Unrelated to your question, but do you get cost estimates while setting up the VM? I tried setting one up a while back but, despite picking all the free settings, it still estimated a cost of $2 per month. It never asked for CC info, but it still felt off.
Buyer Beware. I got a "6 feet of Snickers" one year and it was just enough to fill the little plastic window on one end, then a huge chunk of cardboard, then the same number of Snickers on the other side to balance it. I got maybe 8 regular sized candy bars and I'm guessing my in-laws paid like $20.
I felt the exact same way, even down to those specific episodes. It had a lot of promise and started asking some profound questions, but it never really felt like it addressed anything. It's not bad, but I certainly couldn't have made it through a second watch.
I ate the onion. It would have been awesome, but since lynchings were still so common after the end of segregation I guess it would have been a risky profession.
At this point there are so many scandals and so many dead cats that I can't tell them apart. Greenland is obviously a distraction because he's already played it several times, even in his first presidency. I can't tell if kidnapping a foreign official was a distraction or something he's using Greenland to distract from. Epstein is the only thing I'm sure he wants us to forget. ICE is a great distraction, but it also seems like he wants us to ignore it for a bit while they gain strength and march towards their goals. Piracy/war with various countries is obviously profitable, but also seems to be getting milked as a distraction.
It seems more like they're just trying to fatigue us with constant atrocities, like the Andor quote.
Decided to look into the yellow counties in Montana because I was shocked if they could even be 49%. Petroleum County (a truly American name) in Montana has 228 occupied households and seemingly no public transportation. However, 58.2% of the county is employed in mining.
So my best guess is a company bus that comes around and picks up everybody? It seems like the bulk of the remainder are farmers, which would mean they don't "need" to drive anywhere. Although they do drive constantly across their property as part of the work, which feels like cheating.
This is the strategy I am now forced to adopt as well. I bought a 2 TB SSD for my home server in late 2024 for $80, then it died exactly a year and a day later. I knew RAM was out of control, but didn't expect to see the same SSD for $350.
So I guess it's back to the old 250 GB SSD and rotating old stuff onto an ancient HHD, then hoping prices tank again before one of those implodes.
I think size is the biggest factor. OS ISOs are pretty big, so having a managed download is helpful. If the 100 GB triple-A games were open source I would certainly expect torrents. But the FOSS things I download directly are pretty small, and the vast majority are done through a package manager or docker compose. So there may be a Goldilocks zone in the middle where it'd be helpful, but in those cases I'd expect a small installer that downloads the bulk of it for you.
So not much benefit for the consumer, but what about the provider? Spreading the traffic would reduce load on the hosting server which is a positive. You'd still have to handle the bulk of the traffic until the seeders outpace the leechers, but on long enough timescales it'd be helpful. Except you can't really update a torrent, which means each release needs to start fresh. This still works for OS creators because updates tend to be far apart, there is a large user base, and there is still some market for older versions. For regular programs you may only get one of those three, at which point adding torrents may be more hassle than it's worth.
Thank you. I was a bit skeptical, but communism is such a boogeyman here and the RIAA (and MPAA) are so hilariously evil and out of touch that I was ready to fully believe it.
In that vein, The Song Of Achilles by Madeline Miller is quite good. Circe is also good, but focuses more on the struggles of women as opposed to the sex of gay men.
Not on the court, anyway.