bluGill

What games? Note that I’m not just asking about the 5+ year old games you are playing today, but also asking about some potential game that isn’t even announced yet that it might turn out you really enjoy in the near future? I’m also asking about non-game things that you might do (though for most games are what needs the most power it is worth mentioning that you might do something non-game that needs are powerful machine.

Some games will be better on a more powerful machine. Most such games have a limit though, and so you may be just fine with a less powerful machine (particularly if it really only is 5 year old games). However without knowing what game nobody guess how much power you need.

For my uses machines such as you link are good enough. Sure they can’t be expanded much, but everything I’d want to expand them with that isn’t built in sits off a USB hub anyway. That doesn’t mean that will work for you though.

Take a first aid + CPR class. You can get them that cover everything in as little as 4 hours, but try to get a longer one since they go more in depth. They cover most of the common situations and so will make you calmer when it happens because you had a couple drills. Even if you don’t remember the details you will remember something - and when you call the emergency number it will come back what you are supposed to do making it easier for them to explain it.

Everybody should take first aid and CPR classes every few years. Ideally keep your certification up to date, but even if you certification is 20 years out of date, when you need it you will have a clue and so be a lot more helpful.

That doesn’t change anything useful. There are many not for profit health insurance companies in the us - they are no cheaper and don’t have better service than the for profit ones.

For many people owning their own housing is the wrong decision. That means somebody else needs to own their housing and that person may as well be you (depending of course on your situation - it isn’t for everyone)

If you say that “look at how much money I’m making, tax me harder daddy” it’s another.

That is a bad thing for affordable housing. For affordable housing you need profits from investment property just enough to be worth doing. Any taxes a property owner pays needs to come from the rent they charge so high taxes mean they are charging more rent to cover it. So if taxes are high that means that rents are higher than they could be. You should get rich - to the extent you do - in property ownership by owning a lot of property for a long time, not charging high rents.

Parts fail all the time. The problem with hardware raid is you need a compatible controller or none of the data can be read even though it is still on the physical disks. Computer hardware is often only made for a few months before there is a new model and so you are risking that the manufacture really made the new model work with what you have. That is assuming the manufacture doesn’t go out of business which could happen without warning. \

Also, if hardware breaks that is often a good excuse to replace it - odds are better hardware is available for the same price and sometimes a lot less $ - with hardware raid you are stuck paying whatever price they charge.

Either works fine for most homes. for most homes everything on the nas makes sense as that saves energy vs a second always on box. For enterprises you want them separate because you can’t get cpu’s powerful enough.

unless you are rich you/him should be putting the cost of the apartment into savings for college. The rich can pay full price for their kids ivy league college and not notice it - almost nobody is that rich.

Don’t cheap out on a tablet. The cheap ones not only have bad specs but they also generally start withian obsolete android vertion and then never get updates. I’m not sure how expensive you need to go, but not as cheap as I tried.

Ro vs distilation isn’t nearly as clear cut as it appears. Well designed distillation systems recover most of the heat warming the incomming water (cooling the out water). Ro pumps use more energy than you expect at scale. I’m not going to say one is better but don’t discount either without a full analisys of your situation.

Computers don’t produce heat high enough to be useful. You want the output temperature the computer cooling to feel like a warm room. That isn’t hot enough to boil water. It isn’t enough hot enough to do anything useful with.

Detroit is not cold in summer. And places that are cold year round are running into issues from global warming and permafrost (I don’t understand the issue, but they exist) without adding local heat.

They will only do this in context of a company. Get a lawyer to setup a llc. They do sometimes give money this way - see angel investors, but you need a company for legal reasons.

John deere has some nice tours. The best tours cost half a million or more - but they let you take one home. (If you know a farmer who buys new tractors ask - many farmers have seen it and so won’t use their tour , so you can get their ticket). Then there is the free tours that anyone can take - but these are limited numbers and tour bus companies reserve all the spots when they open up knowing they can then sell the whole tour (if you don’t live near the factory this is the way to go since the factories are generally a boring drive away and the tour drivers know how to spice it up and where to eat). As an employee I’ve only got the engineers tour - that is when everyone staring at you knows it is your fault they are getting paid to do nothing - I do not recommend these even though they were paying me.

Truenas core because I’m a bsd guy at heart. with that all but dead I’m trying to decide between bare freebsd or xigmanas.

I have a arch linux box for things that don’t run on bsd.

What will you practice? If you are willingito practice 5+ days per week for years anything will do. If you won’t practice nothing is easy. Sure a violin is harder than a guitar, but if you hate the guitar and love violin then violin is the answer for you.

for many the best answer is who do you want to play with. Group blay is a lot of fun and weekly sessons will keep motivation to practice up. Thus find a group you like and figure out what they need - ask. There are guitar only circles where they wil always be glad to have another guitar - that is what I used to play my mandolin in until I moved (yes it was a guitar circle and they loved the different sound I bought - not all groups are like this) sometimes the group needs a bass, sometimes a keyboard… different groups
play different music. Some groups are elitist jerk who demand prooven perfection before they let you in. some are funamentalists in the wrong religion. And so on. So prepare to search a lot to find a group you fit with.

it isn’t I play and it took a lot of practice. It is easier than a violin, but you will still sound bad for months. Guitar is only slightly harder.

Which harmonica - the common diatonic sounds like what you are talking about but there are other kinds and your comnent does’t apply to all.

Though you need to evamine every file because ‘/usr/bin/bash’ might really be an illegal video. (I’m a bsd fan so this would be useful to me if only I had something illegal to hide)

The thing about illegal searches is once they find something it is easy to put it back - then you go look for evidence and soon you have enough to get a warrant to search that. few criminals are so good at hiding their tracks that the police can’t find enough evidence once they know who to look at.