And was driving a ridiculously oversized fragile ego compensation vehicle

In other countries EVERY index gets jumped unless they successfully negotiate/strike for the raise. Yeah, jumped index sucks but it was still a rather occasional thing. There’s been only 4 I think, 3 times in the eighties, 1 time in 2015…

Just checked, it still works for me. Perhaps it was temporary or maybe your location has silly laws so they prefer blocking access?

If you hack it warranty becomes void and you’re maybe in big insurance trouble if there’s an accident or your battery catches fire in an underground parking garage. Basically similar to how banking apps etc keep people from trying to use alternatives to Android on their phone. The boundary isn’t technical, it’s legal.

It exists. In Belgium and I think also Luxembourg inflation in prices of common consumer things automatically triggers wages, unemployment money, pensions to rise too. For most jobs it triggers when it hits 2%. Life got 2 % more expensive, wages rise 2 % a few months / a year later. Using a basket of consumer prices, excluding things like fuel, alcohol, tobacco prices

If you count using shady free streaming websites, I think the number is waaaay bigger than 1%

Mario Kart Wii stood the test of time really really well

I wonder if now is a good time to download all Wikipedia and put it on a spare offline drive…

Buy one that can also burn m-disc

HDD is cheap and enough, but SSD is silent.

This vehicle shouldn’t be street legal for regular folk based on its shape and height, software is just a minor detail.

+1. Very easy, very stable.

Some of it is likely still quite findable and assuming quite a few titles are many seasons of 1 show: use your known channels and redownload in more recent repacks would be the easiest, least hassle least risk of quality loss. Use Sonarr and/or jellyfin exports to identify shows with high GB per minute of runtime…

A roof over your head can be subjective. Many high earners are not satisfied with “a roof over their head”, they want it in the good neighborhood, with a pool, many rooms etc. High earners spend a lot more on regular things too, like food (A brands, fancier shops, more take-out), gadgets, traveling a lot and very far etc. If high earners can’t pay their bills, it’s likely partially because they are too deep into keeping up with the Jones’s, suck at handling money or both. It’s not common but is possible to go from being high earning to living under a bridge in just a few months, even if you owned your roof.

For getting nice metadata musicbrainz is the best out there imo. Sort your collection, anything new you add, run it through musicbrainz. If your music is missing from musicbrainz: add it! It is the most complete, free accessible database there is. Discogs for example is more complete but not the same level of free to access.

Beets is supposed to be good but I find it complicated, steep learning curve.

Bruges is a museum.

Just try it with the old laptop. I personally found dietpi the incredibly easy entry. Super bare bones Linux actually meant for raspberry pi and such, but you can run it on any old laptop. Using your all gaming rig might be a high energy usage if you’re just gonna run barely more than a NAS. If you do it with the laptop, take out the battery or put a timer on charger outlet, permanently connected and charging with a system that isn’t actively managing the battery and charging could get you a spicy pillow quickly.

Wow.

This works crazy fast and performant. Keep up the incredible work!

There’s still a second natural entry, it is being critical and annoyed by corporate greed in apps, streaming services, ads, accounts for everything etc. The privacy/piracy entry.

E, C and F, because they are all somewhat compatible.