“A woman is only fertile during about 5 days each lunar cycle. Unfortunately those days are the most fun but the other 24 are safer.”

Can confirm that these are the best days to get wiggy with it - ask me how I know…kids.

The immigrants are not taking our jobs, we are shedding job roles because the immigrants are no longer around to fill them. This is a self-imposed recession attributable to one orange baboon.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is one big plot hole riddled with plot holes and cheesy-ness to boot but I find it mildly enjoyable (yes, I know it is much panned and generally disliked).

I say yes, in the same way that a folded over NY Slice of pie is a sandwich. Handheld bread containing yummies are sandwiches!

Fair enough, I knew my take wouldn’t be a popular one here. In all fairness if you are using Apple products the iCloud sync brings all of the metadata with the data on every device that accesses it.

While I don’t have any illusions that Apple has my back they do have a lot invested in keeping people’s trust in their ecosystem. The automated on-device CSAM scanning kerfuffle that they backed away from shows that they are sensitive to the threat of people leaving their walled garden.

Another fairly easy to implement local solution that wouldn’t be an admin headache is to put a Mac mini with a bunch of attached storage on the network and use it as a file server. I do that for my PleX.

This will be an unpopular suggestion here but why not just go all in on iCloud? It’s reasonably inexpensive for not data-hoarding amounts of data, reasonably secure and E2E encrypted. Given the low cost, zero setup if they’re already Apple people and lack of admin I think it is ideal for them.

I pay for iCloud storage because I want HomeKit Secure Video cloud storage (I also have a local copy on disk).

I got a really good one years ago, my wife used it to heat up chicken stock to make gumbo. Never again.

An hour…long enough to consult the UCMJ and seek legal counsel before acting.

No, it was this officer’s greatest joy to be relieved of command by a puny puke who will soon be rung up on charges by the ICC. He spoke truth to power as was his duty and now he is free of the consequences of his commander’s choices. I’m sure he will drink a toast to the incarceration and eventual firing squad awaiting Hegseth and subordinates for war crimes.

Turn away from torrents and embrace usenet for visual media. Regarding books you need to go with IRC. PM for deets if unclear.

A lot of his work can get draggy and slow (Cryptonomicon, Seveneves). While I liked Snow Crash I bailed out of Anathem and some others. I have returned to Readme a couple of times for a re-read though.

Check out REAMDE by Neal Stephenson.

These are documents pulled in an investigation and are probably mostly paper (digital was less prevalent during the heyday of his abusive stage). Digital comms were likely less used in commitment of crimes for obvious reasons. Paper documents are rarely digitized unless someone has a reason to disseminate them to others.

I think you nailed it here. Give the people a choice to vote for AOC and I think it will happen.

Bohemian Rhapsody Fighting with my Family A Knights Tale

If it’s snowing - Last of the Dogmen If it’s raining - Godzilla

If my wife is involved - just start the Harry Potters

Sweet!! Love tiny phones. A few years ago I finally recycled my Nokia 8210 which was the best phone I ever owned (obviously until I got my first iPhone). I was always afraid I would inhale it if conversation got heated.

Holding a thing to your face to talk to another human will seem like cave-men aping for a mate in the future. If I forget my bluetooth headset in the morning my day is shot - I’m sure the future is much brighter.

It’t tomato no tomato. Sheesh, do you English much?

My response is likely to be unpopular but it’s how I feel. I had ungodly gobs of physical media years ago - VHS, DVDs, BlueRay, CDs, etc. It got to where it was more of a hassle to dig through and find the item then slub it over to the equipment just to enjoy my media.

I digitized everything and stuck it on a home media server. Now it’s as simple as grabbing the remote and pick what I want and it’s done. I’m much happier now.

I can tell you from experience make sure that if the outlet you plug in to is GFCI protected have power loss alarm rigged up. Get a small generator for power outages. Nothing more frustrating than throwing away an entire chest of spoiled food.