FUCK yeah.

Current ram/storage squeeze aside, chips are cheap. Cheap as chips.

Hard to beat the cost and compatibility of linux too.

It's been down intermittently all day. In some ways, that's worse than being completely down.

Seems to be fine if you're using another appview like blacksky's one, or directly querying PDSs like red dwarf does. Social media isn't very useful if most other people can't use it though.

Don't most stock charting websites backdate splits to show the price as it would be with current stock?

Yes, that's how you get a $500 historic price. It wasn't at 500 at the time, but due to the reverse split the current price is correct relative to a $500 historic price.

It's more than one guy, there's a whole industry around it.

I think the most famous one is a person working in government or closely related to someone who is. (drawing a blank on the name right now)

…your Commerce Secretary.

Is his son to be precise.

For a lot of things, I'm glad they don't. A strict focus on just a web browser years ago would mean we never get rust for instance.

This comment got me wondering, how long do you think you could run your tap if there was a complete loss of water just outside your house?

I didn't time it exactly, but the last time I was able to observe it happening it was about half a minute for me.

Does the version on f-droid not have that limitation?

That is a possibility, didn’t check

I do find it kind of funny that the Dyson company sold a vacuum cleaner called the "Dyson ball".

SSDs have outclassed hard drives in density for a while now. Kioxia claims their LC9 is over 245TB in capacity, announced July 2025.

How much does one 245T LC9 cost, and much much do (245T÷44T=5.5=) six Seagates cost?

I have a bunch of NVMe enclosures that generate 750W of heat when going full blast, and 600W when completely idle. How heat does the equivalent number of HDDs generate when working/idle?