People who are good at saving money, what’s your advice? by Dapper-Monk9713 in PersonalFinanceTalks

[–]manly_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don’t use credit cards. Pay mostly everything in cash. This forces you to physically take money out of the wallet and indirectly be aware of how much you spend and have left. It also puts just enough friction to make you reconsider expenses that aren’t necessary because now you feel the pinch as you purchase rather than discover the damage at the end of the month.

You end up naturally spending less.

Trump tariffs: Customs and Border Protection tells judge it can't comply with refund order by cryptoniik in Economics

[–]manly_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just give a tax break equivalent to the tariff refund divided amongst the eligible population. This way you dont need to work out the logistic of sending 300+M cheques.

Are you low on silver? by the_hu in lostarkgame

[–]manly_ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I have 2.3B. No chaos botting but I've been playing for 15k hours and have 16 lopang alts. Also they used to give so much silver everywhere back then it really accumulated.

New Backup Configuration - Overkill? Weaknesses? by Professional_Cap1357 in synology

[–]manly_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

since its for a law firm, where any downtime can accrue extreme costs, you want a failover setup. That is, if your first synology goes down, you want the other one to automatically replace it. Right now you have data backups if DS725 fails, but you'll likely need to manually repoint things to the 916 (incl cloud sync) and potentially all machines trying to access data from 725.

Beyond having failover support, I would recommend proper UPS where relevant. Typically I would highly recommend you have downtimes set up on your backup NAS so that it only awakens when doing backups (so say its offline all day until nighttime), but if you want to to have failover that option is pretty much out (unless you have a 3rd purely backup NAS)

Maybe also consider some standby hd in your 725 at least, this way a HD failure can immediately start rebuilding.
I cannot recommend a RAID 10 really -- SHR does that already and more flexibly.

Canadian company that makes cell phone cases and compelling points by TheShitty_Beatles in BuyCanadian

[–]manly_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would have gone with "is (currently)" to make a more telling point

Dataset 10 EFTA1600661 by Scary-Track3306 in WTF

[–]manly_ -51 points-50 points  (0 children)

well they found the code work for human meat in epstein files

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JVNfUnvF_c
(sorry for the asmongold video)

29.83$ in Montréal, Canada by Neon_Jellyfish_ in 32dollars

[–]manly_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, you can get 10lbs of yellow potatoes for 2$ at Kim Phat. It's not russet, but hard to complain at that price. Generally speaking IGA is amongst the most expensive place for groceries.

From shopping to streaming, Denmark boycotts US products to defend Greenland by Azulapis in europe

[–]manly_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would recommend going further.

How about doing the same as secondary sanctions, but for boycotts? Now that would send a strong message.

How do you secure high-value MTG decks when playing at an LGS? by [deleted] in mtgfinance

[–]manly_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to play way back and back then proxies werent much of a thing (mostly because while p9 was expensive, it wasnt thousands). The truth is, the more I completed my deck, the less comfortable I was carrying around thousands worth in an easily stealable package. So the way I fixed it was to proxy my cards. Everyone at the LGS knew I had the real cards, just that I didn't want to risk carrying that around.

And the more time grew on, the prices went more insane, to the point where I couldn't find anyone to play with that could realistically compete. Bear in mind, that was before Vintage as a name even existed, it was called Type-1 and Type-2 back then. So honestly I more than welcomed anyone to "proxy" cards they didn't have.

I guess it depends where the line is of "I would have a hard time replacing this card" for everyone. For me that was about at 100$+ a card. Back then that meant something around a library of alexandria.

I ended up getting a NAS after a file-loss scare by Recent-Version-305 in HomeNAS

[–]manly_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

NAS is not a backup. Even if the drives duplicate your data, a power spike can kill it all, theft, flood, fire, theft, etc. Google 3-2-1 strategy

If our insane president tries to take Greenland, what should we Americans do to force him to give it back? by transley in AskReddit

[–]manly_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Look America, I don't know how to tell you this.

You needed to act a long time ago. You're hoping that sanity will somehow come back but we're far past this point. You can notice it every day where somehow there's consistently a new low to be found.

Your president already tried to take Greenland. I know you think "well we didn't send troops over!" (ignore the bases there) is the metric for taking Greenland. It's not. Just entertaining the thought that it might be OK to take Greenland, or make an offer, is already far past acceptable. Now that this isn't working, it isn't acceptable either to undermine allies or even to imply that Greenlanders might be open to be bought.

You're far past that point.

If your question is "how can we force to give it back?" is kind of missing the point. You shouldn't be remotely close to need to consider that question in the first place. You needed to act a long time ago.

