Bonehead

Build her a server, install it at her house, set up some sort of automated DVD ripping mechanism so that she can digitize her own collection, wait for the inevitable tech support call, then go spend a Sunday afternoon fixing her server and digitizing her collection for her while she makes you dinner. You get to call it “quality time”, and you get fed while keeping her happy and her collection as far away from yours as possible. Win/win, everyone is happy.

Nothing…that’s just how they perceive themselves.

I learned a long time ago that the manufacturer doesn’t matter much on the long run. They all have a bad model occasionally. I have 500GB Seagate drives that still work, and some 1TB drives that died within a year. I’ve had good luck with recent WD Red 4TB drives, but my 2TB Green drives have all died on me. I had a some of the Hitachi Deskstar drives that worked perfectly for years when no one would touch them because of a bad production run. I currently have a Toshiba 8TB that I had never heard of before, but seems to be rock solid for the last year.

Pick a size that you want, look at what’s available, and research the reasonably priced ones to see if anyone is complaining about them. Review sites can be useful, but raw complaints in user forums will give you a better idea of which ones to avoid.

While that may be true, this is still likely an automated response built by a script that found some keywords on your profile. I still get the occasional proposition for RPG work, and I haven’t touched an AS/400 in over a 20 years which my profile reflects. I haven’t even touched my profile in years. But the script doesn’t care about that. That’s for the HR rep to filter out later if you respond.

And that’s why every rm command should start life as an ls command and then change the command and options while not touching the target directory. Takes a little longer, but saves so much hassle when you do fuck up.

Emphasis on tried.

There are no platter drives above 5TB. There are plenty of 2.5 inch SSDs available above that size. This is less a technical limitation and more of a business decision though.

No, there are a few that I found once I went looking. One was a 2.5 inch which is likely used in external drives, the others were enterprise level drives. They are just not things I normally search for, but they do exist.

To be fair, I doubt that they were saying they didn’t believe drives could be that big. It’s that 5TB is an unusual size, and as far as I can tell only come in external drives. I personally have never seen one or even knew they existed until now, but I only buy bare drives.

I’d likely believe you since I was doing the same thing. That, and my buddy was running a MUD on a Slackware server so I had someone to bug when I hit a wall.

Nonsense…real linux users use Slackware. Why bother with all these fancy new distros when the original is still going strong?

The upside to this is that you can still make good money as a legacy programmer. Just look at COBOL job listings.

The rockets are fine. SpaceX has a team specifically designed to distract Musk and keep him away from the actual work on the rockets. Tesla didn’t have that though. That’s how we ended up with that lame presentation with the weird “S3XY” acromin. That was really the point I realized that he was just an idiot frat boy with too much money. He really is his own worst enemy.

Technically stolen from Xerox…

But it’s a little cold at first when you start using it.

Honestly, unfortunately no. I’ve been doing this since before Redhat split off Fedora. All my scripts are custom. I just rewrite them as new distros are released.

You need to rethink your reinstall process. My root is on a separate drive from my home directory. My home directory has a script that installs all of my basic software, along with any specific config files that don’t reside in my home directory naturally. I can reinstall the system in about an hour.