Ok. Who was the watery bint this time?

Starlink terminals next…

It’s a reference to an ancient shock internet website called goatse.cx - it pictured a significantly dilated anus.

But trust me on the sunscreen.

I think it’s possible to be ‘rich’ and humble.

It may depend on how you become rich.

Without a passive income it is difficult to become rich.

He who is paid by the hour can only trade his time for money.

The rules do not apply.

Tangential - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCR0ScrXBno

Archive.org?

A smart switch that turns off the power when the battery hits 80% and turns it on at 78%? Dunno if that would actually work.

It’ll probably work. Biggest issue will be recovery after power failure as laptops generally stay off.

Next most likely is CPU fan failure, exacerbated if CPU usage causes the fans to run high and nobody is there to blow the dust out.

Other than that I’ve had multiple laptops that run as servers over the years and generally they’re fine. Streaming audio for our community radio station, or shoved behind wall mounted TV’s for updateable PowerPoint displays.

It’s an arrestable offence in Australia.

“you are the air that I breathe”?

Quadrupeds can run on the front paws better than bipeds, so the sysadmin should win.

Righto :)

I was thinking of usb3 hard drives. No need for internal storage if using spinning rust.

On older laptops with optical drives you can sometimes replace the drive with a sata tray and add a second drive that way.

But yes, a server that looks like a server and can recover after power loss is useful.

A cheap laptop might also be worth considering? Built in UPS that way, and sometimes UPSes have a large standby power usage. Would support a couple of bus powered drives as well.

Main drawback is no recovery if the battery drains fully.

It’s the MCP from the original Tron movie. Tries to control everything but is eventually overthrown.

I’ve seen him somewhere before…

Isn’t that what tariffs will do for them? (ignoring the blowback)

Chris Rea’s song hasn’t aged well.