“shit wouldn’t melt in her mouth!” - my late grandma’s favorite

I have a ship of Theseus rig. It’s the same case I got from my dad when he first built his PC in 2014. I’ve replaced every part in this thing at least once. I tend to keep HDDs until they don’t hold enough for me to want them anymore. I use ZFS to manage my bulk storage drives so Im never concerned when a drive dies. A hot spare starts resilvering right away.

😫😫 my dick still hurts from this. Thanks Trudeau! 😫😫

Iirc that’s the old testament, which is part of the Torah

The New testament is all about why you should love each other and not discriminate, and the old testament is included as a reference since Christianity evolved out of Judaism?

If a chartered plane heading to a furry convention crashed, the entire world’s tech tree collapses in the same moment that plane crumples into the ground.

Depending on where and when, a knight might only bathe a few times in their life since bathing in water was considered to make you sick.

Instead they would use mud and scrape it off themselves with something that looks kind of like a dull sickle with a blunted tip.

Yeah it’s pretty smart too since he’ll be dead in the next 10 years or less so he won’t have to live with consequences…

Honestly it’s a result of being the world’s reserve currency. At one point Brazil was the capital of rubber, and like 2 towns in Brazil made all of the latex the world used. They used to ship their clothing to Europe to be washed. Then 900 rubber tree seeds were smuggled out and it crashed their monopoly, devastating those towns.

Much the same has happened to the US when you can deindustrialize and print without consequences. The same happened to Spain with their silver mines in the age of sail. Silver flowed through Spain, but didn’t stay there… It was cheaper to buy foreign goods in Spanish silver than to pay a Spaniard to do it. When the silver ran out it all crumbled…

Trump killed the petrodollar and it’s going to turn the US into an inward looking regional power…

Kinda? it depends. Basically all modern CPUs have compression hardware acceleration or idle cores, though so sometimes disk compression can have little to no impact on your OS’ speed but increase the bandwidth of your drive by a lot. Hard drives and SSDs are half simplex, so reducing nuisance reads by 10% can make your drive appear faster at both reads and writes.

As an aside, this is why I like ZFS so much. Part of what makes ZFS great is the ARC cache with smart eviction. Most Frequently/Recently Used (MFU/MRU) allows for repeated reads from the same info to come from RAM and not a slow pool. It opens up all of that available bandwidth and IOPs for writes if you need too, or for aggressive prefetching.

I think what’s funniest to me is he was very close to recreating a real windows feature. You actually can “compress files to save space” under options, and apply it to all child files and folders. This is not the way to do it though lmao

Grandpa’s strongest potion:

10 lbs of sugar

As many crab apples as you can get from your grandpas crab apple tree

Juice them all

Mix juice with sugar in sanitized fermentation bucket (use starsan) and add enough boiling water to get up to 10% ABV on your gauge.

Rehydrate yeast in a lukewarm dilute sugar solution so you don’t shock it.

Add to mash and seal with airlock

Ferment until there’s no change in specific gravity between days

Rack your wash off of the Lee’s into a different jug and start distilling it with a water distillation still.

Once you have a first pass done, distill it again and toss the foreshot this time.

Stop distilling when the alcohol content drops below about 48% or when it tastes horrible.

Typically you end up with 68-80% ABV potion. Grandpa’s strongest potion also gives grandpa strongest hangover, so watch out.