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Maybe the long awaited sequel to 1,000 Dolls?

With this lawsuit concluded, we look forward to identifying opportunities to work together with Ms. Carano in the near future.

Sounds like corporate speak for “this cow is never working with us again”.

It’s been a loooong time…

Damn it really looks like they’re on a green screen, like badly.

They didn’t count Democrat votes in 2024 so Trump could get back in office, now they’re not going to count Democrats as citizens.

Yeah I’m not actually talking about the “Please place the item in bagging area” part, I’m talking about the second or two after I place it before the system registers the weight and re-activates the scanner.

Sometimes I’ve seen this disabled, on certain tills at certain supermarkets, and I can scan breezily. Not sure if the weight check feature was disabled completely or what.

Exactly. On the surface it sounds like they’re being somewhat reasonable, but the reality of what they do when they’re in there is likely going to be different.

“Oops, we accidentally killed them all. I guess there’s no one left to govern, so we may as well have the land now.”

Hopefully Russia won’t invade and prevent the lawsuit from happening, like with Ukraine and the civil trial against the owners of PrivatBank.

You get a discount depending on how you scan.

I would be faster, if the tills didn’t have a bloody delay after placing the item in the bag, before it will scan the next one.

The app is just a map, the WiFi connection uses a standard SSID and login portal.

You’re right, I was just going on the post saying “With the WiFi4EU app, you can access…”, implying that you need the app to access it. But on their webpage it spells it out more clearly:

On connecting to the free Wi-Fi network for the first time, you will be redirected to a secure login page (a captive portal). You will be able to sign in with a simple click-to-connect functionality.

Having a RAID array would make OP’s question somewhat moot - because a drive failure would be less significant.

You and others are focusing on addressing the likelihood of the risk. I’m saying it would be better to address the severity instead. The comment is relevant, just slightly more abstract, but very much on topic.

You’re right that motherboard RAID is worse than OS RAID. I just wasn’t sure what OP’s backup device actually is, if it’s a PC or some simple bespoke NAS box. But it’s more Hardware Controller > OS > Motherboard, generally speaking.

I get what you’re saying, I just disagree and think it isn’t as inaccessible as you make out, or as people who aren’t sure about it may feel. It’s obviously a bit more than, like, 21st century hand holding software that hides all the options, but it’s within the capability of anyone who can make it through a Windows install.

Big up the Jellyfin RAID! I had a bunch of disks in JBOD for too long hah, but that was just out of laziness.

Depends how much storage you’re looking to get. https://diskprices.com/

Looking at new only, you can get a 3TB drive for $36 on Amazon. 3 of those for $108, 6TB storage with n-1 redundancy. Add $36 for 3TB as many times as your controller will allow (or 4, that’s all they have in stock lol).

diskprices.com also has variants for European and other Amazon. Or you could check other retailers. Also the “used” drives are very cheap - these are typically refurbished datacentre drives. They’ll have a shorter lifespan, but that’s still probably better than a single drive with no redundancy.

This kind of thing is worth spending money on. Otherwise your backup solution isn’t really a good backup solution, if you’re worried about it failing.

Edit: Also it isn’t complicated to set up at all. RAID 5 has slightly more setup, but RAID 1, 0 & 10 are widely available natively in most motherboards, and have been for decades. If you’re already setting up some external backup device, it really isn’t much extra, for a good payoff.

Not only are they monitoring everything you view in their network, but you have to install their app on your device.

Good to see Exodus giving it a pass, but if it’s not open source it’s still something to be wary of. I literally can’t think of any good reason for the app to be required, a splash page that you log in to is more than sufficient.

Yay, the app isn’t required!

On connecting to the free Wi-Fi network for the first time, you will be redirected to a secure login page (a captive portal). You will be able to sign in with a simple click-to-connect functionality.

Why aren’t you running your drives in a RAID array? RAID 5 is n-1, meaning you get n-1 total storage space and can withstand any 1 drive failing. You do need at least 3 drives, but that’s what you should be doing - not just running a manual mirror backup or whatever. You also get the speed advantage from striping data across the drives (although this speed is nothing to an SSD).

If you really want to be serious about backing up then it’s 3,2,1 - 3 copies, on 2 different types of media, with 1 in an off-site location. As a minimum.

But first off I think you should upgrade your long-term backup to have some kind of RAID array. With 2 drives you can do RAID 10 (RAID 0 and RAID 1 combined), you’ll only get the storage of 1 drive but you’ll have one to one redundancy and striping. With 3 or more drives do RAID 5 so you’ll have more storage (eg 3x 8GB drives would give 16GB, 4x 8GB would be 24GB, etc), striping for speed, and also the same n-1 redundancy.

You may need a PCIe card for RAID 5, not all motherboards support it natively. You should be able to find a decent one for not too much, if you look around. RAID 1 and 0 (and maybe 10) often are supported natively.

Not quite. A commutator kind of pulses the supply to the rotor, eg a brushed motor would have two brushes up against the commutator, the brushes deliver DC voltage which energises a coil, creating a magnetic field that pushes against a stator that’s made of a permanent magnet. This rotates the rotor and commutator, which then moves the brush around to the next contact on the commutator, engergising a different coil so that the next coil pushes the motor around. The brush maintains a constant DC voltage, but the commutator connects this to different coils as it rotates.

This is a DC brushed motor, with windings on the rotor and the stator is just magnets:

And this is a commutator on top of a universal motor (which can run on either AC or DC):

The stator you have has its own windings, so it would be the stator that pushes against the rotor in that motor, rather than the rotor pushing against the stator like the brushed motor. So you just need to supply an AC voltage to the stator windings and you’ll get a rotating magnetic field, which can then move things inside with their own magnetic fields, eg a magnet, or the rotor it came with.

I wouldn’t really suggest doing this though hah. For starters, messing with supply voltages and bare windings can be very dangerous, and second if the magnet isn’t balanced it could fly out. And I’m sure there are a bunch of other risks as well lol. There’s also no telling why the motor didn’t work anymore, and it definitely won’t work as well as with the rotor that was designed for it.

Here’s some fun with a mitre saw motor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTcjMKs5mek

There’s more money to be made keeping it illegal. More risk, more reward.

Most of the UK illegal weed is produced by a monopoly producer. There’s the odd hippy growing their own, but the stuff the most prolific dealers sell all comes from the same source, up and down the country.

It looks daft now with a little hindsight, but we’re kind of still in the foresight stage for the overall life of IPv6.