When you make your time machine and go back to the 1900s and tell people “don’t kill those big bears roaming around Iowa, we’ll have too many deer in 2026” please also tell my ancestors to invest in oil.

Grizzly bears see you as food though.

You ever use a Swiss Army knife to open a letter? It’s a lot of extra shit you don’t need but it’s there anyways.

To clarify, this applies only to iCloud content shared via links created to be accessible to anyone, as opposed to content shared directly with other people.

What bad policies?

A significant number of republicans didn’t leave California. It looks like there are around 5 million there. Texas is estimated to have only 6 million republicans.

No, but the US needs its own chip fab. The rest of the world will need to figure out on there own where to get theirs.

It’s to get chip fab in the US. Taiwan is not a stable place for the advanced chips the US and rest of the world rely on.

It’s news because it’s uncommon.

Maybe not the worst, but I called into HP server tech support and the girl on the other end was chatty. I wasn’t too busy and she talked me up for nearly an hour and a half, at the end asking if I was single and lived near Michigan.

Good on her for shooting her shot.

Network devices were getting popped. NAS were also.

Because you need a backup.

It’s purpose is archival, not access. Tape density, cost, and reliability is much better than other mediums for that purpose.

Archival of everything being scraped before its pushed off the internet and replaced with AI produced garbage.

How are you with your hands

Office furniture is surprisingly expensive and takes a lot more planning than you would expect.

Until you sell out to private equity.

I’ve had friends in the strip club business that have complained about how they make less money when the economy is down. Idk if your plan would be affected in the same way.

Oh no I’m only up 75% instead of 90% on Intel.

That oil filled heater is the issue. That’s effectively resistance heating, which is wildly more expensive than a heat pump.

At least they have public toilets. In thenUS we’re beholden to the kindness of franchise operators.