Be ready to replace the disk when the warranty ends.

What’s the point of replacing them? The warranty doesn’t keep them from dying, it just means you get a free replacement. The amount of life left on the drives after the warranty expires depends heavily on how they’re used, and most self hosters are pretty gentle on their drives. I could see replacing the drives that are heavily used, but replacing all drives just because their warranty expired seems like a waste of money and effort.

Wouldn’t mind if they keep lowering power consumption…

It could - if a woman has a child with her own son.

I’m not a CPA, but I don’t think you can write off something that already made a profit. How would that even work, if companies were able to write off predicted ad revenue? They could make up any value and never have to pay any taxes at all.

I don’t think write-offs have anything to do with them removing these episodes.

I don’t think they can write it off either way, though. It only makes sense to write off shows that haven’t made money. It’s just “retiring” when you’re taking about something that’s already been released. There’s no ulterior profit motive, unlike when they write off unreleased movies and shows.

What does this have to do with write-offs? I don’t think they can write off episodes of South Park and the daily show that have already aired.

Again, I’m just guessing wildly, but anything which scares people away from smoking is good in my opinion.

That’s where I disagree, spreading misinformation as scientific fact causes people to lose trust in health authorities, and it fuels things like the anti-vax movement and flat earthers. The ends don’t justify the means.

A lot of that was exaggerated. 7 minutes per puff really doesn’t sound realistic. But since it convinced people to stop smoking I guess everyone agreed that some misinformation was OK?

7 minutes per puff? Who says that?

Yes and no. All Android phones run some variation of Linux actually.

At this point, that’s kind of like saying Macs run a variation of BSD. It’s technically true, but not practically useful in most cases.

What if code should also be shared freely?

I mean, Lemmy is basically an internet addict support group.

YouTube is a decent source of info for some subjects, like vehicle maintenance and 3d printing. Of course it still depends on the channel/creator…

You need to own both Skyrim and Oblivion for the mod to work, that might keep them safe.

Wait, only conservatives are supposed to take miscarriages hard? TIL

Sadly they were too optimistic and their leaders listened to smart people unlike ours.

Smart != benevolent

They’re mostly just used for tamper-proof screws for things like bathroom stalls so people can’t take them apart as a “prank” or whatever. The screw driver bits tend to break easily, which is usually worse than the screw stripping.

Nextcloud isn’t SaaS, unless you’re paying someone else to manage your server. Self-hosting is never SaaS.

Right, that’s true of cloud-based services, but not “anything that connects to the internet.”