Be ready to replace the disk when the warranty ends.

What’s the point of replacing them? The warranty doesn’t keep them from dying, it just means you get a free replacement. The amount of life left on the drives after the warranty expires depends heavily on how they’re used, and most self hosters are pretty gentle on their drives. I could see replacing the drives that are heavily used, but replacing all drives just because their warranty expired seems like a waste of money and effort.

Wouldn’t mind if they keep lowering power consumption…

I didn’t say their point wasn’t valid, I just thought their reading comprehension was ironic.

The article is about a course that’s required for all freshmen, not just lit majors. Here’s the first sentence of the article:

Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1998.

It could - if a woman has a child with her own son.

I’m not a CPA, but I don’t think you can write off something that already made a profit. How would that even work, if companies were able to write off predicted ad revenue? They could make up any value and never have to pay any taxes at all.

I don’t think write-offs have anything to do with them removing these episodes.

I don’t think they can write it off either way, though. It only makes sense to write off shows that haven’t made money. It’s just “retiring” when you’re taking about something that’s already been released. There’s no ulterior profit motive, unlike when they write off unreleased movies and shows.

What does this have to do with write-offs? I don’t think they can write off episodes of South Park and the daily show that have already aired.

Again, I’m just guessing wildly, but anything which scares people away from smoking is good in my opinion.

That’s where I disagree, spreading misinformation as scientific fact causes people to lose trust in health authorities, and it fuels things like the anti-vax movement and flat earthers. The ends don’t justify the means.

A lot of that was exaggerated. 7 minutes per puff really doesn’t sound realistic. But since it convinced people to stop smoking I guess everyone agreed that some misinformation was OK?

7 minutes per puff? Who says that?

You can take the train all the way to Venice, you don’t need to fly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel

If that happens, they just fall back to the first option of waiting for their provider to set up the IPMI.

According to Wikipedia, Millenarianism has been around for a long time, and it sounds like the Christian “rapture” is a good example. Your post seems to imply it’s a recent thing (ie. 21st century), but maybe I’m misinterpreting what you’re trying to say?

In what way is the Linux kernel proprietary?

They’re mostly just used for tamper-proof screws for things like bathroom stalls so people can’t take them apart as a “prank” or whatever. The screw driver bits tend to break easily, which is usually worse than the screw stripping.

This is gold.

Nextcloud isn’t SaaS, unless you’re paying someone else to manage your server. Self-hosting is never SaaS.

Right, that’s true of cloud-based services, but not “anything that connects to the internet.”

Where did you hear that? Can you share a link? It’s not entirely true, but it does apply to most IoT products.