You should take an active effort to read the intelligent comments of people who disagree with you. I don’t know how you hand downvotes and blocking and so I can’t tell if this is a comment that is directly at you to change your ways or if you already are doing this and you are only downvoting/blocking obvious garbage. Too many people, when they see a point of view they disagree with, assume immediately that the other person is stupid and that common is garbage. But that is false. It is, however, a very hard bias to overcome in yourself. Something I struggle with, too.

Yes, but not as an out of the box solution. Tape drives use standard sizes, and standard interfaces (often serial attached SCSI). You can buy a tape drive and a USB encloser that lets you put your own drive in it and the tape drive will work. You need to make sure the USB encloser provides enough power, is big enough, and has the correct interface, but it will “just work” if you select the right parts and plug them in. Do make sure you read the spec - some cheaper enclosers may not support USB3 data rates which you tape drive may need to work well.

The USB designers made the decision back in the day that they would not design a protocol for CDrom (then important), tape, or other such things. Instead they designed a “here is how to transmit SCSI over USB”, which makes it cheap to design USB to SCSI adapters and that is what has been done.

Do you need tape? Do you really need that much data? Archival grade DVDs can store a few GB (an order of magnitude less than the TBs you asked for!), and probably easier to find/source.

Large companies still use tape for their large data sets. Tape has some useful advantages that make it worth it in very specific situations.

The first is when you have a lot of data - if you have several hundred of even thousands tapes (likely including duplicates!) then the quantity of data you have backed up is large enough the tapes are the cheapest.

The second - as hinted above - is duplicates. If you don’t want the data lost a tape is a good answer to have several copies. While a disk might be cheaper, they are fragile and computers are not designed to swap disks that often. Even USB which is designed for swapping isn’t that good: the connector will physically wear out a lot faster than you would expect making the costs much higher to manage this. Plus the labor to plug/unplug a lot of drives will get you.

Third, some tapes come in a write once form. If you have data that (often for legal reasons) you need to store such that it cannot be modified later then tape is often you best answer to ensure the data really wasn’t changed. (either by an executive hiding their tracks, or an attacker trying to put ransomware on you).

That said, for most reading this, a few disks in a NAS is better than about 98% of people have and if you have snapshots on the NAS probably good enough for everything (your only risk is fire or theft of the NAS - if you cannot live with this get a second NAS elsewhere, or a cloud backup), similar cost, and has enough other useful features that you want it anyway.

My Grandpa always had a “hello” mat because he would say hello to anyone, but not everybody was welcome.

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As others said if you go inside they can do this. I’ve seen pumps that take cash, but that was one station in the 1980s and it was a weird kiosk that I’ve never seen elsewhere.

Hook a small motor to it. Small is key, a bike light is too big. Those toy ‘stomper’ trucks that run on a single AA battery is about all I would hope for. Of you want useful power you need longer blades and less of them. These are designed to turn fast with very little wind without going to fast in big winds. It should be fun and you learn, but of you want useful it is a waste of time. You’re choice of goals.

Not what you are asking for, but maybe what you want: https://invidious.io/ is a youtube front end with some features that might or might not make it what you want.

You turn the regular down because the springs are compressed when they are up high and they will eventually fatigue and wear out. Realistically they probably will last longer than the compressor itself so I’m not sure if it matters or not.

As for the setting, that depends on the tools. If you are just inflating tires, it doesn’t matter how high you go. Go when high is good because that puts more air in the line when start. Some tools particularly paint sprayers need lower pressure, so you need to turn the regulator down. For a typical home compressor, everything else can handle the max pressure. There are high power industrial compressors or things they use to fill scuba tanks that put much more pressure and then you need a regulator to turn down to a safe pressure for the tool if you are using them, but odds are you aren’t.

Even hand coded projects need more than 6 months before I’ll replace anything in my stacks. Too many projects start with great intention but then the founder gets bored (life gets in the way?) and they go unmaintained. Really I’m looking for projects that enough developers have got involved in that I can be confident it won’t go stagnant. I could be one of those developers, but I don’t have enough time to contribute to all the different projects I use (I barely have time to contribute to the one project I maintain)

I don’t know that culture, but in general those are questions they learn not to say. Perhaps they point to a place “there” and that is enough.

When translating from a gendered language to English (which doesn’t grammatically require a gender for everything) I often has to guess was gender important or not - sometimes this is not obvious.

What do those words mean? They are far to broad. What does my opinion on Tariffs have to do with my opinion on health care?

Classical liberal (but not liberal) at least has meaning - lets not kill each other even though we are of different religions (and in the last 200 years expanded to: lets not hold slaves and lets allow women to have rights). However because that is so broad there is lots of room for disagreement on details within that category.

Iran has been supplying Russia with war materials, so Ukraine benefits from war on Iran using up those supplies as well.

Not clear. However with the war unpopular at home anyone in the house will be looking at elections. If you don’t like the MOU you want those loopholes so your vote for war isn’t used against you in advertisements.

This is a tough question. I don’t like the current situation but is it enough for war? I hate war more in the end, but I can see why others would disagree.

3 months ago he didn’t have to. Now he is sitting a grey area by trying to claim the end of the crease fire resets the clock on going to Congress (at least that is my guess, I have not seen anything official). However that clock is still counting and while it isn’t clear when to start it is clear that eventually he will have to go to Congress of he can’t restart it somehow

He doesn’t have much choice, this isn’t popular at home and soon he will need to go to Congress for permission to continue. Already the deadlines have past but it seems like he is looking for loopholes, which would not allow an escalation.

Iran has been supporting Russia for the the entire war. Did you forget who made Shahed’s?