With the original price as $250, a 100% increase would be adding the entire value to itself once (i.e doubling) taking us to $500.

A 200% increase is adding the $250 to the original two times for a total of $750.

So calling it a “200% increase” is correct.

It is true to say that “$750 is 300% of $250” or that “The price has tripled” - both correct, but the increase is only 200% because increase doesn’t include the original as part of the value.

On a side-note, old GPU box artwork was a wild genre

There’s nowhere convenient. As you correctly identified, AI has pushed the price of drives through the roof.

Your only real chance is to find a one-off on auction sites from someone who hasn’t noticed what’s going on or what the current market is asking for drives.

You might still be able to find bargains in charity stuff or on Marketplace sites etc but these are unlikely to be sufficient capacity for NAS builds unless you get super lucky.

I’m also still in some IRC channels from way back, and I can’t deny I hate what discord did to the IRC community. (“Look how they massacred my boy…”)

Of course, Discord pulled it off for a good reason - the experience was seamless, featureful, rich, and modern - none of which IRC can claim. And it’s only cantankerous sticks in the mud such as I who care about ideological concerns like interoperability and open standards.

And another thing that Discord did is to absolutely explode the channel count. In the IRC days, a particular community or friend group would make do with one single channel. But that group moves to Discord, and suddenly creates a general channel, announcements channel, music channel, games channel, cooking channel - all for one single friend group, and multiply that by the number of groups you are in - because the Discord model permitted it and made it frictionless.

And I think that’s why for some people who use Discord at the moment, it wouldn’t be enough to simply have a channel on a public Matrix instance. People are used to having a whole ‘server’ to themselves (of course discord ‘servers’ aren’t servers, but let’s set that aside) and so they’d need at least a ‘space’ in Matrix, being the more reasonably named analogue.

This isn’t that, though.

OP’s link is to a list of companies you can pay to host a matrix instance for you, so you don’t have to deal with any of the hosting yourself.

But I agree most people would be sufficiently served by an account on a public instance.

For what it’s worth, the “i7” branding isn’t a family, but a tier representation.

So basically it goes like:

i3 = basic

i5 = midrange

i7 = high end

i9 = top end

The first i7s released way back in 2010, so some older i7 chips are not supported by Windows 11 while newer ones (2018 and onwards) are.

But yeah, use Linux :)

Same for me with Markdown. Love the simplicity.

I went through a phase a while back of evaluating a bunch of note-taking and to-do apps, and hating almost all of them for being proprietary products with so much vendor lock-in.

I eventually settled on Joplin because it just uses plain old markdown, and allows you to selfhost the storage back-end so you own your data.

So because of that, my recipes are just a folder (and some subfolders) with markdown in Joplin.

Tap to pay is a choice, with a viable alternative.

You could choose to NOT use tap to pay, carry a bank card, and it would have basically no impact on your ability to conduct your life.

But I agree the banking app itself is a big problem, and something that cannot be lived without.

A person with a hammer? Why does it need to be difficult :P

Or just go with direct address

“If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.”

I feel like I’m in the same boat. I don’t have a solution, just wanted to say I understand your perspective.

I’ve completely ditched Microsoft from my life and I’d love to ditch Apple too, but there’s just nothing on the market I’ve seen which matches the build and usability of macbook hardware.

With the old Intel macs it was simple enough to run Linux but now with Apple Silicon it’s not on the cards. I love what the Asahi team have been doing and I hope they keep doing it, but it’s not ready for primetime yet.

And so I’ve reached the same annoying conclusion - for the moment I’m stuck with Mac, and therefore stuck with macos too.

My biggest peeve with JSON when I’m forced to use it as a configuration file format is that it doesn’t have any syntactical support for comments.

So I can’t even add any notes to the file.

This is a nice list, but for the novices it’s obviously meant for, it’s a bad learning experience.

Why? Because it doesn’t explain any of the reasoning behind what it asks you to do.

Why are we changing the default SSH port, for example? Someone who is seasoned might identify this is a somewhat limited attempt to obscure our attack surface, but to a novice it’s inscrutable and meaningless.

More important than telling people what to do is explaining why, because it puts the learning in context and makes it stick by giving a reason to care.

I haven’t even tried it yet, but just from the video you can tell it’s going to be insanely good. I’m so impressed.

It’s the first bit of software I’ve seen in a long time where I took one look and immediately thought “Fuck me, I need that!”

I use Unraid for my NAS server and just on the off-chance I checked the Unraid community ‘app store’ and someone’s already created a Docker definition for it, published just today! The hype is real

I’ll be giving this a shot

Can claim “It even works with browsers from the future!”

Hehe, you might think that!

In actuality though, I’ve always been the one who had to sort the tech stuff. We got our first family PC when I was 10, and I was the one who knew the most about it. We got the Internet when I was 13, and I was the one who had the passwords, and had to set it all up. Then when we got broadband, the router was actually in my room lol.

So yeah, I’ve always been the Admin, and Dad has always been the one who needed a limited account to protect him from himself.

Yeah. When the cloud has more control over your own files than you do, that’s not a feature, it’s a problem.

I switched my Dad to Linux recently, and set his account up without any superuser access. Updates have to wait until I visit once a week, but it restricts his ability to get himself stuck in any update-related tangles.

Linux has problems, but I’m so glad I don’t have to support my Dad on Windows anymore, because that was far less predictable for me. Like the time it decided to upload all his files to onedrive (despite him having no knolwledge of this, or what it was doing or whether he’d consented or not) and made the Internet unusably slow for 8 hours by totally saturating his meagre connection.

He didn’t even know about onedrive, just phoned me like “The Internet isn’t working, what’s wrong?” and of course onedrive is the last thing I’d have suspected for causing that symptom, which made it so annoying to diagnose.

Much nicer now his OS doesn’t do sneaky things behind his back, or mine.

Lol, brilliant.

At first you are thinking “this is going to be so nice and compact and tidy” and then…

Love it though

Swiftfin is what I’m using for Plex on my Apple TV

It’s perfect for me because it supports direct stream and decoding of the file for playback on the Apple TV - because the Apple TV is capable enough to do that.

This is ideal because my NAS server is a venerable but now very long in the tooth HP Gen 8 microserver from 2014, so it doesn’t have the chops for reencoded streaming anymore.