I read this in Jar Jar Bink’s voice

So infant genital mutilation for religious reasons is cool?

I would have created a brand of Certified “high reliability”, or “durostore” or the like, with an extra year of warranty, and included coupons in the drive box, to make the price “only” about 10% more.

Make the customer believe they are getting a steal for “premium” drives.

Its so easy to give customers less, while having them believe they are getting more…

Look for a used Gen 8 HP microserver. 4 3.5 bays, replaceable cpus from celeron to some xeons. Upgradeable ram. An extra slim CD bay that can be reourposed for an SSD, power sippy, pretty nice looking, not super silent, but replaceable fans,

I really like mine, and it’s running Xpenology, essentially Synology OS

A trans clown?

I use Xpenology on an HP Gen 8 microswrver, a pretty nifty piece of kit. Works great, but setting up and upgrading versions can be a rather involved process.

Gamer desktops tend to be power hogs. Running them 24/7 can rack up some hefty power bills, plus noise, plus space, plus other tradeoffs.

Better a used thin client.

If you have a 3d printer, or access, o know someone willing to print for you, there are many free models out there

Definitely an option, but for the price of a Pi with all the extras, case, power supply, etc, you can get a used thin client that is way more capable.

There is a guy on YouTube that often reviews these things, and discovers some models that are surprisingly capable.

Synology publishes a list of certified non-synology drives, and warns you that drives outside the list are not recommended, but, at least in non enterprise models, allows them to be used. I believe there is some rather easy way (some config file change or the like) to circumvent the limitation, but yeah, dick move.

Bargaining chip. Hehe, I see what you did there.

Tesla sells itself as a technology innovation company, but it sells hype.

Female lower age limit

FTFY

Are there a lot of heavy trucks imported in the US? All I see from afar are those ancient looking Kenworths, Peterbuilts and the like.

Same with Turd, he hates being compared to cheetos.

Oh, I understand that perfectly well. The question is: that thing is a tethered balloon. If they expect to have it float 10 Km up, it has to be tethered with a cable at least 10Km long, which should be able to withstand the forces created by wind resistance, plus its own weight, and be conductive, so some lightweight cable won’t cut it, metal will have to be involved, and not some lightweight signal cable, but hefty metal. Will that thing be buoyant enough to lift that cable?

Is that thing going to be able to float itself and support the weight of the cables at the altitudes they talk about?

The thing is that Europe will only buy whatever is not produced locally… yet.

Things like Patriots and the like. Europe can produce most stuff right now, and is working on the rest. Things like 6th Gen fighters are in the pipeline (if France stops dicking around, as usual, with their project direction fetish), patriot equivalents should be reasonably easy, etc. Politics is the usually the hurdle, but many multinational programs have been succesful, and there is a real incentive now.

Logitech requires login and connection to their servers to carry out some configs. I’m a long time user, but won’t buy anymore

I’m going to guess that since Europe is going towards full self reliance in arms procurement, and the US defense producers are seeing their sales tank, he has been told that this is a way to sell stuff, at least short term, since the European ramp up will take some time.