I, Robot - extremely disappointed that it didn’t follow the books, but I’ve watched it several times and if you pretend it came out under a different title it’s a good robot movie.
I, Robot - extremely disappointed that it didn’t follow the books, but I’ve watched it several times and if you pretend it came out under a different title it’s a good robot movie.
When I went to see this in the theatre, I was the only one there. Only time it’s ever happened.
I just bought a used Lenovo ThinkCentre M710Q Mini Tiny Desktop PC Computer i5 6400T 1TB SSD Win 10 Pro from Ebay for $289 AUD and plugged in some oldish external SSDs and HDDs and now have 10TB of storage. I’m really pleased with it, it took about half an hour to install Proxmox and I’ve now got 5 VMs up and running.
I wouldn’t recommend a WD My Cloud Home - it’s not a NAS as such, it’s a bit limited; I’d go for a Synology. or One Drive as you suggest - a 1TB plan is quite reasonable with regards to cost.
I had a 2010 Macbook Pro that I was about to throw away a couple of years ago because it was unusable - beach ball of death constantly. I bought a 500GB SSD for around $70 AUD, went on YouTube and about an hour later booted up; it was like a new laptop. I eventually chucked it earlier this year because the battery had it and I didn’t want to spend any more on it.
My wife ran her own business, and a lot of her time was spent chasing up people like this and it was so frustrating. A lot of small business owners do everything themselves, so having to re-issue invoices and chase them up if they weren’t paid was a real pain. She didn’t mess about though, of they didn’t pay and didn’t communicate she would engage a debt-collection company. She also knew some of her clients were also small businesses and would work out a payment plan or extra time if they needed it. But some deliberately strung her along till the last minute.
I did some IT work at a hospital, patient records including names, addresses, conditions and doctor’s notes (inc mental health notes) were stored in the database in plain text. You had to have admin access to the database (which I did), but I was stunned that I could browse anyone’s entire medical information. A few weeks after I left I sent an anonymous email to a couple of people letting them know how bad it was - I didn’t use my real one just in case they may have come after me for looking at the records.
I’m in the anti-Moonswatch camp. I’ve thought about getting an Omega Moonwatch for a while, the Grey Side of the Moon in particular (https://www.omegawatches.com/en-au/watches/speedmaster/dark-side-of-the-moon/grey-side-of-the-moon/product). It’s around $13000. Yes, a lot of money for a watch, but it’s more than a watch - it’s a sign to myself that I’ve worked hard and it’s a reward. Most people won’t be able to afford one, and will have different priorities and would think it a terrible waste of money. It’s not to show off (like a Porsche or Ferrari), it’s discreet and most people wouldn’t know what it cost if they saw it. It’s for me. It’s also an investment; my brother has a Rolex that he paid around $1000 for in the late 80’s, it’s now worth around $30000. The Moonswatch diminishes the brand in my opinion.
I’ve been on the internet since the early 90s and try to keep my stuff anonymous. But as you say, I am sure someone could find out all about me if they wanted, despite using a VPN 90% of the time, using dummy emails to sign up for stuff, never posting photos etc. If someone posts a photo to Facebook with me in it, with a comment “Me and John Doe having a great time”, I have no control over it.
Seems a lot faster today - great work!
As an IT support person, I’ve learnt to dumb things down for management. They don’t want to hear stuff like “Increased the SGA, changed the buffer size and added a function based index…etc”. Sometimes I’ll do a short and a long version something like “the issue was around memory settings which have been increased”, plus the detailed info.
I use uptime kuma for monitoring - really easy to set up and very versatile
But I can see this embolden racists / homophobes. They are generally dumb, and will probably refuse to serve people citing this decision and will either end up in court or get away with it.
I don’t have kids but am perfectly happy to pay more tax to make education free or cheaper. How can anyone argue that a less educated society is better? The more people that can experience higher education is plainly a good thing. There could be someone out there who could make a medical or technological breakthrough but doesn’t get the chance because they can’t afford to go to college.
I think the growth of Lemmy over the last few weeks is a clear indicator that Reddit is in decline. I have deleted Apollo and my reddit bookmark and have only gone back when a Google search provided the information I needed. I won’t be going back and I think a lot of people are of the same mind.
I posted the same movie before seeing this. I wish they would make a TV series of these books instead of Foundation. I thought the movie was a good robot movie, but was very disappointed that it didn’t follow the books.