A reminder that less than two weeks ago, it was revealed that Trump solicited a $1 billion bribe from the energy industry, offering in return the gutting of environmental regulations.
A week ago, Big Journalism had already consigned this epic scandal to the memory bin.
Had Biden done anything remotely like that, I guarantee that it would still be among the top stories of the day -- and Congress, including Democrats, would be moving toward impeachment.
@itsfoss
While I personally gave up PC gaming a long time ago for consoles, I'm glad it's getting the attention and support and finally becoming a viable gaming platform because way too many people use that as an excuse to hang on to Windows.
Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
The elliptical orbits of planets were indicated by calculations of the orbit of Mars. The third law expresses that the farther a planet is from the Sun, the slower its orbital speed, and vice versa.
@gutenberg_org
The other weird law that he found was that planets sweep the same area for time. If you take the elliptical path over time and create a pie shaped wedge from the focal point, no matter how distant or how close, the area of the pie shape will be the same in the same amount of time. Weird but true.
@itsfoss
If you go all in on a Google app or service that isn't directly related to their advertising biz, you should be ready to have it pulled out from under you. History don't lie.
British astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was born #OTD in 1900.
In 1925 she proposed that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. Her groundbreaking conclusion was initially rejected, because it contradicted the science of the time, which held that no significant elemental differences distinguished the Sun and Earth. Independent observations eventually proved that she was correct.
Books by Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin are coming soon at PG.
Does anyone know of a way to buy an EV that doesn't relentlessly spy on the driver/passengers and send the data to whoever the carmaker feels like selling it to?
Related: Does anyone know of a service in the Bay Area that will disable all the surveillance that was, without my knowledge or permission, built into a 2008 Prius?
@dangillmor
There was recently a lawsuit in the US that the car companies won about gathering and selling your data. By our legal system they are allowed to capture texts, location, and any other data they care and sell it to whoever they want. So in answered your question probably not.
@QasimRashid
It seems to me, and I am very uninformed, that the first step needs to be everyone recognize Palestine set up the borders and the government. It seems they have lived in this gray area for 60 years and I'm not really sure why. Like I said I'm very uninformed so maybe this is just terribly simplistic.
Interested in getting a proper NAS set up. Without having used one before, am I better off just buying one off the shelf, or is it reasonable/cheaper to build one using open source software? I've still got an old Fractal Design Define R4 that would fit plenty of drives, though I expect I'd need to buy everything else — wouldn't want to run it on an old i5-4690.
@liampomfret
Rolling your own is cheaper but requires more work to get going. Depending on your skill level it could be difficult. Off the shelf is nice for people who are a little savvy but don't necessarily want to break out a command prompt. Personally I'm a geek so I just set up a computer with some shares and I also use it to run some media stuff.
@liampomfret
You've hit most of it directly on the head. What I wanted was some storage and a media server where I could stream videos or pictures or whatever. I've been Linux for 15 years but I'm lazy about it and I always use the GUI if I can. I'm just using an old laptop with Linux mint xfce since it's the lightest. I've got 10 terabytes in USB hard drives(a couple of them) and run Emby server for $5 a month.
@liampomfret
Some of the difficult points are getting the USB drives mounted at boot to be shared and permissions on various things. Those will be your headaches in general.
In using Linux I highly recommend Mint. If you were dabbling I would also wander into KDE desktop versions. It's very pretty and arguably better than Windows at windows interface
@liampomfret
My USB drives spin down and I reboot that machine about once a year. The performance is decent so I don't mess with it. And it's a laptop on purpose because power.. If you do a ton of SATA drives take a peek at raid, especially if you get matching drives
@liampomfret
That's not the worst idea about using your PC and upgrading. I guess like almost anything you can spend a little or a lot or anything in between. My system doesn't have redundancy but I'm okay with it. Once you get raid going it's kind of like a different level. There are some really good OS systems in Linux designed just for NAS but that's all they do.
@liampomfret
One other thing before I forget. A lot of times your network storage speed is determined by your network speed and not the hardware. You can have super fast hard drives but if you're network isn't super fast it really doesn't matter, in other words. Might be something to test out.