I’ve had the misfortune of posting on Craigslist Forums and then having at least 1-2 people shit on me or call me a moron

For now!

That list is no longer accurate. See cybenetics labs.

Yeah… I’m not sure anymore that pre-builts are the best NAS machines. Looks like I’m buying piecemeal.

Picture I linked looks like it will fit.

Actually…

I think Deep Glacier is cheaper if you’re backing up less than 8 TB, so I think I may have to go with Backblaze if I end up using up all 12 TB. Really depends.

Thanks, I’m saving this. I’m very unacquainted with plumbing / carpentry so I wouldn’t have thought of this.

yep, that one. They claim it has a 2tb hd in it so the 3.5" is most likely populated, but good catch! I also have extra cables lying around, so cables won’t be a worry.

creative

I hope not too creative. I think there’s some standard adapter online.

Amazon AWS Glacier

Edit: I was downvoted for this, but it’s genuinely a more affordable alternative to Backblaze whose finances are questionable.

I guess I do.

I’m not going to be in a relationship for the foreseeable decade

I’m in the camp that has used it to summarize my own essays or read chapters. I had it write me bullet points for the weekly chapter discussions that I would then rephrase. It was definitely a weak excuse to use AI, but most of AI-use is weak anyways. To be honest I will go on a long limb to plan my time and finish an assignment without it, be it writing or programming. I think it’s shameful to use any AI tool for that, so I’ve done all writing through manual reading and notetaking, which I think offers my real ideas. So I can say I am proud of myself for doing all (or most) writing myself, with the exception of some of those discussion reply posts. What I think is weird though is how shamelessly people will use it in public. To me GenAI is like pornography- it’s taboo. This geography class I was in had participation polls and this fat kid in front of me would just paste the question into ChatGPT every time, even if it was easy if you thought about it, had paid attention, or looked at the choices. That’s what’s scary to me, is the transition from its use case in anxiety/sleep deprivation/mental health situations to just pure laziness and dependency. It is a reason I really dislike GenAI and try to never rely on it for creative or learning purposes.

We’ve definitely seen the effects that social media and technology has on us; it’s made us addicted and dependent on online communities rather than speaking to each other, etc. (I’m not arguing anything about this). So it’s not a stretch to say that GenAI is going to affect our ability to think and problem solve to some degree, which is terrifying.

I think the AI-enabled zoomer has a point too, because LeetCode is pretty fucked up, yet the point is made in a way that interprets the world through a limited and adolescent perspective; we should reform, but AI is not the end-all solution.

These are small potatoes to the real problems.

I worked at Dollar Tree a year ago and got a letter saying my SSN and birthday was breached by Lockton. This is the second time this has happened and it’s ridiculous they’re still holding on to my data even though I never consented.

If simply functioning in society is going to require me to buy lifetime identity threat protection then I don’t know how privacy isn’t a luxury. Simple: don’t live.

Alternate Caption: “I’ll finish it now instead of in the morning”

It seems like I woke it up from a decade-long hibernation and is unable to boot. However, the disk reads fine in an enclosure.

Publisher matters. Some random website advertising a disk cleaning utility could be malware while a Fitgirl repack most definitely isn’t. Installing something from an official Ubuntu software repository is also pretty safe, while something from a 3rd party repository or community development library could be malware. I also generally trust PDFs from Anna’s Archive and Libgen or Internet Archive, because of the reputation loss to them if it were. You can minimize your risk to a tolerable level this way.

I’ve got news for you, that’s slime not mint.

Mac OS X was installed in 2010/2011. Back when people didn’t hate Apple.

My dad did in 2011. Wikipedia says this is a popular model to Hackintosh.