Yeah, it had WAP service, and a pinball game, that was the difference between the 3310 and 3330

Considering that the US still does not have any kind of working national census, and only relies of the deeply flawed social security system for a national ID database, I wonder how accurate this system is

I tend to dislike the music of the day, only to really like it a decade later.

When I grew up I hated Eurodance music, but now it is one of my favourite genres.

Geoguessr, it is an amazing way to clear the mind after one task and context switch to the next.

Social media is focused on the person first and foremost, internet forums are focused on a discussion topic.

Lemmy is a forum, Pixelfed is social media.

Youtube started as a sort of video forum, where the video was the main subject of discussion, this has changed to turn it into a social media site, where the content creator is in focus, and the content is secondary.

A decent rule of thumb is that if you are more interested in the creator than the content, then it is social media

About a year.

It may have started with the ability to replicate signatures, but even during the internet age, fax does have one interesting advantage.

It uses a dedicated circuit to communicate rather than using packets.

By that I mean that two fax machines that are connected to send a fax are electronically linked together in a dedicated circuit for the duration of the session, and all the data takes the same path.

This is in stark contrast to an email, which is split up into packets which may take quite different paths to reach the other destination.

How did it go again?

If it is Boeing, I ain’t going!

Never forget that Kissinger got the 1973 peace prize…

Obama got it in 2009, shortly after him starting his first term, not for anything he had done but to try and “strengthen” him.

The peace prize is a joke.

Not only that, you need to consider the following:

Airport fees, airlines pay fees to the airport to use a runway to land and take off, then you have parking fees, passenger service fees and more.

You also need to consider that the crew have mandatory rest periods, and if they won’t make it to the next airport in time, then they can’t take off again, and hotels for the pax arearranged or a replacement crew flown in this costs money.

I am a hobby photographer and usually take a few hundred GBs of photos every year (I shoot in JPG+RAW), I have other media as well, but I am mainly concerned about my photos.

I have them currently saved to a single HDD in my computer, which has worked ok, but I have seen bitrot in some files…

So I was reliable storage, currently thinking of a zraid1 with four normal disks, one parity, one hot spare and one cold spare, I am looking for it to last a minimum of ten years with normal maintenance.

I will probably put 64GB ram in the server, and possibly an SSD cache over time

Well There’s Your Problem - an engineering disaster podcast, with slides, that is in and of itself a disaster.

Lions Lead By Donkeys - funny military history by Joe Kassabian.

Failure to launch - funny space failures.

I am currently building a home server, this project timeline has been extended as I had no idea hard drives would be THAT expensive at the capacities I want…

I do have an old computer that is not in use, but I don’t want to run a Bulldozer plattform…

So I am basing my new server on the AMD Ryzen 4600G, should be fine

Is that a Nokia 3330?

I had one as my first phone, they are physically identical to the more common 3310, but comes with an inverted color shell.

Has the shipping lanes changed since then?

I’d imagine that they went further north back then to be closer to land and help if something happened (obviously didn’t help much in this case though)

Damn has it been 15 years since Ashens made the original video?

Sorry for making you feel old ):

A Pi is obviously overkill, even a Pi Z w which we ended up using, but they are efficient enough for us, and more importantly, I know the system, and I could relatively quickly get it working using just bash on the Pi.

I was not really interested in learning how to program on a different system just for this.

We did some power analytics on the Pi and disabled a few things, sorry I don’t remember it right now.

The unit is placed in a semi public place where teenagers sometimes congregate and we don’t want to draw any attention to the device, so solar power is out.

A LoRa unit though could be interesting to implement, sadly my parents house is up a steap hill and there is no line of sight.

I have been thinking of experimenting with Meshtastic and LoRa for off grid coms due to the geopolitical situation here in Europe, might be worth it getting a few units to test out.

You are quite welcome, I stole it from WTYP pod

One thing that always struck me as weird is that when the wreck of the Titanic was found, the swimming pool was still full.

Bester is looking fly!