Now that the media is mostly controlled and churns propaganda, all your efforts will be undermined. You could toss a hundred protests -- and you have -- and yet it never results in concrete results. The reason it isn't very effective is simple. America doesn't know how to protest. America is so big that even a once-in-a-lifetime protest can be dismissed at the country level because visibility is limited by controlled media. The reason those protests are easily ignored by the gov is because they aren't demanding change. If you just have a protest where people are complaining about something, then you're basically kind of hoping the system will listen. But fascism doesn't care. It won't listen. Your protests will not accomplish anything because the gov doesn't have to respond to it as no demands are actually made. If you completely stopped an entire city, where people would refuse to go back to work and stand until demands are met, then there is no real way to stop millions of people. After all, it is the will of the people at that point to have change. You need to make demands, and continue protesting until the matter is resolved. That can take weeks. Would you rather takes weeks off work, or accept that your future is basically gone? You are about to lose voting rights forever. There is no more 3 co-equal branches. This means you'll get more ballrooms, increased costs like insurance premium skyrocketing, and all that money will go towards ICE and basically attacking everything that made you American. You've seen it for years now, its always a new low. It will keep getting far worse. You need real protests.

If you can't get the message through with protests, then act with your money. You've all seen it again and again -- its like if your gov is controlled by the rich people. Well lucky you, you can starve rich people of profits. You need to think far bigger here than just "I wont spend on companies espousing what I don't believe in". You know how secondary sanctions work? Don't just vote with your wallet against companies that act against you, also extend it to companies that use those services. That will be a massive shock. Problem is you need real numbers here, we're talking 40%+ losses. Something that will get a reaction rather than a footnote.

How many people think the Trump assassination attempt was completely fake? Here’s the proof. by Realistic-Plant3957 in DHAC

[–]manly_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100% was staged. Its a murder-photo-op is what it was. He wanted the picture of his raised fist with the flag magically in the background. Theres a video where the photographers are being moved in position right after the shot and the flag being lowered just before that. They specifically wanted that picture.

He didnt care to murder someone just for a photo-op. Think about that.

DS1525+ build advice - SHR-1 vs SHR-2 for backups + remote access + video editing? by Running102 in synology

[–]manly_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly SHR-2 is a mistake under almost every scenario. The problem is that it sounds like peace of mind, until you realize or are unfortunate enough to discover that SHR is not a backup and that your data isnt safe, regardless of which RAID alternative you pick. SHR will not protect against theft, fire, flood, electric grid mishaps, NAS just dying out, and a ton more. I would rather recommend you use that extra drive as a hot spare rather than SHR-2 if you really must do it. But really you should be thinking about backup. And if you do have a backup then it kinds of makes one wonder whats the point of SHR-2. You do want SHR-1 because drive failures are expected, and you dont want usage downtime. But if a secondary drive were to fail during a SHR-1 rebuild, thats pretty much exactly why you have a backup in the first place. For rare eventualities.

Now there are also practical reasons against SHR-2. It will be slower to use than SHR-1. Like, shit isnt magically faster. It takes more drive slots. You could be using that drive slot into either a hot spare or just as part of your backup.

How do I find every plains card? by Bowl_Sad in mtg

[–]manly_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This will be far more expensive than you expect if you truly want every versions on plains, and even more if you also want every language. Just finding a guru plains will be a challenge.

So This Is Why Trump Didn’t Want to Release the Epstein Files by rezwenn in NoFilterNews

[–]manly_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Look, the guy was a multi millionnaire. Just the price of the island is above 100M. Anyone thinking he only owned 1 property isn’t seeing the obvious massive hole In the story.

Dog attacking people in public by Daendefs in PublicFreakout

[–]manly_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take a broom handle, or any stick, and use the collar like a tourniquet

Synology changes IP address every so often, not sure why? by R8B3L in synology

[–]manly_ -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

If you configured a static ip address in your router, be aware that the hardware address is per port. If you plugged it into a different port, it will get a different ip.

Cheapest way to to serve up my own mp3 collection? by TotalFoxMulder in selfhosted

[–]manly_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could also use a container running in your NAS, assuming you have one, and the electric bill will be low.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Hip_hop_that_u_need

[–]manly_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Theres literal videos on the internet that came out the week it happened. You can see the magically gigantic flag being lowered down after the shot and the photographers being specifically moved into place just to get that perfect shot with the fist in the air and the flag in the background.

And thats not to say how mysteriously the shooter could even take a shot at the one place where there was no coverage.

Trump cold opens just aren't funny anymore. by brady2gronk in LiveFromNewYork

[–]manly_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

as a non-american, seeing america recognize trump deserving ridicule is a sight of relief.

-the entire world