Copland was supposed to take over the world at the time the anime was made, so that makes sense. Didn’t quite turn it that way, of course, which is probably for the better.

Using the Synology as storage and another machine to host everything else is a perfectly fine solution, especially if you have the hardware already. If you want to consolidate everything onto one box, there are quite a few options from the likes of Ugreen, Aoostar or Minisforum. But those don’t really provide much of a benefit other than having one fewer box.

Would be useful to indicate which of those exist and which have flown successful missions. Not everyone knows all that stuff.

Before the invention of books, short sightedness was far less common. So let’s blame Gutenberg.

Nice meme and all but this sort of thing is happening in nature all the time. Amber can get eroded or crushed and will set things free that were trapped in there for a very long time.

You don’t actually have to carry a separate cable for the watch, just the cradle that you plug into your phone charging cable. And I never charge them at the same time because I wear the watch at night for sleep tracking. Nifty idea, though.

Zohran is a radical socialist by American standards…

Which means he’d be a pretty milquetoast centrist in countries with less insane political systems.

If you find all the ball sacks, you get a prize.

Start out with Python. It’s easy to learn and there are tons of courses and tutorials out there. Unless you want to be a professional programmer, it’s all you’ll ever need. Learning tex in this day and age is a waste of time, if you ask me.

People get triggered when you say “we should be kind to each other” and will call you a woke, liberal snowflake. Those are also the same people who will screech about “making everything political” wherever they get any blowback. So yeah, everything is political and always has been.

In the Fediverse, nobody knows you’re a dog. Arf arf

Another poor soul saved from the orphan crushing machine. How heartwarming.

After his mandatory brainworm injection, Tom became a productive member of the Trump administration.

Mint works fine for gaming. For a gaming focused machine I’d consider Bazzite, though, which has been getting a lot of hype lately.

It wouldn’t be a one shot mission, of course. SpaceX have proven that they can launch a bunch of those in quick succession. That would still be a fraction of the cost of the idiotic SLS.

Relying on Starship as a moon lander is one of the most hare brained decisions of NASA in recent years. OTOH, it would be perfectly feasible to get a moon mission going using Falcon 9 as the launch vehicle.

That’s why getting to the moon permanently is so important. Once we get in situ resource utilisation going, the rest of the solar system becomes much more accessible.

We reached Mars with probes 50 years ago. I’m not in any way trying to denigrate the amazing achievements of the Mars rovers. But the fact remains that a human crew could have done all that and more (like drill a hole) in a few weeks at best.

And fifty years later we still mope around in low earth orbit. Progress has slowed down a lot since the billionaires took over.

Probable.