I think that’s his right foot, tucked up behind his left knee.

More specifics are needed for a support request. Provide the baseline specifications please.

What OS are you using? What is the make and model of the drive? Is it internal or external? USB? SATA? SAS? NVMe? A PCIe adapter? Is this a desktop, laptop, NAS, server, NUC, Raspberry Pi with an expansion board?

For all we know you’re using a refurbished and relabeled SAS drive plugged into an adapter on an eSATA port on a 10 year old motherboard sitting in a cardboard box.

Are you familiar with SMART? Have you done any diagnostics?

Functionally, a tool that can produce a product is always worth more than a product.

• A CNC machine is worth more than a single machined piece.
• A CAD software is worth more than a draft file.
• An assembly line that manufactures pens is worth more than one pen.
• A fishing rod is worth more than an individual fish.

The hope of course is that the volume of production will eventually outweigh the cost of the tool.

The core of a community is consistent interaction with community members. The easiest way to develop this is to have some kind of regular meeting that people have a reason to attend. A bar can be a community, a church can be a community, a library can be a community, a park can be a community, an online game can be a community, a web forum can be a community. You can also have a community without a specific regular meeting place, as long as the members are willing to make the effort to meet in different places (this is more difficult, and works best for small groups of friends). What matters is that people keep showing up and spending time together.

It becomes a real community when the members begin to care about each other, so much so that they will go out of their way to ensure the well-being of other members. This takes time to develop, and benefits greatly from community leaders who set an example of care, which can be as simple as asking how someone is doing and genuinely listening to the answer. It’s easier to do in person because you can often look at someone and know that something is wrong, and they can’t just run away embarrassed without making a scene. It’s harder to do through the Internet, people will simply disappear. Bluntly, the less people have invested personally the more likely they are to just leave.

Churches are actually an instructive example - religious worship has been the center of communities for much of humanity’s past. Small churches tend to build communities very easily because they have:

1. Weekly meetings in a dedicated space - no one has to guess when or where to be, or if anyone else is going to show up
2. Mutual support - the religious aspects of the group encourage members to care for each other
3. Guilt tripping - there’s a lot of peer pressure to show up every week, and social consequences for not doing so

If you want to build a community, try to be that example of a community leader who checks in with others and cares about their well-being. It’s tricky though, trying too hard too fast with this is not socially acceptable and will push people away. Starting out the most important thing is communication and coordination (e.g. making sure people have transportation to and from the meeting). Start small, start simple, and this might seem counterintuitive, try to be the invisible glue that holds it all together. For the community to form, the members must develop relationships with each other that are not dependent on the leader, which means you can’t insert yourself into every relationship within the community - you can’t be everyone’s best friend, you might not even know everyone directly, and that’s okay. You need to facilitate the growth of relationships (by introducing people to each other) but not be the center of all of them (single point of failure). If you’re successful, the community will grow beyond yourself and take on its own form, which may be different from what you visualized at the start.

Also keep in mind that there’s a degree of getting lucky required to make this happen. You can set a table and invite people to sit down at it, but you can’t force them. People have to choose to join you, and choose to come back, and that means you have to find people who are in the right place in their lives, the right mindset, and have the time to be involved. Getting lucky typically involves casting a wide net, repeatedly over time, being patient, and accepting failure. Starting from scratch is hard.

meth?

Disappointing lack of territorial conflict last year. Be less friendly! We want drama!

“A lot of men and their behaviors have ruined this product.”

Yes, like the men running the companies that make this product.

In the beginning the universe was created.

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

People calling for violence concern me, especially because we know that the current state of US internal politics has been heavily influenced by foreign interests to amplify and escalate the division and animosity. Violence serves their interests.

No creativity, no new ideas, just mob tactics.

Too big to fail!

my friend has to write weekly reports to his bosses on how AI is improving workflow in the office. He’s not allowed to say, “It’s not.” Only positive feedback. They need to justify its continued use, so he needs to find benefits to report to the higher-ups.

“Please make us blind to all consequences!”

SCP: Overlord

You’re underestimating the value of scraping everyone’s email.

Probably technically correct:

In 2021, the American Heart Association clarified that “heart attack” is often mistakenly used to describe cardiac arrest. While a heart attack refers to death of heart muscle tissue as a result of blood supply loss, cardiac arrest is caused when the heart’s electrical system malfunctions. Furthermore, the American Heart Association explains that “if corrective measures are not taken rapidly, this condition progresses to sudden death. Cardiac arrest should be used to signify an event as described above, that is reversed, usually by CPR and/or defibrillation or cardioversion, or cardiac pacing. Sudden cardiac death should not be used to describe events that are not fatal”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiac_arrest

That is, if he was administered CPR or defibrillation and was revived, he probably had a cardiac arrest but not a heart attack. Or possibly he was having difficulty breathing and didn’t have a cardiac event at all.

Someone cut off one head, and two more sprung up in its place.

Exponential growth is a bitch.

We come in peace!

shoot to kill shoot to kill shoot to kill

We come in peace!

shoot to kill shoot to kill men!

Ah right, nothing imperialist about claiming ownership over millions of square kilometers of ocean.

Heh, I opened port 22 on my home network once. There wasn’t anything on it to connect to, but the firewall recorded thousands of SSH connection attempts within hours. Within a day it had over a million hits.

Yeah, you never really know how sheltered you are until you step out.

Rule of Acquisition 33: it never hurts to suck up to the boss!