Honestly, I am all good with getting rid of the drives.

I hardly ever touch CDs these days. I keep a spare USB reader, for making a backup copy of a music CD or movie DVD/Blueray, which I use, maybe twice a year.

I have boxes of DVDs and Blu-ray in the garage, and I don’t ever use them. Matter of fact, if I wanted to use them, I’d have to go find a blueray player to actually play them with.

I do all of my gaming on PC, and I don’t think I have physically purchased a game in over a decade. Steam/GoG are both quite nice.

Lindsey Stirling? Not sure if this is up your alley, but, her music is pretty great.

Also, Two Cellos, and the Piano guys.

Its, not classical. It’s all instrumental music, no singing.

Lindsey Stirling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHjpOzsQ9YI

Two Cellos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk

Oh, and as a bonus- more of their songs then not, are pretty damn good. I can listen to them non-stop through an entire workday.

My supervisor wants me to take time off of work, more then I take time off of work. lol.

Although, granted, I have worked in an environment like this… aka, the united states army.

Where, getting your vacation approved, takes no less than a full miracle.

Its ok, I ETS-d with literally close to a year of vacation. On the plus side, you can indefinitely accumulate leave. So, I sold a few months, got an extra up-front paycheck, and then, got paid for a good chunk of a year after leaving.

No, because, it does not fix the root problem.

Also, banning things isn’t the way to fix things.

I would also be a hypocrite for changing to legalize pot, while also chanting to ban corn-based sugars.

You do too. It just might not be reflected on your phone bill, and is just lumped in with your normal taxes / VAT/etc…

Trust me. This is CHEAP compared to what I had a decade ago.

One Decade ago, I paid 95$ a month for “15 mbit” ADSL. Which- topped out around 8Mbit/s on a GOOD day. (Rain/moisture wrecked hell on the lines around here.)

Yea… Comcast is really bad about that. When I had them a decade back, I made sure to being my own hardware.

My ISP has no problem breaking out the fees.

And… I am indeed, in the US.

So, not seeing the issue here.

Yes. Learned to drive with one. Got my license with one.

Sadly, don’t own one right now, but, will prob get one in the future again. Every 2nd or 3rd car I have picked up, has had a stick.

I’m from the mid-west USA.

Yup.

I find it can be quite a useful tool. But, I also know when to spot its mistakes. I had it generate and cleanup some code the other day, and found 4 or 5 pretty big issues with it, which would have been hardly detectable by a more novice developer.

After, telling it about its own issues, it was able to identify and correct them.

Its, kind of like mentoring a new developer.

What? That made no sense.

Yea…

I’m up to over 140T of storage,

I have a FULLY loaded r730XD, 256G of ram, all drive bays filled. All PCIe LANES used. (ie, lots of bifurcation).

I have a proxmox cluster consisting of it, a few SFFs, and a couple MFFs. 10G connectivity for everything but the micros.

Have a ceph cluster. Have a kubernetes cluster. Have iBGP routing in place, multiple firewalls.

I have a bit of everything here. Its a fun hobby.

Oh, and don’t forget, a 20kwh entire home UPS / battery backup, with another 2.4kwh dedicated to the server rack.

Literally any hobby I have seriously messed with.

Although- racecars was never cheap.

My homelab started off pretty cheap. But, at this point, I am quite certain I have a few thousand bucks worth of hardware. Shit- I have two thousand bucks in just HDDs, SSDs/NVMes…

I don’t see this as a bad thing.

Malware that breaks due to bugs any normal sane developer would have detected.

My experience with chatGPT, it’s a great TOOL. But, the code it generates, is very frequently incorrect. But, the problem is, the code it generates LOOKS good. And, will actually likely work, mostly.

He said it’s all legal

I mean, if I were trying to recruit people into an illegal pyramid scheme, that is what I would say too.

The general solution to this problem, is just to remove the DRM, and then run it.

Only around 2T of NVMe on my gaming PC.

My NAS has around 140T total. (128T spinning rust, the rest is NVMe).

Along with another 10T of NVMe in my proxmox cluster.

Until GPU manufacturers can find something else to strive for

Machine Learning / AI has been a MASSIVE driver for Nvidia, for quite some time now. And bitcoin…

The same thing that happened when they made shipping nicotine through the mail illegal.

I stock up on a shitload of pure caffeine/nicotine, and store it.

Either that, or I start extracting it from other commonly available foods… (caffeine is present in quite a few foods naturally. )

Or, finally… there would then just become a black market for caffeine.

The same stuff which happened during the prohibition period many years ago.

I think I will work on setting it up again tomm.

I miss having a terminal window open with my irc client.

I’ll just have to go re-remember how to setup federation, linked instances, and all of that jazz…