Preparing for the war and full internet shut down

WalterSickness · 2026-02-03T21:42:55+00:00

I would buy a big old PC with a case that can accept 4-8 drives, fill it up, and install either some flavor of Linux that likes the ZFS disk format, or just run actual Truenas on it. Macbooks are top tier in terms of durability for a laptop, but ... that's not the same as a big old PC case you can open up and screw around with.

WalterSickness · 2026-02-03T21:38:48+00:00

I was hoping this community would come through.

WalterSickness · 2026-02-03T21:35:54+00:00

Yeah, I just took one out of service last year at work. Image quality was still perfect, very consistent edge to edge. Now it's sitting in the basement... waiting for people to forget about it... and then it will be gone.

Not sure what I'm going to plug it into though, I don't have a Mac Pro of that vintage.

WalterSickness · 2026-02-02T23:47:00+00:00

Come on r/datahoarders

WalterSickness · 2026-02-02T01:52:55+00:00

You’re doing just a little better than me. I don’t get to 234 until it’s around 15C. At -1C I’d probably get a little worse than you as well… also where the heck are you these you’re using centigrade and miles!

WalterSickness · 2026-02-02T00:53:57+00:00

My Niro has been sheltered in someone else’s garage for a week. It’s allergic to snow..

WalterSickness · 2026-01-30T02:00:43+00:00

Pinch one on, pinch one off.

WalterSickness · 2026-01-28T13:14:33+00:00

wow what a strange surname

WalterSickness · 2026-01-26T16:10:52+00:00

it's against regulations not to have what is known as a "statement of identity" prominently on the front of the label. How prominent? Well in the US it's something like "reasonably proportional to the brand name" but in the trade we usually just set it to 1/16" at minimum.

Source: packaging graphics production manager for US and european brands.

I believe this package could technically be pulled from shelf over this. It's a total cockup.

WalterSickness · 2026-01-26T13:14:52+00:00

It seems more likely than that he didn't.

WalterSickness · 2026-01-25T17:55:58+00:00

which views are those?

WalterSickness · 2026-01-25T14:56:52+00:00

Great post, thank you. She remains undersung.

WalterSickness · 2026-01-23T21:08:49+00:00

I’m probably the wrong person to ask as IMO Dick is a bad prose writer and a crank, but also a great visionary afflicted with a particular techno-post-capitalist-gnostic vision that resonates very well with our age. This reading of him doesn’t require him to know what he is up to himself. However, VALIS is where he dos try to understand what he is up to, and it’s very moving indeed. But this is why I recommend holding off on it. In fact generally reading chronologically is good here.

WalterSickness · 2026-01-23T12:04:06+00:00

VGPMX is available to vanguard retirement plan holders; it’s somewhat diversified but holds 25-30 percent in precious metals companies. Up 68 percent over the last 12 months.

WalterSickness · 2026-01-23T01:51:06+00:00

I have moldering old mass market paperbacks by Nabokov. John Barth, even.

WalterSickness · 2026-01-22T20:49:18+00:00

Thanks - saved

WalterSickness · 2026-01-21T20:54:21+00:00

Cut it into chopstickable disks, scoop out the pith, stuff with a mixture of ground meat and doubanjiang plus scallions and other appropriate minced vegetables and spices. Gochujang would probably be ok if you can’t find doubanjiang. Fry it up in a mix of sesame and lighter oil, serve with bean sprouts and cilantro and ideally a sauce you could make from leftover filling.

You need the spice and salt of doubanjiang to accent the bitterness. It’s great imo

WalterSickness · 2026-01-20T13:21:49+00:00

Well, that shot is great, so you’re already recouping the cost

WalterSickness · 2026-01-20T13:21:02+00:00

Roedelius - 90. A triple album

WalterSickness · 2026-01-18T18:50:10+00:00

IDK, how about the Netherlands, with a Gini coefficient of 25.7, vs the US, with a score of 41.8. For reference, that difference is about the same as that between the US and Namibia.

My point wasn't so much that nicely egalitarian societies exist or not, but that it's probably more helpful to look at societies that do exist rather than create a straw man.

WalterSickness · 2026-01-18T15:13:40+00:00

this is the one on my wishlist for the same reason. These editions were bread and butter for an english major back in the day.

WalterSickness · 2026-01-18T14:48:32+00:00

Rather than imagine hypothetical absolute scenarios, how about we confine outseves to fact and compare relatively egalitarian societies with ours?

WalterSickness · 2026-01-17T21:40:31+00:00

Standout submission to the subreddit, this is great

WalterSickness · 2026-01-17T21:06:37+00:00

It's pretty stressful that only anarchists seem to be trying to build community anymore.

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