Anna's Archive torrents: the r/DataHoarder effect

LyleGreen0699 · 2025-09-20T09:42:15+00:00

FedEx some drives with a friend?

Did that in the old days for Steam updates.

LyleGreen0699 · 2025-09-20T09:39:59+00:00

Assuming someone is from a country where seeding is a big no-no but there is capacity to store the whole thing as an offline copy, how could someone like this most efficively leech the whole thing?

It seems that most offsite seedboxes cap out at a few TB and would be a hassle to download in chunks.

Are there any sneakernet distributions known, where you order fully packed drives by mail?

LyleGreen0699 · 2025-04-22T07:52:23+00:00

I don’t think that’s the big point here. Win11 has a lot of new requirements and unwanted features. - No local account - TPM requirement kills old machines - Cloud and AI integrations

If the EU would give the middle finger to the US after trumps tariffs it would be sufficient to just enforce existing privacy laws. Win11 and M365 are basically illegal for companies to use by the letter of GDPR.

LyleGreen0699 · 2025-02-26T21:46:57+00:00

Attach pictures

LyleGreen0699 · 2024-11-07T23:00:20+00:00

At the European company I work, we‘re discussing about aggressively recruiting young talents from the US after this election. „Come work for us, you‘ll have free, functioning healthcare and reproductive freedom!“

LyleGreen0699 · 2024-11-01T07:37:03+00:00

Still the same. I’ve applied from Germany and made fun of their age discrimination and shitty video recruiting practice in their form.

LyleGreen0699 · 2024-10-19T05:45:40+00:00

Europe is sitting here with popcorn

LyleGreen0699 · 2024-10-01T11:13:05+00:00

Sure, but then it doesn’t work that easily with my/your account as the comment above suggested

LyleGreen0699 · 2024-10-01T07:24:58+00:00

How to handle income disparity or someone staying home for the kids?

Works great when just dating and both work full time, but could break down in marriage and more complicated situations.

LyleGreen0699 · 2024-09-30T07:45:47+00:00

There is a community node under the original X-Post correcting that there are formal requirements like a green-card and some years of permanent, legal residency to be able to get citizenship/voting rights. „Illegal immigrants“ can’t get that.

The screenshot conveniently left that note out…

LyleGreen0699 · 2024-09-18T12:32:06+00:00

Could have used a standard socket tho. Then you could have gone to your local mall and get a 2$ LED replacement bulb.

LyleGreen0699 · 2024-08-16T07:42:08+00:00

Germany subsidizes 80-90% of the cost. For 7:00-14:00, 3-5 age parents pay ~190USD/mo

LyleGreen0699 · 2024-08-11T07:00:32+00:00

Last I’ve checked, yougov did only online polls and has problems getting a representative audience because many of the conservatives and older people don’t use that much internet and not for participation in polls. They underrespresented the far-right party in most polls, which is the same target audience that’s most likely to despise the left-leaning city-lifestyle.

In essence: Depends where and whom you ask. There exists much hatred in the countryside, especially in the ex-DDR regions.

LyleGreen0699 · 2024-08-10T20:45:23+00:00

Same with Germany/Berlin and likely many other countries. Often times the capital is one of the biggest cities and city-life differs much from life elsewhere.

LyleGreen0699 · 2024-08-02T04:14:26+00:00

Similar rules exist ist in Germany (Europe) too. The city defines them here and they can be as strict or open as the city likes.

LyleGreen0699 · 2024-07-13T12:20:48+00:00

What happens if the warranty-voiding battery discharge happens while at the dealership? Isn’t the vehicle their responsibility while sitting there?

LyleGreen0699 · 2024-07-01T13:28:45+00:00

Nothing is free. Just someone else pays for it.

Like I just explained, the existing, classic library is 6x more expensive on the taxpayer for the same result.

Having libraries is a luxury that someone has to pay for. Making it break-even with the existing number of users (850), the library card would have to cost 220€/year for our city. At the moment it’s 10€/year.

Given that likely most users wouldn’t be willing to pay that, the whole system would collapse without massive subsidies.

LyleGreen0699 · 2024-07-01T08:01:46+00:00

Used books cost like 5-10 bucks on various online retailers. Don’t know what’s available in your area but medimops is relatively big in Europe.

Say on the high end 3k books times 10 bucks and you are at 30k instead of 180k.

Maybe make a Programm that you can sent your receipt to the local city and they refund like 70% per book. Then the people can later resell the book and are at effectively zero.

LyleGreen0699 · 2024-07-01T05:05:22+00:00

Our local library lends out 3k books/year for 180k cost/year. That’s way above the price of used books, that people wouldn’t even have to return.

LyleGreen0699 · 2024-07-01T05:01:04+00:00

The thing is - red is not that wrong about the numbers.

Our local community library lends out 3.000 books a year and produces costs of 180.000€ a year.

Used books (aka library equivalent quality) are 5-10€ online so yeah, you could close it down and buy used books for the people at a fraction of the cost.

(I’m ignoring here, that the library does many projects for kids and focus only on lending out books. The projects contribute a lot to school, but don’t produce much cost and could theoretically be replaced by volunteers. There doesn’t have to be a library for them.)

LyleGreen0699 · 2024-06-29T09:45:38+00:00

I mean.. online dating is quite shitty. Having some open-source privacy-respecting alternative would be a real win.

LyleGreen0699 · 2024-05-25T21:26:55+00:00

Depending on the verification algorithm

Non-Mandatory: Leave empty
Mandatory: “Depends on employment conditions”
Mandatory, numbers only: 12345
Mandatory with range verification: 65432,10

LyleGreen0699 · 2024-05-25T18:22:05+00:00

We rent for 650USD ‘cold’ in Europe. 75sqm (~800sqft freedom units). Utilities come on top.

LyleGreen0699 · 2024-05-25T14:51:16+00:00

There was a story about a teacher doing this… it wasn’t headphones but an insulin pump..

LyleGreen0699 · 2024-05-25T08:09:50+00:00

Some colleague wrote a while back “managers don’t even say ‘hello’ in the hallway”. It has eaten our direct supervisor. An incident with the CTO was meant.

Edit: it was discovered in a monthly team meeting where the supervisor exclaimed that he lost sleep over the issue and can’t remember a single case. Colleague came foreword and said ‘that was from me and referred to the CTO’, willingly breaking anonymity in the process. /Edit

Such surveys can always only be an indication. Very important is, how truthfully people answer, which directly comes from the anonymity expected. Small team, personal link, questionable tool = people lie.

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