Have you ever seen how long it takes for a tree to grow?

Move away from port 22, and 90% vanishes. Move it up to a port in the five digit range, and you will rarely see them.

I don’t really care for clothing beyond the point that I’m sufficiently covered and not cold, but my phone’s screen is broken and the battery is dying, so I’d take the new phone. It would cost the equivalent of several years of clothing purchases, anyway.

Because the rich just pay politics to provide the law they want to have.

Seriously depends on your local water source. Our tap water has more than enough mg, ca, and other mineral ingredients to start making it a pain in the ass (hard water). But it is (of course) drinkable, and tastes quite good.

Geometry, class six or seven.

Those Dell fans were never built to be quiet. And they are also not built to be replaced by any quiet fans.

While yes, there is a reason why I have retired the Dell server I had for a normal desktop PC. The server was so loud, I could hear it two stairs and two closed doors away.

My largest file transfer I have done via USB disk. You simply don’t transfer multiple terabytes over the net.

I use my former PC as the home server. It is probably 10+ years old, has no M2 slot or something, but an SSD for the OS. More than big and fast enough for all my needs: File service (Samba), Web service (apache2), Wiki service (mediawiki), Database (MySQL), Calendar service (Radicale), Project service (Subversion), and probably some others I forgot. All of it running on Ubuntu Server, aministrated by WebMin.

The only investment I did when I turned this into a server was that I put 2x8TB in it as a RAID for bulk storage - I dump the family PCs backups on that machine, too.

It is the fediverse welcome package.

And I look up to the autographed poster of him that is hanging in our living room, and the personal remarks he has written on it.

So you found the one working tutorial. I didn’t. Keep in mind that I tried to get a grip on Blender three times over the years. Those yt tutorials did not really work for me.

Just follow the tutorial. IIRC it builds a model car. I was able to get from installing, over following the tutorial, to designing my model in half a day.

Three times I have tried to get a grip on Blender, and have given up. You have to dig deep to put something on precise coordinates, and if you click something wrong, everything is fucked up with the UI without a way back. Documentation is random YT videos that all seem to assume that you already have a blender diploma.

With openscad, it took me half a day from installing the software, doing tutorials to finished design.

Absolutely. Blender is so fucked up. Designed for the artsy types, but if you need something at exactly these coordinates, you are fucked.

With openscad you have precision, repeatability, and you can even write scad source code from some data points you have, and just use it.

There are places where they have trees all around their houses. Like in California, where they just had been more fuel to the fires.

I tried cooking an Asian dessert. It tasted like sweetened scrambled eggs.

Maybe if he took his medication, he could be a normal person.

When we played AD&D II back then, one of our DMs had special rules for every cleric depending on his/her deity. Clerics of Corellion could change gender at will. Which lead to a funny situation: The cleric had a really clever idea, and someone asked him how. The cleric changed to female, said “female intuition”, and changed back…