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Siri AI 1 month ago

I think you are wrong.

They never asked for one becase they never imagined being able to afford one.

The amount of administration organizing a normal household takes I suspect most would be glad to leave to someon/something they trust and that can be held accountable.

Today that someone needs to be a person (imo). But who knows, a startup may be plotting accountable digital assistans as we speak.

The trust is gone. Even if the dems win the next election, we now know that the US isn't stable enough to handle one rouge president.

With the massive cost of shifting infrastructure, those scared away by the current US administration is mostly gone for good.

Both will get you where you want to go, but I don't think the usecase for perl and awk are the same.

I reach for awk when my bash-scripts get a bit messy, perl is/was for when I want to build a small application (or nowdays python).

But both perl and python require cpan/pip to get the most out of and with awk, I just nead awk.

The Cheapest NAS 2 years ago

The common solution is having an UPS and a NAS that supports graceful shutdown when the UPS detects powerloss

Not OP, but I used to do this regularly in the early '90s.

I accessed Usenet from my university, printed it very cheaply, and brought it home.

My home PC didn't have any internet connection until a couple of years later when I could afford a 9600bps modem.

As to diskdrives, when I started our uni-workstations could'nt read a dos/win3.1 disk

I chuckled a bit when he used Richard Feynman as an example of someone 'not crazy'.

I read somewhere from one of his collegues (parafrased) "Of course he's crazy, but not in the bad way"

I suppose 'eccentric vs crazy' is a on a subjective sliding scale

I'm terrible at remembering names. This would be so useful on when attending workrelated functions.

Privatly I only hang out with the same 5 people or so, so there I manage