An outlet tester is the best $10 you can spend for a little peace of mind

Do you have to register again each time you get a new potato?

Keep filming, make their database worthless when it becomes just a list of every citizen in the US.

Oh boy those hands must be so thoroughly rung! I hope they write a strongly worded letter too!

Cheap TVs make for a good business model - more ad revenue for the manufacturers of these pieces of junk. If TVs were more expensive they’d never recover their losses.

Suggest Pop!_OS for the fearful.

Mint, I think you mean Mint.

I have a 4 bay Synology NAS and it draws ~50W when running. Not astronomical, but if always going is potentially ~$100/yr. If the disks don’t need to be spinning, it idles at a pretty minimal wattage, so realistically maybe I’m paying half that, but if we’re being frugal it’s a lot of headache for something that’s not much less than just picking 1 streaming service/month and rotating (before you factor in the cost of hardware).

In terms of drives, a 4k movie is ~50-100 GB, so 24 TB saves you enough space for ~240-480 4k movies. It’s up to you to decide if that’s enough. Last I checked, the optimal $/TB was ~12TB drives, so worth considering starting with fewer larger drives if it works for you.

In terms of processing capabilities necessary, that kinda comes down to how you consume your content. Encoding audio is trivial. Encoding video is difficult. If you’ll always be playing on devices that can handle the raw HEVC output of bluray disks, then your server CPU doesn’t matter.

If you want to play on devices that may not be able to handle the full uncompressed content, or stream outside your home network without gobbling up all of your bandwidth, you will need to transcode the video. This can either be done on the fly as content is requested (in which case you probably need a capable CPU), or you can take the time and do it in advance on a PC, and just upload it to the Jellyfin server and request the compatible version when needed.

Getting in the habit of encoding your own files to your preferred spec or automating it with something like tdarr is time consuming but worth it in that it let’s your Jellyfin server be leaner (but takes more space on your NAS).

For me, I only stream Jellyfin content to one client (my ShieldTV), which is always on my network and capable of playing all video/audio formats I need. For that reason, I have a raspberry pi as my Jellyfin server because it doesn’t need to do anything more than download cover art and serve files.

I can’t speak to the sound levels of the specific NAS you’re looking at, but if you’ve ever owned a computer with 3.5"HDDs (I’m guessing you have), you’re familiar with the brr brr brr seeking hum & low grumble they do when moving files around. That’s the main source of noise and it’s primarily when you’re using them (aka watching a movie) so it’ll probably blend into the background. But I wouldn’t put one next to my bed.

Because it’s even easier to just set up the right filters in uBO and never have to think about it again

It may not change anything today but at least it’s documented for the future lawsuits

I’m going to Costco and buying a palette of bananas.

I can probably cut my commute time by 80% and sow mass chaos in the process.

Probably, but that was more time than I was willing to invest in microslop.

You can do this in uBlock Origin without having to install another add-on by adding the following to My filters and enabling Allow custom filters requiring trust

*##+js(rpnt, #Text, "Microsoft", "Microslop")
*##+js(rpnt, #Text, "microsoft", "microslop")
*##+js(rpnt, #Text, "MICROSOFT", "MICROSLOP")

This will probably break some things but I’m not sure I care enough to figure out what. Enjoy.

No it doesn’t. tl;dr - (as of 2025) $19k/individual/year is tax free (so one couple could give another couple up to $76k/yr)

Any gifts above that limit needs to be reported but is still tax free, it just whittles away at your lifetime exclusion (which is the same bucket of money as your estate tax exemption - currently $15M).

The gift giver pays the tax only once they exceed the lifetime exemption. There is no tax for receiving gifts.

For 99.99% of Americans, there is no gift tax.

Why is this news? This should be the default - everyone leaves platform hosting CSAM and pervy deep fakes.

With Alexa, there will never be an ad-free tier. You’re just paying to have the ads be less obvious/disruptive.

Feels like they would want the opposite of that option. Like when you’re laying sideways in bed and the phone rotates sideways for no apparent reason.

90-day password changes?? You monster!!

Or they need more gentle body wash.

Realistically, most face wash products just (typically “sensitive skin”) body wash diluted enough to work in a foaming dispenser.

Pro tip: Check if your face wash manufacturer makes a body wash with the same ingredients. If so, it’s pretty good odds you’re paying 5x the price/oz for something that’s diluted ~2:1 with plain water - so 15x the price of the actual cleaning product just to not have to dilute it yourself.

This is exactly the problem, weird policy quirks and better alternatives didn’t help the situation but quite frankly there’s no new content for the Switch 2, and the performance bump over the OG Switch is almost irrelevant because raw performance isn’t the reason people buy Nintendo systems & games.

More important than what college you go to is trying to figure out what you want to do after college.

For a new hire, I’ll take courses/research/extracurriculars specialized around what I do over university titles every single day.

You definitely don’t have to find the answer year 1, or even year 2, but it should be your goal to articulate how you want to apply your degree before you graduate. The more moves you make in that direction will significantly help you get there.