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I think the majority of people at this point don’t have a computer with a CD / DVD burner anymore. And at least over here the supermarket also does not sell blank CDs / DVDs anymore.

Most people would have to go out of their way to acquire the means to burn their own CDs

And that is the tactic commonly used to slowly boil the frog.

Japan and the US during WW2 were not allies. They were enemies.
That is pretty much why Japan attacked Pearl Harbour in the first place.

Today the US and Japan today are allies, however.
The two situations are not exactly comparable. You shouldn’t treat your allies like you treat your enemies

It would seem that the sweet spot for HDDs is as high as 16 to 24 TB at the moment (at least here in the Netherlands).
You can get a 24TB Seagate Barracuda for €479,- right now, which comes out to about €20 / TB.

If you specifically want a NAS drive though the best “bang for the buck” appears to be a 28TB Seagate IronWolf Pro for €688,- coming out to about €25 / TB.

Edit: Personally I run 8TB drives in my server, which are currently €209,- (€26 / TB) for a regular Seagate Barracuda, and €289 (€36 / TB) for a Seagate IronWolf Pro. Funnily enough 4TB drives would actually be better for NAS drives at €132,90 (€33 / TB) for a WD Red Plus.

There is no real clarification what that budget is, so I will assume that the budget is tight.
My advise is assuming that you are looking for the best bang for the buck.

The case looks like a good option, assuming that those are 3.5 inch bays.
It should give you plenty of space for expansion in the future if you want to do that

RAM prices are pretty nuts right now, so I would definitely not go balls to the wall with 128 GB of RAM.
16 GB of RAM should be more than plenty for a NAS server. Maybe you can even get away with 8GB?
I’m using 16 GB of DDR3 RAM in my own NAS server (which is also running Jellyfin and Nextcloud) and it’s running fine.

Speaking of DDR3… Have you considered buying your CPU, motherboard and RAM second hand?
From what I hear the prices of DDR3 RAM are not nearly as elevated as those of DDR4 and DDR5 RAM, and DDR3 is plenty sufficient for a simple NAS.

Be sure not to skimp on the power supply. Most consumer power supplies are not built for running a NAS worth’s of HDDs.
I’m running a Corsair RM550x in my server, which is capable of supplying 130W on the 5V rail.

Good luck with your server build!

In terms of hobbies I would say photography, videography, generally messing around with computers and other electronics.
I also enjoy casually cycling and driving, as well as traveling to see new places in general. Usually I combine that with the photography and videography.

I keep forgetting Proton has an LLM model available

I thought there was some dust on my screen and tried to wipe it off

If the AI bubble bursts, and companies start going bust, they won’t be able to pay for the drives they ordered in those contracts.

A contract doesn’t mean anything if the party you are in a contract with is unable to honour their end.

Imagine trying to blackmail the police…

The police fucked up by sending him the files and there should probably be an investigation as to how that could happen, but that doesn’t mean the man just gets to keep those files and do with them however he pleases.

Edit: To the people who are downvoting me, consider that these are confidential police files. The guy has no business keeping these files, and the demand of the police that he deletes these files is completely justified.

If he simply complied (without attempted blackmail) the arrest and house search would not have been necessary.

The military wants the best equipment, and currently in terms of specs that is the F-35.

That comes with a dependence on the United States, which at the time of purchasing these jets was not considered to be a particular concern because America is a good ally and a part of NATO.

Following Trump’s re-election and antics over Greenland, that calculation is now different. It might not be worth it to buy new F-35s at this point (though Germany seems to be considering it still), but the Dutch army has pre-existing F-35s which we should be able to use even if America doesn’t want us to for whatever reason.

At this point for the purchase of new jets we really should be looking at the new Eurofighter though, imo

Yes, I had typing lessons for that when I was a kid. Learned on QWERTY and still use it to this day.
My form might not be completely proper (sometimes I use the “wrong” finger for a certain key), but it’s pretty close to proper.

Here in the Netherlands you can get 380V power using the same technique. Very useful for powering an induction stove, or if you want faster charging for your EV

Edit: Referring to three phase power, not two phase power. That is why we get 380V and not 460V

It’s not an explicit law. But if the majority of people follow the rule implicitely it still works quite well.

Here in the Netherlands walking flows in long corridors also usually tend to sort themselves to right-hand walking. It’s more efficient than walking against the flow of traffic.

This sounds like a plot from a dystopic sci-fi movie from the 80s. Starring Kurt Russel as Snake Plissken

As if Trump actually cares about Melania

It is not disabled yet, but they will be resticting age gated channels by the end of the month to anyone who hasn’t provided them with a copy of their ID

Worth noting that Discord had a pretty bad data leak a few months back, where it turned out the ID verification company they hired was not deleting the IDs after they were checked

Edit: I’m not completely against the idea of age checks for adult content, but it needs to be implemented in a transpatent manner, and the verification should be non-traceable.

The EU appears to be working on a pretty solid solution as part of their digital wallet.
But that is not what Discord is using.

Edit 2: Added some relevant links

Streaming is progress in terms of convenience, but the trade-off is a lower image quality and forgoing ownership of the media you buy/consume.

These days I buy Blurays and rip them to my Jellyfin server. Worth it for me, but I would hardly call that process convenient.

There was a severe mask shortage where I lived (Netherlands), so any masks, gloves, etc went to the hospitals.

The government also did not advise masking up for that reason, they only recommended staying at home, distancing and sneezing in your elbow. So that is what I did for the first wave of the virus. Stay at home, and when I needed to go out for food I distanced myself as much as possible.

I mostly managed fine. People were pretty good at keeping distance, and I didn’t catch the virus till a year orso into the pandemic.

Though, there is one interaction I recall at the cash register at the Lidl. I am keeping 1.5m distance to the guy in front of me, so I put my items at the end of the conveyor belt. The guy behind me clearly does not appreciate that and stands as close to me as possible. After about a minute orso of him breathing down my neck, I try to politely ask the guy to please keep some distance, after which he threatens to beat my up in the parking lot for even daring to ask that.

I never went back to that supermarket for the rest of the pandemic.

Edit: There is also an interaction I recall where I was the asshole. During the early days of the pandemic I occasionally went cycling (since outdoors exercise was one of the few activities that was advised)

Two ladies are stopped at a traffic light, with some distance between them. I was just cycling on autopilot, so I stop slightly back from them between them, the way I always would. In hindsight it was obviously too close, but I didn’t register that immediately at the time.

They obviously call me out on that and ask me to please stay back, after which I had to awkwardly reverse and apologize.