much has this. So easy to get around everywhere.

It’s a bit more nuanced. If you’re in North America, it’s more likely than not that you’ll have a Californian tomato. If you’re in Asia, it’s probably Chinese. If you’re in Europe there’s a lot of clout for Italian tomatoes, but you’ll probably see a lot of local produce front and centre, with maybe some budget options from another country or in the off-season.

But ultimately water shortages in Cali are going to have little effect on Europe. Prices on the shelve are so far removed beyond cost that a global market price rise caused by the shortage won’t have a massive effect on the price consumers pay - we’re already paying as much as they can get away with charging, at this point it doesn’t really matter much what excuse they use to raise the price because they were already planning to do that anyway.

Eh, the author definitely has more responsibility than he makes out. He’s fully aware that it wasn’t suitable as a backup for all of his stuff (like the book he was writing and all the tutorials), but acts like that shouldn’t matter because he wanted to use it that way to make his desktop workflow better.

So in other words you wrongly assumed I was in the US and that my tomatoes would therefore likely be Californian.

Also the actual roses were in the bushes on the side.

I’m pretty sure they did actually get rid of a lot of the flowers anyway and got rid of things they shouldn’t have, but the layout of it isn’t so drastically changed and the lawn can easily be replaced.

Something like 45% of the world’s fruit comes from our state alone.

This is obviously not true. Maybe it’s true across North America, but California does not produce 50% of the world’s produce.

American produce is not found on the shelves of European supermarkets. Even big franchises like Dominos, they source more locally than that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato#Production

China produce the most tomatoes in the world, at 37% of the global supply.

Where most your tomatoes and Artichokes come from.

Pretty sure my tomatoes don’t come from California lol.