Nah, roll it into a cone with the topings on the outside and try to suck the crust though the topings.

No doubt, and I know the cost is distributed across the entire pool. I just mention it as a reference point.

Our neighborhood is older homes on higher elevation vs a significant percentage of newer developments that are in the flood plain (since that is the remaining land around here) Realistically, the insurance companies and developers share some blame in this because if you don’t build houses in the higher risk areas, you are less likely to have to pay out significant claims on something. But, money upfront is all these people are going for.

I can tell you our homeowners insurance went up by $120/month near Houston. Never flooded, never froze, never had wind damage, never had a claim. Our house is under 2000sqft and inland.

• I am trying to do self hosted services and storage at home for my digital stuff. This helps minimize e-waste since I follow a model of upgrade my primary device, then deprecate the previous system to hosting duty
• we do composting and try to do as much zero waste food as possible
• I garden for polinators and vegetables in the free space around our house. I have some grass for the kids/dog but we use no chemicals on any of our plants/yard
• 2 50 gallon rain barrels
• goal for next year is partial solar and additional waste reduction.
• I also started a job that is ~1 mile from home vs 37 each way so my fuel consumption basically dropped to 0

Anecdotal plug, I have had the best luck with Toshiba drives. In my current NAS I am using seagate 12tb recert ironwolf drives but that only has a month of uptime so far.

Before those I ran Toshiba 4tb NAS drives, and before that Toshiba 2tb red drives for 8years with no issues and 100% uptime in a drivepool windows setup. My last couple of backup drives were 6th WD drives and I am 2 for 2 on premature drive failures with those.

I also refuse to run WD online type devices since the mybooklive/mycloud security issues that resulted in significant data loss and WD refused to patch it. Instead they gave pile a $50 credit for a new drive

Jeff Rosenstock: “The Fuzz”

Bluey is GOAT level.

Air conditioning. Near the coast in Texas it’s more or less a lifesaver.

I bought a bigass camp chef griddle for our back yard based on waffle house and japanese hibachi and it is completely worth it.

Emirates flying from Dubai to Houston takes the yolo route and flys straight north into Iran and over Russia. That was a tense return flight for me.

Gotta avoid the Red Sea with that bad boy.

I am currently getting a replacement for my old win10+drivepool setup using hand me down parts from my old main pc. I decided to go with UNRAID this time and other than a few headaches, its been pretty simple to get going. I am already a big fan of the container/docker/app setup. My setup is 3 12tb seagate iron wolf nas drives recertified/refurbished from ebay, the nvme ssd I used as my prior boot drive as a cache drive, and a r7 1700 and ab350m pro 4 mobo with a pny xlr8 1070gpu. It was mostly free since I was replacing it with a newer gaming build. I think I spent $280 on the hdds?

Holy shit, they would need a lot of room for windows.

You just missed the Beaker Streakers in the Sneakers.

That’s just galvanic corrosion from using cadmium plated bolts in aluminum fuel injection hardware. It’s basically free loctite.

Obviously not. It’s ultraviolet light in the rectum.

I would love to be wrong about this but I just don’t see it happening.

People in the US just roll over and take it when this stuff happens. Either its because they have been sold a line of bullshit from their preferred propaganda source about how its actually a good thing because SoCiAlIsM bAd or because they can’t engage against riot police or protest because they have to work to stay above the water. There is no safety net in the US and that is working really well to keep us toeing the line.

Its going to take something really massive for the citizens of the US to actually group up and make change, as massive as shitcanning or changing Social Security is, it impacts elderly and disabled folks moreso than the healthy and able bodied who could actually fight this if it directly impacted them at this time.

If it makes you feel better, I don’t think I ever really knew how to do it.

A remake of the og website sodaconstructor

https://panoramx.ift.uni.wroc.pl/~maq/felp.pl/sanjose/index.html

I think some of the smarter rc chargers can do most of that. Its mostly for smaller capacity stuff though.