@ponfarr absolutely, i got gifted like 20 vanilla beans once for my birthday like 15 years ago, it was liberating being able to use them with reckless abandon, totally demystified them for me.
the addition of Gonger and his absolutely unhinged energy to Cookie Monster has the effect of making cookie seem 100% normal. what a fascinating casting choice. i can’t get over it.
I want the mug, the t-shirt, the bobblehead, the wall calendar where all the national holidays are marked "FINANCIAL CALAMITY", the stickers, and Matt Levine saying "people are concerned about Thomas's availability" as my outgoing voicemail message.
i feel like it's been a while since we've seen a totally unexpected/horrifying mundane data breach with outsized effects, like, i'm sort of waiting to hear that somebody has stolen the voice recordings that call centers keep for dispute resolution (and stored who knows where) and used that to train a model that someone can use to phish my bank account over the phone to gradually siphon its contents into crypto.
@bryanjclark it’s way less work than a mac mini (which i had going for like ten years until i got the synology). imagine, if you will, never having it dismiss an issue update notification or wonder how broken everything will be if it is accidentally accepted. disks aren’t cheap though, i’ll concede that
@bryanjclark i will say that it’s extremely no nonsense, super plug and play, and only as fussy as you want to make it, it’s otherwise just a compact box ‘o disks somewhere in your house (but it does make a noticeable amount of disk noise so…)